Potomac State College - Catamount Yearbook (Keyser, WV)

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This section of West Virginia was once roamed through by the Delawares, and it is through them that this legendary tale has been handed down from generation to generation. He-Who-Holds-the-Earth fthe Sleyj being jealous of his wife, Daylight, tore a hole in the vault of heaven and pushed her through. it so happened that she had a child, and down, down, down she tumbled with her baby daughter on her bacle. in mid-air she was caught by the waterbirds who waited her to a gentle landing on the bacliz of the Tortoise, whose bacle had been covered with earth by the Muslzrat. Un Earth the daughter grew to womanhood and from her mating with the Wind, gave birth to two sons-the Life God and the Winter-maker. The chiefs of the Delawares were all descended from the Life God and that all might know of their descent, a Tortoise was tatooed in azure on their breast. Thus the seal of the tribe became a distinctive emblem. Embodying their ideals, all institutions of learning have seals, even as tribes ol the times long spent, The seals oi today, as those of yester- day, must therefore be distinctive and symbolic. And of the seal ol Potomac State this holds true. During the school year 1924-25, a contest was held forthe embody- ment of the schoolis ideals into a seal. Six students in the school sub- mitted their ideas and Calvin Potts, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, tool: the hrst honor for the seal here illustrated. His copy follows: : , - - . E ,-5.51 s. Q 7 is ,.-I., L- ggf' X' J' X f i- .ilfg -

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