University of Wisconsin Eau Claire - Periscope Yearbook (Eau Claire, WI)

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DEDICATION AND THEME Many years ago, the late Mrs. Annie Longfellow Thorp, the Laughing Allcgra” of The Children’s Hour”, well-known poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, her father, became the bride of Joseph G. Thorp, Jr., then of Eau Claire, Harvard graduate, later a prominent Boston lawyer, and son of Joseph G. Thorp, Sr., Wealthy Eau Claire lumberman. At the time of Annie Longfellow’s marriage the Thorps lived in the stately old manison now the home of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Owen, Oakwood Place, Eau Claire. There, in the years that followed the wedding, Mrs. Annie Longfellow Thorp probably visited. In 1930, during a conversation in Cambridge, then Mrs. Thorp’s home, with Mrs. Lund, wife of Otto Lund, editor of the Eau Claire Telegram, Mrs. Thorp said she had visited in Eau Claire several times. To make a permanent record of this association of the daughter of Longfellow—and through her, of her father—with Eau Claire, the staff dedicates this volume to their memory and makes this memory its theme. In pursuance of this plan, the opening section of the book has i?ccn illustrated with five pictures of views of the Owen residence, the former Thorp home; and the seven subsequent division pages, with pictures illustrative of seven poems by Ixjngfellow. In each ease, the poem, or an excerpt from it, immediately precedes the picture. The stafF believes it a privilege to have this opportunity of paying even a belated tribute to one of the English speaking people’s most beloved poets; one whose genius is now being recognized more than at any other time since the zenith of his fame was reached, during the later decades of the nineteenth cyntury.

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I .ONGHUXOW'S I DAUGHTERS Keytiont View Co. ‘‘Grin? Alice and laughing Allegro Ami lidilh with golden hair. r

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Longfellow in His Study Key View Co. ' Comes a pause in the Jay's occupations That is known as the Children's Hour.