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

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Slip (Jp uiurr i i i i J. H. Glotfeltcr Kate Sherrard J. H. GLOTFELTER Pd. D. Baker University The Mighty Oak King Oak it is who leads the trees. And keeps the saplings striving, To guide each bud or branch or leaf, And keep the small shoots a-thriving. If any little shoot of his Is gnarled or bad or blighted. How patiently he works with it Till every knot is righted! ROSE C. SWART A. M. (honorary) University of Wisconsin The Guiding Beach Into the shadow of such beach trees, Lead us where no words deceive, Where, like some great light that beckons lirightly as a star that leads: Each gnarled shoot to help so kindly, While with saplings working blindly. Surely she changes the shoots to trees. KATE SHERRARD Kansas State Normal. Emporia. Kansas B. S. Teachers’ College. Columbia The Sympathizing Birch Rose C. Swart Whether my heart with hope or sorrow tremble. Thou sympathized still: tired and despairing I fling me down: thy voice, a sweet spirit. Comes to me, bringing calmness: and by it My heart is strong for work, and I dare to try again. JENNIE G. MARVIN Oshkosh State Normal The Sheltering Ash No eye can overlook when midst a grove Of welcoming trees, she lifts her head. Charged with half-grown saplings that demand Her patience daily. And you may have marked, when. By your small cares weary and worn, How she serene her station doth adorn. The hope of despairing saplings blooms At the sound of her voice, and all moves steadily on. L Jennie G. Marvin Pane M

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®hp (jputurr The Training of the Saplings LONG, long ago. when the world was new. the gods sat on Mount Olympus, and, looking at their work, felt disturbed; for ocean, mountain, and plain seemed useless. The land was bare, the water idle. Then ingenious Demeter said, Let us plant on these hills and plains two kinds of forests; one of wood, which we shall care for, and one of human beings, who must care for themselves.” The gods soon noticed that the young saplings in the forest of wood were often twisted and gnarled because the bad branches on the tiny shoots choked out the good ones. Messengers were sent through the forest to cut off the bad branches, straighten twisted ones, and to coax the good ones to grow. Soon the saplings were straight and strong, and in time grew to be mighty trees. The gods rejoiced, but were soon saddened by sounds from the human forests. The human forests had failed to care for themselves, and many of the young were twisted and gnarled and knotted, too. The gods hardly knew what to do. but Athena said, “Let the young saplings care for the tiny shoots and cut ofT the weak branches as we did in our forest.” Well spoken. Athena; but how are the young saplings to know which branches are good, which bad?” They did their best, but they cut off good branches, twisted straight ones, and coaxed bad ones to grow. The gods must help again! Well.” said Zeus, the more experienced trees must train the young saplings in their work and teach them to know the good from the bad. The saplings were gathered in groups to be taught by the older trees how to train the tiny shoots. Centuries later the beautiful Lake Winnebago invited one of these groups to locate near its shores, where we still find it. The noble trees in our training department are doing patiently the will of the gods as they train the young saplings of Wisconsin to help the tiny shoots to become mighty trees. 10

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Slje (jpuiurr NATALIE BOUCHER Oshkosh Slate Normal The Protecting Pine Tall, straight and stately, that form of thine, Endowed art thou with a mission divine: To hold from the shoots that have grown for a time. The ills which would foil them— A mission sublime! Natalie Boucher FLORENCE L. SMITH A. B. Northwestern University The Faithful Maple In the early years of shoots. While many trees arc striving forward. She gently wings small seeds with love. And helps the shoots by deed and word. Helen Meyer % HELEN MEYER Ethical Culture Normal, New York City B. S. Teachers’ College. Columbia The Queenly Chestnut Tree Art thou a queen that thou shouldst call thine own. This little place so like to home? Or by what power or help of saplings fine. Cans’I claim each shoot as thine? CLARA A. TROTTER Teachers Training School. Springfield. Illinois The Shading Elm Years on when the shoots are grown, And each is a mighty tree, Then will saplings think of ills o’er-thrown. When, grown to the realm of saplings. They came one day to work with thee! Florence L. Smith I 1 ! i t « 4 I I I 1 I PnK 12 Clara A. Trotter