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life which directly concerns the University. Even then, we can but begin to sketch the proud accomplishments of this great friend, teacher, and inspiration to faculty and students alike. Professor Emeritus Trueblood, Chief to his teaching associates and Trueby to his students, arrived in Ann Arbor in 1884 to teach a short course in elocution. From the time President Angell first welcomed Trueby to Ann Arbor the union of Trueblood and Michigan has been education ' s outstanding contribution to university speech instruction. His life here is the record of a great personality who taught the first credit course in speech ever offered in an American university. He held the first Professorship of Oratory and established the first Department of Speech in these United States. Originator of the locomotive cheer now used in virtually every American college and high school, Trueby was also the Daddy of Midwestern golf. His teams, whether in debate or golf, were perennial champions for fifty years. As an ambassador for Michigan, university speech, and golf, Trueby spanned the world. He took a dip in the Dead Sea, rode a camel in the Holy Land, and was three times entertained by the Governor-General of Australia. Together, with his dear friend Rob Fulton, Trueblood wrote the textbooks which even now are the classics of public speaking study. His friends, disciples, and students included James Whitcomb Riley, William Jennings Bryan, Senators Borah and Vandenberg, and Secretary Anderson, to mention a few. He brought Churchill and four presidents here to speak. Despite past laurels which would fill the scrapbooks of fifty ordinary men, Trueby, who has outlived several sets of contemporaries, is still active today, as Michigan golfers will testify. Still coaching on the greens at ninety-three, Coach-Professor Emeritus Thomas Clarkson Trueblood is indeed a proud symbol of the living history which is Michigan in this or any year.
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Thomas Clarkson Trueblood If a single man could represent Michigan ' s great traditions, its vital his- tory, past, present and future, that man would be Thomas Clarkson Trueblood. For sixty- three years this six-foot, two hundred pound athlete and scholar has been a symbol of Michigan ' s best interest and accomplishments. Born before the Civil War, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood was eight years old when General John Morgan and his famed Confederate Cavalry rode up to his parents ' farm near Salem, Indiana in 1863. This was young Trueby ' s first exposure to vital history which he himself has helped shape for eighty-five years. Today, a young man of ninety-three, Master teacher Trueblood can look back on a life that has spanned the globe, literally and figuratively. The web of interests spun and explored by this great scholar would alone fill the space between the covers of this four hundred and fifty page volume. The voice and influence of his wisdom continues to echo and re-echo throughout the educated world. But since this is a yearbook, not a biography, we must necessarily confine our dedication to that portion of Mr. Trueblood ' s 4
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