University of Northern Iowa - Old Gold Yearbook (Cedar Falls, IA)

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Fixx BOARD OF TRUSTEES XOFFICIO xcscs, mrs MOINES, PRES. E R HN F. jo 4. MASON CITY CNIDER H.M 3. C. CDUFFIE, L15 MARS M - J I JUDGE 2. OTTUMWA NTIRE, CI 1. W.A.M 7. ROGER LEAVITT, CEDAR FALLS RIPPEY 6. B, F. Os1soRN, GR FFIN, ATLANTMJ H. 5. E.

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HOMER HORATIO SEERLEY B. Ph. Iowa 1873, B. Di. Iowa 1875, M. A. Iowa 1876, L. L. D. Penn. 1898, L. L. D. Iowa 1901 It is with extreme pleasure that we, the Normal Eyte staff of 1904-1905, dedicate the closing number of our volume to Horner H. Seerlcy, President of the Iowa State Normal School. He is too well and widely known to need any enconiuin from us, so we shall con- tent ourselves with a simple sketch of the life of the man who has built for himself this high position and filled it as few others could. Born near Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1848, he moved with his farmer father to the prairies of .Illinois in 1852. Two years later the Seerleys crossed the Mississippi to become pioneers of Iowa, and settled near South English in Keokuk county. Here in the winter of 1855, the future president of the State Normal School began his connection with the Iowa public school system by attending district school. Ilis father as secretary of the school board, built the first school house in the district and Homer was one of the first pupils. His education was obtained in the elementary schools of Keokuk county, in the preparatory of the state university C1866-18675 and in the collegiate department Q1869-18735. He grad- uated Ph. B. in 18713 and at once began teaching as a career. His ptiblic school record is as follows: District school C1867 and ISTU, assistant in high school Oskaloosa C1873-18743, principal of high school Oskaloosa H874-18755, and superintendent of the Oskaloosa schools M875-1SS6j. His work as a trainer of teachers began in the llahaska county normal insti- tute which he conducted for ten years USTT-18865, and which was notable enough to call attention to hiin as the right kind of an executive for the Normal School. In 1886 Iowa called him to this larger Held of action and since then his history has been the history of our school. I i i . l . x TI-IE PRESIDENTS COTTAGE COR. 24TH AND NORMAL STS. 3

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.I SOUTHEAST CAMPUS THE NORMAL CAMPUS tlh' IixNNti'r'r1Q C.XRl'lCNTI R 9 Of the many beautiful lawns in the lawn-city, the niost beautiful is unquestionably tl1e Normal eanipus. Forty aeres ill extent, it has the aclvantage of size added to the favor- able conditions that make the lawns of the town near-by smooth green of its sod is broken by the dark curving shades of foliage ou bushes and trees. Xeztr the front inaple tree with its silvery leaves inakes a fine contrast w famous throughout the state. lines of driveways and the Y entrance to the grounds the ith the dark evergreen of the The :tried great pines and Cedars scattered here and there over the smooth lawn. Graceful larch and stately elm please the eye with their outlinesg while fruit trees in the spring, and inaples with the fresh- ness of June and the flalning colors of October,-all in season lend pieturesqueness to the scene. If the breezes are sontetiines a little too fresh for eomfort. they remind one that even this discomfort eould not arise if it were not for the airy location. which so frequently calls forth expressions of delight over the distant view of fields, river, and groves. If the modest village surrounding these grounds is not worthy to be called a Ueity set upon a hill ,U it is at least the setting of an ornzunent in the forin of it Campus that is not only satisfying to the eye, but dear to the heart of Xormalites. 5