Northern Oklahoma College - Roundup Yearbook (Tonkawa, OK)

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In Memoriam Miss Ruby Williams was 'born November 24, 1893. Miss Williams, or Ruby, as she was affectionately called by those who knew her best, was graduated from this Institu- tion in May, 1914. During the school year of 1914-15 she was employed as assistant secretary to the President, and'du1'ing the present school year she was serving as assist- ant teacher inthe Stenographic Department of the Institution. The entire community was shocked to hear of her death eat 7:15 Saturday morning, January 22. For two weeks her multitude of friends had anxiously listened for some little token to give them hope of her recovery. Thousands of times the question was asked among teachers andstudents, How is Ruby? She was not the loss of a single home, it was the loss of the entire community. Thee funeralsfservices were .held at the Methodist Church Sunday, January 23, at 2 o'clock. Rev. Klienstiber, assisted by Rev. Lovell of the Christian Church and Rev. Bowles of the Baptist Church, conducted the services. , A double quartette, composed of members of the State School Faculty, furnished music throughout the service. They sang again at the cemetery. The church was made beautiful by an abundance of choice flowers, sent by her many friends, to bear a message of comfort to her sorrowing relatives. Probably nothing could have better shown how loved and respected Miss Williams was, than the presence of some 2000 friends at the funeral. The Faculty and students of the school joined the family in deep regret for the loss of one so dear to all of us. 1 ' This sad event brought to the hearts of all who knew her, and especially to the members of this Faculty, a sorrow so deep, a grief so poignant, that its echoing throb will cease only when memory shall have passed within -the unseen influence of the future. . Kind and generous, tender and gentle, the mirror of truth and honor, our hearts swell with every beat in eulogy of the lovely woman and devoted teacher. Her ability. heiruntiring energy, her warm, deep sympathy, her professional spirit, had won her the universal esteem, love and admiration 'of her fellow laborers. ..Proud of her success, won through patient effort, loyal, unselfish service, and earnest endeavor, glorying in the noble example bequeathed to us, with hearts thrilling in tender memory of our fellow teacher, dead on the field of honor, and bowed in reverent recollection of the gentle spirit new departed, iwe record our grief for her. 164

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. 'ap I. .,, When we are through school and go out into the affairs of life among our fellow men, if we become employers of other men we shall lay great stress on the loyalty of our employees, and if we cannot trust them and they do not Work for our intrests, we do not want them, however skillful they may be in their line of work. The same test will be put to us if we seek employment. However, the matter simply reduces itself to this, that a man who is not loyal is not wanted by anyone for anything. Everyone has some cause to which he is loyal after he has given his first devotion to. his work. Some possible causes are: friendship, the devotion to the members of one's own family, and the government of one's own country. All social functions may furnish causes which may call forth loyalty. But it is plainly to be seen that no one can be loyal to all the social causes that exist. A robber band, a pirate crew, or a high- land robber clan of the o.ld days, might furnish causes to which someone has been or is loyal. Yet all of us readily see that they are causes unworthy of a person's loyalty. The loyal man may often have to show his loyalty by some act which has not been predetermined. He may have to be as original in his conception of his duties as he is faithful to them. An incident of English History, which I now call to mind, shows that personal worth and beauty of original loyalty. In 1642, just before the outbreak of the hostilities between King Charles I and the Commons, the king had resolved to arrest certain leaders of the opposing party in parliament. The king sent his herald to the House to demand that these men be turned over' to. him. The speaker of the House in reply appealed to the privileges of the House, which gives to that body juris- diction over its own members. The king resolved to force authority upon them the following day. He went in person, accompanied by his soldiers, to the House. He stationed his guards at the doors, and went up to the Speaker, Do you espy these per- sons in the House ? The speaker of the House at once fell on his knees before the king and said, Your Majesty, I am Speaker of this House, and being such, I' have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak, save as this House shall commandg and I humbly beg your Majesty. A cause is good, not only for me, but for mankind. It is an aid and furtherance of loyalty in my fellowmen. My causefis an evil one, if it is destructive to the loyalty of my fellowmenf If I have any cause at all, I have fellowmen whose loyalty mine supports. But if my cause lives by overthrowing the loyalties of others it is an evil cause, because it is disloyalty to the very cause of loyalty itself. Everyone inevitably finds himself as apparently occupying the center of his own universe. The starry heavens form to his eyes a sphere, and he himself is at the cen- ter of that sphere. We must be individualistsg seek our own individual' good, and in- dividual loyalty, unsparingly and with all our heart and soul. This in the end is no selfish policy, for This above all, to thine own self be true And' it must follofw as night the day Thou canst not then be false to any man. Loyalty has its religious forms also. Loyalty tosreligion brought men across an uncharted sea to the vvilds of America. It took David Livingstone into the heart of Africa, and lifted the veil from that Dark Continent. It was Christ's loyalty to His teachings which caused Him to give ,up His life for us. Therefore, let loyalty he our pearl of great price. Loyalty, like mercy, in Port1a's mercy speech, is not alxvayg uinightiest in the mightiest,', but becomes the thorned monarch better than his crown. 16?

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