Fairmont State University - Mound Yearbook (Fairmont, WV)

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T. WALTER BARNKvS

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INTRODUCTION I T HAvS been the custom of the Senior Class of the Fairmont State Normal School to publish annually a year book called The Mound. In compliance with this custom we here present this edition for which we ask the charitable consideration of all whose fortune it may be to read therein. We do not claim for this publication profound learning, scathing satire, or brilliant wit. Our prime object is to secure a book that will prove a suitable souviner by means of which, when in a retro- spective mood, many pleasant memories may come crowding back into our minds and steal away our sadness ere we are aware . We are sensible that this book partakes of the imperfection that cleaves to all human action but trusting that it does not do so unduly, and that it may bring pleasure, and become more valuable as it grows older we submit it. Go, little book, go out, go on And speak to the heart that hears: Speak of the days that are past and gon e, « Bring mem ' ries of bygone years. — C. K. S. OQ1Q n n £- O Jl o i U

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DEDICATION The Senior Class of 191 2 take special pleasure in dedicating The Mound to Mr. J. Walter Barnes. Mr. Barnes is an alumnus of the school, graduating in the class of 1879. At the age of twenty-one he was admitted to the bar. In the spring of 1885 he began teaching in the Normal School. His success was so marked that he was made Principal of the School in 189 , and for ten years he labored early and late for its success. It can be safely said that no other man has done more for the Normal School than Mr. Barnes. He has always been a loyal friend of the institution and today he is ready to work for the best interest of the Normal School. The same energy and effort which brought him success as an educator, has made him successful in business as General Manager of the Consolidated Telephone Company, of this city. As a citizen, as a business man, and as an educator he merits and possesses the respect of all who know him. The mound in the campus and the splendid tree which it protects are due to his thoughtful and almost stubborn stand, when others desired to remove them. Because of his services to the Normal School and his value as a citizen the Senior Class take pleasure in dedicating this issue of The Mound to him.