Tarkio College - Tarkiana Yearbook (Tarkio, MO)

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A uv 4 Y. W. C. A. OFFICERS: President ........ . . .MARGARET GIFFEN. Vice-President. . ...... . . .JENNETTE MURCHY. Recording Secretary .... ..... C LYDE. DUNLAP. Corresponding Secretary ......... ..... M ARY MOORE. Treasurer .......,............. . . .EATHEL WOODS. Chairman of Nlissionary Committee... .... EMILY PORTER. Chairman of Social Committee ........... . . .ESTI-IER RANKIN. Chairman of Membership Committee ............... LAURA BOYD. Chairman of Room and Library Committee ...... l'lINDA STEWART. The Young Woman's Christian Association of Tarkio College is an organization ol young women, who have as their aim the deepening of the spiritual life of the school and the emphasizing of the spiritual development as well as mental and physical. The association has been greatly blessed, both in a spiritual and financial way. The enrollment of the past year has been about sixty, whilethe budget for the year has been one hundred and twenty dollars, divided among these respective parts of the work: Fifty dollars to State workg twenty-five dollars to missionsg thirty dollars to conference fund, and twenty dollars to incidentals. p During the year the association girls were given a room in the College building which they have furnished with mission furniture and arranged as a rest room, where committees may hold their meetings and where girls may study when they have hours to wait in the college building. ' Early in the year a birthday party was given the room at which time the girls gave small gifts to add comfort and homelikeness to the appearance of the room. Last summer three girls, former members of the Y. W. C. A., went out to represent the association in the foreign field. ' We have been represented at four conventions during the year: at the missionary conventions at Detroit, at Monmouth and at Nashville, Tenn., and at the annual student's summer conference at Waterloo, Iowa. The delegates from each of these conventions brought back inspiring and enthusiastic reports which we hope and believe will help us in our work in the future. The Bible class, under the leadership of Mrs. Adair, has been doing good work. During this year we have been studying the Epistles of the Apostle Paul. A series of evangelistic meetings were held in February, conducted by Rev. W. M. Jackson, of Clarinda, Iowa, a former student of Tarkio College. These meetings greatly benefited and strengthened the spiritual life of the students.

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India may have her coral strands, but here in Pindi we are more impressed by the huge ice covered peaks of the Himalayas lying to the north. Yet here we merely see the snow at a distance of forty to one hundred milesg in Tarkio we might watch Colonel shovel it. There is something of interest in a bazaar scene with its crowds of jostling, chatter- ing people in brilliant hued attire, with its vendors of sweets and tea and fried cakes, but the interest is but finite to one who has attended a Marshall Hall reception. And a gala day with its jugglers, and image-sellers and buffoons, and merry-go-rounds run by hand, and fakirs and trained animal shows and wayside begging lepers-almost pales beside a Tarkio Street Fair. To be sure there are many things in different proportions-here are camels and zebras and long-haired goats and fat-tailed sheep and parrots and buffaloes by the hundred, but what enterprising Tarkio boy hasn't seen these things or something better for half a dollar under Wallace Brosf huge canvas. And, on the other hand. these poor people never get to use a telephone or to go bob-sledding or to eat from china dishes with nice silver spoons. Unless a boy,s father is a farmer or gardener, he never gets to pitch hay, or milk cows, or pick apples, and, so far as I know, there isn't a HD. R. or shredder in the whole Punjab. Now and then a man is allowed to pick out his own wife, not usually-and never does he go with the girls and spoon on the back steps of the college, like-but Why men- tion names? This slight difficulty is obviated by bringing a girl out with you who is used to these things. A man who has passed in Tarkio Latin and German is prepared to undertake the mastery of this tongue, which is a choice mixture of Persian, Hebrew, Arabic and Hindi. A man who has learned the meaning of sinisira and nadir and arzifpodes, isn't at a loss when he sees a man begin to read from the back of the book, motion to his friend with his hand palm down instead of palm up, turn to the left instead of the right in driving, when he sees that he is the boss in his own home and expects his wife to do what he says, that he wears his shirt outside of his trousers and uses more cloth in his head covering than in his clothing, that there are crows instead of blackbirds and tulips in place of dandalions, that there are roses and violets in January instead of June. All this doesn't startle him, for he remembers he is just half way round the world. It might be a shock to find that the mathematics professor actually works the examples and solves the problems on the board while the class sits and takes notes. A glance at Tarkio,s representatives in Asia might not be out of place: Miss Laurella Dickson, B.S., '96, came in '97 and is now at home on furlough far from the myriad smells and tinkling temple bells. Mr. William E. Nicoll, B.A. of '96, who came out in '0l, is the general secre- tary and treasurer of the India Mission. He has charge of Rawal Pindi District and is overseer of a leper asylum, besides putting in several hours a day in the study of the language. Mrs. Blanche Dickson Nicoll, BS., '97, is sewing on his buttons and helping an ayah to raise two sturdy boys, William and Lorimer. Rev. E.. Everett Campbell, B.A., '00, came out in '04. He has the district work in ,Ihelum District. He does his Alma Mater proud in the way he handles the language. - Rev. A. McArthur, BS., '01, came out in '04 also. He is touring Gurjan wala District with the veteran Miss McCullough. He savs she takes him over the district like Daniel's goat. John has the finest whiskers in the Mission. W. Lorimer Porter, B.A., '96, came out in '05. He is studying a little and teaching a little, soaking in the Orient and soaking out the Occident. ' W. L. PORTER, '96.

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TI-IE BIBLE CLASS. The Bible class was organized for the College girls in the fall of l900, just after the great revival, by Mr. Chas. M. Alexander. Its meetings are held every Thursday evening from five to six, at the home of Miss Esther Rankin, the President. For three years the class was under the leadership of Mrs. Bertha Collins Herbert. Nirs. Adair was selected to follow Mrs. Herbert as leader. The object of the class has not been so much a critical as a devotional study of the Bible and a strengthening of the spiritual life of the members. The study has been based on R. A. Torrey's nl-low to Prayf' F. B. Meyer's Shepherd Psalmf' Robert E. Speer's Principles of Jesus, S. D. Gordonis Quiet Talks on-Poweru and Quiet Talks on Prayerf' and selected chapters from the Bible. This year is the lirst which has been entirely devoted to the study of the Bible. During the year HThe Sermon on the Mount,,' Romans and Ephesians, have been studied. At each meeting a chapter has been taken up and considered in view of the truths in it which are applicable to the lives of the girls. Prayer is an important part of every meeting. The class has a membership of thirty-six. 176-