Hiram College - Spider Web Yearbook (Hiram, OH)

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4 DEDICATION . . . This year’s Spider Web is dedicated to Dr. Paul H. Fall, president of the college. His genuineness and ever-present smile have long made him a fa¬ vorite of both faculty and students. Because of his fine unselfish spirit, we believe this bit of recog¬ nition is well-merited. 3

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MEMORIAL On January 14, 1949, Hiram College suffered an irreparable loss in the death of Judge Frederick A. Henry. For half a century he served as an out¬ standing member of the Board of Trustees. Hiram’s greatest heritage is the memory of the devoted lives of men such as Judge Henry. BOARD OF TRUSTEES Row 1, Messrs: Buell, Dodge, Brown, McCormick, Miss Henry, Mr. Bellamy. Row 2, Messrs: Fram, Derthick, Loudon, Bennett, Oldacre, Bissell, Stinchcomb, Fall, Hunter. Not Pictured, Messrs: Martin, Smoyer, Hostetler, Hurd, Templeton, Burton, Bradle y, Hosford, Rodefer, Dix, Bennett, Cooper, Dodge, Garfield. Mesdames: Hayden, Bowman, Madden, Messick.

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T -M. HIS is the yearbook of Hiram College. This is not a great yearbook. If it were it would be a failure. The purpose of an annual is not to glorify itself or its staff, not to stand as a lasting tribute to the artist’s eye or the copy-writer’s pen, not to be a monument to the skill of a printer. Rather it is to set on pages and bind within a cover a year of college. For college is life. It is a life worth remembering, a life worth keeping. To lock the hours and days in the mind to be taken out and examined at will is a difficult task. To do this job with the aid of mechanics is the aim of the annual. Record the facts impersonally? Impossible. College is a great kaleidoscope of emotions moving, whirling. Unless they, too, are recorded, what is left? Only a thin and brittle shell. But to snare and print these emotions is a task of proportion. True, there will be errors, blank spaces, gaps that should have been filled. But the foibles of fate and fortune sorely trouble the human mind and imperfection is the rule rather than the exception. The mold has been set; the proof of success or failure is at hand. Memories are fragile and delicate things. If they can be found or stirred in the pages to follow, the efforts of the staff will not have been for naught. They will have found their reward, accomplished their task.