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-. Dedication 0 J S AN expression of our appreciation of his Friendship, sacrifice and serf vice, this book is dedicated to Professor John P. Ryan, by the class of 1909: : : : :
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An Appreciation Prof. Ryan was born in lVledina, New York, and educated in the public schools of that city. After studying one year at the Ithaca Con- servatory of Music, he taught school for several years, and then entered Cornell University where he took his A. B. degree four years later. In, the fall of 1903 he came to Iowa College and was given the task of creating a department of Public Speaking. l-le began his work with the determination to build and organize a strong Public Speaking department in Iowa College, and by his untiring energy and quiet but persistent enthusiasm for his work he has made good. The department, as it stands today, is the result of his work. - It has not been his purpose to create a separate and independent Depart- ment but to develop the Department of Public Speaking as a part of the whole field of English and to correlate it with allother departments in the College. I Prof. Ryan is one of those men who seldom find time for recreation or vacation. l-lis recreation hours are spent in coaching debating teams and speakers for oratorical contests, and training the casts for all College plays. l-le has been especially successful in the field of Dramatic Art, successfully staging plays' that other trainers have not dared to attempt. This is due to his capacityifor hard, trying work, his fine sense of artistic effects, and especially to his dramatic instinct which is at the basis of all platform work. All his work is characterized by a quiet aggressiveness. Never attempting to put himself in the foreground, he is content to do a thing the best he knows how and let others judge of its value. But there is something deeper and more fundamental than an appreciation of the work he has done and that is an appreciation of the man himself. It has often been said that no work can be greater than the man who creates it. And so it has been the personality behind the work which has made his work so effective. Prof. Ryan is not only a teacher 'but also a helper, an adviser and a friend. l le is interested in the student whom he teaches, as well as the subject' which he teaches. l-lis methods are not mechanical and he is always human. A keen sense of humor, a frank, open-hearted manner, an unusually artistic temperament, a willing- ness to sacrifice personal interests for theinterests of others. a broad sym- pathy and understanding, have won him a lasting place in the hearts of the students of Iowa College. So this appreciation comes from the students who have worked' with 'him in the Class TOOUI, and who have been his friends outside the claSS room. Those who have learned to respect and admire Ryan, the teacher. and CSPCCIGHY Ryan,-the man. In after years when we have forgotten gluch that we learned in the class room, as we think back over the old HYS I am sure that we will remember what I may call the thesis of Prof. Ryan s philosophy, f'Be Happy. -Clarence E. Lyon, ,08-
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