University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Quiver Yearbook (Oshkosh, WI)

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EMMA G- SAXE

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Ml Morey is a native of I.a Grange, Illinois. Her early education wa» received in the public school of I.a Grange. In 1897 he wa graduated from the University of Michigan with the degree of Ph. B. In the fall of 1897 hc wa elected associate instructor in mathematic at the Oshkosh Normal. 10 FRANK E. MITCHELL. . Prof. Mitchell is a native of Scottsburg. Indiana. He graduated from the State Normal School at Terre Haute, in 1889. Following his graduation from the Normal school he wa chosen to take charge of the department of geography at the St. Cloud Normal School, St. Cloud. Minnesota, which position he held for five year . In 1897 he graduated from the State University Bloomington. Indiana, with the degree of A. B. He wa awarded a diploma for excellence of exhibit of work at the World's Fair. He wa elected to the chair of geography at the Oshkosh Normal in the fall of 1897.

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EMMA G. SAXE. For you. who count it among1 your blessings that you had once a friend whom you called Miss Saxe, for you, no word that can be written will add aught of luster to her name. Regardless of self she gave to all in no small measure, gave of her time, her strength, her wise wholesome counsel, and finally, gave her life for others : for there is small reason to doubt that had she been more selfish there had been no cause for this blackbordered page. Generous, self-denying, conscientious to a fault, of strong will and dauntless purpose, courageous and sympathetic, her life needs no justification. What is here written is not in behalf of the dead, but for the inspiration of the living. Drummond says: “If events change men, much more persons. No man can meet another on the street without making some mark upon him. We say we exchange words when we meet, what we exchange is soulsand for twelve years we have been exchanging souls with one of the noblest, truest, most devoted spirits that ever wandered out of paradise to sojourn in this world for a season. That she left her mark was abundantly proved by the great sadness that fell upon us when the dread message came saying, “she is gone”—but there was also a great gladness in the thought that from her waiting and het serving she was called to be a guest.” Life to her was a sacred, holy thing ; a gift held in trust against that day when it should be demanded of her together with an account of the stewardship thereof, and she filled it to the brim with kind words fitly spoken, and noble' deeds well done. To the young people who met her at the threshold of the strange new life that greets each one as he first sets his feet at the entrance of the wide, untried world, she was not merely a teacher, but a fellow traveler with a great, warm, human heart throbbing in sympathy with theirs, touched with tender pity for their hours of desolation when they were heart-hungry for home. To those who had not yet felt the responsibilities and possibilities of life, she came as a great awakening light, revealing to them the eternal verities. Full of earnest purposes for herself, she seldom failed to kindle the sacred flame in others. I oyal to duty as were the martyrs of old. her own failing health warned her in vain to desist from the arduous duties of a teacher and seek rest and quiet for herself, but when the letter came bearing the awful double message of the fatal disease of her mother, and the impending blindness of her brother, she knew no moment of hesitation. Scarcely able to be off the bed herself she went to minister to those whose necessities she felt were greater than her own. Living scarcely longer than just to spare that mother the parting from such a daughter, they were speedily reunited, for soon her own summons came to cross the same sullen stream. The glorious light went out of those brave, kind eyes; the radiant smile faded from our poor earthly vision, and in that same hour Heaven was made so much the richer. Its songs of triumph now peal in fuller, sweeter notes. 31