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

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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

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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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G1TCHE GVMEE mind, and who have been deprived from one reason or another of tin's pleasure. The committee has solved the riddle, and these walks will at least “serve the purpose of an introduction to Chicago’s really beautiful environment.” There were some 150 people on the one I took April 10. The walk extends between five and ten miles. (5 fS 13 From Mrs. Irma Reel Gale There is little of interest to you that I can tell you of myself. I left the Normal, April, 1900. The following September I was married. We have three children, Jeanette Reel Gale, horn June, 1901; George W. Gale IV., born February, 1905; and Selden Reel Gale, almost two weeks old—he was born March 17, ’09. We are all well and happy, and, of course, our children arc the brightest and best and reflect credit on the “Superior” training of their mother, etc. But, joking aside, they arc well and strong, and George W., aged four, asks the usual cunning questions and makes bright replies, as others of his age. Isn’t it strange what becomes of all the smart youngsters, and where do all the stupid adults come from? Children arc all bright. My life interest, you see, has been my home, husband, and children. Though I’ve been invited, I’ve as yet joined no clubs. When my children arc older, I may join one. Just now I feel that I serve the community best by taking care of my little family. But don’t think of me as a household drudge. I thoroughly enjoy my work now, just as I did my work at the Normal (and I certainly enjoyed both the work and play there—for references, see classes of ’97, ’98, '99, ’00). Galesburg, III., March 2(j, iquq. fS 13 J2 From Mrs. Amelia Harrington McCaughey One is grateful in this day of change and hurry to be remembered for two years after one leaves a place, and if there be left a student or teacher of the Normal school who really does remember after such a time he should have the assurance also that he is not forgotten. I am sure, had 1 remained in Superior, I should have become a confirmed old maid; for work in the Superior Normal School was very attractive and the men all married or engaged. Now, I have a home of my own. My mother is with me. There is also a beautiful boy of six years, whom we all love very much. You can imagine the rest of the story; for you know what the average bride will claim for her husband at the end of three months! It is pleasant to remember the boys and girls who were among my friends in Superior. Not one of them is forgotten. I should like to sec them all. Remember me to my friends also among the teachers of the school. Racine, IVis., April 7. iqoq. is ia ® From Miss Marian K. Varian My work this year has been entirely along medical lines, hence I do not think an account of it would prove interesting to the readers of of the Gitciie. The only gymnastic work I have seen is some practice on the sands. The boys of the High School have been using the beach as an athletic field, where they have been doing some PAGE TWEN’TV-FOUR