St Mary of the Woods College - Les Bois Yearbook (Terre Haute, IN)

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- - A- I Les BOIS -'A fit -g -f I ' x 'al J! 1 5 , 4. ' L...-1 ,4 ' Talenis and cz T oczs! By Jane Head Fillgian, '83 The following is the text of a toast delivered by Mrs. Jane Head Fithian, '83 at the State Luncheon of the Indiana Members of the Alumnae Association of St. Mary-of-the-Woods at Indianapolis, April 12, 1917 ADAM Toast Mistress, Members of the Alumnae, and Friends, ,S As I have sat with you today and looked into the old familiar faces-and some not so familiar, and some cer- tainly not so old-my heart has been full of aiection and pride. I am proud to be one of so fine a group of women. In our great United States, Indiana takes high rank in many of the things which stand for the prog- ress of humanity, but in nothing else does she stand higher than in her institutions of learning and in the culture of her men and women. I have a double pleasure in making this statement, for I too, though now coming from your neighbor state, was born and reared in the old Hoosier state-so if you thought you were hearing a Sucker talk, you will now please admit your mistake. I am grateful to you for the opportunity you have given me to be here today, and I am especially grate- ful to our honored President for the confidence she implied in telling me I might talk about anything I pleased. The primary object of this assembly, as I under- stand it, is a discussion of ways and means to ad- vance the interests of our Alma Mater, and to increase our own feeling of solidarity. I have therefore chosen for my text a part of Chapter XXV of Matthew, the Parable of the Talents, wherein is related the story of a man traveling in a far country, who called his own servants and delivered unto them his goods. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to every man according to his several ability, and straightway took his journey. Then he that had received live talents went and traded with them and made them other five talents. And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two. But he that had re- 7773 M. .. T' J . .. .,.. .., .. ,, ..., - Q . . , E 1 p mf' . -, X Thirty-seven