Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine - Osteoblast Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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Glass History, une IQZ4 YOUNG near-poet from North Carolina-Daniel Allen Tedder by name-has contributed the following classic to the world's best poetry, and it is given here because it expresses the sentiment of every member of june '24: SOME CLASS! I 've stood beside the cataract Of great Niagara's flood. I stood with Lee at Malvern Hill, And saw the earth drink blood. fue seen the Vatican at Rome And Saint Paul's -but alas! 'These are but molecules beside Our present Senior class! Other historians have told of our prowess in other years, of the glory we felt in' the wearing of the green, of how we won the flagfrush, and the SophomorefFreshmen baseball game-thanks to our Perry!-of the dances we gave, and the bones we boiled, and the naps we took in class, and of how we gave of our best to make a football and a baseball team that brought home greater honors than any team had done for years! And as for our good health-we have survived Freshman technique, Dr. Platt's demonstrations, E. R. A., hobo week, and Hnger surgery. We all remember the day that Dr. Lane held forth on the wickedness of the medical profession, and asked that all who had known an old family doctor to raise their hands. Immediately every person in the room raised a hand! Marvelous endurance!! The stuff that heroes are made of! If we were writing the history of individual members of the class, it would be a pleasure to tell of the honors that have come to many of our members. As assistants in all the laboratoriesg as members of the faculty of our own school and of the Teacher's Collegeg as internes in the hospitalg as captains of the football, baseball and hockey teams, as physical directors for the men and the women, they have represented our class in the life of the school in a way that makes us proud to claim them. And we would not forget Dale Pearson, who gets a clergyman's sore throat putting pep into the rest of us every time the team leaves towng nor the band-men who meet so often at tenffifty and shock our ossicular chains with their sad melody concerning the Old Gray Mare. Dame Fortune has been kind to us, for we have had the opportunity of hearing lectures delivered by men and women who have achieved places of distinction in the prof Page -I5

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Im l SHAVER, ROY E. Scottsbluff, Nab Peru State Teachers College, Nebraska. Never dejected while anotliefs blestf' Kirksville High School. 6 Xl' Football, IQI9. lt seems to me that any man Wl1o does about the best he can ls plenty good enough to suit This lower mundane institute. Oakland High School. University of Illinois. Kirksville State Teachers College. Acacia. Attempt the end and never stand in doubt Notl1ing's so liarcl but search will pnd it out. WILSON, G. N. Cleburne, Texas. A. B., Southwestern University. K .K 'I' 23 1' Football, '20, '21, '22, '2g,. Baseball, '21, '22, '23, Persuasive speech and more persuasive sighs Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes. WOODELTON, GRACE A. Melrrnse Park, P1 A. B., Bryn Mawr College. LL. B., New York University. .X 0 Il Axis. Pennsylvania Club. Editor of 1924 Osteohlast. Heart on ber lips, and soul within lier eyes. , Soft as her clime, sunny as her slim. 0 -I-I Never elated while one man's oppressed, SHAW, FRED E. Salida, Colo. STOKES, JAMES H. oviuna, zu'

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fession. We have seen the new laboratory-gymnasium building begun, completed and occupied. We have seen our school pass triumphantly through a season of stress and strain that taxed the courage and optimism and loyalty of every student, every instructor and officer. We have seen the advent of a new man in the dean's office whose sincerity and friendliness won our respect and affection and whose high ideals and executive power have made us glad to cofoperate with him in making this school the best in the profession. Through the activities of two of our class an American flag was presented to the school by the Wonten's Relief Corps of Meriden, Connecticut. There stands out in our memory one neverfto-befforgotten day, when, gathered with other students in North Hall, we learned the details of the death of Dr. George. There came over us a vivid sense of the loss sustained by the school and the profession at large. The days ahead of us looked dark-uncertainty Hlled our minds. But there were among us men who knew the value of faith and of the courage an expression of faith to the men who must bear the heaviest share of the burden. Through the influence of these men we pledged ourselves to remain in the school until graduation, We have kept the pledge and have never regretted our action. One day, long ago in our Freshman year, Dr. S. S. said, after calling the roll, This is the Wrightfest and the Wisest class I ever saw. Since then all of our Wise ones have left us, but we still have more Wrights than any class in school. Through four years we have laughed and worked together, formed happy friendships, developed moral and physical force for the service we purpose to give to our fellowmen. Four years of our lives we have spent here and they have left a lasting impression on each one of us and on the life of the school. And now when the time of separation has come and each gives the other a friendly clasp of the hand and good wishes for success in the field there come to us the words of a stanza whose authorship is unknown: To every man there cometh A way and ways and a way, Arid the high soul seeks the high way, And the low soul seeks the low. While in between on the misty flats The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there cometh A way and ways and a way. And every man decideth Which way his soul shall go. ELIZABETH H. RAMSAY, Historian. Page Alli