University of Wisconsin River Falls - Meletean Yearbook (River Falls, WI)

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MELETEAN WALTER B. DAVISON, Advisor X 1019 X Page Seven

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mm irw To the Class of 1919 You ask for some formal, parting word. I am loath to make it either formal or parting. Why. it seems but yesterday that you as ‘'yearlings ' invited Mrs. Davison and me to your first wiener roast! Yet that yesterday was over four years ago. There were a few more than sixty in the class then. Today, more than eighty women and over forty men are enrolled under the Double Nineteen banner. In all the forty years since the school graduated its first full course class, no more serious obstacles have confronted any class than those which have blocked your path this year. Your school is proud of the record you have made in face of them. Your enthusiasm, your optimism, your loyal and earnest support of the ideals and traditions for which the school stands, the spirit of fine harmony that has marked your every endeavor as a class— these arc but a few of the characteristics of which the school is proud. Upon this record I congratulate you. I also congratulate you upon your connection with this institution. Tomorrow, as you scatter widely to your fields of new work, the preparation you have received here for your high calling will come to mean more and more to you. Oh. you’ll forget some things, but I'm sure you will always remember with pride the fine standards of rugged, devoted Americanism set for all of us by President Ames in this time of national crisis. Yes. and you will remember the school halls, the school yells, the hard tugs, the great games, the common joy at victory and sadness at defeat, the hours of study, the tasks well done, the sincerity of your instructors, the sweet associations, the cool walks, quiet drives and all that student life brought to you. Just a step now and your dear, old Normal School days will lie behind you. In the tomorrows perhaps you will get together sometimes and toast the old school in some such lines as these: Alma Mater ours, again we come to thee. Though records few we bring, and few may claim. Yet, still we would thy loyal children be, And iii proud toast again would praise thy name. Ah, most unworthy son indeed is he Who in thy halls his earlier years would spend, And then forget the debt he owes to thee. Or. thankless, fail in praise his voice to lend. New homes, new forms ami faces, have we found; We may in other climes our work pursue; Rut fast within our memories still arc bound The lessons dear which have been taught by you. So Mother ours—our friend, our guide, in one— With heart-accented thoughts we bring to thee This meagre record of the things we’ve done. These little proofs of lasting loyalty. Hail to you. then—and farewell! Sincerely yours, w Walter B. Davison . Advisor of the Class of 1919. Page Six X 1919 X

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