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

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MfMORIAM A little man with twinkling blue eyes ... a wisp of hair falling over his forehead ... a husky voice ... a cheery greeting . . . friend- liness for everybody ... an eternal broom about him somewhere . . . that was C. Oscar Bayles, one of the janitors of Old Main, who died September 20, 1940. Mr. Bayles was born in Rinard, Illinois, on December 1, 1870. He was brought up in the southern part of the state. Since he was on outdoor man and loved nature, he farmed in his younger days. Be- tween periods on the farm, he was an attendant at the state hospitals at Jacksonville and Kankakee. He farmed until he moved here twenty years ago. Mr. Bayles came to Normal to take a position as janitor of Fell Hall, which he accepted under the Felmley administration. While he was at the hall, he made many friends among the boys who worked in the kitchen, and many of them kept up a lively correspondence with him to the end of his days. Last March, Mr. Bayles became ill and resigned to go into a sani- tarium. While he was there a group of ninety Fell Hall girls kept him supplied with flowers. He died on September 20, 1940, at the age of seventy. He leaves a wife and a son, Lloyd Wesley Bayles, who graduated from I.S.N.U. in 1932, and who is now teaching.

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-a . y :5 -.:» dZ wiim Throughout the autumn, winter, and spring of every year students in the col- leges and universities all over the United States go through the motions of activities that go to make up a year at college. In this year ' s Index v e ' ve tried to put down, in the order of their happening, the things that you I.S.N.U. students have done during the school year that is just closing — things that you might wish to recall in the years to come when you will try for an hour to recapture some of the joys you knew while at school. With that in mind we of the staff present the 1941 Index to you as a record of a year at I.S.N.U. It ' s all here — the games, the lectures, the plays, the organi- zations, the dances, the pictures of all those people that have been roaming the campus for a year. And written between the lines on every page are all of the associations that are yours alone, which we could not put down in print, but which will be even more vivid to you than the things that do fill the pages. And so it ' s all yours now. With the hope that it will, in the words of a current song, serve to make it all comes back to me now we place in your hands the product of a year ' s work — the 1941 Index. . . .

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MgfF C. OSCAR BAYLES