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

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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.

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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.

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THE 1919 CROAKER e 1919 Croaker Early in the spring of 1917, the biennial election of the Croaker Staff was held in Harlan Hall, resulting in the election of Wayne Peterson as Editor in Chief, and Earl White as Business Manager. Arthur Ollivier was chosen as Assistant Editor and Ernest Newquist as Assistant Business Manager. A regular Staff of twelve members were immediately chosen and plans made for the publication of the book. However, when we returned to school this fall, it was found that most of the Staff had left school and that there were only twenty-five members of the Class of 1919 left. With the consent of the members of the class, the whole class became the Staff for the publication of the Croaker and everyone of the members have had some part in the preparation of the book. Anyone who is classed as a Junior has been working on the Croaker. The unusual conditions caused by the Great War have made the publication very difficult, and it was only that we might have a memorial for the boys who have gone into the conflict, that we attempted to put out the book at all. We regret very much the absence of our classmates and cherish the thought that although we are separated, perhaps never to be reunited, the ties of brotherhood still bind us in spirit.