Western College - Multifaria Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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LILIAN WYCKOFF JOHNSON. President of Western College, '04-'06 23

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Faculty leinuld GRACE. EMILY DERBY, A. B.. Librarian Western College, A. B., 1905: Illinois State Library School, l905-'06. MAY ANDREWS REYNOLDS. Ihfirmary Western College far Women. 1896; Orient Institute, l899. SOPHRONIA BULLFINCH PIKE, Director of Domestic Department Western College for Women. I875; Chautauquanmol of Domestic Science. l899. SADIE. ELIZABETH REED, Housekeeper Helen Peabody Hall. Oberlin Collegb. HARRIET JAMES, Matron oi NemrHalI JOHN T. ARMISTEAD, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds 22

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HE class of WW was the last class to enter college under the administration of President Lilian Wyckoff Johnson. and in having had even a few weeks under her strong inHuence we consider ourselves most fortunate. Probably all of us still remember our thrill of awe and admiration on that first morning in chapel when the faculty filed in, austere and dignified, in cap and gown. We recall, too. how that awe disappeared and in its place came a deeper admiration and the beginnings of love, as Doctor Johnson spoke her sweet. warm welcome to the hundred forlorn new girls. whose hearts were a little lonely and sore. And-who ofus will ever forget that first Vesper service on the lawn? There were homesick heartaches for some of us-but there is some pain that has in it so much of sweetness that we are better for having suffered it. and all of us, as we listened to the President's words of comfort and loving counsel. felt a new impulse to better things. By the time Dr. Johneon left us, we new girls had begun to feel that in her going the college was sustaining a great loss. and that the woman whose sweet. strong personality could so win our hearts in a few short weeks. deserved all the praise we could give her for her unselfish. unfailing devotion to The Western.