University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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in ifflnttnrtam SARAH CASWELL ANGKI.I. THORNTON DICKINSON JAY FREER GUSTAV ALFRED GOETTE CECIL GOODING CHARL ES EZRA GREENE CARL PORTER HEYWANG RALPH RAYMOND JACKSON CHARLES ROBERT MARSH RUSSELL HALLETT MCWILLIAMS THOMAS MCDOWELL EDWIN CHARLES RANDALL JONATHAN TAFT

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Sarah Caswell Angell The President ' s wife ! These have been words lovingly spoken here at Michigan. Even now it seems not quite possible that speaking them will not call into the room the sweet woman who daily, for more than thirty years, filled the words with real and tender meaning. There can be no tribute to her that will satisfy any one who knew her. Only, people love her still and know in their hearts how rare and fine she was ; the rest is written in lives she touched and, here and there, in softer ways and some- what more of gentleness. College girls have come here from queer little places, crude, with limited train- ing, ill at ease and feeling that everyone was strange and different. At some little en- tertainment for new girls they met Mrs. Angell, and not one of them but felt the comradeship with which this woman of perfect good breeding and tact was able to replace their uneasiness. As life since has broadened their sensibilities and experi- ence, they have realized what she did for them that difficult first day ; and how it is the great people who are simple, always. The daughter of a college president, Mrs. Angell had been all her life among college people and college surroundings, during her girlhood and after her marriage; so that when she came with her husband to the University of Michigan thirty-three years ago, she was fitted to organize as. little by little, she did organize college life and society here into something of the charm and good-fellowship that Ann Ar- bor life holds now for faculty and student members of the University. She did it all with a simple grace that made people know she was glad to be one of them. She never forgot people and she put into them the grateful sense of being especially re- membered and appreciated. Little things no one knows the thousands of little things she did. The afternoon before she died, on the seventeenth clay of last Decem- ber, she dictated an affectionate note of acknowledgment to a group of girls who had sent her roses that she especially loved. And then she asked to have the flowers brought nearer, where she could see them and have the fragrance of them. It was her large, warm personality that breathed sympathy and thrilled enthusi- asm into the work Mrs. Angell did that made her successes. She was genuine, and she had a buoyant faith in people and things. She had charity in her heart, and she dispensed it. For years the church knew her presence, and her steady helping ways. She loved the carrying of sweetness and light to homes and lands and she fostered the work of men and women who tried to do this. Mrs. Angell was young when she died at seventy-two ; for she had kept her faith, and she lived with abounding joyousness. She had walked softly all her years. E. J. P. 10