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

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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

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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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rapid progress during the year just closing. Like almost everything else in Superior, the Normal school evidently has “a great future.” Judging by its unexpected success in the past, one may predict that its future will surpass the expectations of those who arc its most ardent advocates. As an outsider, I may perhaps be permitted to say that I think the most urgent, present need of the Normal school is a dormitory for women. This would afford room and board in the same building—a difficult thing to get in any city at a minimum cost. And it would also provide the best kind of an opportunity for the cultivation of those social graces that are so valuable to a teacher. All students, alumni, and members of the faculty, both tie faclo and ex, should strive to procure this one thing of inestimable benefit to our Normal school. Office of Principal, Blaine High School, April 14th, 1QUQ. GIT CHE GUMEE J3 15 From Miss Juliet V. Yeakle I have given six or seven talks to the school upon various subjects, the first of which was on “Superior and its Normal School.” We have a very beautiful and extensive campus at Whitewater. This has given opportunity for fine out-door physical work and for such dances and processional exercises as would form fitting closing work during commencement week in June. Last year the entire Normal Department, in costume, came out in procession, each class with individual dance to music furnished by our School Hand and the piano. I returned to visit Superior last March, a year ago (1908), and to attend the state oratorical contest. Have spent my summers in travel and in study, one summer being spent at Harvard University, and another at Wisconsin “U.” Not being far from Chicago, it is possible to pay a Hying trip at the week’s end and be back on time for Monday morning. In this way. I have derived great pleasure from the “Saturday afternoon walks” recently organized and arranged by a committee of the Playground Association of Chicago. The walks are for the grown-ups, who have an investigating turn of PAGE TWENTY-THREE