Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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. X r' .u,.-.,- ma ,gigs if 1 A c afilftij ' .1 .- . : ., -Xylff-fi.. .flip -.11 5.4, '57 , ,, ,, ,r -: at-m'lum I 7 t at i l.h...llt.i5.ijg- , gag? ,gt , fd ff? vw-if ' ,, ,lfegm , :QT-, .Qt ily! w:,L,gf 2-111 Bun. fdamra Svgluratrr Bmurll Of all that is good, Iowa affords the best. The subject of our sketch is an Iowa product in every sense of the word. He was born and educated in Iowa and Iowa has furnished his environment for fifty- seven years. Our subject was reared on a Cedar coun- ty farm where, owing to the generous mold in which nature formed him, he was a very valuable assistant to his father, Nathan Dewell. When the father could Hnd nothing else to be done on the farn1 he generously per- mitted the son to attend country school a few short weeks each winter. In all the days of his young boyhood, a few weeks of school in winter and swimming in Mill Creek after all the chores were done in summer, constituted for him the acme of hilarious indulgence. After the country schools were outgrown our colt began to take the bit in his teeth and a compromise was finally effected whereby he was permitted to attend the Clarence High School for several winters. Here the inspiration came. Bill Stubbs, one of the real teachers of the ,70's, awaken- ed in him, as in many another youth and HON. J. S, DEXVELL maiden, a taste. for learning, an inspiration Missouri Valley, Iowa to earn and claim a seat among the mighty, President of the Alumni Association the intellectual directors of human effort. He entered Ames as a freshman in the spring of '78 and graduated with the class of '81, paying his way entirely by teaching during the four months vacation each year, at Valley, Onion Grove, and elsewhere, and by working a detail in term time at ten cents per hour, usually in the department of Professor Budd. ln fact, he was Budd's right-hand man. . After graduating he taught one year at Polk City, 'then entered the law school of the Iowa State University in the fall of '82, graduating in June, '83. After looking the situation over carefully, he hung out his shingle at Missouri Valley, Iowa, in the fall of '83, where it hangs to this day, calling attention to the fact that just up stairs can be found one of the very good lawyers of the state, and an honest man too! Ames never had a more loyal alumnus or one who has more often answered her call for help or spent more freely of his time and money for the relief of his alma mater. Who can recall a session of the legislature since the day of his graduation, over which he did not hover and assist with wise counsel and convincing argument when Ames, cause was in danger? Who can remember an 'association meeting in the last thirty-three years when his familiar six foot twof' was not in evidence? The association did well last year to elect him to its executive chair. It paid a debt of gratitude and advanced its own interests. 26