Indiana State University - Sycamore Yearbook (Terre Haute, IN)

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THE NORMAL ADVANCE 9 3m memoriam ROBERT PARSONS. 4cHow Long IVe Live Not Years, But Actions Tell?7 Robert Parsons, son of President and Mrs. W. W. Parsons, passed away in his twenty- first year on July 23, 1914. Robert began his student life at the age of siX in the Normal Training School and con- tinued there until he was graduated from the high school four years ago. He then entered Wabash College, where he distinguished him- self in scholarship, winning the Rhodes scholarship in his junior year and Phi Beta Kappa in his senior year. In college, as in the Normal School, he endeared himself to his teachers and associates by his gentleness of spirit and unfailing courtesy. It is the regret of all who knew him that this life of such great promise did not bloom into its full maturity; and yet few men of three score and ten have lived so full a life as Robert did in his twenty-one years. To President and Mrs. Parsons in their great sorrow, the faculty and the student body extend their warmest sympathy. CAPTAIN TVILLIAM H. ARMSTRONG. In offering this tribute to the services of Captain William H. Armstrong as member and President of the Board of Trustees of the In- diana State Normal School, it is fitting to reo- ognize not only his valuable work and the fidel- ity and zest with Which it was always per- formed, but also the uniform courtesy and kindly spirit which accompanied it. This edu- cational service was only a small part of that larger field of good citizenship in which these same qualities were shown. To indicate the liberal equipment he brought to his service upon the Board, brief reference, is made to his life career. Captain Armstrong was born near the town of VVigton, Cumberland County, England, May 14, 1844, but when three years of age came with his parents to Knox County, Illinois, and from 1847 to 1863 he was receiving an education from this new, strange environment, from his home life and from the country and village schools. He thus received the. influences of two nationalities. At nineteen years of age he entered the Federal Army, and served until March, 1866, thus taking up into his educa- tion the great and enduring influences of the Civil War. At the close of this service, he en- tered upon the business of real estate and col- lection of government claims, in Paducah, Ky. In 1869 he received from the government an appointment in the Internal Revenue Service. Later, he removed to Terre Haute, entered upon the business of druggist, identified himself with the general interests of the city, serving with credit a term as Mayor. About 1885 he re- moved to the larger field of Indianapolis, and established himself as the head of a firm en- gaged in furnishing druggistsi supplies and ap- paratus. In all these forms of activity he was a conspicuous representative of good citizen- ship. He filled with credit his place as a house- holder, as a churchman, and as a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and its allied organizations. It was his characteristic to en- ter with strong and constant interest and zest into the affairs of each organization with which he was allied. In 1892 he was appointed a Trustee of the Indiana State Normal School, and became President of the Board. In his long and valuable service of more than twenty- one years, he manifested in a marked degree,

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8 THE NORMAL ADVANCE MISS LOTTA DAY. MISS MARJORIE 0UPPY. Miss Day, teacher of grades 1 and 2 in the Miss Guppy was graduated from the college training school, is a graduate of the State Nor- course in the Class of 1914. She is now, during mal. In addition she has had two terms7 work the absence of Professor Curry, lining the posi- in Columbia University. tion of Miss Moran, Who was appointed acting head of the department of literature. MARJORIE CUPPY LOTTA DAY 111188 ALICE 1VUELLER., During the past two years Miss Day was , . . , ' Miss Mueller, instructor in German 1n the em 10 ed in trainintr school work at Evans- , villi in d b training school, received her B. A. degree from , the State University of Iowa, and her M. A. MISS N ORM A F AI LIN G. degree from the University of Chicago. Miss Failing, Who during the past three Miss Mueller has been connected With the years has been teaching in the West Terre NORMA FAILING ALICE MUELLER Haute graded schools7 is a graduate of I. S. N. grammar schools of Davenport, Iowa, and the Miss Failing is now teacher of grades 3 and 4 high school of Oshkosh, Wis. She has also in the training school. taught a class in the University of Chicago.

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10 THE NORMAL ADVANCE that courtesy and kindly spirit, that strong stantial worth of the school, and to enhance its and steady interest, and that capable activity usefulness to the state. that always characterized him in the aifairs of We extend to his bereaved family our recog- citizenship, church, and the military organiza- nition of his high-minded services to society, tions that arose to commemorate the trials and and express our sincere sympathy. valor 0f the civil war. HOWARD SANDISON? As members of the faculty, we offer our ALBERT R. CHARMAN, tribute to the high grade of his service in labor- ROBERT G. GILLUM, ing as a trusted oiiicial, to advance the sub- Committee. tCTo hide true worth from public View, Is burying diamonds in their mine. A11 is not gold that Shines, atis true; But all that is goldeought to shineW eBisiwp.