Synodical College - Seminole Yearbook (Fulton, MO)

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C , 3 - X jo N 4 , h I . X' I tl. 1 X , fy-,. - J.. . ,f .1 ,tr- !i!'!n . ' -' 'L if f- s. 0 JL- Qu Qmeritan Qlnsmer Bellhaven Conservatory, june 5, 1918. Dear Dad: . , Your letter arrived today instead of you. My first thot WHS 0116 of dis?-P' gpointment to think that my entire family, my dear old dad, will not be here to see me graduate from this conservatory! On commencement night he will not be here in the audience when I sing. D Then quick as a flash came the thot, my dad is just doing his part in this great war. I-Ie is sacrificing his pleasures to attend to a foundry, which is supplying the government with iron. Then I was no longer sad! I am proud of my dad and his task! There will be no defective product leaving our foun- dry and there will be no graft there, for he is at the head of it. I think this change in the way of looking at things is the work of this war. Even a year ago if this had happened, I could not have forgiven you for a long time. Now, We forget self and remember others. As we can not visit together in person, I will just have my talk with you in this letter, and write just what I would like to say. You can have your visit by just reading it, for it seems that I generally do all the talking when with you, anyway. ' Four years ago when I entered Bellhaven Conservatory, it was our aim that I should become a concert singer, and later, after more work reach Grand Opera--perhaps. Now I have on my desk as I write, a contract yet unsigned, from Mr. Field, the great concert manager, I am 'afraid that it didn't come to me altogether by the merit of my work, but was helped a little by your in- fluence, Daddy, I can forgive you for that, tho. Do you know what it means to me? It is the key to my Palace of Dreams. I knoW,I can succeed. I have, never yet failed in an undertaking. Think of the fame, renown, all won for you, and the joy in work Well done for me, that this scrap of paper may mean! The very thot of it transports me to my Land of Dreams so nearly come true. - Dad, there is a girl here with just such a future before her as I, just the same opportunity for success. NVhen she entered the conservatory the sam . , e ,year I did, she took ' ' ' up a war course at a nearby hospital, just because it was a fad. Soon Jshe became interested. The great need and demand for nurses over there ' ri ed h 'l ' - g pp er unti , at last with her other work she took the full course :and graduated, now a trained nurse. . ' Is' not that aft minds with her songs but can help our men's bodies. what a foolish waste of time! She might have perfected her er all an ideal combination.. She can not only soothe their You think, art. If she could bring cheer with her voice, what need to do more? On one hand was the pleasant and really useful life in comfort and peace at home,

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