Peru State College - Peruvian Yearbook (Peru, NE)

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Anna Morehead Joy Having reached that period when people are spoken of as living in the past, it is rather pleasant to have our young friends ask us for some of those reminiscences. After several years of personal experience right here, then seeing brothers, sisters, cousins, and lastly five of my own children educated in this school, I would naturally have some experiences of interest to students of the present time. This school, as you all know, was established as a church school, and I am glad to say that in all these fifty-three years, has lived up to the high moral standard set at that time. The only mark 1 ever had against my conduct was for going walking one Sunday afternoon with my roommate, on the road west of town, where we called on a family we were acquainted with. Another thing that Professor McKenzie instilled into us, was to never say can t, but to do whatever we undertook. This was brought up very vividly to me three years ago when he was telling of the troubles we had with the first old bell. He wanted it rung at half past five for us to get up and go to study- ing- The boy or man that was to do it was sometimes a little late, so my room- mate, Emma Brooke, volunteered to do it for a while. The very next morning when she attempted to ring it, the rope was covered with sleet and frozen fast, so she climbed up on a ladder through the attic and out on the roof and rang the bell. When she told me, I said, Why that was a very dangerous thing to do. 1 know it, she said, but 1 wasn’t going to fail, especially the very first morning when 1 was expected to do it.” May the next fifty years mark tin even greater advancement than the last have done.

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ANNA MOREHEAD JOY

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DR. HOWARD