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

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fm? INDEX fem' VTCRNA COLEMAN. For the second ti1ue in the history of this school death has called an instructor from active service. Verna Coleman, head of the Physical Training Dc- partment, died january sixteenth, after a long illness. Miss Coleman came to us last September. A grad- uate of the University of Nebraska, with line natural endowment and excellent preparation for her xvork, she entered into the life of the school with earnestness and enthusiasm. lu her hrief months of teaching she impressed upon her students, high ideals of efficiency and serviceg and through her spirit of giving and of helping she early won friends in the classroom and on the campus. p Miss Coleman was but twenty-four years of age. with the vigor and vision of youth: and in the close of such a life there is infinite sadness. Yet those who attended the simple services held in her memory Qlanuary seventeenth, realized that the end of this life was not all tragedy. Twenty-four years had heeu well lived: in a short span there had heeu true accom- plishment and useful service. Miss Coleman took hold of life courageously. and to the end she lived it cheer- fully and hopefully. lu the words of one student. 'tThrough all the years to come her encouragement and uuselfish giving will he felt and cherished, Such memories are not of months or yearsg whoever leaves them hehind has lived completely, though death come at twenty-tour. The school is keenly sensitive to the loss that it has sustained in the death of this gifted memher of the faculty. Her days of teaching here are scant measure of her service. This will always he held in grateful memory. i 21 v

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U15 JNLQEX 1.-9x5 CLARA G1-:LTMACHI-:R. Assistant Librarian. ZUNA B. Mc,IJoW1iI.1.. Registrar. 151.01m PEN NICLL Donor. Stenographer. LOTTIE I'lAYs. Stenographcr.

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