Iowa Wesleyan College - Croaker Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, IA)

Page 140 text:

CROAKER P. E. O. SISTERHOOD ORGANIZED JANUARY 21.1869 MT. PLEASANT. IOWA ORIGINAL SEVEN ALICE BIRD BABB HATTIE BRIGGS BOUSQIJET ALICE COFFIN FRANC ROADS ELLIOTT SUELA PEARSON PENFIELD MARY ALLEN STAFFORD ELLA STEWART Erected by Iowa Grand Chapter • 19 17- Forty-six years ago a band of seven Iowa Wesleyan College girls met in the old History room and there originated what is now the P. E. O. Sisterhood. On September 25, 1917, in memory of the founding of P. E. O., the sisterhood presented a bronze tablet in the college chapel. Following the presentation, the tablet was unveiled by Miss Alice Babb, a daughter of one of the original seven. The John Williams Company of New York were employed to work out the design, and the beautiful tablet, artistic in line, cast in bronze, and recounting the names of the original founders, three of whom have long since greeted the eternal morning—will henceforth remind all visitors to the college buildings, the date and event and its nationwide significance. The tablet was placed permanently in the History room, where the original meeting occurred. P. E. O. was first formed as a college sorority, but though college born, it was not college bound, and in due time Original Chapter A was merged into Beta Chapter of Alpha Xi Delta, while P. E. O. found its greatest adaptation to the women of America, outside of college, now numbering over five hundred chapters.

Page 139 text:

THE 1919 CROAKER ome interesting information about iotoa W tsftzgm First College west of the Mississippi River. First Co-Fducational College to grant Bachelors and Doctor’s degree to a woman. Has won State Oratorical Contests more times than any other Iowa college. First College in America to adopt Compulsory Military Training after the Declaration of War on Germany. Has furnished 151 soldiers and sailors for the present war. More than any other Middle Western College in proportion to the number of students. Has the oldest chartered literary society in the State. SOME FAMOUS ALUMNI Wray Beattie—Head of first Protestant College in Brazil. George B. Corkhill—Prosecuted and convicted Guitcau for murder of President Garfield. Edward W. Hearxe—Organized Y. M. C. A. in Philippines and Panama. Horace M. Havxer—Attorney General of Iowa. Gardner Cowles—Publisher of the Des Moines Register and Tribune. Clifford Thorxe—Railroad rate expert. Thomas Nixox Carver—Professor of Economics, Harvard. George Rommel—United States Bureau of Agriculture. Le Roy M. Yerxox—Founded and built first Methodist Church in Rome, Italy.

Page 141 text:

THE 19 19 CROAKER rt Department May Hills ’99 Principal Since the entrance of the United States into the European conflict, the attention of all the students has been turned to the more utilitarian courses, in all the courses of study, but there is in the Department of Art, under the direction of Miss Hills, a real value and a fascination which has kept the students interested in her work, and has kept her roll book filled. We can scarcely say too much for Miss Hill’s ability and know that there is no artistic touch or technical detail to be omitted in her work. Her charming personality makes work with her a real pleasure and not a task.