Illinois State Normal University - Index Yearbook (Normal, IL)

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rw' THE MAIN BUILDING

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i Grnvtiug fmNi'fTi,?7jIOYAL Students of the Normal Illinois Uni- versity, The Index of '02 is at your service. ci ' 'whip if I-S Criticism I expectgtrusting that my pages gif' are worthy of your highest. Would that you could feel the kindly spirit that has prompted the authors in all the work! The grinds are only gentle hintsg when the garment fits, pray put it on and try then to outgrow it. ' As you turn the pages one by one. reading between the lines in my stories and rhymes, frightened by the sketches and pictures, may you be impressed anew with the dignity and growth of our Alma Mater. ' With best wishes to one and all, I make my humble bow fujust as I am, without one plea.

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4 ? in if ei UU it o fm 1 D3 eo :J- -4 o 'J -cs 1 CD M Q. CD 'J F? 'TJ fi FF -H4 Z5 O ls-7 RESIDENT FELBILEY was born near Somerville, New Jersey, April 24. INST. His father was of German origin and his mother of Holland Dutch. of the well known Voorhees family. lVhen he was but three years of age his fatlier died and his early education was left to his mother, who sent him to the village school at Somerville. In M65 the family moved west and settled on a firm in Perry, Pilce county. Illinois. Here the remainder of his boyhood was spent in a home well provided with boolcs and periodicals. At this period he read everything' within his reach and obtained a large fund of general information. A farm hand who was something' ofa naturalist. gave him a strong' impulse toward natural science and started him in the study of botany and Zoology by the rational method. An inspiration to theory, mathematics and literature he now credits to .Ioseph Dobbins. a former student of our university. In 18723 Mr. Felmley enrolled at Blackburn University. Carlinville, Illinois, where he remained three years. devoting most of his time to a study of the classics. At the age of nineteen he entered the University ofMichie'an, Ann Arbor, with advanced stand- ing, and was graduated in three years. In college, he ranlfed high as a student and enjoyed the confidence and esteem of the faculty. He was very active in the literary societies and in the debates, and was fond of games and sports. His college course was brolfen at the end of the second year, by two years of teaching, one in the country near Yirden, Illinois, and the other at Carrollton, Illinois. After com iletini' his last YCllI'.S worlc and ffraduatinff in lnffl, he returned to Car- .Y , YN U I Che index