Northwestern State University - Potpourri Yearbook (Natchitoches, LA)

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Miss Laure Tauzin. In the death of Miss Laure Tauzin, March 20, 1912, the N01 nial School lost one of its most devoted workers. For eighteen years she went in and out among us, an example of faithfulness to duty and loyalty to service ; and when stricken by dread disease, she showed a pa- tience and heroism characteristic of a great spirit. Bom of French parentage and educated at the old Sacred Heart Convent, she belonged to the old regime, yet she adapted herself to the nezv order. After many years of teaching, she returned to school when the Nor- mal ziras established, took up the work with interest, finished the course, and later became one of its most efficient teachers. She served the Normal School as Critic Teacher and as Instructor in French Language and Literature, and to both she brought all the enthu- siasm and devotion of her ardent nature. Her pupils will long remember her as an eloquent teacher, and will bear through their lives the impress of her faithful service. The Normal School, strengthened by her life and work, will go forward, ever holding her in precious memory. 15

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{Kfje Alumni Normal, Normal, she s the one for me! Normal, Normal, prosperous may she be! She ' s the queen of the South, she is worth all the rest. Normal, Normal, Normal she s the one I love the best. All over the State there are men and women who are singing this song in their hearts they are the men and women who comprise your Alumni, student of 1 91 2; your Alumni that working body of people who represent so nobly the best of your Normal School — that body of graduates whose ranks you are striving to join Suppose, student of 1912, that you could have them all assemble from every part of the State and form into one long, long, unbroken line, from the graduate of over a Quarter of a century ago to the last little graduate of the last graduating class. What an inspiration ' What a difference in age, looks, thought, and char- acter, yet what a purpose, what an underlying principle, uniting them all under the standards of the Normal School! Listen! Each class is giving its yell — its enthusiastic, hair-raising, ear- splitting class yell — but isn ' t it strange and wonderful that at this distance all those different yells soften and blend into one glad harmony, the old Normal 17