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IMPORTANT DATES
First Semester 1934-35
Registration of Freshmen Monday, September 10
Home-coming Saturday, October 20
First Executive Council Meeting Saturday, October 20
Second Semester 1934-35
Second Executive Council Meeting Saturday, February 2
Alumni Day Saturday, May 25
Issued Quarterly in November, February, May, and August, by the
Trustees of the State Teachers College, Indiana, Pennsylvania.
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THE ALUMNI NEWS
Advisory Committee
Charles R. Foster President
M. J. Walsh Dean of Instruction
W. M. Whitmyre Dean of Men
Hope Stewart Dean of Women
William Schuster Business Adviser
Editorial Committee
Vera Simpson Chairman
Mary Esch Angie Marshall
Inez Buchanan Ethel L. Farrell
Carrie Belle Parks Joy Mahachek
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ALUMNI LUNCHEON AND COMMENCEMENT RECEPTION
On May 26, Indiana entertained its alumni at a delightful luncheon. For the first time the whole dining room was decorated with flowers from the College greenhouse. Mr. Thomas Sutton as toastmaster spoke of his trusteeship of over fifty years and introduced the speakers.
Miss Sarah Gallaher spoke for the class of 1884. Of the original twenty-four members, seventeen are living and eleven were present at this fiftieth anniversary. They were enthusiastically received by the alumni. Miss Gallaher recounted the achievements of the class as edu- cators, legislators, lawyers, doctors, ministers, nurses, and home-makers. She paid tribute to Miss Jane E. Leonard's love of liberty and inde- pendence and to her ideals for womanhood. It was the class of 1884 which started the fund to provide the portrait of Miss Leonard which was presented to the College in 1900 at the celebration of the twenty- fifth anniversary of its founding.
Miss Carolyn Henderson, speaking for the seniors, pledged the class of 1934 to continue the splendid work of the alumni groups of former years.
Dr. Foster spoke of the program of the College, its high standards, its needs for the future. He asked for the continued hearty support of the alumni and cordially invited them to return for the Home-coming on the third Saturday in October.
The musical program given by members of the class of 1934 con- sisted of two soprano solos by Esther Skog, "The Wind's in the South," by Scott, and "In the Luxembourg Gardens," by Manning; the accom- panist was Jane Stewart. The program closed with the singing of the Alma Mater, led by Eleanor Welsh.
At the Commencement Reception which followed in Recreation Hall, the seniors, their parents, and the alumni were greeted by the trustees and faculty. After the splendid performance by the College orches- tra, under the direction of Mr. Stitt, of the majestic "Pomp and Cir- cumstance," by Elgar, and the delightful "Prelude," by Jarnefelt, the guests were served with tea. This reception was one of the brilliant events of the commencement season. Recreation Hall made a lovely setting for the guests in colorful summer costumes as they mingled with old friends and recalled happy experiences of days at Indiana.
FIFTY YEARS AND LATER
SARAH M. GALLAHER
Address delivered at the Alumni Luncheon
State Teachers College, Indiana, Pennsylvania, May 26, 1934
Honored President of the Board of Trustees, Trustees, Dr. Foster, Members of the Faculty, Fellow Alumni, Class of '84. Had the time allotted to us on the program been two or three hours a day for two or three weeks, we might have been able to unfold to you some of the
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interesting facts in the early history of the college, and some of the experiences that have developed in our lives since the day when we handed the Key of Knowledge to the Class of '85, received our first diplomas from our beloved Principal, Leonard H. Durling, and went forth to the world to redeem our promises, made on the basis of a re- duction of fifty cents a week on our tuition and fifty dollars upon graduation, that we would teach for two years in the public schools of Pennsylvania. That was the tenth day of July, 1884.
From the western boundary of the state and eastward to Clearfield County, we accepted positions of five, six, and in the cities, ten month terms at salaries ranging from $35.00 to $50.00 per month. Per- sonally, I was the first Clearfield County graduate from Indiana Nor- mal, and became established in the Leonard Graded School of Clear- field as the Second Assistant Principal for a term of six months at $45.00 per month. The next year I received $50.00, and the third year I became First Assistant Principal with a salary of $55.00.
At a psychological moment that year I met my former schoolmate, M. C. Gordon, and I learned that a Scientific Class had been organ- ized in the Normal, and that he and several others comprised that class. Through his persuasive arguments and my own thirst for edu- cation, I became a member of the school again in the Spring of '87, was graduated with five others in the large Scientific Class of six in 1888, and was then retained in our school as a, member of the faculty; hence my contacts with the earlier classes.
In a recent campaign in which I happened to be interested some rude person described me as "an old lady." I took some pains to assert my standing as "A New Woman," — and so are all we women of '84. At this moment may I present the immediate group for whom I am speaking? Annie N. Allison (Mrs. Henry Turk, Parkers Landing) ; Clara E. Bothell, first graduate nurse from the graduates of Indiana Normal, (R. 2, Indiana); M. Jennie Brown, (Sewickley) ; Lida M. Eccles (Mrs. J. W. Grove, Pittsburgh) ; M. Leanna Edie, teacher 1884- 19 (Beaver) ; Sarah M. Gallaher, teacher 1884, (Ebensburg) ; Jennie McElveen (Mrs. F. B. Patton, Pittsburgh) ; W. E. Matthews, physician, Medical Director of Cambria County, (Johnstown) ; Belle D. Reel, ar- rayed in her graduating costume, (Mrs. R. A. McKee, Ben Avon) : M. Josephine Scott (Mrs. D. W. McNaugher, Pittsburgh) ; William Williams, attorney-ajt-law, (Johnstown). Less than a year ago, eleven of us spent a few days together at my home in Ebensburg, three of whom are not with us today — M. Marion Galbraith, New York City; Annie E. Rigby, New Brighton; Mrs. Elizabeth Ritchie, Wilkinsburg. In 1884 we numbered twenty-four; within twelve months, fourteen of us have touched one another's hands and hearts in person.
When the class of '84 was organized in September, 1883, eight classes had been graduated from the State Normal School, Indiana.. Pennsylvania, with an additional Scientific graduate. In all they num- bered 132. We added 24, the class of '85 added 50; the class of '86 in- creased the number by 52.
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So accustomed are we to the extolling of the work of the schools of Pennsylvania for Ithe last fifteen years, that our normal pioneering- is often lost to memory; the contributions of the little public schools forgotten. Three days ago, I spent a few minutes during the noon hour in the poor little schoolhouse in which I received most of my ed- ucation prior to my entrance into Indiana Normal. Built probably more than seventy-five years ago, this little one^room schoolhouse, in which the teacher told me, she was crowded with her thirty-one children be- low high school attainments, accommodated in my day there, and in the day of all the other Gallahers, from seventy to eighty-five pupils, ranging in age from six minus to twenty-one plus, all in full-day ses- sions. There I received the discipline in study that later enabled me to take the Elementary Course in this school and graduate in one year. And thence emerged within my own memory more than fifty teachers; two county superintendents of schools; two prominent newspaper men; probably a dozen lawyers and legislators; one Doctor of Divinity; sev- eral physicians, dentists, and engineers, with college training; business and professional men that are prominent even in large cities.
From this digression we return to this institution and its first eleven classes aggregating 258 graduates. Your class whose commence- ment period this is today numbers 281, and in July and February you graduated enough to make the number for 1934 alone approximately 400. But through the years we have not been idle. What students did we not send back to Alma Mater? How many of us came by families! Two of my sisters followed me and graduated, and my brother pre- pared here for the examinations that entered him at Cornell Univer- sity, the second student from this school to matriculate in that institu- tion. Clarion and Slippery Rock were opened, yet we held our own. Eva Painter, Marion Galbraith, Jennie McElveen, Florence Walker, William Williams, all from our class sent sisters, most of us furnish- ing the "Loan Fund" that financed the younger members of our fam- ilies. Later, from our class, Mr. Williams sent his only daughter, Mrs. Annie Allison Turk, her three daughters, and then acquired a daugh- ter-in-law, a graduate of Indiana. Mary Work was in school with us, graduated in '87, went to Egypt as a Missionary, married and made her home in England, and became the Warden (Dean or Principal) of Ashburn College, the Women's College of the University of Manchester. There followed her to our school, Cree, Calvin, Ella, Anna, James, Rob- ert, Ruth, and I believe Josephine Work, all living until two recent deaths, all leaders in their several communities.
With the end of the century came the twerity-fifth anniversary of the school, when very many of the twenty-four graduated groups gathered to do honor to Alma Mater and to the one that had touched the life of every one of us — Miss Leonard. Miss Scott, now Mrs. D. W. McNaugher, Mrs. Sarah Rowe Christy, Judge John P. Elkin, Mr. T. L. Gibson, and the speaker had gathered the $750.00 necessary for the production of her portrait, and the picture was now to be unveiled.
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As I think of Miss Leonard, it seems to me, that Pennsylvania's motto might have embellished her coatof-arms, — "Virtue, Liberty, and Independence." On that June day in 1900, T. L. Gibson, speaking in the crowded chapel, paid her a grand tribute when he said that her loy- alty to her trust, her prudent guardianship, had been such that no breath of scandal had ever touched the name of one of our Normal School girls.
Passing Liberty, I take up Independence. From Miss Leonard came one of the wholesomest lessons that I have ever learned. A tiny tale. She once related to me that in the early years of the school she and the other women teachers always spent their Saturday mornings sweeping and scouring, dusting and tidying their rooms. For the men of the Faculty this service was performed by members of the household domestic staff.
One bright morning as the ladies were laboring, some of the gentle- men passed Miss Mary Butler's room, on their way to recreation or errands in the town, smiling and joking at the expense of the ladies and their domestic tasks. Miss Butler, afterward the wife of Colonel Porter, broom in hand, hastened up to Miss Leonard, and the two of them decided then and there that they had as much right to freedom from Saturday morning toil as had the men. Laying aside their brooms, they went courageously to the Trustees, and so secured the independ- ence in that particular which has ever since been the rule of the in- stitution.
In the after years in a broader field, many of us worked for the enfranchisement of women, — especially for the class of women that understand the home, the child, the school, the needy, the distressed, the meaning of peace and war, as can no other persons. Women o£ Indiana, how are you discharging your responsibility in the matter oi exercising your enfranchisement?
In our late primary campaign a friend said to me, "You ought to line up our Indiana Alumni. There are many in the County." My answer was, "When out of more than thirty legislative candidates, there is only one that really knows our Teachers Colleges, and when the pre- sent is almost a crisis for those colleges, Indiana Alumni must know enough to 'line themselves up' or their case is hopeless."
To you, eight thousand alumni of the Normal and the College, to you, Class of 1934, — in your hands we earlier alumni helped to place the power that will protect the home, the child, the school; the economic, the moral, the spiritual welfare of our people; the integrity of our na- tion;— to you we say, be citizens, assume the full responsibility of citi- zenship, be Christian citizens.
To you, beloved '84's, — let us in our perennial spirit of service look out on future days as Browning saw them, "Grow old with me, the best of life is still to be." I hold in my hand the copy of Longfellow's Poems presented to me as a graduation gift fifty years ago. A favorite poem has always been Morlturi Salutamus, called the noblest poem ever presentd by age to youth, but I do not find that its lines apply to us.
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They were written for persons that must have been much older than
we. Only may we appropriate the close — "For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress; And as the avening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
THE ALUMNI MEETING— MAY 26, 1934
The old chapel welcomed a capacity crowd for the annual Alumni Business Meeting. Daylight saving time allowed even those from afar to get here in time for the ten o'clock meeting Saturday morning. Misa Vera Simpson, President of the Alumni Association, read from the In- diana Penn, "A Greeting to the Alumni." Miss Hope Stewart, Dean of Women, extended a welcome to the alumni with a special greeting to the class of 1884 — the fifty-year class. In closing she paid tribute to our beloved Miss Leonard.
Mrs. Jean McElroy Whitmyre and Mrs. Ruth Campney Walker conducted the senior class to the meeting to be received into alumni membership. Miss Simpson welcomed the class into the association, and Mr. Russell Leech, president of the class of 1934, responded.
Miss Mary Esch, who is treasurer of both the Alumni Association and of the Jane E. Leonard Memorial Student Loan Fund, gave grati- fying reports of both these funds. After the workings of the loan fund had been discussed and Miss Esch had explained some of the fine outcomes of this student loan plan, Miss Stewart rose to announce that the first contributor to this fund was in the meeting. Mr. Ira Johnston of the class of 1899 had flown by plane from Oklahoma to be present at this commencement. In answer to Miss Simpson's request, Mr. John- ston told of the inception of the loan fund idea. It was, as you might guess, in a conversation with Miss Leonard that Mr. Johnston, then an alumnus of the Indiana Normal and a rising young lawyer, asked Miss Leonard to tell him the desire nearest her heart. Miss Leonard replied, "I want some way to help the fine young people who want an educa- tion but who cannot afford to come to school."
"Very well," said Mr. Johnston, "let us start a loan fund. Here is the first contribution."
Thus, years ago, a great teacher and a grateful alumnus, both of whom loved our school and young people and both of whom had faith in their future, began the student loan fund which has grown into a splen- did memorial.
Mr. Johnston's remarks to the students were drawn from his own experience and were most convincing. "When I finished law school," said he, "I was told that there was no chance for me in that field; the law profession was overcrowded." "If," he continued, "you go out from this school believing that you have no chance, — that the field is over-crowded and there is no place for you; you will be right, — there will be no place for you. But, if you go forth determined that you will succeed; that nothing can prevent you from doing something
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worthwhile in the world, — again, you will be right; the world needs you; you will succeed." Mr. Johnston congratulated the school on the organization of the alumni groups, and added a new one, — the Oklahoma Alumni unit.
Miss Nelle Maxwell presented an amendment to the constitution. This amendment added to the present regular and honorary member ship of alumni units, associate members. Those who have attended In- diana State Teachers College or Indiana Normal School for one semes- ter or summer session are eligible for associate membership. The rights and privileges of these associate members are to be determined by the individual units. This ruling will allow those who have at- tended, but not graduated from the school, to join their local units and participate in their activities.
Miss Simpson expressed gratification in the splendid response to the new plan of alumni organization. She urged all graduates to co- operate with the school in securing correct names and addresses, so that the school bulletins and literature may be sent to them.
Dr. Foster expressed his appreciation of the large crowd of alum- ni present. In his cordial welcome he "turned over the keys of the in- stitution to them."
The officers elected for the new year are:
President, Miss Vera Simpson of Indiana State Teachers College, whose splendid work of organization and administration of the alumni units made it most desirable that she be continued in office.
Vice President, Mrs. Rhea Kleinman Steinberg of Pittsburgh, whose work in that territory makes her a very valuable assistant.
Secretary, Miss Clarice Grumbling of Johnstown, whose ability in that strategic position will make her invaluable.
Treasurer, Miss Mary Esch, who, as the chairman of the nominat- ing committee remarked, always took all their money when they were students, so that it seemed fitting that she should continue to look after their funds.
This alumni meeting was a real greeting place; a time for locat- ing friends and renewing acquaintances; an opportunity for clarifying ideas of the workings of the alumni units and the student loan fund; a renewing of loyalty to our Alma Mater under the inspiration of those who addressed us; — withall a most worthwhile business meeting.
THE COMMENCEMENT PLAY
Fernc Molnar's romantic comedy "The Swan" was presented May 26, as the Commencement play of 1934. The audience of alumni and the friends of the seniors thoroughly enjoyed the unfolding of the plot.
Princess Beatrice (Princess of a mythical European kingdom) was very eager to have her daughter Alexandra marry Prince Albert. The Prince had been visiting in Alexandra's home for some days and was about to depart without having declared himself. In desperation Princess Beatrice persuaded Alexandra to invite the personable tutor
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of her two mischievous young brothers to a ball and to flirt with hiir sufficiently to arouse the jealousy of Prince Albert. The scheme suc- ceeded all too well. At the banquet the tutor, Dr. Nicholas Agi, gulped his wine and succeeded in stating his ideas and emotions in such a manner as to cause Princess Beatrice to feign a fainting spell. Dr. Agi and Alexandra remained in the banquet hall to be noble, quarrel- some, and loving by turns and finally to be discovered by Prince Albert
In the final act Alexandra's uncle, Father Hyacinth, explainec most satisfactorily to the professor, to Prince Albert's hastily sum moned mother, and to Prince Albert himself that Alexandra's emotioi of the evening before was really only pity. Princess Dominica in turn explained to Alexandra that a lovely swan must navigate the quiet waters of the lake and never approach the common shore where sht might too much resemble a goose. Nothing remained for the tutor except departure while the prince and princess lived happily ever after!!
The plot was skillfully developed by the able cast of characters:
Dr. Nicholas Agi James McKee Nix
George Agnes A. Hoare
Arsene Florence M. Thompson
Princess Beatrice — - Jane E. Stewart
Alexandra Katherine J. Whitmyre
Father Hyacinth William J. Reilly
Symphorosa Jean K. Harbourt
Prince Albert Don C. McGrew
Colonel Wunderlich Robert M. Skelton
Count Lutzen John M. Books
Caesar Robert Kline
Alfred — - Lawrence McKnight
Maid Dorothy Birch
Princess Maria Dominica Alice Neudorfer
Countess Erdely Meryl Fox
Ladies in Waiting Jane Wallace, Mary Jane Altenburg
Lackeys Robert Cronauer, James Tobin
Hussars John Powrozniak, James Kohut
Understudy -— Carlyle Buckley
BACCALAUREATE SERVICES
The Baccalaureate service was held at the College on Sunday, May 27. Dr. Henry W. A. Hanson, President of Gettysburg College, de- livered the sermon.
Dr. Hanson divided his address into three parts: the tyranny of the present; intangible measures; and the value of ideals. He said that today physical frontiers have been conquered, but that the fron- tiers of tomorrow are to be found under one's hat, under one's vest, above and around one. He spoke of the intangible measures of char- acter— what one is, not what one has, saying that if a man lost every-
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thing he owned, he had had nothing of worth. In urging the value of ideals he spoke of the idealists, Moses, Daniel, and Telemachus, famous for leading people out of bondage, for demonstrating the pow- er of faith, for stopping beastly gladiatorial combats, while the rulers of those times were forgotten. He contrasted the lives of Paul and Nero and illustrated their comparative rank in history by saying that people name their dogs Nero, but their sons they name Paul. He urged upon the graduates the need of ideals to meet the chal- lenges of the future.
His ideals were exquisitely exemplified in the music of the A Capella Choir in their three numbers : "To Thee We Sing," by Schvedov, "Only Begotten Son," by Gretchaninoff, and "Beautiful Savior," by Christianson.
COMMENCEMENT
Viewed amid the inspiring setting of the Oak Grove on a perfect day, the Commencement Processional was fascinating to the many onlookers. Down the north steps of John Sutton Hall came the aca- demic group, — the president, speakers, deans, and the faculty in the order of their years of service at Indiana. The somberness of the black-robed group was lightened by the brilliant colored hoods from many different colleges, showing the diversity and extent of the train- ing of the faculty members. Among them were the crimson of Har- vard, the blue of Columbia, the purple of the University of New York, the maroon of Chicago, and the deep blue and gold of the University of Pittsburgh. The gold tassels of the doctors' caps were easily dis- tinguishable.
Next came the degree candidates, wearing the plain caps and gowns that are the age-old symbol of higher education. Last came the grad- uates of the two-year curriculums. Slowly the procession moved around the grove to music furnished by the college band. The march contin- ued into the gymnasium, well-filled for the most eventful occasion of the year.
The invocation was given by the Rev. R. L. Clark of the First Presbyterian Church, Indiana, Pennsylvania. After music played by the Double String Quartet, the Commencement Address was delivered by Frank Pierrepont Graves, Commissioner of Education and Presi- dent of the University of the State of New York. Dr. Graves, a former Pennsylvania teacher and educator who has been called to the highest educational position in New York State, paid gracious tribute to the fame and service of Indiana in training teachers for our commonwealth. His scholarly message, "The Aristocracy of Ser- vice," was especially addressed to the graduates — those who are about to assume the responsibility for leadership in our land. He showed that theirs must be a leadership of intelligent service.
Dr. Foster presided with dignity in the solemn presentation of diplomas, reciting to each group of candidates for the bachelor's de-
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gree the welcome words: "Upon the recommendation of the faculty, by and with the authority of the board of trustees, representing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, I confer upon each of you the de- gree of Bachelor of Science, with all the rights and privileges per- taining thereto." In his remarks to the graduates and parents, Dr. Foster called attention to the lengthened period of training necessary for the profession of teaching and announced that this was the last time there would be a graduating class in the two-year curriculums. After the pronouncement of the benediction, the graduates marched out to receive congratulations and "God-speed" from their friends as they left the college to begin their work in the world. This commence- ment was throughout an inspiring occasion which will live long in our memories.
AN ARISTOCRACY OF SERVICE
(Abstract of the Commencement Address, State Teachers College at Indiana, Pennsylvania, May 28, 1934, by Dr. Frank Pierrepont Graves, President of The University of the State of New York and State Commissioner of Education) ,
This year we are engaged in celebrating the centenary of our public schools. As far as Pennsylvania is concerned, it was in 1834 that the statesmanship of George Wolf and the eloquence of Thaddeus Stevens brought the state system of public education into existence. While there was no specific apportionment made for the training of teachers, education of this sort must speedily have accompanied the general appropriation to the schools. In New York the first direct grant of quotas for teacher education was likewise made in this year, and but four years later Massachusetts created the first three normal schools known to American educational history. While the seed for this widely famed teachers college at Indiana was not sown until a generation later, its effective work for the public schools of Pennsyl- vania has been under way for more than three score years and it owes its inception to the movement in behalf of public education whose centennial anniversary we hail today.
The Teachers College at Indiana embodies an harmonious develop- ment of the past and present. The old original building, John; Sut- ton Hall, still stands in the midst of the structures now conglomerated as a tower of strength and a symbol of the enduring character of the institution. Around it, however, are clustered some twenty-five new academic edifices, seven of which represent the most substantial and attractive buildings of which modern architecture is capable. The twenty-three acres of the first site have been greatly expanded but remain as a nucleus and typify the primeval forest of oaks out of which the campus was originally carved. The minute student body with meager preparation that first congregated at Indiana has long
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since grown beyond the thousand mark and has presented a prepara- tion that would favorably compare with that required by the best col- leges in the land. The faculty, while retaining the good sense and devotion of the handful of instructors assembled sixty years ago, has mow increased to more than one hundred and is composed of men and women who have been in the leading universities at home and abroad.
x But with all these striking changes, developments, and improve- ments of two generations, the purpose of the old institution remains much the same and it is still animated by the ideals of its founders. The State Teachers College at Indiana is, if anything, more devoted than ever to its time-honored objective of training leaders for the school system and for society at large. Than this there can be no nobler goal. The importance of leaders to civilized society can scarce- ly be over-estimated. Average individuals can for a while conserve the achievements of the race and keep the activities of everyday life in operation, but they must look to their intellectual superiors for all new steps in progress. Such leaders have throughout history initiated our inventions and discoveries, bridged our rivers and tunneled our mountains, organized our industries, instituted social reforms, mitigat- ed human suffering, sin, and ignorance, produced our inspiring litera- ture and works of art, and written our greatest constitutions. And we must realize that, if at any time our genius should altogether fail to get into action, society would quickly slip back into barbarism.
If leaders, then, are destined to play so important a part in social progress, it is essential that society should secure the maximum of benefit from as great a number and variety of these guides as possible. But should we complacently assume that the greatest number of lead- ers can be produced through education? Are not all leaders, like the poets, "born and not made?" Would we better hold that they are cre- ated by circumstances and training, rather than that they are purely a gift of nature? Or, to state the problem in its usual form, is capacity for leadership to be accounted the product of heredity or of environ- ment, or of both these forces?
Most of us would certainly incline toward the importance of en- vironment and would bold that if we wish to increase the number and efficiency of our leaders, we must extend to all classes the oppor- tunity for training in every line. Clearly it is only by the proper education for all that our purpose of creating leaders can be accom- plished. In connection with a discussion of the importance of univer- sal opportunities for education, we should note that our educational view is far different from that which is current in Europe. It is, for example, but logical for any Englishman to hold that leadership is practically altogether a matter of heredity. From his boyhood up he has absorbed the impression that there exists a natural intellectual aristocracy, which is in possession of most of the racial genius and hands it on to its offspring. These beloved of the gods, he holds, should properly receive the benefit of the best education, but, even when de-
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prived of it, their talent can not be altogether hidden under a bushel. Genius, like murder, will out. Of course, the selective theory in English education has been greatly modified since the Great War, but it is quite consistent with English traditions to hold it a self-evident truth that genius is confined to a small group and that all higher education should be similarly limited.
On the other hand, we Americans have come to incline toward a very different attitude. It has gradually become almost an educational axiom with us that every one should be permitted without let or hin- drance to obtain just as much education as he is capable of consuming, without regard to social position, and almost without consideration of the cost. While our theory has at many points broken down, we have continued to maintain that the doors of all educational institutions should swing wide to every student of brains and industry. For the sake of developing as much genius and leadership as possible, no youth of ability, we hold, should be prevented from entering secondary school or college through lack of financial support or the inability to find there the subjects that his or her type of genius requires.
However, if educational institutions are seeking to formulate a shibboleth to mark the goal of their activities, they should find it in an aristocracy of service rather than the aristocracy of brains, which has been sought by many colleges. Even the most gifted youth has no natural right to the advantages of a college education, since he is not him- self in the least responsible for his ability, and the only justification for his receiving opportunities of which others have been deprived is that of a larger return to society. Indeed the more highly endowed he is, the more sensitive should he be made to social service. If a higher education is to be added to his natural gifts, it will proportion- ately increase his already great capacity for good or ill, and if the possessor of both intelligence and training is to become strictly sel- fish, predatory, or criminal, there could be no more profound disservice to society than a college education. Pushed to its logical extreme, such a policy, leads to social suicide.
When, then, our social problems and needs have become so great as we have seen that they are in these days of depression, we must strive to select our future leaders wisely and then train them definite- ly for the service of society. There is still a great range of super- stitions and abuses to overcome. It should be both the function and the privilege of trained leaders to struggle to their utmost to further the control of society over nature and to contribute toward the aboli- tion of ignorance, poverty, disease, and crime. Such an objective should challenge the best efforts of those who have known the privilege of a college education, and it is because the abolition of these abuses, rather than the gratification of their own selfish ends, has by and large appealed to those who have gone forth from the doors of this insti- tution, that the world in general has come to realize that the develop- ment of the State Teachers College at Indiana is both ethically and economically well worth while.
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LARGE CROWD RETURNS FOR THE FIRST HOME-COMING DAY
Home-coming Day, Saturday, November 4, was one of the most delightful occasions of the year. Invitations were sent to classes graduating since 192G — some 3,000 in all. More than a thousand alumni returned to the campus for the gala occasion.
THE MORNING PROGRAM
The morning program began with visiting classes, greeting teach- ers and friends, and touring with Student Council guides to view the new campus features. The greenhouse, new this year? is just off the east campus. In it the college is growing the plants and shrubs for beautifying the campus together with flowers and ferns for in- ferior decoration. The Activities House on Grant Street, also new, is a cottage with the partitions removed and the walls and ceiling fresco- ed. It has been equipped with beautiful, comfortable furniture and a dainty kitchenette. This house is used as a social gathering place for the smaller college groups, and is a most welcome addition to the college plant. The boys cottages on College Avenue were visited. The students who had not been here for several years were interested in the Power Plant and the lovely new Arts Building. In John Sutton Hall the boys' lounge, the Y. M. C. A. rooms, and the girls' shampoo rooms were much admired.
THE FOOTBALL GAME
A big feature of the day was the football game with the Carnegie Tech Freshmen. Mr. Sullivan's Kiltie Band added much to the pleas- ure of the crowd by their graceful tribute to Indiana in letter forma- tions with gay balloons as well as by their stirring music. The day was perfect. The colorful crowd filling the bleachers and the side linps; the striking costumes and unique formations of the Kiltie Band led dramatically by their picturesque Drum Major; the cheering of the crowd, with the "Crimson and Slate" balloons floating above them, made a picture not soon to be forgotten.
THE DINNER
Both luncheon and dinner were gala occasions, with good music, good food, and good friends combining to make good fellowship. Dr. Foster was introduced by Miss Vera Simpson, President of the Alumni Association, and in a brief address, explained the purpose of alumni organizations and the need for them. He expressed his keen appreci- ation of the co-operation he is receiving from the various alumni units.
THE DANCE
The alumni dance filled recreation hall and the gymnasium. This gay, informal party dancing to the rhythm of Phil Runzo's orchestra was a fitting culmination of the day's festivities. At the "late hour of eleven o'clock" the dance closed. Indiana's first Home-coming Day was a reality and a success. If the alumni's expressions of pleasure are any criterion, then the success of next year's Home-coming is al-
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ready assured. The alumni were very appreciative of the work of the committee composed of Mr. Whitmyre, Mr. Webb, Mr. Sanders, Misses Grassmuck, McLean, and Simpson who had charge of the ar- rangements for their entertainment.
THE SECOND HOME-COMING DAY Home-coming Day this year is October twentieth. Plan now to be in Indiana on that day. We play Edinboro, and a pageant will be given in the evening before the dance.
LECTURES AND ENTERTAINMENTS
Indiana is maintaining a high standard of quality in the lectures and other entertainments provided from the activity fees paid by the students. Of musical events on the entertainment program this year, the outstanding numbers were the Boston Sinfonietta (an orchestral ensemble) and the celebrated Vienna Choir of boys voices. The most important lectures were those of Sherwood Eddy on Dictators in Rus- sia and Germany, Upton Close on Japan and the East, Rabbi Wise on Hitlerism, Lew Sarett on poetry, Frederick Snyder on the newspaper, Howard Cleaves on his trip to the South Seas with Governor Pinchot, and George Gerwig on Pennsylvania education.
The Leonard Literary Society, from its membership fees, brought three attractions to the College: Ruth St. Denis, lecturing on rhythm and dancing, Dorothy Sands, presenting styles in acting, and William Beebe in an illustrated lecture on under sea life. The Literary Society also produced the play, Journey's End.
Other outstanding speakers of the year were Dr. Robert Burnett Hall of the University of Michigan and Dr. Dudley Stamp of England, brought by the Travelers Club, and H. O. Crisler, Princeton Athletic Coach, who spoke at the Annual Athletic Dinner.
THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
The purpose of the Y. W. C. A. is to help its members develop in a fourfold manner: religiously, socially, mentally, and physically.
The meetings on Wednesday evenings, the teas on Friday after- noons, the Short Morning Watch services on Monday mornings, four Vesper services a year, the early morning Thanksgiving and Easter programs, — all these help to meet the needs of students on the campus.
This year a change has been effected in the scholarship policy. A student loan fund has been created to which fifty dollars will be added each year. Seniors who have been active in "Y" work may apply for assistance.
The Thanksgiving Vesper service was one of the notable pro- grams of the year. With the cooperation of several departments in the college and of the foreign students attending Indiana, "The Burn- ing Altar," a religious pantomime by Ethel Rockwell, was presented. This pageant portrayed the Call of Life to each age and the answer given by men from primitive times to those of today.
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The Y. W. C. A. is the largest women's organization on the camp- us, its membership averaging more than 600. This is in interesting con- trast to the group of 65 girls who on May 22, 1897, under the direc- tion of Jane E. Leonard, initiated the Y. W. C. A. at Indiana. For nearly forty years the association has carried on its work, and it has grown in its achievements, its members, and its influence each suc- cessive year.
THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
The Y. M. C. A. at Indiana has presented a varied program this year. Talks have been given on topics of world interest. The men have profited by the "Faculty Firesides," friendly visits to the homes of men on the faculty. Other activities were the friendly help of the "Y" men to newcomers during Freshmen Week and leadership in Ves- per services. Social events of the year's program were a steak fry, the Triangle Dance, the production of "The Private Secretary," and the annual "Y" banquet. Murals painted under the direction of Mr. Ivy of the Art Department have added greatly to the atmosphere of the Y. M. C. A. room on the ground floor of John Sutton Hall.
WORD FROM MRS. COGSWELL
The many alumni who knew the Cogswell family will be interested in a letter received in Indiana from Mrs. Cogswell in response to greet- ings sent to her by her friends here upon the occasion of her birthday. Mrs. Cogswell is very dear to Indiana alumni not only because of her personal qualities, but because to her we owe much for her composi- tion of both the words and music of our Alma Mater. The letter follows : Dear Friends:
Your greetings were like a song to me and I appreciate them more than I can tell you. The avalanche of cards and letters which came to me during the holidays has quite overpowered me. I fear I shall never get them all acknowledged. They were from "Jerusalem" and "round about Jerusalem," from highways and byways, by which I mean towns in Indiana County, Johnstown, Pittsburgh. I feel quite puffed up.
I am going to rely upon the enclosed lines, with apologies to all readers of Pegasus, to serve as thanks.
My Birthday
I muse today upon past years,
And in my heart are memories dear
Of life, with days of sun and gloom Life's Weather-vane doth ever veer.
The Master-Singer's name is Love,
And Life is ere the singer's song. ?Tis keyed in bright or minor mode,
And oftentimes the rhythm's wrong!
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Each Birthday brings to me a song
From radiant friends to greet the day,
Cheering and gladdening heart and mind In lilting measures, brave and gay.
Dear Friend! I tune my silent pen
To sing thy praises, long and loud;
Thy goodness . . and thy graces . . . themes
To 'broider measures of my song.
■ — Dorothy Hamlin Cogswell
(Mrs. H. E. Cogswell)
December 25, 1933.
GIFTS FROM THE ALUMNI
We quote from the Normal Herald, October, 1917: "One of the fine things now being done by each of the graduating classes leav- ing Indiana is making a class gift to the school. In each case the gift has been something greatly prized by the institution. The fine entrance on the east side of the campus, given by the Class of 1902, is one of them; the handsome chapel clock presented by the Class of 1897; the curtains in the Auditorium by the Classes of 1913 and 1924; the sundial by the Class of 1903; the clock in the library by the Class of 1917 are others. The example for this worthwhile custom was set by the classes of 1893, 1895, and 1896, who placed in Leonard Hall the beautiful stained-glass windows and by those early classes who in 1900 placed in the Auditorium the beautiful portrait of Miss Leonard.
Not only at graduation have the classes presented gifts to the school, but upon their return as reuning alumni groups, most of them have given substantial proof of their appreciation of their Alma Mater. The fountains in our halls, the gate pillars at the entrances to the campus, and the fountain on the east terrace — all are alumni gifts.
Classes while in school have spent of their funds for the needs of their Alma Mater. The purchase of the Lodge was made possible through the donations of the faculty members who were in service here at the time of its purchase in 1924. Student funds have paid interest and have bought furniture and screens. The curtains and card tables in the Activity House, the clock in the Conservatory, and the curtains in the Y. W. C. A. room are some of the studont gifts which add to the comfort and beauty of our college.
The Jane E. Leonard Memorial Student Loan Fund has, since its inception in 1931, been the recipient of many contributions, large and small, from organizations in the school and among the alumni. A record of the gifts during the current year is included in Miss Esch's report of the loan fund. The alumni, individually, and as units, are now making a concerted drive to increase the amount of this fund.
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THE WIDSITH OF GER RUNE OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE QUILL CLUB
Before any of the Indiana State Teachers College alumni centers were formally organized several graduates who were members of the Quill Club met regularly as in undergraduate days to read for criti- cism what they continued writing. These gatherings kept growing livelier and larger, as alumni came or sent greetings and manuscripts from such far away places as West Virginia, Altoona, Vintondale, Du Lois, and Pittsburgh.
Indiana State Teachers College was the first teachers college in the United States to be permitted by the national organization of the American College Quill Club to install a local rune. This has been a great source of pride to graduate and to undergraduate members. Furthermore, the graduate Quillers from this college have been the first in the United States to organize an alumni chapter, which they have called the Widsith of Ger Rune.
The alumni have continued to improve their writing of such liter- ary forms as poetry, essays, literary criticisms, memoirs, short stor- ies, sketches, and plays. It is generally considered that Quill is one of the campus organizations which, from very pride in its existence and enthusiasm for work in a social atmosphere, will hold together its alumni even though they have gone far afield.
THE COMMERCIAL TEA
The members of the Commerce Department were cordial hosts and hostesses to the student body, alumni, and friends from all parts of the state on Saturday, May the twelfth from two to five o'clock.
This year the tea was really a well planned world cruise. Gaily attired couples danced in Recreation Hall to international rhythms interpreted by Park's Collegians. Guests drank tea in rooms trans- formed into scenes from China and Japan by curios, wall hangings, bright parasols, printsand wood carvings; or played games under the flags, banners and blue eagles of the United States; or chatted in a corner of sunny Spain.
At every port there were pleasant meetings between old friends and new and the wish expressed to cruise again next year.
THE JEAN R. McELHANEY AWARD
The Art Club offers annually to that person of the junior or senior class who has previously spent at least one year as a student in the Art Department of Indiana State Teachers College a medal for three outstanding pieces of work in three different art fields. This medal is called "the Jean R. McElhaney Award for Excellence in Fine Arts" in honor of Miss Jean R. McElhaney who was for many years in charge of the art department. A student may receive this award but once.
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In 1932 the president of the Art Club, Kenneth J. Arisman, con- ceived the idea that since our art department had no scholarships to offer there should be some other recognition of exceptional work. The club then voted the giving of this award, initiated by their president, for achievement. The medal is not awarded on a competitive basis.
Mary M. Park, B.S. in Art Education 1933, supervisor of art at Lansdale, Pennsylvania, received the medal in 1932, and W. Robert Kline, 1935, received it in 1934. This award was not made in 1933.
Madelyn L. Krall, B.S. in Art Education 1933, designed the award which is a heavy bronze paper weight.
INDIANA, A SMITH-HUGHES CENTER
The Home Economics Department at the State Teachers College, Indiana, Pennsylvania, was officially approved in January 1934 by the Federal Board of Vocational Education for Smith-Hughes Appropriation.
To be eligible for this appropriation all members of the home eco- nomics faculty must bave the Masters degree and thirty-six hours in education, eighteen of which are in the field of Vocational Educa- tion. Other requirements are: the locations of the department on the first floor or above; equipment adequate for the preparation of teachers; a curriculum approved by the Federal Board; a four-year course granting the Bachelor of Science degree in Home Economics; the curriculum balanced in special courses, social science courses, related science courses, related art courses, educational courses and English, and good facilities for adequate student teaching.
The purpose of the appropriation is to provide adequate supplies, illustrative material, clerical services, a salary for a supervisor of .student teaching and traveling expenses of administrators and super- visors to important vocational meetings.
The value of the Federal Board's approval is that a high stand- ard of work must be maintained and progress made in curriculum revision and student teaching supervision to keep abreast of the times. The annual visit of the representative of the Federal Board is helpful for progressive suggestions, new methods of procedure, and the stim- ulation of interest by the faculty and students.
INDIANA STUDENTS BENEFIT BY CIVIL WORKS PROGRAM
Welcome, indeed, to Indiana students was the word from Harris- burg that students might be assigned for part-time work in Civil Work projects which have been authorized by the institution and offi- cially approved. This is part of the $400,000,000 National Civil Works Program. The quota of students authorized for Indiana was quickly filled. The work is on a part-time basis and is a means of helping needy students who other swise might not have been able to remain
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in college during the second semester. Students have been engaged as research assistants, clerical workers, library assistants, dining room and laundry helpers, and grounds and buildings workers. Permission to inaugurate this work was most enthusiastically received by the ad- ministration and needy students.
INDIANA'S 1933-1934 ATHLETIC HISTORY
By taking the Pennsylvania State Teachers College basketball championship for the first time in the history of the school, and estab- lishing splendid records in all ihe other inter-collegiate varsity sports, Indiana's athletic achievements for the past year go down in the annals of sport history as truly notable.
Not only has Pennsylvania's largest State Teachers College pitted its four varsity teams against keen competition, but has kept abreast with the times by inaugurating an extensive program of intramural athletics. The man with unusual athletic ability soon works his way to varsity competition, but what about the average person, who, al- though not exceptional in any particular sport, wishes to learn funda- mentals and derive the benefits of exercise by competing within his class. This problem is adequately taken care of by our new plan which involves athletics for everyone.
Football, basketball, baseball, and tennis were played on varsity basis, while the intramural schedule included the following sports: tennis (fall and spring), horse-shoe, cross-country, volleyball, wrestl- ing, foul-shooting, basketball, swimming, track, and mushball.
No sooner had the fall semester started than Coach George P. Mill- er was whipping into shape a smoothly-functioning football team for the 1933 grid series. In the first four games on the card, the Red and Slate moleskin-clad booters disposed of Clarion, Lock Haven, Blooms- burg, and Edinboro in championship style. Prospects for an unde- feated season seemed bright until injuries weakened the ranks of the team. After conceding a close battle to the Fairmont Teachers at the West Virginia school, and being all but out-played in the Home-coming clash with Carnegie Tech's mighty Freshmen aggregation, the Indians suffered several more bad breaks forcing them to finish the season with four wins and three defeats. Indiana held a considerable edge in the scoring, however, as no team crossed its goal stripe more than once, while they themselves succeeded in making four, four, and three six- pointers in the first, third, and fourth games.
The basketball team climaxed a most successful season when it captured the state crown after winning twelve out of fourteen confer- ence games. By defeating California, Lock Haven, Slippery Rock, and Clarion twice each and taking single decisions over Bloomsburg, Edin- boro, Shippensburg, and Millersville, Indiana's Red and Slate cagers swept through four eastern and as many western schools to carry them to their first state title. The first Slippery Rock contest and the
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last championship game with Edinboro were two of the high-light games of the season. Both were thrilling and close, and the results very significant. The victory over Slippery Rock was the first bas- ketball triumph for Indiana over the Rockers in several years, and the titular win over Edinboro gave the Indians not only a claim to the section title, but to the state championship as well.
After a lapse of five years, baseball was reestablished on our Col- lege campus as a jnajor varsity sport. Paul H. Boyts, coach of the diamond squad, has made an enviable record with his sluggers this spring as they scored six victories to one defeat. Twin victories over Lock Haven, California, and Kiski, and a lone setback by the St. Vincent Bearcats rank this year's baseball nine as one of the strong- est teams in this section of the state.
Tennis, under the coaching of Earl E. Prugh, is the latest varsity sport at Indiana. This recently organized team has faced veteran rep- resentatives from California and Mansfield who have run their string of victories to seven and ten respectively. With considerable develop- ment and experience during this season, Indiana should look forward to a strong court team for next year.
Athletics for all in the form of intramural competition has aroused much interest among the men of the school. As the season for a par- ticular sport approached, teams were formed and tournaments con- ducted. Students were not reluctant in realizing the many advantages offered by these activities and responded in large numbers. Briefly stated, the aims of the Intramural Program for men at Indiana are:
1. To prepare boys to organize and promote intramural or inter-class sports in the public schools.
2. To teach boys, who are not particularly athletically inclined, the fun- damentals and rules of sports which would fit into the intramural programs of the elementary and secondary schools.
3. To teach and train students in athletic activities in which they could indulge after school life as a profitable use of leisure.
4. Athletics for present enjoyment and improvement of health.
THE WOMEN'S ATHLETIC PROGRAM
This year ushered in a new program of athletics for women. Un- der the new plan every girl enrolled here as a student automatically becomes a member of the women's athletic activity program. All elec- tive classes in the various fields of activity may be entered by any girl; she may enroll for class credit, to earn points toward athletic awards, or merely for the fun of participating.
This new schedule has made possible the offering of more classes in activities in order that more girls might be accommodated, and it has also made possible the beginning of girls' intramural sports. Fur- thermore girls who for some reason or other found it inconvenient to participate in activities which were formerly offered only at late after-
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noon periods can now enter supervised classes in these same activities at earlier and convenient hours of the day.
Activities offered this year included:
Fall: tennis, hockey, archery, swimming, hiking.
Winter: basketball, volleyball, fencing, swimming, dancing, games, hiking.
Spring: tennis, mushball, archery, clogging, swimming, hiking.
Many girls have taken advantage of the activities offered and have enthusiastically endorsed the new program. It is the desire of the pro- gram leaders and sponsors to fend for each girl a place in the recre- ational field and to promote physical well-being and sportsmanship among the girls on the campus. Because all girls do not participate in all the activities, monthly meetings are held for the purpose of bringing together socially all those who are engaging in athletics. These meetings, one of the most important features in the entire pro- gram, are preceded by half hours of social dancing and games and are followed by the presentation by various sport groups of entertain- ments. Generally, each meeting is concluded with an enjoyable half hour of swimming. Quarterly parties are held in various forms in order that awards won during the previous seasons might be presented. To obtain these awards, numerous points gained by specified partici- pation in each activity are necessary.
THE ATHLETIC DINNER
Five years ago Indiana introduced the idea of an all-college ath- letic dinner. Previously different teams had been feted privately at the close of the seasons, and the school as a whole was not deeply con- cerned. The idea of an all-school banquet was conceived in an effort to share with all the students the enthusiasm of such an event and to place the athletic program upon a sound educational basis.
By reducing the number of banquets to one, it is now possible to secure as speakers persons of national reputation such as Dr. Jesse F. Williams and Dr. F. W. Maroney. Speakers have not, however, been confined to the field of Physical Education. The late Dr. Wallace Petty, pastor of a Pittsburgh Baptist Church, and Dr. William P. Tolley, President of Allegheny College, have been able to show the contribution of athletics to the life of individuals and community in- terests. This year Fritz Crisler, Princeton Coach, was secured as speaker for the annual banquet. In his own inimitable manner he brought to the student body as a whole his point of view concerning the value of athletics.
The all-college athletic dinner is unquestionably stimulating a greater enthusiasm for all types of athletics at Indiana. It is eagerly looked forward to by the students each year.
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THE COLLEGE AND ITS ALUMNI
Charles R. Foster, LL.D. President, State Teachers College, Indiana, Pennsylvania.
The alumni of any College represent its finished product. The alumni of this college owe it to the College to do their utmost to re- flect honor and glory upon their Alma Mater. Ultimately, this College will be just as strong as its alumni are strong and worthy. On the other hand, the College owes to its alumni continued strength. This can be shown through the maintenance of high standards all along the line at the College. Working together, we can maintain the value of our diploma at a very high rating.
The College owes it to its alumni to maintain the finest public con- fidence and support. No college can be maintained without proper financial support — either private or public.
I want to take this means of appealing to our alumni to help the college \i9 secure adequate financial support from the legislature. This can be done by contacting local state senators and representatives. Each local unit of the Alumni Association should make this an import- ant part of next year's program.
I want to appeal to the alumni to use their influence to send us good students. To this end each alumnus and each local unit of the Alumni Association ought to be very familiar with the offerings of the college. I find that some of our older almni are not familiar with the many changes that have taken place in the curricular offerings of the college.
Our recent Alumni Day at the college was the finest in point of attendance and enthusiasm which we have had in years. For this we are grateful.
THE KIND OF STUDENTS DESIRED AT INDIANA
Matthew J. Walsh, Pd.D., Litt. D. Dean of Instruction, State Teachers College, Indiana, Pennsylvania. In their eagerness to secure students many colleges in Pennsyl- vania are resorting to various types of high pressure salesmanship that may well confuse students and parents. Baits such as free en- tertainment to high school senior classes, scholarships based on com- petitive examinations, and "athletic scholarships" are temptingly pre- sented to the prospective freshmen. Indiana has not found it neces- sary to resort to such means to secure students. Its standing as a professional school, its wide range of professional curricula, its out- standing achievements in athletics, its broad entertainment and recre- ational programs, and the general fact that Indiana offers "more for less" than other institutions have combined to bring to the college a sufficient number of students to make possible a careful selection for admission and retention. This question of the kind of students ad- mitted to Indiana and the kind of students allowed to remain and to graduate is one of vital interest to every graduate of the school.
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Your standing as an alumnus and your professional advancement depend primarily upon the reputation of the institution from which you were graduated and, in turn, the reputation of the school depends upon the work of its alumni. It becomes very evident, then, that the alumni of Indiana, especially those engaged in teaching, have a vital interest in the kind of students that enter Indiana. The right kind of teachers cannot be produced from intellectual weaklings. Conse- quently Indiana accepts for admission without examination only those students who rank in the upper halves of their graduating classes. This rank in class is not an entirely reliable basis upon which to exclude students so arrangements have been made for those ranking below the middle to take entrance examinations. If they do reasonably well on these and are recommended by the high school authorities they may be admitted. Many such students do satisfactory work after they become adjusted so there is no reason why a student who is in the lower half of his class should give up the idea of going to college providing he has good intelligence and possesses those personal qual- ities essential to successful teaching.
There is still a prevalent notion that intelligence is the only qual- ity needed in a prospective teacher. It is the first essential but by no means the only one. The successful teacher must also possess to a high degree such qualities as personal attraction, initiative, poise, and adapt- ability in social situations. He must also be a student of human af- fairs and one who takes a genuine interest in desirable community ac- tivities. Incidentally, it is in connection with the development of these qualities that Indiana should have a strong appeal to desirable stu- dents. The wide range of extra-curricular activities conducted by the students and the extensive participation of students in school affairs through the Student Council and the Co-operative Association give op- portunities seldom found in any school for the development of desirable personal and social qualities on the part of students.
Indiana has a right to expect its alumni to spread such informa- tion and to aid in sending to the college the right kind of students. They in turn have the right to expect the college to maintain its high standards so that those who go out as its graduates will add to its splen- did reputation. Working together the alumni and the college can do much for the mutual advantage of both.
TO THE ALUMNI: GREETING
The publication of the Alumni News culminates a year filled with hard work and joyous accomplishment. Any new movement must of necessity be initiated with trepidation. And so, when I was assigned the task of directing the rebuilding of the Alumni Association, it was with no little hesitancy that the first steps in the movement were in- augurated. However, knowing Indiana graduates, there was little real doubt as to the outcome. A perusal of the Alumni News alone will present sufficient evidence that all expectations have been exceeded.
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In this day (I might almost call it an epoch) of new deals one is prone to speak numerically. And so we relate with no little pride that we have during the year contacted more than 3,000 of our alumni. Approximately 50 local units have been organized and these in turn include some thirty sub-districts. The building of an alumni fund has been started — a long neglected but very necessary matter. Likewise there is a renewed interest among the alumni in the Jane E. Leonard Memorial Student Loan Fund. It will be recalled that this form of memorial to our beloved friend and teacher, Miss Leonard, was de- cided upon when it was found impossible to continue the project of the Memorial Library. It is earnestly hoped that every alumnus will, during this next year, have some part in increasing this mem- orial fund to more worthy proportions.
Were we able to speak only of numerical values, then I should consider the year's work of doubtful worth. The new enthusiasm for Indiana; the greater appreciation and understanding of Teachers College problems and the formulation of a working program in their interests; the realization of the real service which alumni can give to their Alma Mater; the renewal of old friendships; the many mes- sages of encouragement coming from California, Florida, New Eng- land, and Canada; the invitations "to drop in" at some of these distant spots; and last, but not least, the biggest and most enthusiastic Alumni Day we have ever had — these outcomes of the first year of the "New Alumni Movement" have made the work eminently worth while.
Next year we shall no longer speak of the new type of organi- zation. It is firmly established; there remains now the work of car- rying on in each local unit those activities particularly suited to the group with the idea of serving not only the College but also the com- munity of which the unit is a part.
It is with highest appreciation of your work of the past year and with utmost confidence that in the coming year the attainments of 1933-34 will be far surpassed that I greet you — Indiana Alumni. Very sincerely, VERA AMY SIMPSON, President of the General Alumni Association.
A NEW PROGRAM FOR THE GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
The alumni of the State Teachers College at Indiana, Pennsyl- vania, now number more than 10,000. A large majority of this num- ber reside in the western part of the state. At the present time when every type of education is being carefully scrutinized and in many instances greatly curtailed it is important that Indiana Alumni stand firmly behind their Alma Mater with an efficient working organiza- tion. To this end local alumni units are being formed wherever there is a sufficient number of Indiana graduates to make such an organi- zation feasible. The alumni have taken hold of the movement in a
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manner which indicates clearly that the idea is meeting with their approval. Continuous activity throughout the year in many of the units points to the permanency cf the plan. No claim can be made for the originality of the idea. It is a plan which is functioning in practically every college and university in the state and Indiana is but falling in line. Some fifty communites have been contacted during the year, but many more remain in which there will be equal enthu- siasm when we are able to reach them. The work has taken much time and its success has been possible only because of the enthusiasm and loyalty of the alumni.
The Plan of Reorganization
At the business meeting of the General Alumni Association held May 27, 1933, a new constitution was presented and adopted. This constitution provided for the organization of local alumni groups as previously stated. Provisions were also made for an Executive Coun- cil to meet three times each year at the College. This Council is made up of representatives from the various local units — one representa- tive for each forty members or fraction thereof. It is the business of this council to transact business between the meetings of the General As- sociation. The president of the General Association is also the presi- dent of the Executive Council. With this set-up the alumni groups are able to keep in much closer touch with the College and a greater enthusiasm has resulted.
Service To The Alumni
It is the purpose of the College under the new organization to keep in much closer touch with the alumni through attending meetings of local units; through keeping the alumni better informed as to the progress of the school by means of the Executive Council meetings, and to set up definite purposes for the work of the local units. Assistance will be furnished in locating alumni, organizing alumni groups and providing and recommending speakers.
Better Alumni Records
The alumni groups can be of great assistance in helping to bring the college records up-to-date by furnishing married names and changed addresses of the alumni. It is absolutely essential in giving married names of alumni that the name before marriage be given. Many news items sent to us this year could not be used because only the married name was given and we could not locate the person referred to on our records.
The News Bulletin
The new Alumni News Bulletin published for the first time this year replaces the Normal Herald which went out of existence a number of years ago. It is hoped to make this bulletin the official magazine of the Association. In addition to articles of general interest, it will carry news of the association, campus news, local club news, and items about the alumni. Its continuance will depend upon the financial sup port of the alumni as well as upon their contributions of news.
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Communications
Hundreds of personal letters have gone out to the alumni this year. It is hoped that this will be one means of keeping in touch with them. Their co-operation in responding to all communi- cations has greatly facilitated the work. Alumni are urged to com- municate with the president of the association at any time either for information or to make suggestions.
MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL AT INDIANA, OCTOBER 28, 1933
A meeting of the representatives of the local Alumni Units of State Teachers College, Indiana, Pennsylvania, was held at the College on Saturday, October 28, 1933.
After a delicious luncheon, a business meeting was held with Miss Vera Simpson, President of the General Alumni Association, pre- siding. Miss Simpson extended a cordial welcome to the delegates and proceeded to the election of officers. It was moved and seconded that the officers of the General Alumni Association serve as officers of the Executive Council. The motion was carried.
Miss Simpson then introduced Doctor Foster, who, in his usual forceful manner, outlined some specific objectives for the local units. By means of the new plan of organization, our alumni may be con- tacted much more quickly in case of emergency. Doctor Foster refer- red to the situation of last winter when six of our State Teachers Colleges were threatened with closure. Fortunately Indiana was not on the list, but Doctor Foster voiced a very wise sentiment in saying that he believed in preparedness, hence the local unit plan was launch- ed. He stressed the social value of such organizations and urged us to make them inclusive rather than exclusive. He next called attention to a very worthy cause, "The Jane E. Leonard Student Loan Fund," which we, as graduates, might help to carry on. He also suggested that any outstanding students interested in the profession of teaching might be directed to our Alma Mater for their training thus main- taining a high standard of scholarship. Doctor Foster gave some in- teresting information for us to disseminate. Indiana is the sixth col- lege in size in the State. This large enrollment has made the institu- tion 80% self-supporting, which means that the taxpayers are con- tributing but 20% toward the upkeep of the school.
While the physical plant has been kept in excellent condition, this has only been possible during depression days by the most careful planning. With the return to normal times, some deferred improve- ments must be made — for instance, an auditorium that will adequately take care of the student body. Doctor Foster took this opportunity to invite the alumni to the annual home-coming October 20, 1934. In this connection, he explained the necessity for a change in policy with regard to the entertainment of alumni. Owing to the increas- ing number of alumni and the fact that we are now a State-owned in-
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stitution, it has become necessary to make a nominal charge to re- turning alumni.
The next speaker, Mr. Harry Brownfield of Uniontown, Penn- sylvania, gave the legislator's point of view. He paid tribute to the able leaders of the Indiana faculty, which accounted for the loyal re- sponse of alumni when the call came for organization of the local units. He commented on the importance of concerted action of any group in informing their representatives as to their wishes with regard to pend- ing legislation. When a legislator is deluged with letters and tele- grams from his constituents, he is bound (to pay heed.
Miss Simpson then called for reports from the representatives of the local units. Miss Sarah Hillard, the pioneer in organization, gave the report for the Verona unit. She was followed by representatives from Leechburg, Uniontown, Ridgway, Wilkinsburg, Clymer, Carnegie, Vintondale, Barnesboro, Apollo, Clearfield, Somerset, Altoona, Freeport, Duquesne, Dormont, North Boroughs and North Side Pittsburgh, East End Pittsburgh, Burgettstown, Punxsutawney, Manor, Washington, In- diana, Mt. Pleasant, Heihvood, and Johnstown. Altoona carried ofF the laurels of the day with a membership of 70 in their unit and $18.25 in dues. All reports were most encouraging but all representatives agreed that they had only scratched the surface and promised bigger and better units by the February meeting of the Executive Council.
Miss Simpson then called upon the treasurer, Miss Esch, for her report. She reported the total dues paid by each class which totalod $113.50.
Miss Simpson explained that an old Constitution has been located in the archives which provided for the payment of 25c annual dues by every Indiana graduate. She very charitably excused our negli- gence owing to past ignorance of the existence of such a document.
The meeting was then thrown open for questions and discussion. The following questions were asked:
1. Would people who had attended Indiana but had not completed the course be eligible for membership in the local units?
It was moved and seconded that such persons could be Associate members. Carried.
2. Should people join the unit in their home town or in place of employment?
It was decided that this should be left to the choice of the indi- vidual, the essential point being that they would be connected with some unit.
3. Would the same representative to the Executive Council serve for the year?
Dr. Foster spoke of the advantage of continuity in the organiza- tion. It was decided to retain the same representatives for one year.
President— VERA SIMPSON, Secretary— ETHEL WADDELL.
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MEETING OF EXECUTIVE COUNCIL AT INDIANA, FEBRUARY 3, 1934
The second meeting of the Executive Council of the Alumni As- sociation of the State Teachers College, Indiana, Pennsylvania, was held in the college dining room on Saturday, February 3, 1934. After a delightful luncheon, we proceeded to the business of the day, with Miss Vera Simpson, President of the Executive Council, presiding.
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.
The treasurer, Miss Esch, reported total dues collected $207.50, postage expenses $9.73, leaving a balance of $197.77. The Northside and North Boroughs Unit, Pittsburgh, contributed fifty dollars ($50.00) to the Student Loan Fund. The treasurer's report was ac- cepted.
Miss Buchanan gave an interesting report concerning the rela- tionship of the present students to alumni. Questionnaires disclosed the fact that a negligible number of present students are sons or daughters of alumni, the relationship being contemporary — brothers, sisters, or cousins, and this relationship applied to not more than 50%.
The reports of the various units were given. According to prom- ise, they were all able to report gains in membership. Reports were given from Sewickley, Washington and Canonsburg, Greensburg, Titus- ville, Ridgway, Braddock, Ebensburg, Punxsutawney, New Kensington, Johnstown, Altoona, Blairsville, Mt. Pleasant, East End Pittsburgh, McKeesport, Uniontown, Somerset, Wilkinsburg, Vintondale, Indiana, Carnegie, Jeannette, North Boroughs and Northside Pittsburgh, Bur- gettstown, Coraopolis, Midland, including Beaver Valley, Tarentum, Freeport, New Castle, Duquesne. The high spots of the reports were Titusville with a 100% enrollment; Altoona having about doubled her membership since the last meeting; North" Boroughs and Northside Pittsburgh having contributed fifty ($50.00) dollars to the Student Loan Fund; and Indiana leading the procession with 308 members.
It was suggested by the Altoona unit that some sort of member- ship card from the State Teachers College, Indiana, Pennsylvania, be given to the members of the local units.
Miss Simpson expressed her appreciation of the splendid results and made special mention of the work of Miss Ethel Coughlin in or- ganizing the Allegheny County Units. She also suggested that we do not over-emphasize the question of dues, but keep in mind the social feature of our meetings.
Definite plans for an Alumni News Letter are under consideration. Miss Simpson asked that we co-operate in this venture by sending in news items concerning our members; also that we send in our lists of corrected addresses.
The heads of the various department then told of the standards and accomplishments in their respective fields.
Dean Walsh, of the Department of Education, in his opening re- marks told what the Student Loan Fund means to students. He is in a
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position to contact the students who find it necessary to avail them- selves of this fund, and stated that they regard the speedy return of the borrowed moneys as a moral obligation and in no sense a gift, and that 99% of the loans are repaid within a reasonable time. He then proceeded to explain that Indiana is no longer a Normal School, but a full-fledged Teachers College, equipped to prepare students to teach in both Junior and Senior High Schools. He stressed the fact that the Arts Schools, in the eagerness to secure students, are in- clined to belittle the work of"*the Teachers Colleges and this attitude should be counteracted by the alumni and friends of Indiana.
Miss Ackerman, Head of the Elementary Department, stated that her department consisted of the primary and intermediate divisions. While this preparation is a four-year course, it is possible for a stu- dent to so arrange a course that she may teach after two years' prep- aration, provided she fulfills the State requirements of continued study for the renewal of the limited certificate.
Miss Collins stated that the Home Economics Department has met with the approval of both the State and Federal Departments of Edu- cation. In normal times, they were able to place 100% of their graduates and even in a depression year placed 67%.
Miss Flegal, of the Art Department, an Indiana graduate, stated that the four-year Art course leads to a B. S. Degree in Art Education. The graduates are certificated to teach and supervise art in the ele- mentary schools and in the junior and senior high schools.
Mr. Hill, Head of the Business Education Department, convinced us all of what Indiana is doing in the commercial training field. This department is second to none in the country. They have been able to place their graduates regardless of the depression.
Mr. Neff, Head of the Music Department, was unable to be present.
Dr. Foster gave the concluding talk of the meeting. He expressed keen appreciation of the accomplishments of the local units. He com- mented very favorably on the rural communities that are reaching out to include several townships so that every graduate will have an op- portunity to join some unit. By October, 1934, he hoped that our organization would be complete and we could begin to make plans to meet the attacks that are bound to come from the enemies of the Teachers College in the next session of the Legislature. He urged that we keep the ball rolling and have our full quota of representatives present for the next meeting, which will be during the Commencement season. At this time, we should plan to have some definite recommen- dations to place before the General Alumni Association.
President— VERA SIMPSON. Secretary— ETHEL WADDELL.
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INFLUENCE OF ALUMNI SHOWN IN RECORD
DATA
The students who returned the blanks, "Information Needed for Alumni Record," will, doubtless, be interested in the following report.
At the Alumni Meeting last commencement time, the question arose as to how many of our students were sons and daughters of alumni. When Dr. Foster asked for hands, the sparse showing gave rise to the inquiry as to what influence our alumni did exert in send- ing students to their Alma Mater. It was felt that some idea might be obtained by finding out how many of our students had relatives who were alumni of the school. As the officers of the alumni associ- ation were anxious, also, to get a more complete and up-to-date alumni mailing list, they fell upon the idea of appointing a committee to get the desired information from the students.
Though an effort was made to reach all students, only 703 filled and returned the blanks. Of these, 408 had no relatives. Of the 295 students whd reported relatives, a number had two or more, so that in all 396 alumni relatives were reported.
Barbara Widdowson reported 10; 1 aunt, and 9 cousins; Mildred Chapman had six; 1 aunt, 2 uncles, and 3 cousins; Frances McCrea had a mother, 2 sisters, an uncle, and a cousin; John David Hasinger had a father, an uncle, and 2 aunts; Betty McCoy had a grandmother, and 3 aunts; Leona Playfoot had a mother, and 3 aunts; Annabelle Ortner had four sisters; and Helen Irene Ackerman had 3 sisters who are alumni of this school.
Four students reported five relatives; eight reported four; nine reported three; and thirty-two reported two. The canvas showed that the 295 reporting had as alumni relatives:
11 mothers, ranging from the class of 1901 to 1913. 3 fathers, classes unknown. 2 grandmothers, classes unknown. 47 aunts, from classes 1912 to 1934. 17 uncles, classes 1892, 1899 to 1930. 117 sisters, from classes 1919 to 1934. 17 brothers. 181 cousins.
1 niece. This report tends to show our alumni is taking an interest in the educational welfare of their kinfolk and are using their influence to guide these young students to their own Alma Mater. This report, though interesting, is far from complete. This survey was made by Inez Buchanan and Angie Marshall, members of the college faculty and alumni of the school.
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REPORT OF JANE E. LEONARD MEMORIAL STUDENT LOAN FUND,
State Teachers College, Indiana, Pennsylvania, May 27, 1933 to May 26, 1934
On May 27, 1933, the total of the Jane E. Leonard Memorial Student Loan Fund was $12,278.18 with nmety-three (93) outstanding loans.
During the year the Fund has been increased by interest collected on loans in the sum of $378.67 and by gifts amounting to $282.07 as follows :
J. M. Berkey, Class of 1878 $ 10.00
Christmas Party in College Dining Room 48.50
Young Women's Christian Association 10.00
Freshman Class 1932-33 3.00
North Boroughs Unit Alumni Association 50.00
Somerset Unit Alumni Association 30.00
Carnegie Unit Alumni Association 35.00
Altoona Unit Alumni Association 25.00
Duquesne Unit Alumni Association 5.00
Freshman Class 1933-34 32.57
Pittsburgh Unit Alumni Association 15.00
Blairsville Unit Alumni Association 18.00
$282.07 This made the total of the Loan Fund $12,938.92. The expenses for the year were $21.82 for the following items:
Postage $ 20.00
Ledger cards 60
Federal Tax on checks 1.22
After the expenses were paid we have a Loan Fund of $12,917.10. Of this amount $2,837.18 is on deposit in local banks and $10,079.92 is outstanding loans to 103 students.
During the year $3,542.30 was collected as repayments on loans. Fifty-eight (58) new loans were made amounting to $3,845.84, an av- erage loan of $66.00.
Miss Hope Stewart, Dean of Women, Dr. M. J. Walsh, Dean of Instruction, and Mr. W. M. Whitmyre, Dean of Men, form the Com- mittee for the Jane E. Leonard Memorial Student Loan Fund. They act on all applications for loans and loans are not made without the approval of this Committee. Loans bear interest at the rate of 4%.
MARY L. ESCH,
Secretary and Treasurer,
Jane E. Leonard Memorial Student
Loan Fund,
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Gifts To The Loan Fund— Alumni Day, May 26, 1934
McKeesport Unit Alumni Association $ 25.00
Mrs. Josephine Scott McNaugher (Class 1884) 100.00
Class of 1884 35.00
Mrs. Edith Morgan Dornbush (Class 1899) 10.00
Miss Mary Edna Flegal (Class 1899) 10.00
Mrs. Blanche Creese Watson (Class 1899) 5.00
Calesta B. McFeatters (Class 1889) 1-00
$186.00
REPORT OF TREASURER OF ALUMNI ASSO- CIATION, STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA
Dues were not collected by the Alumni Association previous to the Annual Meeting held May 27, 1933. The Alumni were informed that the new Constitution of the Association made it "the duty of each member of the Association to pay into the central treasury, annual dues of 25c." At the close of the meeting, $88.75 was collected. Since that time individuals have paid dues to the Treasurer in the amount of $3.50— a total of $92.25.
The following organized units have paid membership dues during the year.
North Boroughs Unit,
Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vania 19.75
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania .. 27.75 Punxsutawney, Pennsyl- vania 8.75
Ridgway, Pennsylvania 6.50
St. Marys, Pennsylvania .... 1.25
Somerset, Pennsylvania 10.75
Tarentum, Pennsylvania .... 7.00 Titusville, Pennsylvania .. 4.00 Washington, Pennsylvania 11.00 Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania 20.00 Class of 1934 58.50
Altoona, Pennsylvania $ 35.75
Apollo, Pennsylvania 4.75
Blairsville, Pennsylvania . Braddock, Pennsylvania ... Burgettstown, Pennsylvan
ia
Duquesne, Pennsylvania ... Ebensburg, Pennsylvania . Freeport, Pennsylvania ... Heilwood and Pine Twp.,
Pennsylvania 3.50
Indiana, Pennsylvania 72.25
Jeannette, Pennsylvania .. 14.00 Lawrence County,
Pennsylvania 8.75
Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania 13.75
12.00 13.50
3.75
12.50
7.25
4.50
Total $381.50
This gives us a total of $473.75 for dues paid since May 27, 1933. The following bills for expenses have been approved and paid: The Park Press for furnishing and printing postal cards an- nouncing meeting of Executive Council $9.67
Federal Tax on checks 08
Check Room Service 1.00
Total $10.75
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This leaves a balance on the Account of the Alumni Association of $463.00. This money is on deposit at the Savings & Trust Company, Indiana, Pennsylvania.
MARY L. ESCH,
Treasurer Alumni Association.
A STUDENT'S APPRECIATION
The following letter from one recipient of a loan from the Jane E. Leonard Memorial Loan Fund expresses what hundreds of students have felt. It is safe to say that this Fund has made it possible for at least a hundred students to remain in school during the last two years. The tragedy of the situation lies in the fact that the Fund was not large enough to save all the worthy students who could not stay on account of the lack of financial support.
"Enclosed you will find the final payment on my loan. It is impossible for me to tell you how much I appreciate this. Only those who have faced the concluding semester of a college career without funds can realize how much I am indebted to the Jane E. Leonard Memorial Loan Fund.
When I entered college for my senior year, I had suffi- cient money to defray one semester's expenses. Since my father had died the previous semester, I did not know where to get more money, as I had no security to offer. You may imagine my relief when I discovered that I could get the money from the Loan Fund. I feel that I can sincerely say that without this assistance, I would have been unable to gradu- ate. You can be assured, I think, that most students who have been aided are deeply grateful, but like myself, find it futile to try to express appreciation." Class of '32.
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THE JANE E. LEONARD
MEMORIAL STUDENT
LOAN FUND
Mary Esch, Treasurer of Student Loan Fund, State Teachers Col- lege, Indiana, Pennsylvania:
I want to have some part in the Jane E. Leonard Memorial. Please accept my contribution to the fund.
Name Class
Address
To whom married
When
FRESHMEN NOMINATIONS
To the Registrar:
I suggest the following for the Freshman Class:
Midyear, 1935
Name
Address
Fall, 1935
Suggested by
THE ALUMNI DUES To the Treasurer:
As I am not affiliated with a local unit, I am enclosing $.25 for my Alumni Dues for 1934-35.
Name Class
FOR ALUMNI FILES Summer, 1934
Name Class.
First, Middle, Last or Maiden
Residence Address
Address
To whom married
When
Business Address
Occupation: (Be specific — if with a firm, give its name; if a teacher, give name of school and grade).
To whom married
When
Graduate Work Field
Where? When?
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WITH THE CLASSES 1879
John C. Hanna taught six years after graduation. He moved to Colorado in 1882 where he was admitted to the bar and practiced law for some years. In 1901 he went to Chicago and entered the ad- vertising profession. In 1909 he came back to Pennsylvania and con- tinued advertising in Philadelphia, being still active in the work. It has been his calling for the past thirty-three years. Mr. Hanna is now living in Media, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. His family consists of his wife, a son, and two daughters.
Margaret Woods Heath after graduation taught the first grade in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, for one year, after which she be- came Principal of the same school. She married Dr. M. D. Heath of Mount Pleasant on July 28, 1880. In 1882, she moved to Kansas where she spent twenty years of her life. In 1902 she again moved — this time to California. For twenty-four years, beginning in 1906, Mrs. Heath was Principal of the Baldwin Park Schools. Through her efforts, she saw the school system grow from one small school of ten pupils to two large schools with an enrollment of almost one thousand pupils. The large new building which was recently erected is called the "Margaret Heath School." With this splendid record, Mrs. Heath retired from the teaching profession in June 1930. She is the mother of three children, two sons and one daughter.
Another prominent member of this class is Samuel M. Davis. A brief summary of his life after graduation from Indiana is as follows: Mr. Davis graduated from Princeton Universty in 1883, receiving his Master's Degree from the same University in 1880. He was admitted by the Supreme Court of Minnesota to practice law in 1887. He was admitted to practice law by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 1896. In 1901, he was admitted to the Supreme Court of California. From 1907 to 1911, he served as District Attorney of Orange County, California. Mr. Davis is the father of two children, Samuel Keith Davis and Laura M. Davis, both graduates of Leland Stanford Uni- versity of Palo Alto, California. The Orange County Historical Society was organized by Mr. Davis in 1919. He has been Secretary of this Society since its organization.
Louisa Christy McCreery tells us of a very full and interesting life. After 1879 she taught in the western Pennsylvania schools at Cherry Tree, Johnstown, and the Indiana High School. In 1889, she was married to the Reverend Hugh Hamill McCreery who held Pres- byterian pastorates in Minnesota, Utah, and Nevada. Since her hus- band's retirement in 1921, she has made her home in Berkeley, Cali- fornia. Mrs. McCreery has two sons and two daughters, all of whom are university graduates and now filling positions of honor.
The following most interesting reply was received from Sarah L. Naly in response to a request for Alumni News:
After graduation I taught in the public schools of Pennsylvania, including schools in Mt. Pleasant and Greensburg, for about ten years.
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Later I studied Pharmacy and graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science in the year 1895.
I followed the profession of Pharmacy as chief druggist in the Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia for twenty-five years.
After severing my connection there I opened a retail drug store at 2301 West Lehigh Avenue, Philadelphia, where I am now conduct- ing a store of Professional Pharmacy.
The store is staffed and managed entirely by women, all gradu ates of Pharmacy and all registered in the State of Pennsylvania.
Yours very truly, SARAH L. NALY.
Jennie Patterson Montieth now residing in Olathe, Kansas, is one of the class of 1879 who has had a most interesting life as the wife of Rev. J. A_ Montieth, a United Presbyterian minister, now deceased. Mrs. Montieth has traveled and during her travels visited others of her class residing in California. She has two children, Charles and Mary, both married. Mrs. Montieth wrote that she had not received a catalogue for twenty years and had not visited Indiana since 1880. Needless to say, a catalogue was immediately forwarded to her.
1880
Correspondent- -W. A. Cochran, Fryeburg, Maine.
John R. Calder, 740 Spitzler Boulevard, Toledo, Ohio. After his Normal Course, Mr. Calder graduated from a western Pennsylvania college. He later completed the law course at Ann Arbor Law School. He located in Toledo, Ohio, where he has been striving as Attorney and Counselor to carry on the work of an honest lawyer. He has become one of the ablest members of the bar in that city.
William A. Cochran, our correspondent, taught four years in the Indiana, Pennsylvania, schools, and served two terms as Superintendent of the schools of Indiana County. He was also a member for twenty- six and one-half years of the school board in the City of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He is now residing in Fryeburg, Maine.
Daniel W, Doty, 415 New York Building, St. Paul, Minnesota, stud- ied law after graduating from Indiana. He located in St. Paul, Min- nesota, where through his ability, independence, and courage he rose from on© office to another until in 1906 he was elected Municipal Judge on an independent ticket. He married Helen Smith, a former Indiana student.
William B. Maclay, Bellville, Pennsylvania, taught school several years, afterwards engaging extensively in farming, milling and mer- chandising in his home community. He was a strong man in the Bellville Presbyterian Church. Like his grandfather, who was the first United States Senator from Pennsylvania, he was influential in clean politics. Mr. Maclay was married to Elizabeth M. Campbell of Bellville in 1888. He has two sons and one daughter.
George H. Newlon was a great debater. When we last heard of him, forty-five years ago, he had gone to Nebraska where he engaged in farming and the practice of law.
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Mrs. Emma F. Smith, formerly Emma Samson, is now living at 4l>o0 Chesley Street, Los Angeles, California. She taught several years, married and moved to California where she is living happily with her three children.
1882
Copy of a letter sent to North Boroughs and North Side Pitts- burgh Unit from Irene Wright Forney (Mrs. O. D.) Miss Ethel Waddell:
Ruth said there was a meeting of the Alumni or part of it to he held, and I want to extend my greeting as a member of the Class of '82 from the sunshine city in Florida.
Though a few years older I would enjoy the meetings just as much. I never get away from the happy days spent at the old "Nor- mal," the hayrides and suppers downtown, and many other things which I do not care or dare to mention. I wish you could hold your next meeting with me in St. Petersburg. I would give you all a hearty welcome. Sincerely,
IRENE WRIGHT FORNEY.
Mr. and Mrs. Forney had just completed a new home in Florida when Mr. Forney passed away. Their daughter, Ruth, (Mrs. John Gross) spent about six weeks in Florida with her mother the past winter. Mrs. Gross is also an Indiana graduate and a member of the North Boroughs and Northside Pittsburgh Unit of the Alumni Association.
1883
Miss Carrie Bradgon of the class of 1883 retired from the Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania, schools in 1928. Shortly afterwards she and her sister Elizabeth moved to one of the most beautiful spots in California. In their charming home by the side of the road, they are happy and happiest when some friend writes or stops over. Why not both? R. P. D. 1, Box 40A, Atascadero, California.
1884 The Fifty- Year Class Reunion
Wherever two or three '84's are gathered together there is al- ways a happy reunion, so no special activities were planned. In addi- tion to the various college programs, in all of which we participated and all of which we enjoyed, we were taken on a delightful trip to "The Lodge," the hill-top on the Lodge farm from which far horizons are to be seen, and through the various streets of the town.
Another interesting and instructive tour was to the gymnasium and other buildings on the campus, the kitchens, and the power-house, from which every one returned enthusiastic over the scientific equip- ment which today makes up the physical plant of the college.
On Friday evening, Judge J. N. Langham, '82, sent automobiles to convey our entire party to his beautiful home, presided over by his charming daughter, Mrs. Louise Maloney, where we spent the evening with the Judge and Mrs. Patton, '82, in reminiscences of the old days, and where we were served with refreshments.
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The class was also entertained beautifully at a tea in their honor given by Mrs. Sarah Rowe Christy.
To the President of the College, the Dean of Women, and the many members of the faculty who made our stay at Indiana so de- lightful, the Class is most grateful.
After more than forty years of faithful service, the class presi- dent, Dr. John B. Ague, having passed away, Mrs. Josephine Scott McNaugher was selected president. Those attending this reunion were:
Annie Allison (Mrs. Henry Turk), Parkers Landing, Pa.
Clara E. Bothell, R. D. 2, Indiana, Pa.
M. Jennie Brown, Allen Arms, Sewickley, Pa.
Lida M. Eccles (Mrs. John Grove), 407 Main Street, Riverton, N. J.
M. Leanna Edie, 245 Dravo Ave., Beaver, Pa.
Sarah M. Gallaher, Ebensburg, Pa.
Jennie McElveen (Mrs. Frank Patton), King Edward Apts., Pitts- burgh, Pa.
Dr. W. E. Matthews, 425 Lincoln St., Johnstown, Pa.
Belle D. Reel (Mrs. R. A. McKee), 7008 Church Ave., Ben Avon, Pa.
M. Josephine Scott (Mrs. D. W. McNaugher), 2301 Osgood St., Pittsburgh, N. S., Pa.
William Williams, Attorney-at-Law, Woolf Block, Johnstown, Pa.
Others that attended the reunion in 1933 and from whom mes- sages were received were:
M. Marion Galbraith, 8G2 West End Ave., New York City.
Anne E. Rigby, 616 Tenth St., New Brighton, Pa.
Elizabeth Ritchie, 313 Kelley Ave., Wilkinsburg, Pa.
A message also came from
Ella E. Empfield (Mrs. D. C. Pattee), 2112 Harrison Ave., Lin- coln, Neb.
As a class the '84's rendered long and excellent service in the field of teaching. Probably every one did at least several years of school work. A good number were principals; one was a County Superin- tendent for more than a dozen years. Two were instructors in their Alma Mater, and others taught in other normal schools. Miss Eddie taught until two or three years ago; Miss Gallaher is still teaching.
One member of the class is a registered nurse, one was super- intendent of a hospital. Two were physicians, Dr. W. E. Matthews now practicing; two were lawyers, William Willams, Esq., now prac- ticing; one was a minister in the Presbyterian Church. Two served the State Legislature.
All the men married, and most of the women. All who married have families, and the women have been fine wives and mothers. Some of the children have been graduated from our own institution — Annie Allison's, William Williams', and there may be others. They have also sent hundreds of their pupils back to Alma Mater.
The first death in the class was that of Jennie Jeffrey, the firsi marriage that of Eva Painter. Virginia Reynolds lived farthest east, Rhode Island; Ralph McAllister, farthest west, Washington. These
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four have passed, and have been joined by Hon. W. W. Ulerich, Dr. John B. Ague, and Rev. Harry N. Nesbit.
Sarah McCune Gallaher — Her greatest achievements in politics were in helping to elect Gifford Pinchot and John Fisher as Governors of Penn- sylvania; and Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover as Presidents of the United States. She served one term in the Legislature of Pennsylvania; three terms as State Committeewoman, Republican, from Cambria Coun- ty. Miss Gallaher contributed a good many small articles and stories to periodicals, local papers, etc. One history of a political campaign — "Cam- paigning in Cambria" — written at the request of an editor, received a prize from The Woman Citizen. During one year she traveled anc studied in Europe. She was an assistant-principal in public schools three years; a member of faculty of Indiana State Normal School six years; co-principal in a preparatory school for g"irls, six years; piincipal of a small private school, and President of Board of Mothers' Assistance of Cambria County. Miss Gallaher attended reunions at Indiana, 1886, 1894, 1909. Many reunions have been planned by her and held in the homes of members of the class. Miss Leonard joined the class in a number of these; and Dr. and Mrs. Foster, and our half a century good and true friends, the President of the Board and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Sutton, paid the class a visit during i.he celebration of their forty-ninth anniversary at Miss Gallaher's honiv'.
Josephine Scott McNaugher (Mrs. D. W. McNaugher) resides at 2301 Osgood Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. She is intensely interested in the progress of her Alma Mater.
W. E. Matthews is a practicing physician in Johnstown, Pa. Dr. Matthews enjoyed the fiftieth reunion with his class.
Belle Reel McKee (Mrs. Robert A. McKee) has been interested in politics and was active in the movement of Woman Suffrage. She has traveled extensively in the United States, camping out frequently. She is Regent of the General John Neville Chapter of the D. A. R. and Treasurer of the Women's Advisory Board of the Suburban Gen- eral Hospital, Sewickley, Pa. She is also prominent in church work.
Annie Allison Turk (Mrs. Henry Turk) resides at Parkers Land- ing, Pa. She has three daughters, all of whom graduated at Indiana. Her son also married a graduate of Indiana.
Clara E. Bothell resides near Indiana and has kept up her inter est in the College and in the members of her class.
Annie E. Rigby taught in the McKeesport public schools for five years under Dr. Charles Deane who later became head of the Indiana Normal School. From 1889 until 1900 Miss Rigby taught in the grades and high school in Beaver Falls. Since 1895 she has resided in New Brighton, Pa.
Jennie M. Brown attended the reunion. She resides in Sewickley, Pa.
Florence} C. Walker (Mrs. G. L. Hall) lives in New York. She was a particularly talented woman, in histrionic art. As a young graduate she refused to go on the stage, but taught what was then called Elocution in a State Normal, married later (widowed long
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since) and having wealth, financed an entertainment club for the sol- diers in France during the late war, where she used her ability as well as her money.
William Williams was born in Pittsburgh 1863; moved to near Pine Flats, Indiana County same year; attended the public schools in Green Township; taught public school in Dilltown, Buflington Town- ship, the term of 1881 and 1882; graduated here in the class of 1884; taught the two following terms in the public schools in Johnstown, Pa., and the next term at Wilcox in Elk County, Pa. He began the study of law in 1888 and was admitted to the practice of law in Cambria County January, 1891; and continued in the practice of law in Johns- town continuously since that date. Mr. Williams married Agnes C. Gardner in 1890 and had three children.
Ella Empfield Pattee (Mrs. David C. Pattee) has resided in Lincoln, Nebraska, since the death of her husband in 1910. Her son and daughter also reside in Lincoln.
Lida Eccles (Mrs. John W. Grove), 407 Main Street, Riverton, N. J., taught school for five years in the Second Ward Public School, corner of Irwin and Washington Ave., Pittsburgh, N. S. She was mar- ried in 1890 and has two children, a son, Robert Eccles Grove in Pitts- burgh, and a daughter, Martha Grove Rogers, in Riverton, N. J., and two grand children.
The following letter was received from Leanna Edie in response to a request for news for the Bulletin:
"I have your request for items of interest in regard to my "career." Much to my regret I have no achievements worthy to be recorded. Mine has been the common fate of most public school teachers pur- suing the even tenor of my way.
"After many years of teaching in Pittsburgh, I retired three years ago. In St. Petersburg, I met a number of Pennsylvania teach- ers, several of whom claim Indiana as their Alma Mater with pride. I, alone, was favored with the hospitable invitation to return for our year of jubilees as I am the only one who dates so far back."
Jennie McElveen Patton, 602 King Edward Apt., Pittsburgh, Penn- sylvania, taught in the public schools for fifteen years and at Kiski- minetas for two years. She was married in 1904 and has a daughter who graduated at Wellesley. She is married and has one child. Her son was graduated at Princeton and is living at home.
M. Marion Galbraith writes:
After graduating in 1884, I taught school in my home town for two years, thus getting my permanent certificate for teachers. Then my health gave way and for a number of years I lived at home with my family in Tarentum. During those years, I devoted all my spare time to active work in my church societies.
In .1903, I came to New York, and from 1903 to 1917 I assisted my sister, Anna M. Galbraith, with the management of her small Sur- gical Sanitarium.
In 1917 we gave up the hospital and since then we have been liv-
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ing quietly in our home at 862 West End Avenue, where we would be glad to see any of our friends who can call on us there.
1885
Miss Adah Marshall, of Houston, Pennsylvania, is the earliest graduate on the list of members in the Washington Alumni Unit. Sh3 graduated forty-nine years ago in the class of 1885. She taught for some years, is now retired but quite interested in our organization and active in attending meetings. We are indeed proud to have the honor of having Miss Marshall as a member of our Alumni Association Unit.
1886
Mary Cannon retired two years ago after a service of forty years in the Manchester or Old Sixth Ward School of Allegheny. She spends her winters in Florida.
1888
Mrs. Elizabeth Harrison Newlin, 1888, is at present a member of the School Board in McKeesport, Pennsylvania.
1892
Matilda Krebs taught in the Johnstown Elementary Schools for five years from 1892. She was then elected as a teacher in the Johns- town High School, which position she held for twenty years, the last ten years as head of the geology department. In 1917, Westmont, a residential suburb of Johnstown, elected her to organize the West- mont-Upper Yoder High School. After ten years of service as Princi- pal of the Westmont-Upper Yoder High School, Southmont, an ad- joining suburb, needed someone to organize their school system, and they elected her as Supervising Principal of Southmont Borough. This is her seventh year in Southmont. According to the survey of the United States Department of the Interior, Southmont is classed as one of the few whose organization equalled or exceeded the upper quartile for all schools of equivalent size. All grades are housed in one building, that is Kindergarten, Primary, Intermediate, and Junior- Senior High School. After pioneering in all these fields she has de- cided to close her active service in the Public Schools this June.
1894 The Forty Year Class Reunion
The class of 1894 came fifteen strong to enjoy the hospitality of Indiana and Alma Mater. They came from five states — Pennsyl- vania, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and West Virginia. There were sixty- four members in the class. Our motto was "Doe Ye Nexte Thynge." Our class colors were green and white and the sweet pea was our flower. We had wonderful teachers forty years ago — Dr. D. J. Waller, Jane E. Leonard, Dr. Samuel Schmucker, William Sprowl, Miss Sarah Gallaher, Miss Rosina B. Weaver, Miss McBride, Leonard McWood, and M. C. Gordon. We have had a splendid time together enjoying the "Don't you remembers" and jokes of the days we had here to- gether when "Aunt Jane" looked upon us as her children.
Those present for the reunion were: Kathryn Thompson Mar-
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shall (Kate Thompson), Ruth S. Wilson Hoffman (Ruth Wilson), Ora Walsh McElwee (Ora Walsh), Margaret Shaw Forrester (Margaret Shaw), Margaret Guffey Cummings (Margaret Guffey), Margaret Rose Gallagher Uncapher (Rose Gallagher), Nora Lockard Condron (Nora Lockard), Hope Lewis Harrison (Hope Lewis), Mary Harrison Ed- mundson (Mary Harrison), Matilda Mains Richards (Matilda Mains), Maud Woods, Jennie Edmonds Hutchinson (Jennie Edmonds), Mab^l Mitchell McCartney (Mabel Mitchell), J. F. Wills, and Cora A. Clawson
1896 Woman Named School Director
Judges Charles E. Whitten and William T. Dom of Westmoreland County recently appointed Mrs. Bella G. Bodens as school director of Washington township to fill a vacancy on the school board. Mrs. Bodens has devoted a large part of her life to school work. She re- ceived her permanent teacher's certificate from the State Department of Public Instruction in May, 1924. As Bella Glass, she was gradu- ated from Indiana State Normal School with the class of 1896.
1897
Copy of a postal card sent to North Boroughs and North Side Unit from Eva L. Young, who was spending the winter in Florida.
"Greetings to the Alumni of dear old Indiana State Normal School, now Indiana State Teachers College, from the land of sunshine and flowers, where the myriads of stars twinkle like so many diamonds in these lovely clear skies and the full moon shines so brightly one can (for I have done so) write post cards by its light. They do such unusual things here, too. This Christmas it was a large brilliantly lighted Christmas tree on a barge in the middle of Lake Eola — can you picture the reflection?"
Best wishes from
EVA L. YOUNG, Class of 1897.
1898
Dr. E. F. Shaulis, '98, was a member of the Healing Arts Com- mission of Pennsylvania 1927. Dr. Shaulis has been very successful in the treatment of pneumonia with Physical Therapy. He is now re- siding on his farm in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
Frederick S'. Shaulis, son of E. F. Shaulis was married Sep- tember 1, 1931, to Miss Dorothy Robinson of Saltsburg, Pa. Frederick is a physician carrying on his father's work in Indiana, Pa.
The husband of Mary Sceurman Vandling died October, 1928. En- sign Robert E. Vandling, son of Mary Sceurman Vandling, graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1932. He is now sta- tioned on the U. S. S. Arizona, at San Pedro. Mrs. Vandling is now living in Clearfield, Pa.
Mary Caroline, elder daughter of (Mrs.) Carrie Kline Dancan, '98, was graduated from the Home Economics Course of Indiana State Teachers College in 1932 and Helen Louise, younger daughter, grad- uated this year in the four year Kindergarten-Primary Course.
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1899
Mabel D. Smith (Mrs. C. R. Smith) residing in Pittsburgh is an active and enthusiastic alumnus of Indiana.
The Dutch Club composed of members of the class of '99 was organized at the home of Violet Hirth Powell, Otto, Pa., July, 1909. The aim was chiefly for sociability, to meet and have luncheon twice a year in some convenient place with the object of keeping in touch with each other and our Alma Mater. Throughout the years this group has been the nucleus of our very successful five year reunions. The last meeting held April 28, 1934, at the Congress of Clubs was very enjoyable. Places were laid for twenty.
Wallace C. Chapman, in addition to being a very successful at- torney, is President of the Indiana County Sabbath School Association. He has always been very active in Church and Sunday School work.
Our valedictorian, Mary Edna Flegal, has been a member of the Faculty in the Art Department of the State Teachers College, Indi- ana, Pa., for eight years.
Grace Grimm after busy summers in travel and study at Cornell, Howard, and Columbia, is finishing her thesis for the M. A. Degree at the University of Pittsburgh. She teaches in Westinghcuse Junior High School, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Caroline Cronemeyer Spalding, having completed a term as presi- dent of the Fine Arts Club, was elected chairman of Education of the Tenth District of the Illinios Federation of "Women's Clubs. She re- sides in Evanston, Illinois.
Dr. Ernest Work, husband of our Edith Dodds Work, spent two years in Ethiopia as Director of Education and tutor for the Emperor's children. Mr. Work was given leave of absence from his position on the faculty at Muskingum College, New Concord, 'Ohio. In June, 1933, Monmouth College, Monmouth, 111., conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Pedagogy. Mr. Work's major work has been Bible class teaching for girls of college age.
Mr. J. M. Berkey of the Class of 1878 recently visited California. While there he called on Miss Cora B. Withington, 1899, a former teacher in the Pittsburgh Schools. He reports that Miss Withington was extremely cheerful and talked little about the "accident," but rather of her pleasant experiences in the Pittsburgh and later in the California schools. Her address is 511 South Rampart Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. Letters from her friends will be most wel- come.
Mrs. Arthur McBride (Elizabeth Nelson) is in Allegheny Gen- eral Hospital, Pittsburgh, slowly recovering from injuries received in the train wreck which occurred on the Pennsylvania tracks not far from the Federal Street Station. Mrs. McBride made a miraculous escape for the two friends who occupied the seat in front and with whom she had been conversing just previous to the accident were both killed,
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1902
Florence Jarrett Farrar and her mother live in Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, where she has attained great success in illustrating books. One of the books which she has illustrated sells for a hundred dollars a copy.
1903
The Class of 1903 is a very small class of twenty-nine members most of whom are engaged in school work./ The following people have positions as principals of the schools listed:
Alfred Foreman Schools of Conneaut Lake
Mayme Conlin Duquesne Elementary School
Alice Hirth Homestead Elementary School
Daisy Culp Arnold Elementary School
Opal Berthel Mt. Pleasant Elementary School
Nelle Maxwell Wilkinsburg Elementary School
All of these have received promotion from ranks of teachers.
Viola Simpson is Assistant Principal at Indiana High School.
Anna Barr Pinkerton, Isa Ryan Leopold, Nelle Maxwell were ac- tive in organizing their home units of the Indiana Alumni.
Cora Davis is living in Los Angeles, California.
Mary Campbell McNutt will spend this summer visiting in Cali- fornia.
Miss Nelle Maxwell entertained the Indiana Club at a delightful luncheon at her home in February. At this time plans were made to hold the March meeting at Kaufmann's. This was also a very successful meeting. The club was organized about 1905, but had held few meetings for the past year. The unit plan of organization is re- sponsible for reviving interest in the Club. We have members from Wilkinsburg, East End, Dormont, Mt. Lebanon, McKeesport, Oakmont, Swissvale, Bellevue, Emsworth, and North Side Pittsburgh. It was quite interesting to exchange ideas and plans for the Alumni Units in these various places.
The many friends of Nelle P. Maxwell wish her success in her new position as Principal of the Allison School, Wilkinsburg. Nelle formerly taught Latin in the Wilkinsburg High School.
1904 Thirty Year Reunion
The Class of 1904 had fewer of its members present than any other reuning class. Since it was the second class to be graduated under a new course of study, it was small, consisting of but fifty- eight members of whom forty-eight are now living. The members are scattered from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Their interest in their Alma Mater has not waned, despite such great distances.
One of the four who returned was Mrs. Anne H. Hopkins (nee Harrison) who was married in her commencement dress very soon after graduation. Her older son, Samuel A. Hopkins, was married October 5, 1933, on the 29th wedding anniversary of his parents. The second son, George A. Hopkins, Jr., was graduated from Virginia Military Institute in 1932. He is a Chemical Engineer in the employ
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of the Mesta Machine Company, Pittsburgh. Jane, the only daughter, is a senior in Wilkinsburg High School. Both George and Jane ac- companied their mother to her 30th reunion.
The other three who returned for the week-end were: Pearl Price of the Colonial Private School, Nelle E. Hudson of Oliver High School, and Mary E. Wyman, of Perry High School, Pittsburgh. They are very much interested in the organization of the Alumni Units, Miss Price being one of the organizers and a member of the Execu- tive Council of the Pittsburgh Unit. She, who was class soloist and still gives much pleasure to others with her voice, has been engaged in special work with under-privileged children, and has taken two ex- tensive European trips.
Miss Hudson is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh where she is now doing graduate work. She is Secretary of the North Bor- oughs— N. S. Pittsburgh Unit of which Miss Wyman is Treasurer. Miss Wyman is a Pitt graduate and is Secretary of the Pittsburgh Branch of the Pennsylvania State Educational Association, in which capacity she recently attended the State Convention in Philadelphia. Both Miss Hudson and Miss Wyman have attended summer sessions in California and a number of eastern schools.
Jessie E. Canan is teaching English in Johnstown Senior High School.
Martha Ellenberger has a position as Special Teacher of Correc- tive Speech in Johnstown, Pa.
Florence Gocher is Administrative Assistant at Cochran Junior High School, Johnstown, Pa.
Ross Hosack has left Philadelphia and is in charge of the Con- necticut Mutual Life Insurance Company's office at Bradford, Pa.
Janet Sligh, who had to give up teaching on account of ill health, has been writing articles which appear in Child Welfare Magazine.
Mary Andrews, who lis principal of one of the Santa Anna, California Schools, had a pleasant trip abroad recently.
May Brownlee Henry, who has lived in Sidney, Australia, since her marriage, visited in New York and Los Angeles in 1932.
Ethel L. Waddell has been very active in all Alumni activities in the Pittsburgh District since graduation. She is Vice-President of the General Alumni Association and has had a most active pan in the organization of the North Boroughs Unit.
1906
Mrs. Harry Ferguson (Edith Spencer) is a School Director and Secretary of the Emsworth School Board, Emsworth, Pa.
1909 Twenty-Five Year Reunion
The Class of 1909 returned to Indiana for its twenty-fifth reunion with twenty members present. We enjoyed participating in the ac- tivities of Alumni Day, the Alumni meeting, the luncheon, and the reception. After dinner on Saturday evening, we had a delightful time, talking over our school days and subsequent events. We obtain-
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ed a catalogue and spent most of our evening1 going over the list of names from our class and enjoyed hearing something about our class- mates.
We wrote a letter to Mrs. Bess Keller Smith, expressing our deep sympathy in her late bereavement. Dr. Leonard Smith, of our class, a very promising young physician, of Pittsburgh, died last fall.
Plans to return for our thirty year reunion were started and we hope to have another happy time and an even larger group present when we come back to the old school five years from now.
The following items were gleaned:
Mrs. Mabel Bennett Orr is now at Ridge Avenue, Pittsburgh. Her husband, Rev. William II. Orr, has been preaching in Beaver Falls, Pa.
Mrs. Bess Whiteman St. Clair is living in Latrobe, Pa.
Mrs. Emma Elder McKee and her husband, Lynn C. McKee, are living in Norristown, Pa. Lynn is Industrial Director of Education in Norristown.
Clark Wiggins and his wife came from Beverly, N. J. Clark is manager of a co-operative association in Beverly.
Lytle Wiggins and his wife were here from Youngstown, Ohio. Lytle is teaching Physics in Youngstown High School.
Hazel A. Wedd is living at 2200 Broadway Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. She is teaching in Langley High School.
Lillie M. Harris is teaching in Departmental 4th, 5th, and 6th Grades of Union St. School, Johnstown, Pa.
Genevieve James is Y. W. C. A. Secretary at Lake Forest, 111.
Rose White teaches First Grade at Washington School, Johns- town, Pa.
One member of the class, Mrs. Roy Lowman (Vernie Morris) is the wife of a Naval Officer, while another, Mrs. J. W. Lyons (Stella L. Hasinger) is the wife of an Army Officer.
Mrs. E. H. Coleman (Vera Miller) has a son in the Army ser- vice in Hawaii and a daughter in training for a nurse at Pennsyl- vania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. Coleman, herself, is finishing her eighth year in the Joseph Johns Chapter of the Delphians in Johnstown, Pa.
Mrs. Lloyd Adams (Elda A. Ankeny) is the wife of an attorney and lives in Westmont, Johnstown, Pa.
Those who knew of Enid Woolsey's illness of pneumonia will be glad to know that she is convalescing, and will join her sister in Denver, Colorado, as soon as she is strong enough to make the trip.
Mrs. Georgia Griffith's (Georgia Laoock) students in the Sew- ing Classes of the Home Economics Department of Perry High School were recently awarded the first prize which was $15.00, this being the popular vote award in the Window Drapery Contest held in Home's Store in which all Pittsburgh Senior High Schools participated. The display was designed and made by the students under the direction of Mrs. Griffiths.
The following Indiana graduates are School Librarians in +he Pittsburgh Schools:
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Gertrude Knox Columbus School
Leona B. McCrea Liberty School
Helen Mclntyre Shakespeare School
E. Marie McCullough Conroy School
Bertha A. Mensch Manchester School
Jane G. Wyman McNaugher School
Anna C. Hagenlocher Chatham School
Mary I. Mercer is teaching. She lives at 239 N. Central Ave., Canonsburg, Pa.
1905
Margaret S. Lee has recently been promoted to Head Teacher of the Shakespeare School, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Josephine Iseman (Mrs. Bell) of Seattle, Washington, expects to come East in September to attend the Women's Missionary Society Convention of the United Lutheran Church at Dayton, Ohio.
Marion K. Schmerber is teaching first grade at the Eighth Ward School, Washington, Pennsylvania. Her address is 454 Second Street, Washington, Pa.
Tom Hill, a promising young attorney, has given up his law practice and is in charge of the Title and Bond Department in one of the banks in Los Angeles, California.
Mrs. Mary Matthews Lohr is living in Ligonier, Penna., and is teaching in the high school there.
Mrs. Christine Kaiser Garwood is living at 242 McNeilly Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Mrs. Margaret Hodgson Green of 426 Ross Avenue, Wilkinsburg, is teaching in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Professor Robert G. Rodkey is teaching Banking and Investments in the Graduate School of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Frank W. Coulter of 1317 Marlboro Avenue, Wilkinsburg, Pa., is with the Westinghouse Air Brake.
Mabel A. Hazlett of Springdale, Pa., is a pharmacist and has a drug store in Springdale.
Mrs. Ada Woodhead Renshaw is living at 1323 McNeilly Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa.
M. Ethel Hamilton of 7611 Tuscarora Street, Pittsburgh, Pa., is teaching in Baxter Junior High School.
Mrs. Margaret Woodburn Hamilton is living in Cleveland, Ohio.
Mary E. Bryan is teaching in North Braddock, Pa.
Mrs. Jean McElroy Whitmyre and her husband are living in Indiana. Mr. Whitmyre is Dean of Men at Teachers College.
Mrs. Edna Bell Pierce is living in Indiana, Pa. Her husband, William Pierce, is an attorney in Indiana. William was out of town and not able to be with us.
1910
My dear Miss Simpson,
I'm so sorry to be so tardy in answering your letter of the 14th but my husband has been in the hospital having his appendix removed
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and while I know it's fashionable to be quite casual now about such things, I just can't be! So altogether it has been a rather busy two weeks.
As to information about myself, I always feel I have very little to tell that sounds at all exciting. But 111 do my best as we all must if the bulletin is to have news.
New Alexandria is my home town. I lived there until my marriage in 1918 to James Lyall Turnbull, an Englishman. S After his return from France we came East to live and have lived here ever since in commuting distance of New York.
I have always loved to write, and had more time to work at it after my marriage than during the seven years of High School teach- ing which preceded it. I sold my first story to The American Maga- zine in 1920, and my husband and I celebrated wildly in New York! The first sale is such a thrill. Since then I've been writing as steadily as I could without neglecting my first interest of home-maker.
I have had three books published: "Far Above Rubies," and "The Four Marys," both being collections of short stories based on Biblical characters. My last book came out last October and is called "Old Home Town," a collection of stories of village life. My next one is due next fall and will be called "These Also Loved," being love stories based on Old Testament characters.
Meanwhile I'm working on my first novel, but I've been at it so long, I don't know whether it ever will be done. Its locale is western Pennsylvania.
After we had been married nearly nine years, a little baby girl was added to our family. Her name is Martha Lyall, "Patty" for short. She's a darling of course in the eyes of her fond Daddy and Mother
As to travels, we've had two lovely trips abroad — one just for fun through England and Scotland, and one to do some work for a magazine, through France. We rented a Ford in Paris and tore around through Normandy in our own happy go lucky fashion and had a grand time!
I only wish I could be back for Commencement ! Our town, New Alexandria, is holding its Centennial June 21, and we hope (appendixes, or lack of them, permitting) to be there then, but I fancy Commence- ment is earlier.
But with my very best wishes to you in your work and warm re- gards to all my Indiana friends, I am,
Cordially yours,
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULL.
Some <of the Marriages:
Adams, Florence (Mrs. R. F. Whitfield) Two children: Betty aged 15 and Ray Whitfield, Jr.
Barr, Stella (Mrs. Paul Miller)
Beilstem, Edna (Mrsi S. M. Means) Five children: Dorothy, Samuel, Donald, Richard, David
Best, Ada Mae' (Mrs. Kenneth Reed)
Brewer, Marian (Mrs. Frank E, Sherman)
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Boggs, Mae (Mrs. Smith), Brown, Jane Wallace (Mrs. Stephen Kiss) Campbell, Elsie (Mrs. Blakely) Campbell, Mary M. (Mrs. Daniel W. Williams) Carnahan, Sadie M. (Mrs. Ernest Buckley) Deemer, Minerva (Mrs. E. P. Yaney) Garrett, Henrietta (Mrs. R. L. Lutz) Hitchcock, Kathryn (Mrs. Dunlap Pearce Penhallow) Howell, Mary M. (Mrs. Frank P. Dueyer) Kalp, Viola Ruth (Mrs. F. W. Howarth) Keller, Bess Helen (Mrs. J. Leonard Smith) Kimmel, Mildred (Mrs. J. W. Warner) Kuhns, Sarah Irene (Mrs. A. F. Evans) Lytle, Julia (Mrs. T. J. Brown) Milliken, Edith (Mrs. J. B. Gray) Sligh, Agnes McConnell (Turnbull) author Smith, Emma C. (Mrs. Walter Neal) Trusal, Jesse (Mrs. Johnston.) Wheeler, Edna (Mrs. Harry C. Hackman) W,iddowson, Roxie L. (Mrs. Neal) In professions other than teaching: Harry B. Clawson, Presbyterian Minister Harry C. Hackman, Doctor of Medicine J. Paul Warner, Engineering Mabel Hazlett, Stenographer Principals and Supervisors:
Mabel R. Brown, Supervisor of Drawing. B.S. 1933, University of Pittsburgh.
Mary Fornwalt, Librarian in the Wilkinsburg Public Schools. A.B. University of Pittsburgh, 1928. B.S. Carnegie Library School, 1929. J. Russel Hilty, Principal. Business : George Bock.
Linus J. Elkin, Manager of a store in Porter, Jefferson Go. Boyd Lockard.
Mrs. Jessie Trusal Johnston, teacher for two years, clerk in post office for ten years, manager of a drug and general store for ten years. Writer :
Agnes Sligh Turnbull is the author of "Far Above Rubies," "The Four Marys," "Old Home Town," and other books. She is also the author of numerous magazine articles that deal with the finer things of life. Her fine artistry and romantic touch make the incidents of her stories fascinating. They interest and charm all who read them. Travel:
Miss Eliza B. Crea won a scholarship in art and made an extended tour of Europe in 1928. She visited England, France, Germany, Italy, and the International Art at Prague, in Czecho-Slovakia.
Delia Hiteshew and Miss Alice Tyler made a six weeks tour of the far western wonderland, by automobile, visiting and camping
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at Lake Tahoe, Yosemite National Park, Sequoia National Park, Los Angeles, Asuza, San Diego, Pacific Beach, Agua Caliente, Mexico, Borstow, Flagstaff, Gallup, Grand Canyon, and the Petrified Forest, National Monument, and some of the Indian Pueblos and ancient Indian ruins at Puye. They found the western people very hospitable and genial and the results of the tour far-reaching and helpful in understanding some of the economic problems which confront our nation today. /
Members of the class had a reunion at the Teachers College in 1921 and in 1930. In 1930 they had a special dinner at the Yellow Lantern Tea Eoom.
In the summer of 1920, a number of the class held a social at State College, Pa. The evening was spent in playing games, story telling, and reminiscing about Indiana. The social closed with the singing of Alma Mater.
Mary Howell Dwyer, (Mrs. Frank P. Dwyer),lG5 Sixth St., Renova, Pennsylvania, has a son, eighteen, a sophomore in the University of Pennsylvania, a daughter, fourteen, a sophomore in High School, and a son, eight, in fourth grade. She is president of the Clinton County Medical Auxiliary and District Councilor of the Seventh District of the State Medical Auxiliary.
Delia Hiteshew, Windber, Pennsylvania, is most enthusiastic in her interest in Indiana. She has given generously of her time in collecting! news about her class for the Alumni Bulletin.
Helen Ramsay (Mrs. Harry W. Walter), after teaching school for several years, was elected City Auditor of Wooster, Ohio, and then again last fall re-elected for another two years; being the only member of her party to be elected. She has five children, three girls and two boys and she is as successful in her home as she has been in the school and now in politics.
The following has been taken from the report of the State Audi- tor by the State Examiner:
"The official business of the city auditor's office has been trans acted with dispatch, and courteous treatment has been extended to the patrons thereof. The audits of the records and accounts and the official transactions of the auditing department disclosed that Mrs. Wal- ters, the city auditor, is fully qualified for the responsible position held by her. She has been careful in the official business of her office and watchful in protecting the interests of the citizens and taxpayers. It is a pleasure to audit the accounts and records when they are kept in the manner as found in the auditor's office of this city. In every particu- lar she has endeavored to comply with the law and thus protect no!; only her own interests, but also the interests of those whom she was elected to serve.
"We wish to particularly commend the auditor for the interest she has manifested in the preparation of annual budgets and other financial reports and for her efficient services as sinking fund secre- tary and as clerk of council."
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1910 My Trip To Europe
ELIZA B. CREA
After five years of study embracing painting, tapestries, stained glass, architecture, and sculpture it became my privilege to spend the summer of 1928 in Europe when the Art Congress was held in Pragu*;. Ours was an Art Pilgrimage so we visited galleries and whatever enriched the study of the preceding years.
We began in London by seeing historic buildings, architecture, and paintings. We flew to Paris where we spent a week visiting the Louvre, Luxemburg, and Versailles, cathedrals, churches, etc. We spent but a short time in Antwerp, The Hague, and Cologne. The enjoyable, restful, and real trip was the one up the Rhine. Durer's works were on exhibition in Nuremburg so we had an unusual op- portunity to view them. We went to Heidelburg, the Congress at Prague, Innesbruck, and Venice. We spent some profitable days at the Doge's palace, an exhibition of paintings, and seeing some scat- tered paintings.
Florence made the strongest appeal. There were so many really good paintings and so little time to study them. Another disappoint- ment was the limited time for the Duomo, Giotto's tower and the Baptistry doors of which we had heard so often. While seeing and enjoying Rome we lived in a hotel with a beautiful dining room copied from the Alhambra. We spent a few hours in Milan, a week-end in Lucerne, hurried on to Paris and the port, and reached home at the close of the summer and two months' of travel and study.
Throughout the trip I especially enjoyed observing the farm life in Germany and Czecho-Slovakia, the great herds of Holstein cattle in Holland, and the mountain scenery in Switzerland.
1911
Jean Galbraith is married and lives at 229 E. College St., Can- onsburg, Pa. She is among the recent new members of the Associ- ation unit at Washington, Pa.
Carrie G. Yates is married and lives at 223 Spruce St., Canons- burg, Pa.
1912
Jane Little Banfield lives at 347 E. Pike Street, Houston, Penn- sylvania. She has been quite active in the formation of the Alumni Club and has done much toward making the tie between the Wash- ington and Canonsburg groups so delightful.
Nell Rose Reiter, a member of the 1912 class, has assumed the duties of housewife. She is also active in the Crafton, Pa., Women'.'' Club and a member of the Orpheus Choir.
Charles Margiotti, 1912, now a successful attorney with offices in Pittsburgh, was a candidate for governor on the Republican ticket. Mr. Margiotti ran a large vote and we anticipate that he will be heard from again.
Lula Simpson, 1912, now the wife of Captain Wilbur Parkman Burritt, resides in San Bernardino, California.
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1913
Miss Jennie Munro is Dean of Women at Pittsburgh Academy.
Mary Lindley Smith is living on Leonard Avenue, Washing- ton, Pennsylvania.
Ruby Varley McConnell lives in Washington, Pa., and teaches in the Eighth Ward School and also manages to keep a lovely home all at the same time.
Jean L. Anderson, married, lives at 224 Spruce St.,"Canonsburg, Pa. Her husband is Editor of the daily paper, "The Canonsburg Notes."
Leah Leonard Naugle (Mrs. Frank Naugle) resides in Mount Lebanon, Pa. Her daughter, Leah, was graduated from high school this spring with highest honors.
Walter Allison is serving as a missionary at Landour, India.
Hildur Benson Bostrom (Mrs. C. 0. Bostrom) is active in alumni work in Braddock, Pa. She holds the office of treasurer in the Brad- dock Unit.
Murray Coon holds a responsible banking position in a Munhall, Pa., bank.
Samuel Edwards is engaged in business in Ebensburg, Pa.
Edna Freeman St. Clair (Mrs. Edward St. Clair) is active in alumni circles. She holds the office of President of the North Bor- oughs Unit, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Louise Langham Maloney (Mrs. Roy Maloney) is active in alumni work in the Indiana, Pa., Unit.
Nelle Martin Rinn (Mrs. S. W. Rinn) lives in Indiana and is the mother of two interesting children.
Ossie Patterson Newbaker (Mrs. Wm. Newbaker) has been active in the work of organizing the Wilkinsburg, Pa., Alumni Unit.
Louellen Remmy holds a responsible position at Columbia Uni- versity.
Clara Shryock is assistant County Superintendent of Cambria County, Pa. She represented her class at their twentieth reunion on the Alumni Luncheon Program.
Vera Amy Simpson is a member of the faculty at State Teachers College, Indiana, Pa., and president of the Alumni Association.
Alice St. Clair and Lillian Hazlett (Mrs. John Price) are co-oper- ative training teachers on the College Staff.
Gaynelle Stonebraker (Mrs. John Campbell) is the mother of two lovely daughters both of whom attend the Campus Training School.
Eugenia Trader (Mrs. Arthur Russell) lives in Indiana and sends a son and a daughter to the Campus Training School.
Margaret Yarnall (Mrs. Ralston Cettemy) is one of Indiana's most enthusiastic graduates. She resides in Altoona where her hus- band is a physician.
Gertrude Plante, formerly Miss Leonard's secretary, is now locat- ed in Oil City, Pa., and is actively engaged in organizing an Alumni Unit in Venango County.
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1914 Twenty Year Class Reunion
C. H. Laudenslager, president of the class, presided at a class meeting held in East Parlor May 26, 1934. At this meeting it was decided to raise a fund to establish a memorial for the class. The exact nature of this memorial is to be determined at a future date. Flor- ence W. Applegate was appointed chairman of the memorial committee.
Those attending the class meeting were:
Elisabeth Wentz Tomb, Indiana, Pa.
Anna May Pope Wilson, 40 March Street, Erie, Pa.
Audene Braham McKenzie, Seneca, Pa.
Alma M. Eberle, 314 Second Ave., Altoona, Pa.
Emma M. Greg, 1314 Second Ave., Altoona, Pa.
Pearl Mann Cnoasman, 214 N. Jefferson St., Punxsutawney, Pa.
Lula Esson Horst, 3819 Hiawatha St., N.S., Pittsburgh, Pa.
Jane Bell Plotner, 2804 Crosby Ave., Dormont, Pa.
Alice S. Burke, 821 Herberton Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.
Katherine Jones, 812 South Ave., Wilkinsburg, Pa.
Leona Rodgers Wolf, 517 Sixth Ave., Juniata, Altoona, Pa.
Homer Laudenslager, 126 S. Illinois Ave., Indianapolis, Ind.
Leona Thompson Stormer, Oil City, Pa.
Alma Blackmon, 28 Park Avenue, DuBois, Pa.
Margaret Yarnall Gettemy, 400-4th Ave., Altoona, Pa.
Eleanor Clarke Edmundson, Munhall, Pa.
Adelaide Shanahan Lamb, 2945 Perrysville Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.
Penelope Kennedy, Brookville, Pa.
Grace Wagner, Dravosburg, Pa.
Grace Walters Wright, 53 Sampson St., Ingram, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Florence Wilson Eichert, 279 Hutchinson Ave., Canonsburg, Pa.
Mary McGinity Byrne, 137 E. Scribner Ave., DuBois, Pa.
Marguerite McQuiston, 520 Washington Ave., Carnegie, Pa.
Edith Montgomery Johnston, Maple Ave., Hasson Height, Oil City, Pa.
Dana Fry, 306 Lydea Ave., Carnegie, Pa.
Esther Wilson, 2010 Seventh Ave., Altoona, Pa.
Hazel Elkin Maxwell, 82 N. Highland Ave., Akron, Ohio.
Lorene Garman, Berlin, Pa.
Clarissa Bost, Brierly Heights, Homestead, Pa.
Eva H. Pope, 1007 Milton Ave., Swissvale, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Florence W. Applegate, 1911 Flagler St., McKeesport, Pa.
Florence Hallam Reed is teaching at the Eighth Ward School of Washington and lives at 412 Leonard Avenue, Washington, Pa.
Daisy Zelt is living on West Beau iSt., Washington, Pa. She teaches at the Seventh Ward School there. She has been most suc- cessful as a first-grade teacher.
Dana A. Fry is teaching. She has received her A.B. from Ohio University and her M.A. from the University of Pittsburgh.
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1916
Elizabeth Longridge is teaching at Marianna, Pennsylvania. She lives on Leonard Avenue, Washington, Pennsylvania.
1917
Dorothy Park Foust (Mrs. L. A.) lives at 411 Wilson Avenue, Washington, Pa. Her husband is a professor at Washington and Jef- ferson College. Mrs. Foust was formerly from Marion Center. She is a member of the Washington Alumni Unit.
1918
Evelyn Griffiths Longdon (Mrs. Sherman) lives at 293 Wilson Avenue, Washington, Pa. She is the mother of a charming little daughter, Polly Hapgood Longdon.
Mildred Tucker Burns (Mrs. Preston) is teaching at the Eighth Ward School, Washington, and is also a housekeeper. She lives at pl8 Central Ave., Washington, Pa.
Flora Agnew lives at 211 Cherry Avenue, Houston, Pa. She is teaching. She has been deeply interested in the meetings of the Alum- ni Association.
Mary Russell George is married and lives at 200 Spruce Street, Canonsburg, Pa. She has four lovely children.
Alice Burnside Ingram, married, lives at 237 E. Pike St., Houston, Pa. She was one of three hostesses who entertained at a Tea and Bridge party for the April meeting of the Alumni Association.
1919
Though not a regular reuning class, the class of fifteen years ago came back of its own accord. As characteristic of this group the spirit of 1919 was much in evidence.
The day was warm and sunshiny as all good Reunion Days should be, and, after the Alumni Meeting and Luncheon, many spent the day strolling over the campus. Much was said in commendation of the fine new buildings and improvements generally that have taken place since we were in school.
In the evening dinner was served at Thompson's, that lovely rustic place on the Saltsburg Road. The tables were beautifully decorated, with the class color scheme of brown and gold prevailing. Baskets of copper and gold snap dragons and iris formed the centerpiece. The room was softly lighted by candle light from tall gold and brown tapers.
In the absence of the president, Marion Lamison Meyers, Zaida Bley Weaver presided at the meeting. We were happy to have as honor guest, "Our Own Miss Ackerman" who reminisced for us the doings of the faculty of our school days, then becoming quite serious minded she brought to us quite forcibly the situation confronting State Teachers College today. She made us realize we represent a
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fighting force of inestimable value, and that the school is depending on us. We pledged "Our Allegiance" in song fifteen years ago, now is the time to back that pledge with action. The class of 1919 wdl not fail Indiana.
A short business meeting followed, with plans for a big reunion five years hence, left to the discretion of those members living hi Indiana. It was truly an enjoyable day, and many old acquaintances were renewed and thoughtful notes were read from those unable to attend. Needless to say there was much visiting; after those who found it necessary to leave early had departed, the remaining group adjourned to the home of Bertha Garee McLain — for More Visiting.
Those who attended were Elsie Bendle Davis, Ebensburg; Ernest Johnston, Ebensburg; Daisy Goldsmith Daum, Tarentum; Margaret Swan McCreary, Indiana; Kathryn Hull Patterson, Lancaster; Bertha Garee McLain, Indiana; Ethel Jones McCartney, McDonald; Maud Crawford Harrison, Tarentum; Zenie Luther Dyke, Windber; Mary Weaver Gindlesberger, Windber; Margaret Mayo, Duquesne; Edith Anderson, Manor; Dorothy Hill Conner, Jeannette; Virginia Black Shuster, Jeannette; Beulah Shuster, Jeannette; May Bell Adams John, Brackenridge; Mary Crist, Altoona; Martha Shultz, Mt. Pleasant; Mary Carson, Saltsburg; Sara Campbell St. Clair, Indiana; Ruth Ryan, Mary Hart, Indiana; Forrest Cummings Johnston, Blairsville; Hazel Peacock Russell, McKeesport. With this number of classmates were seven sons-in-law of the college, with the prospect of many more five years hence.
We are happy to be together again and many are looking forward to Home-coming October 20. Keep it in mind.
William Ruddock, "Bill," is Indiana County's efficient District Attorney.
Ernest Johnston, B.S., M.A., is Superintendent of Schools at Ebensburg, Pa.
Marian Lamison Meyers, our president, lives at 917 Lena St., Johnstown, Pa., and is the mother of two beautiful little girls.
Helen Kepple, M.A., is teaching Mathematics in Johnstown, Pa.
Martha Shultz has teaching for a profession with a most interest- ing hobby of converting old houses into attractive homes.
Rev. Clarence Stiegerwalt is minister of the Lutheran Church at Schuylkill Haven, Pa.
Mary Hart is a member of the faculty of the Campus Training School here at Indiana. She occupies the rooms where many of us did student teaching under Mrs. Riddle. To know how successful Mary is one would need only to say a word to the children who are under her care.
Mary Carson is Supervisor of Music at Saltsburg, Pa. Mary Crist is Principal of the Grant School at Altoona, Pa.
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Margaret V. Rhoads received her M.A. degree at the University of Pittsburgh and is teaching at State Teachers College, Slippery Rock, Pa.
Maude M. Crebs received her B.A. degree at Northwestern Uni- versity and is teaching in Youngstown, Ohio.
1920
Bess Young Munce (Mrs. Robert J.) was formerly of McDonald, Pa. She is now the wife of Mr. Robert Munce, an instructor at Wash- ington and Jefferon College. She lives at 169 LeMoyne Ave., Wash- ington, Pa.
The following letter came from Esther James Denniston in re- sponse to a request for news:
I'm sorry not to have more news of the class of 1920 to send you. There must be some who have achieved distinction. So far as I can learn, most of us have turned out to be Mrs. Somebody or other with a child <or two or three hanging onto our apron strings. Hope the following will be of some use to you.
Virginia Poole is now Mrs. L. A; Tai'box and lives at Ridley Park, Pa. She has two children.
Edith Barnett and Rachel Jones received their bachelor's degrees last year from the University of Pittsburgh and are teaching in the Pittsburgh Schools.
Esther (Eps) Powell is now Mrs. J. 0. Crum and the proud mother of two little girls. The Crums live in Kittanning, Pa.
Mildred (Campbell) Black has lived at Allentown since her mar- riage. And now little David Black is on the scene.
Clarence Avey, one of the few boys of our class is now the min- ister of St. Stephen's Methodist Episcopal Church at Marblehead, Mass. For three years, Clarence, and his friend, John Reed, also of class of 1920, taught at Greensburg, Pa. Then he graduated from Allegheny College in 1926 and received the Bachelor of Theology degree from Boston University in 1929. In 1928 he and Miss Cecelia Johnston of Jamestown, N. Y., were married.
Cora Dunmire is now Mrs. William Williams and resides at Brookville, Pa.
Betty Browne still lives at Swissvale, Pa., and teaches in Pitts- burgh.
Hazel (Swartz) Wright and husband have recently sent announce- ments of Barbara's arrival. Hazel lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Esther (James) Denniston lives in State College, Pa., and while three-year-old Barbara is attending the College Nursery School, Esther is attending the Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pa. She expects to get her degree in August.
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1921
Inez E. Mcllvaine is teaching. She lives at 122 Main St., Houston, Pa,
1922
Margaret Dickey has the distinction of being one of the first Indi- ana graduates to begin her school life in the first grade of the Train- ing School and continue her education throughout the grades, higb school, and college in the same institution. She completed the two year course in 1922 and returned to secure her degree in Art Education in 1931. She is now teaching art in Midland, Pa.
Helen Biddle is new Mrs. Randall Warne of 3809 South Salina Street, Syracuse, New York.
1923
Mary Williams Russell is married and active in the McDonald, Pa., Women's Club.
1924
East Porch was the scene of an enthusiastic business meeting of the class of 1924. Mrs. Martha Ames Williamee presided. The treas- urer, Ernest McNitt, reported $656.13 in the class treasury. The class voted to present to the school an electric refrigerating unit to supply cool water to Leonard Hall, Wilson Hall, Arts Building, and the camp- us drinking fountain. Any additional money after the refrigerating unit has been purchased was allotted to the Jane E. Leonard Memorial Student Loan Fund.
Seventy-five members of this class assembled for the luncheon. After the play in the evening there was a "get-to-gether" at the tea room. The Pittsburgh group of this class plans a luncheon in June at Home's tea room.
Geneva Horner and Muriel Garverick are to be June brides.
Ruth Weston Wiltshire, Ernest McNitt, and Martha Aimes Wil- liamee report the arrival of a baby girl in the home of each.
The present class officers are to act until the next reunion. Plans were discussed which promise to make the twenty year reunion even "bigger and better" than this most enthusiastic ten-year meeting.
Grace Patterson lives at 215 Hutchinson Ave., Canonsburg, Pa. She is teaching at present.
Sara Smith, who, while in Indiana, was well known for her work in plays and as Senior Queen, is now Mrs. Paul Adrian Brodeur of Boston, Mass. Mr. Brodeur is a well known sculptor. He has just completed a bronze portrait relief of Abbott Lawrence Lowell, retir- ing president of Harvard. The plaque will be placed in Harvard's new Society of Fellows Hall in Elliott House.
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Marian E. Fray is teaching in one of the Primary grades of the Clark School, of Washington, Pa. Miss Fray has carried on the In- diana spirit for her sister is now enrolled at the college. She lives at 4S0 Allison Avenue.
Elizabeth Abbott Eoggs is now living in Canonsburg, Pa., since her marriage to Dr. Boggs. She came here from Monongahela and we are glad to have her with us.
Miss Edyth A. Underwood, class of 1925, has announced her en- gagement the past winter to Alfred Kenneth Cox, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. They are planning to be married in June.
Margaret Work became Mrs. Howard P. Moles in 1932 and now lives in Buffalo, N. Y.
A recent bride of this class is Mabel Tulloch, now Mrs. Kenneth Beebe of New York City.
Mildred Burkett is to be married to Joseph Walker in the early summer.
The following members of the class of 1925 are teaching in Johns- town, Pa.:
Ludwina Akers
Madge Davis
Eleanor Driggs
Mary Fitzpatrick
Claire Flinn
Gertrude Flinn
Mary Blanche Foster
Freda Horner
Mary Louise Kuchuck
Katherine Laine
Anna Maloy
Edith Otto
Elmira Horner
Helen Karnak
Verna Spires
Edna Scott
Ruth Armstrong
Florence Patch The following members of the class of 1925 are teaching in the schools listed:
Helen Colvin, Midland, Pa.
Myrtle St. Clair, Midland, Pa.
Sylvia Dick, Ferndale, Pa.
Mary Duncan, Irwin, Pa.
Edna Mae Gillespie, Tarentum, Pa.
Roberta Johnson, Blairsville, Pa.
Catherine Metz, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Josephine Markle, West Newton, Pa.
Elizabeth McCullough, Nanty-Glo, Pa.
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Hazel Rodgers, Conemaugh, Pa. Mary Sterner, Windber, Pa. Edyth Underwood, Ingram, Pa. Evelyn Underwood, Ingram, Pa. Thelma Whinnie, Midland, Pa. Martha Belle Crum, Blairsville, Pa. Florence George, Vandergrift, Pa. Ruth Gillespie, Pittsburgh, Pa. Josephine Koons, Pittsburgh, Pa. Cleona Watson, McKeesport, Pa. Carolyn Anderson, Haffey, Pa. Marie Markle, West Newton, Pa. Mercedes Snyder, Duquesne, Pa. Adele Wellmier, Duquesne, Pa. Charlesletta Benjeski, Duquesne, Pa. Others of the 1925 class are now married:
Katherine Barrett married Luther G. Cox and is living at Mat- tituck, Long Island. She has one child, Audrey, two years old.
Madge Boden is married to Harry Rose and has one child. She is living in Johnstown, Pa.
Areta Cunningham is married and living in Indiana, Pa. Helen Clayton (Mrs. Woodruff) is living in Rochester, Pa. Helen Hinkle married Roy Barron and is living in Johnstown, Pa. Dorothy Hoffman is married to George Lee and is living in Johns- town, Pa. She has two children.
Owen Lewis and Louise Reed were married on graduation day at Indiana. They are living in Aliquippa, Pa., and have two children.
Dorothy Belle Rutledge, married to William Smith, is living in Johnstown, Pa. She has three children.
Dorothy Schrecengost married John McLaughlin and lives in Wil- kinsburg, Pa. She has one little boy, Sherman, two years old.
Caroline Bast is married to Max Tondora and is living in Johns- town, Pa. She has two children.
Ruby Bailey is now Mrs. John Ruth.
Helen McGettigan married Donald Jenkins and lives in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Lois Morrison (Mrs. Clarence Pearce) is living in Erie, Pa.
Catherine Raush is married to Elmer Crowshore and living in Mansfield, Ohio. She has one child.
Blanche Cooper married Carl Matthews and lives at Ellwood City, Pa. She has two children.
Gwendolyn John (Mrs. John Edward Schultz) is living at Taren- tum, Pa.
Ellen Andrie married Haydn Dowen and is living in Duquesne, Pa.
Katherine Frick is married to Robert Jarvey and living in Johns- town, Pa, She has one child.
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Katherine Gocher (Mrs. Robert Bowers) has a baby son. She is living in Johnstown, Pa.
Gladys Helsel is married to Frank Howard and living in Johns- town, Pa. She has a baby girl.
1926
Mrs. Walter Gross (Margaret Eichholtz) taught three years be- fore her marriage, and is now the mother of two fine sons.
Ruth E. Greene is substituting in the Washington schools. She is living at 45 Canton Ave., Washington, Pa.
Angela Lonsway of 214 Grant Street, Washington, Pa., is teach- ing at the Eighth Ward School.
Wilma J. Mcllvaine is teaching. She lives at 122 Main Street, Houston, Pa.
A baby son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Pruger, of Cheswick, Pa., on June 27. Mrs. Pruger will be remembered as Miss Lucille Davis.
Barnes, Margaret, teaching in Clairton, Pa.
Beerman, Blanche, teaching in Johnstown, Pa.
Berg, Dorothy, married.
Blythe, Virginia, teaching in McKeesport, Pa. 2605 Jenny Lind Ave., McKeesport, Pa.
Boozer, Albertus, teaching in Windber, Pa.
Braden, Dorothy (Mrs. M. L. Frantz), living in Allentown, Pa.
Brown, Stella, teaching in Windber, Pa.
Bradley, Margaret, teaching in Johnstown, Pa.
Cameron, Julia (Mrs. Elmer Roush), living at 389 Coolidge Ave., Rochester, Pa., has two children.
Campbell, Nell, teaching in Johnstown, Pa.
Clay Mercedes, married, living in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Cohen, Dorothy, married, living in Detroit, Michigan.
Cooper, Anna Mae, teaching in Johnstown, Pa.
Corey, Jean (Mrs. John Caughey), living in McKeesport, Pa.
Corey, Lois (Mrs. Elstrom), living in Dravosburg, Pa.
Cribbs, Helen, living in McKeesport, Pa., teaching in Port Vue, Pa.
Crissey, Mildred, teaching in Westmont, Johnstown, living in Hooversville, Pa.
Crooks, Louise Ferrell, teaching in Johnstown, Pa. Davis, Virginia (Mrs. R. L. Nash), living at 520 Greendale, Ave., Wilkinsburg, Pa.
Doak, Bertha (Mrs. Jas. Wheeler), living at Derry, Pa.
Dodd, Crystal, married and living in Wilkinsburg, Pa.
Drummond, Lucille, teaching in Johnstown, Pa.
Eck, Rose Mary, teaching in Johnstown, Pa.
Ellenberger, Audrey (Mrs. Russell Robins), living in Kenmore, N. Y.
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Elwinger, Florence, teaching, 231 E. Brady St., Butler, Pa.
Fallquist, Alice, teaching in Dravosburg, Pa., living at 2601 Jenny Lind Ave., McKeesport, Pa.
Ferrell, Elizabeth (Mrs. Fred Knapp), living in Philadelphia, Pa., has »one child, a baby boy.
Feiger, Marie, married.
Forsyth, Edythe, teaching in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Gee, Margaret, living in Dravosburg, Pa., teaching in East Mc- Keesport, Pa.
Gordon, Sarah (Mrs. Robert Wright), living on Maplewood Ave., Crafton, Pa., has three children.
Gould, Harriet, married and living in Fairmont, W. Va., has two boys.
Grambling, Catherine, teaching in Dale school, Johnstown, Pa.
Hanna, Jane, teaching, 512 Fifth Ave., New Kensington, Pa.
Harrigan, Rose Alma, married.
Harrington, Hilda, substitute teaching in Johnstown, Pa.
Hartnett, Agnes, married.
Heinze, Kathryn, teaching in Johnstown, Pa.
Helwig, Margaret (Mrs. John Samuels), living in Shamokin, Pa.
Hershberger, Lillian (Mrs. Clark Blackburn), has one little girl.
Himes, Dorothy, teaching in Oakland School, Johnstown, Pa.
Hochberg, Hazel, living on Verona Road, Verona, Pa., teaching in Penn Township, Pa., to be married this summer.
Horning, Ruth, teaching in Johnstown, Pa.
Hunter, Ruth (Mrs. Herbert Wilson), has one little boy.
Itell, Lillian, teaching in Johnstown, Pa.
Jobe, Kathryne, married, living in Mt. Lebanon, Pa.
Karalfa, Elizabeth, teaching in Johnstown, Pa.
Kelly, Hulda, living at 617 Market St., S'cottdale, Pa., teaching in Primary Department, Scottdale, Pa.
Kerr, Lillian (Mrs. Geo. L. Cotter), living at 504 East End Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa., has two children.
Kime, Dorothy, teaching in Johnstown, Pa.
Krise, Elizabeth, married.
Kirshner, Mabel, living in McKeesport, teaching in McKeesport.
Lietman, Elizabeth, teaching in Wilkinsburg, Pa.
Martin, Ethel (Mrs. Jas. Keller), Chester, Pa.
Mawhinney, Helen, teaching in Wilkinsburg, Pa.
McAneny, Anne, teaching in Johnstown, Pa.
McFadden, Katherine, teaching in McKeesport, Pa.
Miles, Rebecca, married.
Moorhead, Kenneth, teaching in Ferndale, Johnstown, Pa.
Morgan, Hazel, teaching in Johnstown, Pa.
Morton, Gertrude, living alt 221 Scotia St., Ingram, Pa., teach- ing in Crafton, Pa,
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Morton, Margaret (Mrs. F. P. Meyers), 1100 Mississippi Ave., Dormont, Pa., has three children.
Mowry, Angeline, married Perry Driscoss, living at 16 East Web- er St., DuBois, Pa.
Overley, Peggy Jane (Mrs. Fishbourne), living at Washington, D. C.
Penrod, Ruby, teaching in Johnstown, Pa.
Phillips, Audrey (Mrs. Michael Grier), living in Altoona, Pa.
Polansky, Olga, living at 724 Gray St., Port Vue, Pa., teaching in Port Vue.
Reed, Alice (Mrs. John Shaffer), living in Leechburg, Pa., has orte little son, Donald, four years old.
Reilley, Catharine, teaching, 210 Arthur St., Zelienople, Pa.
Richards, Thelma, teaching in Johnstown, Pa.
Risher, Helen, teaching, 1416 Hays St., Homestead, Pa.
Rock, Frances, living on Eleventh St., Conway, Pa., teaching in Ambridge, Pa.
Rodgers, Eleanor, teaching in Junior High, Wilkinsburg, Pa.
Rose, Helen, teaching, 835 Ash St., Johnstown, Pa.
Sieber, Dorothy, teaching in McKeesport, Pa.
Sickle, Victoria, teaching in Johnstown, Pa.
Sior, Amelia, married and living in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Small, Vera, married to Gilbert McCoy, living at 620 Vickroy Ave., Ferndale, Johnstown, Pa.
Squibb, Laura (Mrs. Lynch), living in McKeesport, Pa., has one child.
Stephens, Catherine, teaching in Johnstown, Pa.
TepKtz, Edna, teaching in McKeesport, Pa.
Thomas, Eleanor, living at 55 Baldwin Road, Crafton, Pa., teach- ing in Bauerstown School, Shaler Township.
Thomas, Gladys, living at Clymer, Pa., teaching in Verona High School.
Upstill, Margaret, living at 154 Ingram Ave., Ingram, Pa., teach- ing in Ingram.
Vaughn, Lucille, teaching in McKeesport, Pa.
Vetter, Hilda, living at 941 Fawcett Ave., McKeesport, Pa., teach- ing in Lincoln School, Versailles Township.
Walters, Anna, teaching in Johnstown, Pa.
Watkins, Sara, teaching in Johnstown, Pa.
West, Ruth, teaching in High School, McKeesport, Pa.
Wilt, Vera, teaching in McKeesport, Pa.
Wright, Mary (Mrs. Jas. S. McCormick), living at R. D. 1, Cora- opolis, Pa., has two little daughters.
Yost, Gladys, married.
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1927
Gertrude Ilallam is teaching at the Clark School, Washington. She is living at 412 Leonard Ave., Washington, Pa.
Doris Kline is teaching at the Washington Road School, Mount Lebanon, Pittsburgh. She has been there for several years. Her ad- dress is 6 Bower Hill Road, Mount Lebanon, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Evelyn G. Conger is teaching at the Hayes Avenue School of Washington. She lives just outside of Washington at Amity, Pa.
Elsie L. Martin is living at 707 North Franklin Street, Wash- ington, Pa.
Frances Beatty Stunkard is living at 414 Burton Avenue, Wash- ington, Pa. She has a son just three years old. "Charlie's" mother intends that his education shall start soon — kindergarten next year and in the meantime he's learning lots from one who has attended Indi- ana's Model School.
Helen Miller is teaching at the Seventh Ward School of Wash- ington. She lives at 450 Henderson Ave., Washington, Pa. She is president of the Washington Alumni Unit.
Margaret Moninger of Washington, Pa., R. D. 4, since leaving Indiana, attended Bethany College, West Virginia, and received her degree there. She is teaching at present.
Gladys Cochran is teaching in Carnegie, Pa., where she is also a member of the Junior Women's Club, Sponsor of a Commercial Club, and a member of the Choral Club.
Sarah Catharine Hillard graduated from the Pennsylvania State College this summer, 1934, receiving the A.B. degree. She is active in Alumni work in the Verona-Oakmont Unit.
Marian Adele Davis of Verona, Pa., was united in marriage with Mr. James Dunlop of Portersville, Pa., on Saturday, September 23, 1933. Mr. and Mrs. Dunlop reside in Portersville, Pa.
1928
Mrs. George Hartung (Thora Dambaugh) taught three years, was married August 24, 1932, and is now living at 305 Stanford Ave , West View, Pa.
Edythe Irwin is teaching at the Clark School of Washington. She lives at 103 Hall Avenue, Washington, Pa.
Grace McLoney is teaching at the Third Ward School, Washing- ton. She lives just outside of Washington, Pa., at R. D. 7.
Zoe Stauffer of 350 Allison Avenue, Washington, Pa., is teach- ing at Marianna, Pa.
Alma V. Martin of 107 Maple Avenue, Washington, Pa., is teach- ing at the Clark School, Washington.
Eleanor Lacock, who lives just outside of Washington at Library, is teaching in her home town.
Announcement is made of the marriage of Eleanor Keys to John Rupert of Verona, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Rupert are making their home in Verona.
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Mildred Singer, class of 1929, was married to Clifford Rishey of Burgettstown Pa., October 5, 1933.
Mrs. Hugh Williams (liowena Shillito) is the mother of a baby boy, Robert Hugh, born April 14, 1934.
Louise Wherry lives on Duncan Avenue, Washington, Pa. She teaches at the Eighth Ward School.
Catherine R. Taylor is teaching in Bridgeville, Pa. She is presi- dent of the Bridgeville Junior Women's Club.
Virginia Dollison is being married to Robert Adler on Christmas Day.
Mary Katherine Gebhart was married to High Jobus this past summer.
1930
Luella C. Nolen, an instructor in the Junior High School at Don- ora, Pennsylvania, is student training teacher in geography for student teache/s from State Teachers College, California. She presented a functional unit of work, "Manufacturing Regions in the British Isles," at the spring, 1933, meeting of the Geography Club of western Penn- sylvania. Miss Nolen has completed all necessary work in courses at the University of Chicago and is now preparing a thesis for a master's degree in science.
Louise Carson is teaching at the First Ward School of Washing- ton. She lives at 515 East Beau Street, Washington, Pa.
Helen E. Knestrick is teaching at Wolfdale, just near Washington. She lives at 461 North Main Street, Washington, Pa.
Dorothy Young Parsons, formerly of Canonsburg, Pa., is now liv- ing in Washington since her marriage to Mr. John A. Parsons. They live at 349 E. Beau Street, Washington, Pa.
Lillyan Richardson Miller (Mrs. William B.) lives at 270 Donnan Avenue, Washington, Pa. She fomerly lived at Bentleyville, Pa.
Eulala Mcllvaine, teaching, is the third graduate of Indiana in that family — Inez, Wilma, and Eulala. Rather something to be proud of. She lives in Houston, Pa.
Viola Laskowski of 333 E. Pike St., Canonsburg, Pa., teaches in Canonsburg.
Ray H. Simpson has been awarded a fellowship with Dr. Harry L. Hollingworth, Columbia University, New York City. He teaches tln-ee hours per week and in addition carries almost a full-time sched ule on his doctor's degree work,
Blair Studebaker, class of '32, and Frances Malone, class of '30, now Mr. and Mrs. Studebaker, became the proud parents of a baby boy on March 10, 1934. Mr. Studebaker is teaching in the Junior High School of North Braddock, Pennsylvania.
Miss Margaret North, head of the department of Home Economics at Blairsville, Pa., High School and a center supervisor of student
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teaching for the home economics department of the State Teachers College, is doing a much needed piece of research work with Dr. Whit- ney of the University of Pittsburgh. Her subject is "A Survey on the College Entrance Requirements for Home Economics." She is making a survey of eighty-five colleges and universities in the United States. Miss North completed her work for her Bachelor of Science degree in Home Economics at State Teachers College with the class of 1930.
Dorothy Argall and Helen Sterbutcel are making plans for the organization of an alumnae chapter of Delta Sigma Epsilon.
Alice Harper is conducting a private kindergarten in Coraopolis, Pa.
1931
Miss Marie Smalstig is teaching Household Economics in South Brownville, Pa., High School.
Martha Ely is teaching at the First Ward School, Washington, Pa. She is just as tiny as she was when at Indiana. She lives at 1010 Jefferson Ave., Washington, Pa.
Gladys Barton of 468 West Chestnut Street, Washington, Pa., is teaching at Alexander Place, North Strabane Township, Washington County. , i
Mary E. Post of Dunn's Station, R. D. 1, Pa., is teaching.
Mary E. Soott, of Rea, R. D. 2, Pa., is also teaching.
Harriet Breth lives in Houston, Pa. She is teaching there.
Esther and Edna McAfee have been most active in the formation of the Chartiers Valley Alumni Club. During the summer (1934) they plan an extensive trip through the Southwest, California and Canada.
Members of the Class of 1931 will be interested to know what some of their classmates are doing. We enumerate the following:
Frank Oliver, Music Supervisor, New Kensington, Pa.
Ruth Nuss, teaching Shorthand, High School, Monongahela, Pa.
Helen Corbett, teaching Home Economics, Stowe Township, Alle- gheny County, Pa.
Molly Papke, teaching Home Economics, High School, Tarentum, Pa.
Margaret Gates, teaching Home Economics, High School, Hunt- ington, Pa.
Alice Heberling, teaching Home Economics at Ambridge, Pa.
Annabelle Brown, teaching at a rural school near Punxsutaw- ney, Pa.
Jean Calhoun, substitute teaching at public schools, McKeesport, Pa.
Jennie Wilson, teaching Home Economics at Beaver Falls, Pa.
Dorothy H. Duncan, taught two years, now married to Fred Ram- sey and living in Wilkinsburg, Pa.
Henrietta White, teaching Home Economics in rural school.
Virginia Eichelberger, substitute teaching in McKeesport school*, active in Young Wlomen's Republican Organization.
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Margaret K. Eisele, substitute teaching in McKeesport school', active in Young Women's Republican Organizaion.
Margaret Fagula, teaching in schools at Ambridge, Pa.
Fay McCoy, teaching Home Economics at Uniontown, Pa.
Rosabelle Green, teaching in the grades at Arnot, Pa.
Mary McPherson, teaching Home Economics at Fayette City, Pa.
Florence Gush, teaching in schools at Clairton, Pa.
Grace Rowe, teaching Home Economics at Clairton, Pa.
Laura Gustafson, substitute teaching in McKeesport schools, now working as clerk in Menzie's Dairy.
Sara Louise Heisey, taught in rural school, now married and has a daughter.
Marie Smalstig, teaching Home Economics at West Brownsville, Pa.
Dorothy Kinney, teaching at New Castle, Pa.
Grace Lukehart, teaching in a rural school.
Jean Mains, teaching at New Kensington, Pa.
Meryl Miller, substitute teaching at schools in McKeesport, Pa.
Ruby Miller, substitute teaching at schools in McKeesport, Pa.
Florence Moffatt, teaching at Greenock, Allegheny County, Pa.
Eileen Myler, teaching at Turtle Creek Union public school, Turtle Creek, Pa.
Kathryn McCreary, teaching in the grades at New Castle, Pa.
Rachel Nickolls, teaching in public schools at Greenock, Pa.
Lucille Pannebaker, teaching in public schools at Altoona, Pa.
Mary Rankin, teaching in public schools at Penn, Pa.
Ella Virginia Rosenberger, teaching at High School at Punxsu- tawney, Pa.
Ardella Sleeth, substitute teaching at McKeesport, Pa.
Marie Ward, teaching in the grades at Clairton, Pa.
Bessie Weinberg, teaching at Wall, Pa.
Regina Wilson, teaching at McKeesport, Pa.
Dorothy Ulm, correspondent, substitute teaching at McKeesport, Pa., active in Young Women's Republican Organization.
1932
Mary M. Beatty of 96 West Wheeling Street, Washington, Pa., is teaching in the High School of Canonsburg, Pa.
Thelma McLoney is teaching at the Hayes Avenue School of Wash- ington. She lives at R. D. 7, Washington, Pa.
Harriet Koch (Mrs. Charlie Andrews) lives in Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, and is the mother of Carol Ann Andrews.
Ernest Carver is the principal of Alum Bank High School, Alum Bank, Pa.
Dorothy Wilson Mansell is living in DuBois, Pa., and has a daughter, Mary Lynn.
Laura Myers who completed her work for graduation with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Home Economics at State Teachers College in the class of 1932 took the examination given to applicants
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for Home Economics positions in the Pittsburgh public schools. Miss Myers took first place out of a group of thirty-five candidates. As a result she was given an appointment in the Oliver High School, of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Kenneth J. Arisman, B.S. in Art Education, 1932, has been re- elected to his position for the second time with a salary raise of three - hundred dollars. Mr. Arisman is supervisor of art in Hatfield Town- ship, Montgomery County, Pa. Besides supervising art, he is basket- ball coach, and this year his team won at S'ouderton (in the Phila- delphia suburban district) the championship of the lower district of the Montgomery County League.
Margaret P. Dickey assisted by Ben Kwiatkofsky, B.S. in Art Education, 1933, and her high school classes is painting extensive murals on the walls of the high school building at Midland, Pa.
Ruth E. Threnhauser, one of Pittsburgh's art teachers, received a scholarship from the Frick Foundation to return to Indiana to com- plete her work for the B.S. Degree in Art Education, this summer.
Helen G. Rohalley, B.S. in Art Education, 1933, returned to In- diana last fall to add Elementary Education to her certificate. Her certificate was extended for this field in January. Miss Rohalley is now substituting in the Art Department at Indiana for Miss Houston who is convalescing from typhoid fever.
Robert T. Alker, Bachelor of Architecture from University of Pennsylvania, 1932, was an aspirant for B.S. in Art Education with the class of 1934 at Indiana. Mr. Alker left Indiana, just before Thanksgiving to accept a lucrative position as an architect for the High- way Department of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg.
Katherine Huebner has been filling a position created by a leave of absence of one of the art teachers in the Dale Borough School, Johnstown, Pa.
Virginia Lewis was married to Herbert Bietenduefel this spring.
Florence Gerber is heard frequently over KDKA in solo work.
Mary Kay Etter is now Mrs. Harry Miller.
Max Harwick is assistant coach in the Clymer High School, Clymer, Pa.
1933
Edith Frederickson of 325 Ridge Avenue, Washington, Pa., is our latest and youngest graduate of Indiana. We are glad to have the "last minute news" of the School so close at hand.
NECROLOGY
Mrs. Katherine Jackson Brew who for a number of years filled the position of librarian at Indiana passed away May 10, 1934, at the home of her daughter, Janet Brew Potter (Mrs. Victor Potter) at Johnsonburg, Pa., following a brief illness of pneumonia. Mrs. Brew never lost her interest in Indiana, and only last fall she attended a
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meeting of the Ridgway Alumni Unit and was made an honorary member of the group.
Miss Clarissa B. Robinson, a former member of the faculty, passed away at her home in Butler during the past winter.
Edward P. Johnston, a former resident of Brownsville, died on January 2, 1931, at his residence on Bellefonte Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. The deceased graduated from Indiana with the class of 1879, and after his graduation accepted the principalship of the Freeport, Pa., schools. He remained in this position two years, and then returned to his home town, Brownsville, to be at the head of the schools. His success in these positions made it easy for him to go a step higher, and he was elected principal of the Fourth Ward School in Allegheny, now North Side, Pittsburgh. A few years later he accepted the principalship of the Moorhead School in Pittsburgh, which was one cf the leading schools in Pittsburgh at that time. Mr. Johnston was connected with the Pitts- burgh schools for twenty-eight years, after which time he was super- intendent of the schools at Uniontown for several years. The remainder of his life was spent in retirement. Mr. Johnston stands out as hav- ing been one of the leading educators in western Pennsylvania.
1880
Casper C. Brinkey was Principal of a Johnstown, Pa., school for two years after he graduated from Indiana. He then studied medicine and graduated from Philadelphia Medical College. With a bright future before him, he opened an office in Johnstown. During the Johns- town flood, both he and his brother were drowned. His body is now lying in the Masonic Circle Grandview Cemetery of Johnstown.
William E. Duffey, a native of Blairsville, Pennsylvania, went to New York City after graduation and died there shortly afterward.
John P. Elkin taught school for several years, attended Ann Arbor Law School and was admitted to the Indiana Bar. He was elected a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, appointed Attorney General under Governor D. S. Hastings, and later elected a member of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. His body now rests in the Oakland Cemetery, Indiana, Pennsylvania.
John S. Keefer who was one of the best scholars of the 1880 Class taught school for several years and died while Superintendent of the Braddock, Pa., Schools.
Samuel T. Lewis taught two years after graduating from Indiana. He then attended Washington and Jefferson College, graduating in 1886. Later he was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian Church. In this capacity he spent the remainder of his life at Osceola, Penn- sylvania.
We received notice of the death of Dr. David Pierce, a member of the Class of 1880. Dr. Pierce died on August 28, 1927, in the city of St. Petersburg, Florida. He was buried there in the Royal Palms Cemetery. Dr. Pierce practiced medicine in the city of McKeesport, Pa., for many years and was also known as a good financier.
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Miss Anna A. Hunter, Miss Amanda Loucks, Miss Alice Morrison, Ivliss Margaret Priestley — each spent her life, from graduation 'till death called her, teaching in the public schools of Pennsylvania.
1884
In the death of Dr. John B. Ague, Beaver Falls, Pa., suffers a distinct loss and the whole community which he so long and faithfully Served, will miss him. Dr. Ague gave as his contribution to the wel- fare of his fellow citizens his time and his talents. His more than thirty years as a practicing physician brought him close to all con- uitions of life. It is in this respect that he gave evidence of his deep sympathy and usefulness.
As a member of the school board for more than thirty years, he dijplayed unusual ability. To appreciate this, one must study the various changes that have taken place in our school system during his incumbency as a member of the board and as its president. To me-t these changes, which often meant the rehabilitation of the system then in use, required not only a mere compliance with law but great initia- tive and good business judgment. With the aid of his associates Dr. Ague proved equal to the task as shown by the present efficiency in our local schools.
There was throughout Dr. Ague's work a quiet dignity. But there never was evident a lack of interest in the things he set about to accomplish. Much of his work did not appear upon the surface and even now can be seen only in a general way.
It is quite evident that like many of his profession, he found it necessary to meet the demands upon him at the sacrifice of health and time that ought to have been his own.
As a useful and trustworthy member of the community, he served it well and he will be greatly missed.
1889
Miss Jane Bradt died at the residence of her sister, Mrs. B. H. Swain, 1211 Carlin Drive, Ballston, Virginia, on January 1G, 1934. Miss Bradt was born at Emswoi'th, Pennsylvania, in 1868, and was graduated from the Indiana, Pennsylvania, State Normal School in 1889. After coming to Washington she took certain educational cours- es at The George Washington University. After Miss Bradt was grad- uated she taught eleven years in Pennsylvania. She was appointed to the District of Columbia public schools on June 1, 1903, and taught for a short period at the Grover Cleveland School. On the organiza- tion of the Park View School she was transferred to that building and spent the remainder of her teaching career in Park View. Miss Bradt was retired on June 30, 1933. Miss Bradt was possessed of an unusual teaching personality, endearing herself alike to pupils and patrons. She was highly regarded by all of her professional superiors. Miss Bradt is survived by an only sister, Mrs. Benjamin H. Swain, wife of Dr. Swain of Ballston, Virginia.
State Teachers College
Dr. Clyde G. Guthrie, aged 51 years, died Sunday evening, Decern • ber 13, 1931, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He had suffered from heart trouble for several months. He graduated from Indiana State Normal School in 1899, Lafayette College in 1903, and Johns Hopkins University in 1907. For 15 years he was a member of the Medical Staff in the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, and during the World War served in France as Commander of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Medical Unit, composed of 25 of Baltimore's most prominent physicians. Dr. Guthrie was a Phi Beta Kappa both in college and medical school. He is sur- vived by his widow, Mrs. Isabelle H. Guthrie and three children, Anne D., Isabelle B., and Wpllliam A. Guthrie, also a sister, Miss Nell Guth- rie, and two brothers, Speer W. and Murray H. Guthrie, all of Indiana.
1905
Miss Ethel Curry, 1905, a teacher in the Manchester School, Pitts- burgh, Pa., died on Thursday afternoon, March 15th, after a brief pneumonia illness. Miss Curry was a loyal and enthusiastic member of the North Boroughs and North Side Unit of the Indiana State Teachers College Alumni. Miss Curry was a fine Christian character. Her kind, genial manner, her keen sense of humor, and her devotion to duty won for her the love and respect of all with whom she came in contact. In her death, the children have lost a faithful friend, her coworkers, an associate of sterling qualities, and the school a loyal, conscientious teacher. It may well be said of her that:
"Soothed and sustained by an unfaltering faith, She wrapped the mantle of her couch about her And lay down to pleasant dreams." She will be sadly missed by the community which she served so well.
1909
Dr. Leonard Smith, of the Class of 1909, a very promising young physician of Pittsburgh, died last fall.
1910
Deceased members of the class of 1910: Edna M. Alcorn James Sexton
Jean Neff Susan Steele
Eva Mae Robertson Helen I. Wilson
Edna M. Gibson (Mrs. Earl Sorber)
1925
Margaret Ritchey, a member of the class of 1925, died in 1927.
1926
Mrs. Rhea Kearney died shortly after graduation.
1928
Thelma Avery of Oakdale, Pa., who was graduated from Indiana State Teachers College in 1928, died December 1, 1933. She was a member of Carnegie Chapter of Indiana Alumni.
1932
John Ifert was killed in an automobile accident August 24, 1933.
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These pages of the Alumni News are given over to news from the newly organized Indiana Clubs. This section is in reality the big feature of this issue. No one who reads these reports will doubt for a minute that the real "Indiana Spirit" is finding an interesting and useful means of functioning. Not all clubs have sent in news, but we want to urge the secretary of each organization to keep the President of the Alumni Association informed of all get-togethers for the benefit of others.
Verona (Alpha)
The Verona club has the distinction of being the first group of Indiana Alumni to organize under the new plan, hence the name, Alpha. The organization was effected in June, 1933, and a bridge-tea was held the same month. In October, 1933, a business meeting was called and program, constitution, and activities committees began work. Attrac- tive yearbooks have been prepared and the program for next year is well under way. Plans are being made for a benefit for the Jane E. Leonard Memorial Student Loan Fund.
Johnstown
The Johnstown Alumni of the Indiana State Teachers College en- joyed a dinner meeting January 30, 1934, in the social rooms of the Memorial Baptist Church with Arthur N. Stull serving as toastmaster. The following program was carried out:
Invocation Dr. C. C. Owens
Group Singing Mary Lowman
The Local Unit Vera Simpson
Trombone Solo Charles Aikey
Address J. M. Uhler
Piano Solo Harriet Hosmer
Address Dr. Charles R. Foster
Organization and election of officers
Mr. H. M. Stull, Miss Florence Patch, and Miss Clarice Grumbling were selected as representatives to the Executive Council meeting to be held February 4, 1934, at Indiana. More than two hundred attended the organization meeting and much enthusiasm for the local unit plan was expressed.
Heilwood
Meetings were held every two months in the Heilwood High School auditorium. One evening was devoted to bridge, one was a social eve- ning, one featured Rev. Pfohl, Dr. Foster, Dean Walsh, Misses Simpson, Lowman, Remsberg, and King from the College; and one evening was given over to a theater party. Thus the year was characterized by social events. Plans are well under way for next year.
Pittsburgh
On March 13, 1934, at the College Club in Pittsburgh, there was held the first general meeting of the Pittsburgh unit. Dr. Foster, Miss Ackerman, and Miss Simpson attended the affair and gave interesting
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talks on the purpose of such unit organizations. At this meeting the officers were elected.
A meeting of the officers, representatives, and executive commit- tee of the Pittsburgh unit of Indiana was held Wednesday evening, March 21, 1934, at the home of the president, Mrs. Paul A. Murray, 5425 Plainfield Street, Squirrel Hill. The purpose of this meeting was to draw up the constitution and by-laws for the unit. The constitution and by-laws have been prepared for adoption at the fall meeting of the unit.
On April 21, 1934, Squirrel Hill District held a benefit bridge party at the Colonial School, Murray Avenue . One of the satisfying results of the party was the fact that thirty-two additional Indiana graduates were inspired to become members of the unit. We feel that to increase our membership by thirty-two members at this function was worth all our enthusiasm and efforts put forth for the affair. The contributions from this party have been turned over to the Jane E. Leonard Schol- arship Fund.
On May 12, 1934, East Liberty District held a bridge and theater party at the Sheridan Square Theater. We are glad to report that this party added additional members.
On Tuesday evening, May 22, 1934, the Highland Park District held a bridge party at the home of Rose and Helen Brennan, 952 North Negley Avenue. Our report was made up before the details of this party could be obtained.
The Homestead-Munhall District is planning a fall bridge lunch- eon at the South Hills Country Club. A business meeting and various other activities are being planned for the rest of the year.
As a unit we are considering three fields of work before us for this year, each of great importance.
These fields are:
GOOD FELLOWSHIP— which must be first with us and always.
THE EDUCATIONAL FUND— wherewith we can assist the young of today to become more competent and intelligent rulers of the future.
OUR ALMA MATER — which will shine as a beacon light, assur- ing the whole world of our sincerity in carrying out its wonderful ideals.
Our motto for this year is, "Not for self, but for others."
Jeannette
On October 18, 1933, the first meeting of the Jeannette Unit of the Indiana State Teachers College Alumni Association was called by Dr. H. Ney Prothero at the Jeannette High School building. After deciding to organize a unit, an election of officers followed. The newly elected president, Lillian O. Stahl, requested the group to meet at the High School on November 8, 1933, for the purpose of discussing a social gathering. Mrs. R. S'. Davis offered her home for this meet- ing, held December 7, 1933. Dr. Foster, Miss Jennie M. Ackerman, and Miss Vera Simpson attended and extended their best wishes for a most successful unit.
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On April 20, 1934, a spring banquet was held in the Crystal Room of the Penn Albert Hotel in Greensburg. Red and slate programs and decorations brightened the tables with the school colors. The sing- ing of the Alma Mater preceded the dinner. Edith Anderson led the group in singing familiar songs at intervals during the dinner. The president, Lillian Stahl, ably introduced the speakers. Mr. William Smith, a representative of the Punxsutawney, Pa.. Unit, grew reminis- cent about the days when he was teacher and coach at Indiana. The group reminded Mr. John H. Elliott, assistant county superintendent, of many humorous stories before he told of some of the more recent improvements in education and recalled his early days in the educa- tive field. Dr. H. Ney Prothero, Jeannette physician and Indiana gtraduate, contrasted the graduate of today with that of a few de- cades ago in a brief and interesting speech.
Leechburg
Friday evening, May 11, 1934, the Leechburg Unit of the Indiana Alumni Association was organized and the officers were elected. Twer- ty-five members have already been enrolled and we expect to have several others within a few weeks. Another meeting will be called very soon when definite plans for activities will be formulated.
Indiana and White Township
The Indiana Borough and White Township alumni held their or- ganization meeting at the College on Tuesday evening, October 24, 1933. After the dinner, served in the College dining room, the group, numbering 125, met in Recreation Hall. They were delightfully en- tertained by Mr. Robert Turansky, who played two violin solos, and Mrs. Irma Bartholomew, who sang a group of songs. The plan of organization was explained by Miss Vera Simpson, President of the General Alumni Association. Dr. Charles R. Foster and Mr. Norman Koontz, Superintendent of the Indiana Schools, addressed the meeting, which was in charge of Mrs. Clarence Watson of town. After the business of organization was effected, Mr. Wm. Ruddock, the newly elected president addressed the meeting. Mr. Norman Koontz and Mr. J. A. Lubold, Principal of the Indiana High School, were made honorary members of the Indiana local unit.
During January, 1934, an intensive membership drive was made. More than 300 members were enrolled. This number has since been increased. On April 27, 1934, a very delightful bridge and dance was held in Recreation Hall at the College. Norman Parks' orchestra furnished the music to which many danced while others played cards. The hall was beautifully decorated and made a splendid setting for the first social meeting of the Indiana club.
Barnesboro
The real activities of the. Barnesboro alumni did not get under- way until March 24, 1934. On this date a luncheon was held at the Brandon Hotel. The organization was effected with the election of
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officers and the appointment of committees. Dean Walsh spoke at the luncheon meeting and Vera Simpson, President of the General Alumni Association, helped to effect the organization. Although our unit started late, there is much enthusiasm and instead of waiting for next year to start activities a bridge luncheon is planned for and will be held Saturday, June 9, 1934.
Chartiers Valley
On October 23, 1933, Indiana Alumni from the various towns in Chartiers Valley met in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, and effected a form- al organization. The evening was devoted entirely to business and getting acquainted.
At a second meeting held December 4, 1934, Miss Agnes Nesbilt reviewed most interestingly Van Loon's Geography. On January 8, 1934, Mr. Norman Glasser, Superintendent of the Carnegie Schools, spoke to the group on Use of Leisure Time. As a benefit feature, the unit secured as the evening's attraction The University of Pittsburgh Male Glee Club. The community was delighted with the concert. From the proceeds of the concert a contribution of $35.00 was made to the Jane E. Leonard Memorial Loan Fund. The last meeting of the year was held May 8, 1934. Officers were elected for the ensuing year and a social hour was enjoyed. The year's program through- out was pronounced successful and all prospects indicate an even better year to follow.
Somerset
The Somerset County Alumni, exclusive of Windber, held an or- ganization meeting October 20, 1933. This meeting was marked by real enthusiasm and plans were initiated for a Christmas banq^t. The banquet was held at the Green Gables Inn in Jennerstown. Vera Simpson, President of the General Alumni Association, was present and addressed the meeting on the subject, The Purposes and Scope of the New Alumni Movement. Flossie Wagner, a member of the College faculty gave an interesting talk on the subject, Around the Campus. After the banquet the evening was spent in dancing.
Indiana was much in the limelight on the evening of April 18, 1934, when our unit sponsored a benefit bridge in Somerset. This event proved highly successful. The unit was able from the proceeds to make a contribution of $35.00 to the Jane E. Leonard Memorial Student Loan Fund.
Connellsville
The Connellsville unit at first part of the Fayette County organi- zation, now a separate unit, carried on its activities for the year jointly with Uniontown. The Fayette-Indiana Alumni Luncheon was held in Connellsville, March 24, 1934. The speakers for the occa- sion were Dr. Charles R. Foster, Senator Harry Bell, and Repre- sentative Harry Brownfield.
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Freeport
The Freeport group, one of the first to respond to the call for the organization of local alumni units, dates from August 3, 1933. The outstanding activity of the year was the Christmas party held at the home of Margaret Bruce Clark, president of the unit. The mem- bers of the unit were guests of the Tarentum unit at a luncheon held at the Brackenridge Heights Country Club Saturday, May 19, 1934.
Blairsville
The Blairsville Unit of the Indiana Alumni Association was form- ally organized at a dinner meeting November 15, 1933. This meeting was held in the dining room of the Home Economics Department of the local high school and was under the management of Miss Margaret North, head of the department. The orgnization was effected under the leadership of Miss Vera Simpson, President of the General Alumni As- sociation. In December, 1933, a joint business and social meeting was held. In February, 1934, the Executive Council met and planned for a benefit bridge and dance to be held in March. This proved to be a most enjoyable occasion and the proceeds are to be given to the Jane E. Leonard Memorial Fund. Interesting events for next year are being planned.
Wilkinsburg
The organization of this unit was effected October 11, 1933. This meeting took the form of a tea at which Indiana graduates renewed acquaintances and formally organized an Alumni Unit. A most inter- esting event was the tea given on December 29, 1933. Indiana students home for the holidays were guests of the alumni. It is hoped to make this holiday tea an annual event. A bridge luncheon was held at the Penn-Lincoln Hotel in Wilkinsburg on May fifth. Miss Hope Stewart and Miss Jennie M. Ackerman were honor guests at this luncheon. Other faculty members from Indiana also attended. Miss Nelle Maxwell who is president of the Wilkinsburg Unit has also as- sisted in the organization of the Duquesne Unit.
McKeesport
An organization/ meeting was held in the local Y. M. C. A., on February 27, 1934. Mrs. John Norton took charge of the meeting and explained the purposes of the organization after which the formal organization was effected.
A bridge luncheon was held at the Elks Club, McKeesport, on Saturday, April 7. Miss Maude Woods, head of the Commercial De- partment in the McKeesport High School, was toastmistress and in- troduced the guests from Indiana, Dr. Foster, Mrs. Foster, Miss Acker- man, and Miss Simpson.
Eighty-seven of the alumni were present and the committee in charge was Mrs. Mary Pierce Weddell, Miss Edna Eba, Miss Ruth Smith, Mrs. Albert Giffin Hoak, Mrs. Margaret Bell Getty, Mrs. Edna Cooley Larson, Miss Irene Feeney, Miss Ruth Larson, and Miss Cleona Watson.
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Forty-eight tables of bridge were at play in the Auditorium of the Masonic Temple on Saturday, April 28, 1934. Tea followed the cards. Miss Margaret Russell and Mrs. Elizabeth Newlin poured from a long table beautifully decorated with candles and a center piece of spring flowers. The committees in charge were: tickets, Mrs. Samuel Richards, Miss Dorothy Porter, Mrs. Arthur Duff, Mrs. Robert Russell, Mrs. George Edmundson, Miss Edyth Batchelor, Miss Hazel Hardy, Mrs. Gardner Ferguson, Miss Annette Henderson, Miss Olivia Calder, Mrs. Emmett Flynn, and Mrs. Helen Griffin; cards, Mrs. Law- rence Strong, Miss Catherine McFadden, Miss Florence Rhoades, Mis3 Mary Stein, Miss Vera Wilt; tea, Mrs. George E. Wells, Mrs. A. A, Wertenbach, Mrs. E. S. Bracken, Mrs. Frank Hopke, Mrs. John Caughey, Mrs. Elizabeth Newlin, Miss Margaret Russell. Interesting plans for next year are already under way. A fashion show prom- ises to be the first event.
Punxsutawney
At an organization meeting in the fall of 1933, plans for the year were made. Both educational and social meetings were to be included in the year's activities. Following this idea one meeting was devot°d to a card party. At another time a meeting was devoted to reminis- cing, singing Indiana songs, and telling Indiana tales. Miss Erna Grassmuck spoke at an educational meeting on the subject, Minute- Men in Education. The year closed with a business and social meeting.
Beaver Valley
In a scattered area the task of unifying a group is difficult. This difficulty, however, has not proved a serious handicap to the In- diana graduates of Beaver Valley. Three meetings have been held and real enthusiasm is developing. The first meeting was devoted to the business of organization. A second meeting at the home of Mrs. R. H. Fischer in Beaver was spent in playing bridge. The last meet- ing of the year was at the home of Mrs. L. S. Patton in Aliquippa. The idea of meeting at the homes of alumni in different towns has been most successful and will probably continue next year.
Mount Pleasant
The Mount Pleasant Unit was organized October 24, 1933. A banquet was held in the social room of the United Brethren Church on February 1, 1934. Guest speakers were Dr. Foster, Miss Simp- son, and Miss Ackerman. Reverend Harry Clawson of near Mount Pleasant acted as toastmaster.
Plans are being made for a spring dinner party to be held at Crawford Inn, Connellsville, on May 3, 1934. Entertainment will be in the form of bridge and other games.
Burgettstown
We had three interesting meetings at which an organization was effected. Officers were elected, plans discussed, and reminiscences of school days exchanged. We were represented at the first two lunch- eons given at Indiana for the Executive Council. Our last event plan-
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ned for May, 1934, had to be postponed but will be held at the close of school. -We are looking forward to a pleasant and successful year for all the Indiana Association Units.
Altoona
On October 9, 1933, Mrs. C. J. Rodgers held the first meeting of the Indiana Alumni of Altoona and vicinity in the Roosevelt Junior High School. Officers were elected: Mrs. C. J. Rodgers being selected President; Miss Clara Cockerille, Vice-President; Miss Marian Hoffman, Secretary; Miss Grace Morrow, Treasurer. Committee heads were appointed as follows: membership, Miss Lorena Armstrong; social, Miss Alma Eberle; by-laws, Mrs. Harry Kjellman; and press representative, Miss Mary Louise Jamison. Representatives to the Executive Council were chosen. Arrangements for meetings three times a year were decided upon. Miss Elizabeth K. Eyre was given honorary membership.
The membership drive which started October 9, 1933, was suc- cessful in rounding up seventy-five paid members by October 28, 1933.
December 27, 1933, was a gala date for the Altoona branch of the Indiana State Teachers College Alumni Association because that was our Christmas party. We had dinner at 6:30 at the Penn Alto Hotel. Among our guests were Vera Simpson, President of the General Alumni Association at Indiana, Inez Buchanan, and Nelle Ayers, mem- bers of the college faculty. We were entertained by the following numbers: Jack Findlay's trio, a thirty-minute dance recital by stu- dents of Mari Tamsen Houser, readings by Mrs. Dreyfuss, and vocal selections by Mr. Howard Lindaman. We sang our Alma Mater song in conclusion to this delightful party.
January 29, 1934, with Dr. C. R. Foster, President of Indiana State Teachers College, as guest of honor, the organization held its next business meeting. Mr. R. E. Laramy, Superintendent of Altoona schools, introduced Dr. Foster, who gave a very enjoyable and appro priate address. Members were chosen to go to Indiana February 3, 1934. Miss Elizabeth Eyre was chosen as chairman of the member- ship committee for the next three months. Plans were made for a St. Patrick's Day bridge party with Miss Eberle as chairman.
The bridge party, sponsored by the Indiana State Teachers College Alumni Association of Altoona, was held at the Penn Alto Hotel at 2 o'clock St. Patrick's Day. There were 300 guests and members present. Mrs. C. J. Rodgers greeted the guests. Miss Marie Adler sang two Irish songs and Iolla Paul gave an Irish reading. Miss Hope Stewart, Dean of Women at Indiana, gave a short talk. Miss Vera Simpson, Miss Flossie Wagner, and Miss Inez Buchanan were also our guests. There were some very beautiful door prizes given as well as a prize for each table.
On April 30, 1934, this organization held its third business meet- ing in the auditorium of the Senior High School. Prior to the meeting members of the association entertained Miss Jennie M. Ackerman and Miss Mary Hart at a dinner. After the members assembled for the meeting they were entertained; first, by the Altoona Works Choir
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under the direction of Mr. Howard Lindaman; second, by dancing pre- sented by pupils of Mari Tamsen Houser; third, by readings given by Mrs. Hersog. The regular business was then attended to. The group decided to give $25.00 to the Jane E. Leonard Memorial Fund. A suggestion for a summer get-to-gether was made but nothing definite was decided. Miss Ackerman gave a talk on Indiana and her Alumni. After the business meeting all retired to an adjoining room for ice cream and cake while they chatted about the past, present, and future.
Lawrence County
On May 8, 1934, a group of Indiana Alumni met in the Y. M. C. A. for the purpose of forming an Alumni Association of Lawrence County. At this meeting officers were elected and a by-laws committee appointed. A second meeting was held on May 22, 1934. Many have been interviewed and are interested but were unable to attend these meetings. We hope to have many more members in the near future.
Uniontown
The Uniontown group made a fine start at the fall meeting held in Uniontown. A large group of Alumni responded to an invitation to play cards, sing, dance, and eat at the Court House Tea Room. The committee in charge of the meeting were Mary K. Johnson, Garnet Jeffries, Eloise Chorpenning, Harry Brownfield, Robert Fee, and Anna F. Leonard.
A spring luncheon was held at Connellsville. This meeting proved a most delightful event. Present were Dr. Charles R. Foster, Presi- dent of the College, State Senator Harry Bell, and Representative Harry Brownfield. Each in his characteristic way spoke to the group. Uniontown has had a fine year and plans are under way for next fall.
Ebensburg
We have held two meetings, the first on February 26, 1934, the second on May 21, 1934. The first meeting which was held for the purpose of organization was a dinner meeting. Mr. E. M. Johnston presided at this meeting. The feature of the evening was the delight- ful reminiscing of Miss Sarah Gallaher who was graduated from Indi- ana fifty years ago. In her own delightful manner, she made real to all present the history of Indiana's early days. The second meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Evans and was a most enjoyable social event.
North Boroughs, Pittsburgh
A very successful bridge for the benefit of the Jane E. Leonard Student Loan Fund was held by the North Side and North Boroughs Unit of the Indiana State Teachers College on January 13, 1934, at the American Legion Home on Home avenue, Avalon. Mrs. Ralph O. Pinkerton was general chairman for the affair, assisted by Mrs. George Snodgrass and Mrs. James Campbell. The following committees served: prizes, Mrs. H. H. Lloyd, Miss Lorain Hoak, Miss Nelle Hudson; tickets, Miss Mary Wyman, assisted by the following district chairmen: Mrs. Charles Vogel, Mrs. Carl Bauer, Miss Beatrice Armstrong, Miss Char- lotte McCutcheon, Mrs. Harry Ferguson, Miss Marjorie Canning, Miss
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Wilma Marlatt and Mrs. Walter Rainbow. The affair netted $50.00 for the Loan Fund as well as serving as a reunion for Alumni and friends. The spring meeting of the Unit was held at Spear's. Luncheon was served, followed by a business and social meeting. Officers for the ensuing year remain the same as during the present year.
Duquesne
The Duquesne Unit was organized October 10, 1933. At this time an enthusiastic group of Alumni met and made plans for the year. On January 30, 1934, the mid-winter meeting took the form of a banquet. This was a most enjoyable occasion. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Davis attended the meeting as representatives of the college. Mr. Davis in his characteristically humorous manner entertained the group with an after dinner speech. On May 2, 1934, the group held a social meeting and made plans for the coming year.
Washington
The first meeting of the year was held on Saturday, October 21, 1933, at the George Washington Hotel. We had thirty-three gradu- ates at this meeting and since that time our membership has grown until we now have an enrollment of fifty-three members. It was agreed that we have meetings every two months, both of a business and social nature. Officers for the year were elected.
The second meeting was held at the home of Miss Helen Miller.
The next meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Janet Little Ban- field of Houston with Miss Flora Agnew and Mrs. Alice Ingram as joint hostesses.
A summer meeting probably in the form of a luncheon has been planned for June, 1934, as the final meeting for the year.
We have made some very fine contacts this year and hope to con- tinue the next year with more success and to have a larger and more plentiful pocket-book for our Alumni Association.
Miss Edna Lee Sprowls, a teacher at the college whose home is at Canonsburg, Pa., has been made an honorary member of our Asso- ciation. Miss Marshall of Houston, Pa., of the Class of 1895 was also made an honorary member.
Nanty-Glo
Alumni of Indiana State Teachers College in Blacklick Valley met in Nanty-Glo High School auditorium Monday evening, May 21, 1934, and organized the Blacklick Valley Alumni Association. The organi- zation embraces residents of Nanty-Glo, Twin Rocks, and Vintondale.
The first part of the meeting was devoted to the election of officers for the coming year and a delegate to the alumni conference to be held in Indiana Saturday, May 26, 1934.
Following the business session interesting talks on the benefiits of the alumni association to the graduates and undergraduates were given by Dean M. J. Walsh of the college, Miss Vera Simpson and L. C. Davis of the college staff.
Plans are being made for meetings and social events to be held in the fall when college opens.
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Braddock
The Braddock Unit was organized on January 25, 1934. Dessalee Rees was elected President of the Unit; Eva Brown, Vice-President; Hildur Bostrom, Treasurer, and Lillias Wilson, Secretary.
On February 9, 1934, a lovely Valentine Tea was held; on March 12, 1934, the unit sponsored a St. Patrick's Day party. A delightful dinner and card party was held on May 17, 1934, and a picnic is planned for June 14, 1934. The Braddock Unit has had a most active and enthusiastic group, a large paid membership, and a program of useful and worthwhile activities.
GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, INDIANA,
PENNSYLVANIA
President Vera Amy Simpson
Vice-President Judge Charles E. Whitten
Secretary Ethel Waddell
Treasurer Mary L. Esch
Local Alumni Units
OAKMONT-VERONA (ALPHA)
President Margaret Schaney Peters
Vice-President Sarah C. Hillard
Secretary Ruth Hochberg Turner
Treasurer Dorothea Knoell
FREEPORT
President Margaret Bruce Clark
Secretary Agnes Van Dyke
Treasurer Harriett Barrett
Representatives Mary Louise Call, Harriett Barrett
PITTSBURGH Sub-districts — Oakland, Schenley Farms, Squirrel Hill, East Liberty,
Regent Square, Homestead, Aspinwall, Millvale, Etn3,
Sharpsburg, Highland Park.
President Mrs. P. A. Murray
Vice-President Helen Brennan
Secretary Jennie Munro
Treasurer Helen MacWilliams
Representatives Mrs. Benjamin Steinberg,
Pearl Price, Mrs. P. A. Murray BEAVER VALLEY Sub-district — Aliquippa, Midland, Rochester, Beaver Falls.
President Helen Colvin
Vice-President Mrs. R. H. Fischer
Secretary Thelma Whinnie
Treasurer Elizabeth Cullcy
Representative Margaret Dickey
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ALTOONA
President Mrs. C. J. Rodgers
Vice-President Clara Cockerille
Secretary E. Marian Hoffman
Treasurer Grace M. Morrow
Representatives Mrs. C. J. Rodgers.
Mrs. Margaret Ginter, Bess Gephart, Albert Esterline
WILKINSBURG Sub-districts — Swissvale, Edgewood.
President Nelle Maxwell
Vice-President Clara Kirchner
Secretary Mrs. Ossie Patterson Newbaker
Treasurer : Ruth Ullery
Representatives Emy Lou Lindquist, Josephine Coleman
GREENSBURG
President John H. Elliott
Vice-President Hazel M. Sowash
Secretary Gladys Stump
Treasurer Jean Bailey
heilwood
President „ H. V. Grumbling
Vice-President Lisle Learn
Secretary-Treasurer Orpha Pentz
MOUNT PLEASANT Sub-districts — Scottdale, Mount Pleasant Township, East Huntington Township.
President Orrel E. Freed
Secretary Clarissa G. Overly
Treasurer Charlotte Fox
Representative Mary Jane Noss
CHARTIERS VALLEY Sub-district — Carnegie, Rennerdale, Oakdale, Crafton, Ingram.
President Mrs. Grace Walters Wright
Vice-President Dana Fry
Secretary _ Gladys Cochran
Treasurer Mildred Burkett
Representatives Katherine Malcolm, Marguerite L. McQuiston
RIDGWAY Sub-districts — St. Marys, Johnsonburg, Mount Jewett, Kane, Rew, Duke Center, Emporium, Smethport, Wilcox, Bradford.
President Mrs. Fred Lundin
Vice-President Lorraine McDonald
Secretary Eleanor M. Smedley
Treasurer Virginia Johnson
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SOMERSET Sub-districts — Meyersdale, Berlin, Jennerstown, Stoyestown, Hoovers- ville, and adjacent rural districts.
President Anna E. Shaffer
Vice-President Bernice Meyers
Secretary-Treasurer Mae Arisman
Representative Anna E. Shaffer
PUNXSUTAWNEY
President William F. Smith
Vice-President Rose Wargny
Secretary Theodore Fullerton
Treasurer Dorothy Martin
Representatives Sarah Ellenberger,
Rose Wargny, William F. Smith, Theo Fullerton, Pauline Bland
UNIONTOWN
President W. O. Forman
Secretary Virginia Craig
Treasurer Robert Fee
CONNELLSVILLE
President Frances Soisson
Vice-President Irene Lucius
Secretary Vera Tomaska
Treasurer Mrs. Pauline Arnold Oglevee
Representatives Virginia Tulley, Grace Adams, Helen Miner
BLAIRSVILLE
President Margaret L. North
Vice-President Mrs. J. B. Lintner
Secretary Mrs. Charles Nippes
Treasurer Mrs. John Ackerson
Representatives Robert Neville, Agnes L. Tompkins
TARENTUM
President Mrs. Maude Buck Lardin
Vice-President Mrs. Rachel McGraw Derrick
Secretary Rose E. Carpenter
Treasurer Margaret Humes
BARNESBORO
President William D. Gallagher
Vice-President Mrs. Thelma Sharbaugh Fees
Secretary Helen F. Kortz
Treasurer Mary Rodkey
Representatives Helen Sharbaugh Dillon, Helen Westrick
McKEESPORT
President Ruth Brisbine Norton
Vice-President Irene Feeney
Secretary Josephine Gorman Flynn
Treasurer Frances Broadbent Hopke
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TITUSVILLE
President Jeannette Bchr
Vice-President Virginia Quinn
Secretary Florence Cramm
Treasurer Dolores Sharpe
LEECHBURG
President Dr. H. M. Welsh
Vice-President John McCoy
Secretary Beatrice Bowman
Treasurer Mrs. Jennie Dentzcl
JEANNETTE
President Lillian 0. Stahl
Vice-President Edith Anderson
Secretary Kathryn Cribbs
Treasurer Florence Shustcr
INDIANA AND WHITE TOWNSHIP
President William M. Ruddock, Jr.
Vice-President Mrs. Sara Rowe Christy
Secretary Herbert Gregg
Treasurer Ruth Rink
BURGETTSTOWN
President Kathryn Scott
Vice-President Ethel McNary
Secretary Elizabeth Smiley Harper
Treasurer Lynette Colteryahn
SOUTH HILLS, PITTSBURGH
President Ruby E. Ncal
Vice-President Edna Cunningham
Secretary Sara Martin
Treasurer Eleanor Doeblin
Representatives Mrs. Emor Garwood, Mrs. J. H. Hughes
LAWRENCE COUNTY Sub-districts — New Castle, Ellwood City.
President Mrs. J. A. McNeill
Vice-President Mrs. William Whieldon
Secretary Mrs. Fred Cooney
Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Roy A. Long
Treasurer Hilma Dahl
DUQUESNE
President Mary L. Conlin
Vice-President Mrs. Thomas Smith
Secretary Mrs. J. Howard
Treasurer Anna Williams
Representatives Mary L. Conlin, Adele Wellmicr
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WASHINGTON Sub-districts — Canonsburg, Houston
President Helen Miller
Vice-President Frances Beatty Stunkard
Secretary Marian Fray
Treasurer Evelyn Griffiths Longdon
Recording Secretary Mildred Tucker Burns
APOLLO
President W. C. Crawford
Secretary Anna Snyder
DUBOIS— (Being Organized) Chairman Malinda Knarr
OIL CITY-FRANKLIN— (Being Organized) Chairman Gertrude Plante
EBENSBURG
President E. M. Johnston
Vice-President Sarah M. Gallaher
Secretary Martha H. Jones
Treasurer J. C. William?
NORTH BOROUGHS, PITTSBURGH Sub-districts — Avalon, Bellevue, Sewickley, Ben Avon, West View, Leetsdale.
President Mrs. Edna Freeman St. Clair
Vice-President Marie Dempsey
Secretary Nelle Hudson
Treasurer Mary Wymon
NANTY-GLO Sub-districts — Twin Rocks, Vintondale.
President Paul A. Yingling
Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth Beechey
Vice-President Michael Hozik
Representative Bruce Lybarger
JOHNSTOWN
President Arthur M. Stull
Secretary Salome Cartwright
Treasurer Mary Lockard
BRADDOCK
President Dessalee Rees
Treasurer Mrs. C. O. Bostrorn
Secretary Lillias Wilson
Vice-President Eva Brown
CLEARFIELD President Howard Kuhns
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