Western Oregon University - Yearbook (Monmouth, OR)

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THE NORM ' a TWENTY as my guide and I shall reveal the past as I see it reflected in the present of each. ' I shall begin by asking you to travel in spirit with me to York State and there you may imagine a. black, curly-haire-d little girl going to school. She is tall for her age, but very delicate in health. She is sensitive and cries a great deal, which causes her teacher much annoyance. It was not long, though, before she overcame her timidness and studied so diligently as t3: become leader of her class. Her inquisitiveness together with her negative disposition which disputed any information tOId her unless it could be proven to her satsfaction, led her to ascertain the truth avaut everything. Very early she developed a great love for liter.- ature, the studying of which has been her greatest enjoyment through school. By the time she finished high school, everything 'of. any worth had been read by her; While attending the N ovrmal fSchool at San J olse, California, she maj Cred in English, for it was her. one aim to teach literature. Her good judgment, which she displays on every occasion, led her to choose the Oregon N olrmal School in which to complete her professional education. Recog- nitian of her ability was early shown by the students of the O. N . S. and she was elected President of the Student Body as well as President of the Senior Class. Miss :Lynn has filled each office . admirably and we know will carry the fame of the O. N . S. to the uttermost parts of the earth. The next member of the class is a true Oregonian, being born in Independence some few years. ago. As a child we see the same smiling countenance which wins her friends wherever she goes. After graduating from high school, she attended the Oregon Normal and received her diploma in nineteen hundred nine. After teaching two successful years, Miss Blolhannon decided to take a post-graduate course at the Oregon N ormal and joined the class of nineteen twelve. She was elected Vice-President of the class, and her brief soij Oaurn among us has made it pleaSant for each t- and every one of us. as I see a little girl in my mindis eye, not soi many years ago, starting to school. It grieves her very much to leave her dolly at home and she declares it must learn something too, so why not

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' m 1h Rid W W M- mm m Im.m. Mara ., 'T 53 Dull H571. Irv $8M .hu mart:- 1,; ms m mnmn? 11:. ml Wilt Ira . nu 9b ll 13;: fmvlti c : 30m , 1:! VI: V3 4 mi .h M An. WM'JII II V rd! . gllri'i'i. ;H$23 u ' 3': W? I ,. I ' h NINETEEN T H E N 0R M Ollaaa 75mm; HE February graduating class. of nineteen hundred twelve was organized at the opening of the Oregon Normal School, September eighteenth, nineteen hun- dred eleven. This, the first class to receive Standard Diplomas under the new regime, feels it is, indeed, honored; and I, as historian, realize the difficulty of the task in hand When I undertake to write the history of a class, the individual members of Which have already made it famous in the annals of the O. N . S. It is customary in writing a class history to follow the class as a unit through its various years of labor, recounting great feats accomplished, great difficulties overcome, and great obstacles surmounted, so the world may know and never forget What fame was brought to the school by the most famed of the many famous classes that have graduated from her halls. In writing the his- tory of this graduating class, I have had to depart from the usual order on account of the short duration of time since its organization, but not on account of its lacking any of the attributes which make a class famous, and have written the individual his.- tory of each member. The difficulty of this task can be appre- ciated When I tell you there are six girls and one boy in the class. It is a matter of historical record that the greater the per- sonage the less accurate the facts concerning his early life. Homeris birthplace is only a matter of conjecture and Shakespearean stu- dents have searched in vain for accurate information about the childhood of the Bard of Avon. The members of the class of 1912 have evinced this element of greatness to a degree undreamed of by the greatest of the great, and I have found it impossible to gather any information as to their early childhood. These young ladies are very hazy as to their age, how long they were in school, how long they have taught, in fact, so indefinite have they been as to anything concerning themselves, that I have had to draw upon my imagination, based upon their actions here in Normal for my information, but the old maxim, iiActions speak plainer than words, will have to serve

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TWENTY-ONE T H E N O R M take it to school. The imperative Iino from her parents deters ' her and she consoles it saying, iiNever mind, Dolly, I shall be yolui' teacher when I return home. All through school she is inter- ested in teaching the little Iito-ts,i and when she finished high school, was advised to attend a normal school, which she did and graduated from the Oregon Normal in nineteen hundred nine, making a specialty of primary work. When the Oregon Normal re-opene-d, Miss Hyde enrolled and took pcast-graduate work, again specializing in the Primary Department. She was elected Sec- retary 0f the class and has kept a faithful record, which I trust will be suitably cared for by our executors. The next member of the class has shown so many sterling qualities that it is hard to picture her other than she is today. Imagine her as a child without any faults. Very early she learned to count everything and gained the name of being the youngest mathematician in the country, rivalling the famous Sidis and his four-dimension theory in her mathematical demonstrations. A1- ways diligent she soon climbed to the top and we find her attend- ing the Oregon Normal in nineteen hundred nine. The school closing, the next year she attended the normal at Bellingham, Washington, but when the Oregon Normal re-opened, she enrolled immediately, thus showing her loyalty to. our dear 01d Normal. We see her capable not only in mathematics but in everything she attempts. We judge this by the great success she has made of the iiNo-rm, of which periodical she has been Editor-in-Chief, and much of the success of the publication is due to. her. Miss Strachanis propensity for mathematics was acknowledged by the class when they assigned the iiClass Will to her, for they realized she would make an equitable division of the vast estate which has been accumulated by the class of nineteen twelve during her few months at the O. N. S. The next member of the class was born somewhere in the East, but has gotten the Western spirit in an astonishingly sho'rt time. Some years ago, but I am baffled to even surmise how long or how short, I see a very sedate Miss starting to school. She knows her A B Us and how to. count to one hundred, but has an abun- dance of patience for those who do not know them. Her little girl friends like her, but stand somewhat in awe of this young lady who seems to know so much and to: do every thing so well.