University of Wisconsin Stevens Point - Horizon / Iris Yearbook (Stevens Point, WI)

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3n jHemoriam (After the Ins had gone to press and was nearly ready for distribution, the news was received of the death of President Sims. Wishing to have this number of the Iris carry some expression of our regard for our fallen leader, the editors sought the able assistance of our Mr. Culver who offered the following lines. — Editors of The Iris.) Twice within a few months the heavy hand of death has fallen upon members of our faculty. First, literally like a bolt from the blue, our beloved associate and instructor. Professor Clark, whose fwe years of devoted and stimulating service had won for him a high place in our esteem as a valued instructor. as well as a warm place in all our hearts because of his fine qualities of character and his genial personality, was stricken. And now President Sims answers the call. Almost without warning the summons came, and the man who was wont each morning to look out upon the school as upon the beloved members of his family and address to them 'words of friendly advice, the man whose whole thought was given to loving service to the school over which he has presided for a score of years, answered the summons unfalteringly. His voice is stilled. His face, always beaming with friendliness now wears the mask of death. His great heart always throbbing with sympathy, or beating in helpfulness for all who called upon him. has ceased its pulsations. His active service in our behalf is ended. But in our hearts that kindly ! voice will still be heard. In our memories will be mirrored that face from which ever radiated sympathy and love for those under his charge, his boys and girls. We will ever cherish the words of friendly advice, the warnings against the pitfalls hidden in our pathways, the encouragement to go out into the world and take up cheerfully the burdens of good citizenship even as he had borne them before us. He called us to high endeavor. He challenged the best that was in us to come out ar.d assert itself in the building up of character such as he could look upon with entire approval. Always he charged us to “carry on in the great work to which his own life was so completely dedicated. The influence of his oft reiterated counsel will still go on; and though we shall see his face and hear his voice no more, in memory he will still be Our Guide, our Counsellor, and our Friend. ——