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

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S»jr (Pulnrr To the Alumni and Students: TO leave the Oshkosh Normal School after almost ten years of work in it and for it, means more than does graduation. No student has ever come to his graduation day with such an interest in the school as I have today, and I doubt if any teacher, however many years of service he may ha-Oe given the school, has had his life more intimately interwoven with the life of the school than have I. My years here may have been strenuous and happy—strenuous because there xCere so many things to be accomplished, and happy because of the exceptionally fine spirit of the faculty and the students. And while many, many things remain to be done, it seems only fair for me to feel that somethings of lasting value to the school have been accomplished in the past ten years. It will be my pleasure and privilege to be interested always in the development of the Oshkosh Normal School, and nothing would give me more satisfaction than to be able to continue to serve in some way—large or small— its interests. And the memory of my days in this school and of the earnest, wholehearted, upstanding generations of students xOill abide with me undimmed and will inspire me through the years that lie ahead. JOHN A. H. KEITH Pace 24