West Chester University - Serpentine Yearbook (West Chester, PA)

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- j w tZtz Aiater M ID Chester ' s fertile hills and valleys proud, Arise the gray -green walls which mark our acedeme Where, year by year, we flock, a growing stream Of youth, in training for the world ' s mad crowd. The steady pressure of each busy day. When round on round was marked by whirring bell, As each was striving to make minutes tell. How could we know that honest toil would pay ? It all seemed irksome as the task recurred; Why sweat and struggle for an unseen goal ? Stern tests severe, a sense of failure stirred, And hope, sore baffled, gloomed the fainting soul. But backward glancing from the future ' s glare. We know ' twas manhood ' s stuff we builded there. C. E. E. 14

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THE STAFF 5. 13

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H IBxict Mister of tbc Mest Chester State formal Sebool t IT was on April jq, 1869. that the Board nf ' I ' rustees of the old West. Chester Academy, whicli liad been in existence since March jy. iSij, met ill the office of Mr. Wayne MacVeag h to take steps towards tlie estabhsliment of a Xormal School. Accorchng ' ly, after a nnml er of pre- liminary meeting;s had been held in advancement of the ])roject, the Trustees were empowered by an Act of the General . sseml)ly jf the Commonwealth of Pennsyhania to sell the pro[)erty of the . cadem - at pri -ate sale, and the [iro- ceeds of this sale, aniountin.e; ' to some twenty-ei.t ht thousand dollars, were de ' oted to the building ' of tlie Xormal School. The cornerstone of the present main building ' was laid mi September 14, 1870, by the State Superintendent of Public Schools, Dr. j. I ' . Wickersham. In the following; February application was made to the State Superintendent to make the necessary inspection in order that the school might be accepted as a State institutiiiu. . cuminittcx; was apiiniiUed therefore, which isited the build- ings 1)11 I ' ebruary 22, and having reported faxurably. the Superintendent there- upon issued a pruclamatidii declaring the institution a State Xormal Schodl for the First District. On Ma ' I, 1 87 1, the stockholders met and elected a Hoard of Trustees, con- sisting of the following persons : Dr. Wm. Wdrthingtnii, Win. S. Kirk, R. T. Cornwell, fohn (j. i ol)insi)ii. Win. b . Aloore, .Marshall B. Ilickman. Wm. B. addell, I ' Aans Rogers and Josiah Hoo])es. The org ' anizatioii nf this Board was effected May (k 1871, with Re -, Wm. F. .Moore, President: Capt. R. T. Corn- well, Sccrctar ' , and rhdiii.-is W. Marsh;ill, Treasurer. The first act of the Board was to elect a Principal, Prof. Ezekiel Ccjok, of ladrid, 2 laiiie, and the school 15