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

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Mary . McFaddcn Jennie G. Marvin Harriet E. Clark Augustus W. Tret lien Emily F. Webster Edna Carter Benj. Mack Dresden 28

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reputation for chivalry and generosity, and the newcomer is not permitted to remain long a stranger . Our school is a state industrial institute, but that docs not mean a reformatory. On tin-contrary, it is practically a free manual training high school, which does a little college work. It is always so overcrowded with students that we are unable to keep any except those who prove by their work that they came here for a purpose and have the ability to do the required work. We arc very proud of the fact, that though the school is but seven years old and the pioneer of this kind of institution in the South, it has the largest enrollment of any school or college in the state, and several neighboring states have established similar schools. All educational work here is seriously hampered by the fact that the common schools are too few and very poorly equipped. There has recently been, however, a campaign for education. and this year both the general and the Southern educational boards have taken up the matter. The present outlook is, therefore, very encouraging, though the real results cannot become apparent for several years to come. And all the time I am writing this I am thinking of the good old days at the O. N. S.. when the educational outlook for Louisiana was a matter of supreme indifference, and the all impor-tant question was one of Cicero, or professional arithmetic, or civics: the interesting plans, rooms C, I), and old number five, with possibly the old '‘Assembly Room,” after four o’clock (except on Wednesdays and Fridays). Every memory of the old place is cherished from the first entrance examination to the last commencement banquet, and ever in our hearts is the one wish, ever on our lips one toast—The O. :. S., may she live long and prosper. Ever yours, Ruston, La., March 28, 1903. Elizabeth M. King. THE FACULTY ALUMNI. We students of the Oshkosh Normal realize what we owe to the alumni of this school for their true, steadfast work and the noble examples they have set before us. We are able to learn of the growth and labors of some of these lives thru the alumni department of the Qi ivkh. but we are also most fortunate in having ever before us, helping 11s onward “ad astra,” lives which are strong and pure and beautiful, lives from which every one of us should learn “how to make our lives sublime.” We refer to the faculty alumni,” those whose powers in their chosen profession were so great that they were called back to teach where they themselves had been taught. There are seven in this noble band: Mary I. McFadden. class of ’97: Bcnj. Mack Dresden, ’96; Edna Carter. ’95; Augustus W. Trcttien. 94: Jennie G. Marvin. ’88: Harriet E. Clark. 75, and Emily F. Webster ‘75. All honor to them, every one! Mats off” to the “Faculty Alumni of the Oshkosh Normal school! 27

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