University of Wisconsin Superior - Gitche Gumee Yearbook (Superior, WI)

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that I must be mistaken, but glanced back hastily. Sure enough, there was a vision of Superior days in Miss Theresa Lily, whom many in the normal school now will remember. At still another institute, we had just left the automobile which brought us from the train and entered the hotel office to register, when Miss Loretta McDonald stepped out from the crowd and greeted me in her warm-hearted way that Superior normal people know well. Not many weeks ago I had a letter from Miss Nellie Trolander, who is now in Idaho. From the far Northwest I have heard of others, of whom perhaps in another year I can tell you more. I am glad to say that the reports I hear of all are good. I extend to you, Seniors, my heartiest congratulations on the completion of your course and my earnest desire for your success. I wish, indeed, I might be with you on your commencement morning. Dillon, Mont., April 5, IQOQ. GIT CHE GUM EE ra ft? is From Miss Florence D. Pettengill It was with great pleasure that I received word from the staff of the Gitche Gumee requesting a message from the past and gone members of the Superior Normal faculty. It seemed quite like old times to again be in touch with the school where I enjoyed so many years of interesting work. Time Hies so rapidly that it is hard to realize that two years have flown by since I was last with you. How I should love to look into the familiar faces, and wander through the familiar halls, on the rubber matting, once more after all these years. But that, of course, is out of the question, owing to the great distance. And not even the two-cents-a-milc rates on the railroad help us out; for, inquiring, the other day, I found that for some unaccountable reason I would have to pay at the rate of three cents a mile, were I to undertake the long and dangerous trip by rail from Duluth to your city. And since the same would be true for you, I suppose it is useless to urge you as a student body, or my old co-workers on the faculty, or even the new and untried members, to visit my work. Still I do so, and gladly offer any inducements such as a stiff hill climb, a magnificent geographical display of bay, river, lake, and point, and luncheon at Washburn Hall, to any and all who can find time and car fare to come. I presume you would like to know of my work in another state. I have charge of the domestic science department in the Duluth Normal School, where we have fiftv-cent course dinners and faculty luncheons, as we did of yore in the old domestic science room at Superior. We never make “eight gallons” of ice cream in our store room, owing to the fact that we have no store room over here, and every cake ever made in the department has been eaten by the ones for whom it was intended. Speaking of Washburn Hall, you are probably interested in that part of my work, since you arc anxiously awaiting the building of your own new dormitory. You could hardly think of any place more beautifully situated than is this dormitory of which I am preceptress. It is on a commanding high hill of the city of Duluth, and from its windows we have as glorious a view as can be found any place. The Hall accommodates fifty students, and it would be hard to find a more finely planned and PACE TWES'TY-ONE

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GIT CHE GUM EE a gondola, we crossed the Bridge of Sighs, we walked on the Appian Way, we saw the Colosseum by moonlight, we spoke in the Forum, we sat among the ruins of Pompeii, and enjoyed many other equally wonderful experiences, of which I must not take space to tell. Beautiful Switzerland! how it contrasts with dirty Italy. We saw Lucerne and the “Lion,” Interlaken and the Jungfrau, Berne and the bears, and Basel. We took a boat ride on Lake Lucerne, landed at Toll’s Chapel, walked along Axenstrasse to Flenelen, and then by train” up to Altdorf—all points of interest because of their connection with the story of William Tell. The South German towns at which we stopped were Nurnberg, Munich, Strassburg, Heidelberg, and Weimar. Of these, Nurnberg is by far the most interesting, although each is well worth a visit. Unless present plans fail, we shall make one more sight-seeing trip which will, in fact, be the beginning of our homeward journey. It will include the Rhine, Cologne, Brussels, Paris, and London. I would like very much indeed to write about the people, the weather, the spring hats, and numerous other topics that have proven themselves of more than ordinary interest, but I must refrain, for I am fully aware that space is too valuable to be used up by long letters about so foreign a subject as Europe. So I will close with a wish for the unbounded success of the Gitche Gumeb and the school it repre- sents—a wish in which Mrs. Whealdon joins me most heartily. Berlin, Germany, April 2J, IQOQ. f3 12 12 From Miss Addie E. Bettes The flutter of approaching commencement is doubtless pervasive over the Superior State Normal School as over the Montana State Normal College. Our dormitory is humming with suggestions of senior and junior songs, poems, and historical reminiscences, which all accord with memories of previous years on the shores of Gitche Gurnee. Montana is not without its Superior representatives. I had been but a week or two in Dillon, when, just as I stepped upon a train bound for Helena, I felt my suit ease very gently but firmly lifted from my hand, and on looking up caught squarely the brown eyes of a well known Superior graduate bent upon me, Mr. George Rurtch. Needless to say the time between Dillon and Helena seemed brief enough, running over Superior events and sitting now and again quite speechless admiring the grandeur of mountain and canon. Reaching Helena, I went forth early in the morning to the high school building where the institute was to be held for which I had been summoned. As the teachers gathered in, greeting each other enthusiastically after the long vacation, I felt for a few moments quite a stranger. Suddenly I became conscious of something familiar in a face which was turned rather curiously in my direction. I recognized, after one bewildered moment, Miss Ida Stone, a Superior alumna. A most delightful evening was spent with Miss Stone and some of her friends, when we tested her domestic skill with savory concoctions in the chafing dish. Once again, in coming from another institute, I was hurrying down the windswept streets of Helena, when I fancied I heard my name. I concluded, of course, PACE TWENTY

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GITCHE GUM EE well equipped home than we have here. I have nothing better to wish for you than that you may have just such a Hall to come to some fine fall morning (in August) as we have here. Superior Normal School has. and always will have, a warm place in my heart and my best wishes for its continued growth and welfare. Washburn Hall .•Slate S annul School. Duluth. Minn. 13 9 2 From Mr. C. A. Donnelly Replying to your interesting favor of the 25th inst., which reached me through Mrs. E. W. Walker, I may say that I am in charge of the Educational department of the Business Men’s Clearing House Co., here in Denver. This is an organization for supplying employers with first-class help. It covers the field of those who work with their brains, and has six departments, namely, mercantile, stenographic, educational, accounting, general engineering, and mining engineering. We have a large Wisconsin club in Colorado, and also a Wisconsin alumni association. I am at present chairman of the committee of arrangements to plan for the Wisconsin alumni banquet, which will be given at the Shirley Hotel, Friday, April 16th. It makes us feel good to be followed up by the newer generations and to know that we have not been entirely forgotten in the places where we first did our work. ♦ • • The “Wisconsin Idea” is gaining a strong foothold in Colorado, and makes Wisconsin the most talked of state in connection with legislation now pending here. 19 9 2 From Mr. S. A. Lynch In reply to your note of March 24th, I can not think of anything to say that, in my opinion, would be especially of interest to the school. I have a deep and abiding interest in the Superior Normal School, ami have noticed with great pleasure its