isa-normaladvance-1909-00288

Description:	288THE NORMAL ADVANCETo The Class of 1885 Greeting:It has been twenty-four years since we graduated from the Normal school and went out to find our places in the Avorld of affairs.What has this almost a quarter of a century brought to our AlmaMater and Avhat to us ? The school has been growing. Instead ofthe old building in which Ave did our work, there are noAv threelarge modern well-equipped buildings, with a new hundred-thousand-dollar library building in addition, Avhich is almost completed. Instead of the comparatively narrow and totally prescribed course of- study of those days, the school now offers aliberal modern Normal School course and a four-year collegecourse, with much of the work elective, leading to a degree. Instead of an attendance of three to four hundred students, the enrollment has reached almost tAvo thousand.And the class of 85. SeAreral of its members haAre finishedtheir Avork in this world. Let us hope that it was Avell done andthat their reward is all that could be desired by them. SomehaA^e forsaken the teaching profession and have gone off in byand forbidden paths. Let us throw the mantle of charity aboutthem. Perhaps if we had been as strongly tempted we might haA^e made as great mistakes. Thewhereabouts of some members of the class are not known either to the writer or to our AlmaMater. Let us look these up. Some members of the class are faithfully applying the pedagogicalprecepts learned in the old days. They sustain the reputation of the class. Let us give themcredit. Finally, let us hope that to each and every one has come that calm peace, that satisfaction of soul that comes to eA^ery one Avho feels that he has done the best he could.When next commencement rolls around our class will be just twenty-five years old. A quarterof a century old! Does it not seem that Ave should in 1910 have a rousing reunion ? Several ofus Avho live near the school are planning for it, and Ave propose to do everything in our poAver tohave every member of 85 present at this reunion. We hope that eAery one who reads this >villbegin to plan for it now and that Ave may be able to reach every member of the class. Will younot help ? Suggestions concerning this meeting will be gladly received byYours truly,John B. Wisely.JOHN B, WISELY, 85Head of Department of Grammar and Composition, Indiana State NormalRoll Call1. W. E. Alexander, Bedford, Ind.2. Mrs. Jessie Fuller Alexander (Newark,N.J.)3. Fannie Batty, deceased.4. Jennie Blasdel, deceased.5. O. T. Dunagan, principal of High School,Mooney, Ind. Home at Center Point,Ind.6. James F. Engle, Bloomingdale, Ind.7. J. T. Graves, attornev, Monticello, Ind.8. William E. Henry, librarian, University ofWashington, Seattle, Wash.9. J. M. Hudelson, deceased.10. A. C. Hunnicutt, deceased.11. Mrs. Nannie Hunter Lloyd, Pimento, Ind.12. F. Morgenthaler, superintendent of schools,Rockport, Ind.13. Milo W. Nethercutt, Logansport, Ind.14. W. R, Nesbit, Sullivan, Ind.15. Mrs. Dora Hope Soper, Chicago.
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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