Valparaiso University - Beacon / Record Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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a 3511 mementium SARAH P. KINSEY 1841-1922 Despite the many tributes already paid to the revered and beloved Sarah P. Kinsey, for 30 years a member of the University faculty, there still remains ample material for as many more. To the crowning achievement of her life, to the organization of this school, by which people date a new era in the history of American educa- tion, are converged, as to a center, all the lines of her earlier activities. It was for this, in the Providence of God, that she was imbued with the noble traditions of a great University. The prepa- ration for the supreme task of her life was as elaborate as her personal endowments were rare; and from the center thus gained there went forth a radiation of beneficent influences that were felt in every part of the community. Mrs. Kinsey was foremost in every good word and work, for the glory of Valparaiso University. She was no fountain sealedeshe was a source of life and light. Such was the central sphere, such the ever enlarging cycles of her philanthropic endeavor. So effective was her work that she seemed to be the one great Champion cause that she espoused. Wherever she appeared there came light and hope and confidence. Her wide Vision was matched by her discernment of spirits, which is the secret of power, her marvellous resourcefulness by her wonderful sense of order. There have been many to tell of these things, of her untiring energy, of her unfailing courtesy which was the efHuence of a sympathy unfeigned, her large and gracious hospi- tality, her inexhaustible generosity, which not only responded to every appeal for help, but even divined the needs of those who hid their trouble as if it were a treasure. Her native dignity had no touch of austerity. Her presence was a bright presence and a pure presence. While deeply deploring the death of our friend and associate, Sarah P. Kinsey, we rejoice in the completeness of her life and labors, which, closing together, have left behind them so sweet a fame and a memory so precious. Nine

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