Stephens College - Stephensophia Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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J ki footnotes on footprints stop your whining, old one, dreary, praise no more your static ways, for your days are waning hours filled witli dead, decaying dreams. Itell us not, in shuffling cadence: that hfe is futile, love a day dream, happiness illusion, or god a myth. pay for our dreams, you arrogant yovith pay for your dreams with sacrifice. you who look heavenward vulnerable with trust pay for your love with pain. realities blur after gazing at sun, ■and the debt must bupaad, ■ ■■! ■ ■ ■ though the hope is in vain. the debt witnepaid for our shoulderssre strong and our strefigth is imtried. though-Sometimes divided, our ranks recQiiverge, and our pion§aiiil)l0od currents us on, fo r we e defined by the aims? oftS gespast • as a beach fey the tide the§weepinsj? ves erase the past; but bmldi et upon this shore andi arnp dor footfrrints on the clean-swept strand ■ let notour feet be slowed nor seared ,.Jc y b - »i ng grains of mid-day sand, nor let our hopes l)e chilled ' .by icy waves of waiting a rfioment Mpsted injury. Vi

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board of curators the board of curators is the responsible governing body of Stephens college, under the charter granted the school by the state of missouri. as such it has the responsibility of establishing the basic policies of the college, diplomas of all graduating students are issued through the authority of the curators. president of the board is mr. hugh Stephens, a retired banker of Jefferson city, missouri, and a gran dson of j. 1. Stephens, for whom the college is named, mr. j. s. pillsbury, secretary of tlie century electric company of st. louis, is vice-president, mr. gordon p. freese, the comptroller of the college is secretary-treasurer of the board. other members of the board are: miss prudence cutright, asso- ciate professor of education at niacalester college in st. paul, minne- sota; dr. phillip g. davidson, jr., president of the university of louis- ville; miss geneva drinkwater, professor of history at roUins college, winter park, florida; mr. v. m. fitch, retired lawyer of imivcrsity city, missouri; mr. j. p. hetzler, retired merchant of Columbia, missotiri; dr. ernest 1. hilgard, dean of the graduate school of Stanford tmiversity; mr. alien mcreynolds, an attorney of carthage, missouri, mr. donald m. nelson, executive of consolidated caribou silver mines, inc., of beverly hills, California; mrs. dorothy c. sevedge of milwaukee, Wisconsin; mr. r. 1. smith, master farmer of fulton, missouri; mr. scott r. timmons, attorney of kansas city, missouri; mrs. kate stamper wilhite of moberly, missouri; dr. ben d. wood, director of the bureau of collegiate educational research, Columbia university, new york city; and mr. w. c. Windsor of tyler, texas. , , , , ,,. i i- j ' ' ' J ' J ' the honorable roscoe p. conkhng, who died oc- , ,., , .,, , . . , tober 28, 1954, became a member of the board honorary life members are mrs. e. s. pillsbury and mrs. j. h. robles, f Stephens college in 1936 and served until 1941. he returned to the board in St. louis. June, 1951 and was a member of the executive committee at the time of his death, judge conkling became a member of the supreme 6 court of missouri in 1947 and had completed his term as chief just ice of the court shortly be- fore his death.