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

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Tounbers' 'Day On February 18, 1857, in Bloomington, Illinois, was born an institution destined to be among the greatest in its influence upon the molding of our educational life. From an humble birth, umnarked by the ceremonies that generally accompany the founding of public and private institutions, ridiculed and opposed by many citizens and legislators who would have turned our main building into a corncrib, has developed our own I. S. N. U. Un Sunday, February 18, 1923, the I. S. N. U. was three score and six years old, and, while it has almost reached the span allotted mortal man, it is but coming into the prestige of institutional maturity. We know what masters shaped its keel, Wfhat workmen wrought its ribs of steel, In what furnace and with what heat Wrere forged the anchors of its hopes. Hence it is fitting that a committee decided to observe Founders' Day with a program dedicated to one of those courageous souls that gave his strength and talent to our school's worthy cause. Un Monday, February 19, 1923, the sixty-sixth anniversary was commemorated with a program given as a tribute to the memory of former President john XV. Cook, who died last summer. Many graduates of the school, some of them prominent in state and national politics and education, were present, and several took part in the program given. President Felmley presided over the program, which was given before a large audience of students, townspeople, and out-of-town guests. After the singing of America, the Beautiful by the audience, Mr. Felmley introduced Dr. Chas. A. McMurray, head of the department of pedagogy in the Peabody Institute for Teachers, Nashville, Tenn. Dr. McMurray read an interesting paper, giving his views of Dr. Cook's characteristics, of which he saw much, while a student under Dr. Cook at Normal many years ago, and later as a teacher under him, both here and at DeKalb. Mrs. Henrietta Pitts Martin, '98, of Joliet, told of the personal qualities of Dr. Cook as seen by one of his pupils. Mrs. Martin paid a beautiful tribute to Dr. Cook and to the school. She was followed by Mr. Holmes of the faculty who conhrmed all that had been said. The rest of the program was given over to extemporaneous talks by visitors. Mr. Dickey Templeton, of Bloomington, who graduated from Normal in 1873, fifty years ago this year, judge Jesse Black, of Peoria, class of '96, and Senator james H. Forrester, ,Q3, of Taylorville, were among those that paid additional tribute to the memory of Dr. Cook, and the program was appropriately closed with the singing of Normal Loyalty. 25

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