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

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resihent JfelmIep'5 Igirtbhap There are several peaks in the mountain range which l. S. N. lf. students climb during each school year. One of these is called Birthday Mountaini' and, contrary to all the customs of mountain tops, roses bloom there on April 24th of every year. Knowing this peculiarity of ,Birthday Mountain, the whole student body, led by a. committee of the senior class, makes the ascent each spring, always starting in time to arrive at the summit by 9:40 on the morn- ing of the day the roses bloom. The climbing to mountain peaks is not an easy task. lt can be accomplished only through perseverance, absolute attention to the matter in hand, and reso- lute following of the guide who points the way. Birthday Mountain is no ex- ception. Its paths are not smoothly paved, its steep ascents have no stone steps, its turns are not like those of a race-track course. lt seems almost to realize the true value of effort and the true appreciation which comes from a reward honestly earned. It seems to know the beauties it has to offer those who make the sacrifices and the efforts to scale its heights on April 24th in order to see its roses in bloom and to pay tribute to the inhabitant at the top, David Felmley. This year several hundred students started in due time, followed the proper directions, and arrived at the top at the appointed hour. The roses bloomed, sixty-live of them this time, eaeh year the travelers see one more rose than bloomed the year before. But were the roses all they saw 0? VVould i-t be worth the climb over the rocks of hard study, through the bramble of doubt and fail- ure-to-understand, and around the unknown turn only to have to climb again- if when the summit were reached there were only roses to see U? No! that which makes it all worthwhile is the opportunity which this trip affords for the climbers to express to the man who lives on Birthday Mountain their appreeiation of his never-failing efforts in their behalf, of his ever-present interest in their wel- fare, and of the inspiration to greater and larger accomplishments which his example gives them, and to receive in return an insight into his dreams of what His Fellow-Dwellers of the Mountain Rangew may become and do. The Man of Birthday Mountain never fails his friends of the valley and the mountain-side-never fails to give them on that day in particular the op- portunity to see the panorama of possibilities which he can always see from the home on the Mountain Top. As the descent is made, and all through the suc- ceeding year, each and every one again renews his vow to f't'arry On by taking with him into his daily life and practice those things which he receives on April 24th-that splendid spirit, that will to do, that ideal of education, and that lofty idealism of the teaeher's work. 21

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be :Faculty ORSON LEROY MANCIIESTER, A.M., LL.D. Darinoutli College Illinois YVeslOyan University Doon Projifssov' of Ecofnomics and Sociology FLORA EVELYN COOPER, BA. State University of Iowa, UlllX'Ql'SlIX' of ChiOa0'o 25 U1llX'Q1'SlI5' of IViSConsin ,-lSS?iSIUIIf Ilwuni of IVOIHKMH O. LILLIAN BARTON, A.B. Illinois State Normal University University of Illinois University of Chicago Doafn, of TVom6n I-llssistofnt Proffssor of lllotlzcnmtelos 23 :lSS7.SlLl'!lIf Profomwov' of L1ifC'l'Utll7'C