Hiram College - Spider Web Yearbook (Hiram, OH)

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Her life was a very happy one. She possessed the faculty of always looking on the bright side of things, and of making the best of everything that' came into her life. Her bright cheerful disposition won for her friends wherever she went. She was always willing to do her part, however humble it might he, in whatever way she was called upon, whether in school, church or society. In speaking of her life, Prof. VVakeheld, one of her favorite teachers, said: As a church worker she passed normally and in splendid fidelity through the grades. She was one of the most faithful Sunday School scholars that ever trudged with childish feet to the school on Lord's Day. When the time of rational choice came, and she heard the call of the Master, of course she accepted and confessed Him. Wlieii called to Society service she modestly and efficiently bore her part. Indeed, in all of life she had the disposition and the habit to go straight forth to do the thing she ought to do. She was a great lover of music. The :following was one ot her favorite songs: Not now, but in the coming years, lt may be in the better land, Wc'll read the meaning of our tears, And there, sometime, we'll understand, We are sure that while we are at a loss to know the meaning of our tearsf' she now understands, and we know that it cannot fail to be well with her who hath done what she could. Mmncr, M. ALDIQN. jfff' if K cro re ,WA ,' 73- - 171' I !,,Xf' E154-9,g::'. i fff 'o f .Q'sg:g.'.-'--'f i i I a f f't ' fa , f f 5 i, '- . I 'f ,I - ' 1 , - ffqmafweesf fi V lj,,, ,,fc'15 ' '- Aggie? Qfx -N. is ,- ' 2, 73.1 X X xx ' , . ' NX 5... i P- 1. .'.. 1: .W ' A. -,:-.f--- 19

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f man of equal resources gave an equal measure. Had Mr. Bowler possessed a tions made to the endowment, involving a total expenditure of nearly SIO0,000. vided with a half-million-dollar endowment fund. But Mr. Bowler gave what is often more difficult to secure than money, he gave time, intelligent and sympathetic oversight. Through summer suns and winter storms he made frequent journeys to Hiram. Nothing that touched the welfare of the College escaped him. He gave SIOOO to improve the road to the station. The elegant cases of shells in the Museum were purchased and pre- sented by him. He had an eye to the healthfulness of the village and the comfort of the students. Hiram College will live to receive benefactions and develop a yet larger and richer lifeg but it is hardly possible that it will ever know a truer and more de- voted friend than William Bowler. if -E -- asf . --a f- .-vi lpn , '5 , - .q - E , X s Q 74 x I X: R55 QC xi N14 A nh X 5 X '7 U - ,.r. ' . QQ . i 1' Ulivia Udall white. LIVIA UDALL was born March 24, 1881, at Hiram, Ohio, where the greater part of her life was spent. At the usual age she entered the public schools, where she was a general favorite with both teacher and pupils. Completing her work here she entered Hiram College in the fall of 1895, continuing the work which she had so well begun. She pos- sessed an exceptionally bright mind, and both in the class-room and the Literary Society she was a leader. In the spring of 1900 she left school and took up the duties of a teacher, con- tinuing in this work until July 25, 1901, when she was married to Mr. William White, of Hiram. When she had been four months a bride she was again robed in her wedding garments, for death had claimed her. 18

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dl'l'iC GOOCIYICD KQIIQV. ARRIE GOODRICI-I was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa, july 12, 1871, while her father was a professor in that college. 'When she was fifteen months old the father died. I-Ier early child- hood was passed in the country, in Southern Ohio. Later she spent eight years in the Coolville schools, then three years in Athens I-Iigh School and Ohio University. In the fall of ,QI she entered Hiram College, staying out that winter to teach a term of school near her old home. She graduated in '96, leaving a record as a most conscientious and earnest student, a faithful society worker and a help and inspiration to many a fellow student who came within her reach. In the fall of ,96 she went to Cleveland to enter the Kindergarten Training School. I-Ier work was interrupted for a year by illness at home, and she spent the time in teaching. Re-entering the next year she completed the work in -the spring of ,QQ, both herself and her mother having been for some time connected with the Lend-a-I-Iand Mis- sion of Celveland. She seemed in a rare degree to possess the talents demanded by her chosen work, and won the highest esteem of her teachers not only as an able student but as a peculiarly successful worker. In january of the same year she had been called to go as a Kindergartener to Japan. VVhile it had not been her intention to enter the foreign field, she had always held herself in the attitude of readiness for any call of the Master. And she went, sailing from San Francisco, September 29, 1899. At about the time of her landing changes of the laws made her particular Work impossible, and at best it began to seem of doubtful use there. In March of 1900, she went on into China, beginning the study of the language and taking, with the help of Mary Kelly, as interpreter, a kindergarten class in the Christian Girls' School in Nanking, The Boxer uprising made it necessary for her to go with the other mission- aries to the coast, and she spent some time in Shanghai, where she was married, August 22, to Dr. William Kelly, with whom she had become acquainted during her long voyage from America the year before. I-Ie was also a refugee from his inland station, Changteh, in the anti-foreign province of I-Iunan, where he was establishing a hospital and orphanage. I-Ie is described by those who l-:new him as a man of fine intellectuality and Christian character, and the union, to last but sixteen months, was one of supreme happiness. 20