isa-normaladvance-1914-00218

Description:	218THE NORMAL ADVANCElocal Jleto*The State Normal was called upon the first Aveek in May by the official board of visitors. This board is appointed by the State Board of Education annually to visit and inspect the Normal and its Avork, and consists of H. A. King, president of Moores Hill College J. R. Houston, superintendent of schools at Aurora, and R. Park, superintendent of the Sullivan County schools. The visitors spent several days at Normal, inspecting the work in the class rooms.Miss Theresa Vandiver of Clay City visited Normal Monday, May 4, as the guest of Mr. Schlegal.Mr. M. King, the deputy state auditor, vis¬ ited Normal Monday, May 4.Miss Nannie C. Dunn spend Saturday and Sunday, May 9 and 10, in Wheatland, Ind. She attended the high school commencement and alumni banquet.Miss Norma Wilson had as her guest her father and mother from Aurora, Ind., May 2 and 3.Miss Jessie Smith of Vincennes was the guest of Miss Eva Davis May 2 and 3.Miss Kretcher entertained Avith a6 oclock dinner in honor of Miss Smith at Roots tea room.Miss Zoe Bodenhafer of Middletown was the guest of her sister, Bernice, Saturday and Sunday, May 2 and 3. Miss Bodenhafer vis¬ ited the Alethenai Literary Society Saturday morning.Miss Faun McKamey visited her parents in Cloverdale May 2 and 3.Miss Eva Davis visited her parents in Vin¬ cennes April 25 and 26.Mr. Walter Wakefield, a former student, spent a few days Aisiting friends the last of April.Miss Lulu Seever of Carlisle visited her sis¬ ter, Frances, April 25 and 26.Miss Carrie Seever, a graduate of the Nor¬ mal Course of 1912, Avas married to Mr. Emery Drake April 25. They Avent to housekeeping on a farm near Fairbanks.Miss Ruby Curry a former Mu Zeta, visited the Sorority Tuesday, May 5.L. H. Hemmer visited his brother, E. J. Hemmer, on April 24-26. While here, he at¬ tended the Interstate Debate.Cxcfmnge ColumnWE must take advantage of this, our fare¬ well appearance, to extend our hearti¬ est thanks to the schools which have co-oper¬ ated with us that we, as a school, have gained much through these glimpses into circles of interest other than our own. The narroAving influence of school life is apparent to any care¬ ful observer and any means of counteracting such influence should be eagerly and grate¬ fully seized. Moreover, there is (should be) a feeling of friendly comradeship among the students of all the schools which girdle this fair earth. The very fact that we are all stu¬ dents, intent on the search for that truthAvhich shall make us free of our daily limita¬ tions, forms a more intimate bond than any other community of interest. Immuned with¬ in the four walls of our own particular school, and buried among the absorbing volumes Avhich hold the Avisdom of the ages between their unpretentious covers, we are apt to form this wider interest and it is well that these papers, like a sudden breath of fresh invigor¬ ating air sweeping through a long-closed room, should rouse us to a perception of what the rest of the Avorld is doing. For all these things we say once more, thank you.We have long prided ourseh^es on the St.
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