Spring Arbor University - Echo Yearbook (Spring Arbor, MI)

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES ALUMNI I have been requested by the worthy Editor and staff of the Echo to write a short article for their use, from the Board of Trustees. This is to me, indeed, a great pleasure. I am assured that any commendable things I may say of Spring Arbor Seminary and Junior College will meet with their hearty approval. Many years have gone by since this Christian school began. The original members of its board have passed on to their reward, and only one member of the 19th century remains on its roll. From the beginning it has been an institution requiring sacri- fice to promote it. As I read the names of those who have been its promoters, I feel that they were men who had its interests at heart. It has had its years of struggles, its cloudy times, but not without assurance that the Lord was pleased with its existence and work, and this has been a great encouragment to us. We have had our victorious years, years of seeming plenty- fol- lowed by disasters and losses, yet, we still live and live to be a help and blessing to those who may be entrusted to our care. We have been favored through all these years with men at the head of the institution who were willing and gave years of toil and sacrifice for its continuance. With them they have been assisted by a loyal, self-denying staff of helpers. This same spirit prevails at the present time, and to us appeals in a very commendable way, and we only wish we might do for them something commensurate with their labors. We have had, also a very worthy, sacrificing people on the fields of our patronizing territory who of their means have been contributing to its support and without which it would not have been possible to continue. Of what has been accomplished we can but feebly estimate, many have graduated from here to talce circuits in our conferences and other places, some in foreign fields, many have finished their labors and gone home to their eternal reward. Their deeds and labors are recorded in the archives of the Kingdom of heaven. To all who have assisted and are still interested in this most worthy worlc we say God Bless You. W. C. MUFFITT, Secretary of Board. What Spring Arbor Seminary means to us as Alumni can not be estimated in dollars and cents. We have only to face the world for one year to realize what an infiuence has been exerted over our lives by our Alma Mater. The principles for which she stands have become our principles, and the ideals for which her founders gave their lives have become our ideals. As we cast a retrospective glance, many of our thoughts center around the old chapel, now only a memory. Debates, declamatory and oratorical contests, literary programs, spell downs, parliamentary drills, assemblies, chapel scenes fblessed times when God,s power was manifest in conviction and salvationl-such occasions as these are the ones we remember in connection with Spring Arbor. Then class room scenes come trooping before us, and we think again of our teachers, those Godly men and women who strove to instill in our hearts and minds the best and purest thoughts. Spring Arbor has been blessed with competent teachers and administrators. To what extent our lives have been moulded and our goals set by them we can only imagine. May the principles for which our school has always stood never be changed, her ideals never be lowered, her teachers never compromise. God bless our Alma Mater- Q'May many more years be thine, To shed forth thy light With rays clear and bright, Fulfilling thy mission divine. HELEN FLETCHER, College '32, Page Thirty-four

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It is very essential that every young girl in high school or college should take a course in home economics, so that she may be better qualified to fit into that future home that every young person desires. In our cooking class the first semester we learned how to prepare meals with balanced rations and how to make the food more palatable. In our sewing class the second semester our proj- ects consisted of the simplest forms of needle work-such as, darning stockings, to the more complicated work of dress-making. We learned in the household problems course that the home is first of all for use and com- fort, that household decorations that imply the necessity of too much care or that easily become marred cannot produce the pleasant or restful feeling which is necessary to make beauty enjoy- able. We were led to see that an over-ornamented house and an over-dressed person produce the same effect-they both express an essentially uncultivated taste. All furniture, should have an excuse for being. No temptation in the direction of giving elaborate teas and dinners, entertaining company, canning and preserving fruit in the fall, or even getting the spring sewing done should be allowed to overcome the housewife's judgment as to the importance of such work. As far as possible, her first duty should be to be a cheerful, healthy, happy, and loving woman, and all work that tends to prevent her from fulfilling this duty is comparatively unimportant and had better be left undone. We conclude from our study of the budget plan that it eliminates many of the financial difficulties of the home by better enabling one to form judgments and check mistakes. It is a safeguard for spending money, which fact enables us to get more pleasure out of buying, and this in the end makes for happier families. In short, we are learning to swim, so that we shall not sink when we are struggling through the deep sea of life. VIOLET A. DODDS. HCNWE ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT 1933 Violet Dodds Dominic Mannoia Nliss O. M. Knowles Instructor Glenna Hazeldine Velma Williainson Bethany Jane Smith Mary Lowell Muriel Bright Ila Mae Dean Myrtle Sholf 1934 Rachael Hyatt Vida Hammond Beulah Seifken Violet Dodds Imo Rowe Fern Fairchild Lillian Kings'cy Glenna I-Iazeldine Laurine Deyo Betty Ellen Cox Pauline Jones Miss O. M. Knowles Instructor Norma Morrison Margaret Lawrence Ruth Wilcox Lucille Wilcox Page Thirty-three

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X. And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down As when a, lordly cedar, green with bonghs, Goes down with a great shout upon the hills, And leaves a lonesome place against the sky. 1EDWIN MABKHAM.