Lebanon College for Young Ladies - Cedars Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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our minds who have already graduated from the school of earth, and have heard a voice say: It is enough, come up higher. XVhile we mourn their loss, let us cherish their memory and profit by their hallowed influence. Since the organization of the Alumnae Association, the members have spent many pleasant hours together within the dear old college walls. No place seems so appropriate for the meetings as this, in which the present hours are gilded by happy memories of the past. Happenings of by-gone days are recalled and we go away with a deeper love in our hearts for each other and for I.. C. Y. I.. You ask of what benefit such an organization will be to the school I' I-isten, and we will tell you. Iiesides honoring their Alma Mater by their lives and using their infiuence for her advancement, the members of the Alumnae Association have planned to show their esteem for their Alma Mater in a more material way. Two hundred dollars has already been contributed towards a telescope for I.. C. Y. L., and the Alumnae have agreed to raise three hundred dollars more and thus give their mother college a substantial token of the love for her that still lives in the hearts of her daughters. XVe will allow no thought of failure to find lodgement in our minds and feel certain that within the next few months I-. C. Y. I.. will be the proud possessor of the finest telescope of any woman's college in the South. XVe, as Alumnae, are proud of what L. C. Y. I-, has achieved in the past, proud of what she will achieve in the future. Let us give her our hearty support in every forward movement. ' sa fe r 77

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Alumnae Association 5 5' , ECOGNIZING the value of the organized Alumnae Association to schools throughout our . country, the question presented itself to the minds of some of the Alumnae of our own ' 'P ' collegeg why should not the L. C. Y. L. have an Alumnae Association? No sooner was i we -. , KI ' the thought suggested than articles began to appear in the college paper which stirred the V 'J -.3 heart of every loyal graduate of this honored institution. The outcome of all this was. that just a year ago si number of the local Alumnae met and organized what is now known as the Alumnae Association of L. C. Y. L, Officers were elected and a constitution and by-laws framed. The object of this organization is three-foldg hrst, to keep a roll, and so far as possible, a history of the lives of the Alumnae: second, to bind closer the hearts of the graduates of the schoolg and last, but by no means least, to be of beneht to our beloved Alma Mater. In the tirst of these objects, through the untiring etforts of our corresponding secretary and her co-workers, we have been remarkably successful. To give here a history of the life of each one of the two hundred and fifty young ladies who have gone out from the school would be impossible. They can be found in sixteen different states. and are honoring their Alma Mater in various ways. Some are building temples of knowledge and palaces of thought in the hearts and minds of the boys and girls of the present day. The heart of every ambitious school boy has burned within him at the startling announcement that some day he may be president, but the school girl has an ambition more lofty than this, which is that she may reign supreme in a sphere not so vast as our great country, but in one heart and life, in a domain all her own. Many of the Alumnae have already achieved this high aim, and still others are scattering sunshine about them while they wait for their Romeo to appear. VVe pause just here, a feeling of sadness comes over us, for the names of some come to 76

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