Penn State University - La Vie Yearbook (University Park, PA)

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Illulll' IIIIII' Ciag'19'16 LAVIEF the pale faces and made ti'lztties with them and bartered with them under a great pine tree which still is standing. And when the time came that he should go to the Happy Hunting Grounds. oven the white men mourned him and in his honor named mountains and valleys and even the creek that flowed thrn his native valley with his name. And again many snmxs and rains came. The people of XVoap-a-lzmne, they of the tribe of Lcnni-Lenape grew fewer and fewer; the white brothers came and took their hunt- ing grounds; and their mountains and valleys saw them 110 more. Then in this broad valley, there rose the Great Mother. not of men but of the minds of men. To her came the young men frum many miles, and she taught them the wisdom of times past, taught them the use of tools. taught them the arts of working. W'ith her teaching was the sweetness, the gentleness, the goodness of Nittany, and into their hearts she instilled the bravery, the cour- age of VVOap-a-lanne. And her Sons went out into the world and worked with the arts she had taught them and brought back to her. honor and glory. The world knew them; for in their minds was the gentleness nt' Nittany, in their hearts. the strength of XVoap-a-lanne. A DISTANT VIEW

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LUNG, hright. rihhum nf gultl. hlcnding'. graying. into the deep hlue 0f :1 twilight sky. set :ttnp nt' :1 moun- tain line, rugged. irregular; IiIL' ht'cztth mi :1 night wind. suit. uncertain. rustling faintly zternss the hruud ex- pzmsv of tree tttps; :1 thread Hf shining white in the vulh-y just hclnw her. all this Nittnny saw and was thankful. Many were the mmms and lung. since her warrior went nut to hnttle. Many were the Iincks of wihl geese that had tlnwn nm-thwztril ziml muthwztrd :thm't- her. and still, he had nut returned. Mztliitutt. Munitnn the Mighty, wzts cruel. and yt-tr-the smith wind grew lmlder and kissed her hmwn Check. with- t-rul now and old; the dying: light in the west lingered un her face. kimllul answering lights in her eythae :mntht-r day WilS gum: Down in the valley. lived 1m ohl wzn'riur and his xqtiziw, thttk. iu-hlc. smrculy :thle In grind the cum w gather the hurries which were their fnmL they lived mimic, the remnant nf Zl peuple mice great and pnwcr- fut. Frequently it had happened that just when the mnize they had planted with so much hthnr was ready tn i'eztp. then lht' nurth wind hztd Come, bending the uuk trees in his strt'mg lingers, and had wrested it frnm them sn that in the lung winter there was little tn eat. Ami this lmliutl IllZliti. since xthe was 5.10er and kind. hzui cume dnwn frmm her hilltup into the valley when all Wits dark. and had built :1 shield for them :lgztinst tho nnrthwiml, :1 barrier that even his strung iingcrs could not brink. The nhl people saw with wander the thing that she had IIUIIC, and called her Nittztny, which means wind breaker. Then a griztt sickness came upon hr and she died, and the old wzu'riw and his Squaw mourned her. and all whn hzul known her mourned her; called her pious, called her good, And thev built :1 mound tWCI' the place where she lay that her resting place might In: remem- :IVIICH in the night came the tir-ztt Spirit with thnndut'ings zmd lightnings: the -:trth bored. . . Alter :1 time. the shook, grunt trees came crashing down and the penplc were sure afraid. thttnders grc v tillilL 21ml duller, the lightnings tiztshul ltss ltllli less nftcn. and trace, dark. silent. hmoderl m'er the valley. then the tlzlwn Came. the til'st pale light of tnnrning. the people came fut'th zmd marveled: for in the place where they hftd htiilded the mound, how rose a griztt mountain. And they called it Nittztny 1n hnnnr mt hur who was called pious and good. The snows of many winters had 1min on the valley. many summers had come and gone. A new people had cume up from tho southward uml hml taken pusscssion of the hind Men with white faces had come from the cztstwm'rl. There :tmst- :tmtmfl 11119 110W Del'lpie :1 grlztt warrior chief named XVuztp-a-lanne, whom the men with white faces called Halt! Jingle. He lived in this same brand valley. and he extended his httntint.r grounds far tn the north- ward. Brave was 110 and led his warriors to victory. and many were the songs that the singers made in honor of his ht'zlvcry and his daring. W'unp-u-lzume hwed his brothers with

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