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iTHE 1923 WYOs of Trustees. This responsibility demanded knowledge of the University ' s aims and its needs, and this in turn creates personal interest in it. In the beginning this relationship was scarcely more than the perfunctory duty prescribed by law. It has become the inti- mate hopefulness of a parent for a promising child. Other institutions are maintained in order to secure safety and justice today; the University as an assurance of an en- larged and glorified tomorrow. The University opened its doors in territorial days. September 6, 1887, Thomas Moonlight being the Governor. He was succeeded in 1889 by Francis E. Warren, who has the distinction of being the last territorial Governor and the first under the new State Con- stitution. Warren ' s election to the United States Senate followed soon, severing his official relationship to the University; but throughout the long period in which he has been an outstanding figure in our national life he has been its consistent friend. Then came sev- eral State administrations that for one reason or another were relatively short. During these the University enjoyed the confidence of Amos W. Barber, John E. Osborne, Wil- liam A. Richards, De Forest Richards, and Fennimore Chatterton, whose combined terms of office covered the years from November, 1N!)(). to January, 1905. With the inauguration of Governor B. B. Brooks in January. 1905, the contact be- came more than merely official friendliness. It developed into that type of support which comes from faith in the ideals of, and that hope for a college or University that we often see in the greater alumni of long established institutions. This date marks the time when the University began to find its way into the hearts of the people, not merely into their intellectual consciousness. Merely to enumerate the services rendered by the following families shows how abiding the interest and bow unselfish their labors for the institution. The administration of Governor Brooks covered six years and during that time he showed in many ways his constructive support. The next administration, that of Hon. Joseph M. Carey, began in January, 1911. Among other notable appointments made by him to the Board of Trustees was that of Mrs. B. B. Brooks, who has served continuously and with distinction since 1914, having been reappointed by Governor Robert 1 . Carey in 1919. Mrs. Brooks ' sound judgment has been of incalculable value in the business af- fairs of the institution, but better yet her interest in the students themselves has expressed itself through the substantial financial aid of loan and scholarship funds administered by her. It may therefore justly be said that since 1905 the Brooks family (for son and daughters have been honored students in the University) has been a tower of strength to the institution. The history of another family is tied up with that of the University almost as not- ably as it is with the history of the State. Hon. Joseph M. Carey has been the institution ' s life-long friend. From that day in 1887 when he assisted in dedicating the infant college to the service of Wyoming he has continued to love it. Perhaps no year passed in which he did not serve it by visit or address. In 1911 he became Governor and for four years the University ' s official sponsor. In 1915. bis successor in the Governorship. Hon. John B. Kendrick, appointed him a member of the Board of Trustees. In this position he served with fidelity for six years. In 1919. bis son, Robert I). Carey, became Governor. The quadrennium from 1915 to 1919 covers the administrations of Governor John B. Kendrick and Acting-Governor Frank L. Houx. Governor Kendrick ' s interest in the University was immediate and has not ceased to this day. Though elected United States Senator after serving as Governor only two years, yet in national legislation affecting the University he has not forgotten the institution that he has learned to cherish and at which he is always a welcome visitor. The administration of Robert D. Carey is unique in that he immediately gave per- sonal consideration to any plans that looked forward to an enlarged academic life upon this campus. The Legislature of 1919 took advanced ground in making the Governor an ex officio member of the Board of Trustees. Certainly Governor Carey justified their action by the fine way in which he gave of his time and shared with the Board his best constructive thought. For a third of a century the University has been indebted to the friendly services of the Carey family. Those to whom the progress of the University seems of vital importance were par- ticularly happy in the last campaign. Both of the candidates had given hostages. That members of their families were in the student body was concrete evidence of their con- fidence in the University. Governor W. B. Ross will doubtless come to love the institution in the ratio in which he is permitted to serve its interests. No one appreciates enough the spirit of service of State officials and members of boards whose only compensation is the satisfaction that comes from the consciousness that they have honestly tried to be of service to their fellow-men of today by promoting those interests whose full fruitage comes in the generations of the tomorrows. 13 j fbh 1 1 h 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i i M i iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMi inn i i i niiim i m ili um ! ill il linium i n nun
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AVEN NELSON President during part of the College Year of Which This Bcok is a Record TheG overnors an d the University Born to and of the State, the law that ushered the University into life, tied up to it the Governor ' s official interest. He became its god-father for the period of his term of office. He must accept responsibility to the extent of naming its guardians, the Board It is of interest that the University ' s first President was a former Governor. Hon. John V. Hoyt had served the territory as chief executive from 1878 to 1882. He was a man of great personal dignity, rare scholar- ship and highest idealism. His academic vision far outran the institution ' s resources but his hopes and plans for the University, as outlined in the first ' ' Circular of Information, 1887 have been a standing challenge to his successors. ™§§1™I
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