The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-06
NEWS { NOTES OF THE FORT HAYS NORMAL SCHOOL,
Gathered by the Special Correspondent the

| ThIrty-one letters 70 FORMER NOT
NAL boys now in the service of Uncle
Sam have already been forwarded
from one of the English classes of
the school The four best letters in
this batch were those by Katherine
Mitchell, Esther Reemsnyder, Flor
| ence NJ. Laubmann and Julia E.
Stone.
The Free Press prints below copy
of Miss MitchelPs letter TO Elmo
Meade:
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i Hays, Kansas, Sept, 26, 1917.
Mr. Elmo Meade,
4 18th, Inf. Co. l.,
Am. Elk. Force, France.
Dear Soldier Boy:
No doubt you have already glanced
at the signature at the close of this
letter and are somewhat disappointed
to find there the name of a perfect
stranger.
Well, let's forget that we have not
been formally introduced and l will
try to tell you of some of the changes
in and around Fort Hays Normal
since you left. l fear that l do not
even know the hour, the day or the
month you left, but this l do know
that you were the first Normal boy
to arrive in France and l surely Of
fer you my congratulations l might
add that felt highly honored in hav-
ing this privilege of writing to you,
thrust upon me.
Probably it is now time to tell you
that l am simply obeying the powers
that be-" for am a Freshman taking
College English under whom? Well,
I'll leave that to your imagination
just now. You are a soldier and
when you are commanded to fire, you
fire; l am a Freshman and when l
/ Id I
though it be nothing but words.
Well, enough of this comedy
what do you want to know? AS
/ everything is new to me here, let's
go through the buildings together.
The coliseum looks rather imposing
with its brand new flag fiutterlng
away in the breeze, so let's see if it
has something besides looks. The
foyer is an index of what we may eX-
pect and I'll say it is beauty and
will be even more attractive when
the trophy case with footballs, pic
lures and cups is brought over from
the administration building and
placed in its position of state
Mr.. Bieker's Office occupies d
prominent position to the right end
of the foyer, with the faculty room
at the left end. You will find Mr.
Wood hammering away at black
floor. Wooster, Matthew, Rouse and
Davis hold fort on the second with
the finer arts soaring skyward till
they reach the rafters of the third
floor. Here we hear a voice saying
''the difficulty is all in your head and
not in your throat" and We know
that Malloy is not far away. Here
Pestana, Christopher, Mrs. Malloy
and Hamilton.
What's doing at the administration
building-some moving I'll say
glad Pm not the housekeeper. Park
err has Malloy's old office and when
the library is moved Miss Schoenhals
will have part of that space, Shively
having the part where the period
icals now are. Room Is has consent
ed to become a life pardner with the
museum and ere long the partition
will be a thing of the past. The Col
lege English room has also felt the
! progressive move and will be salts
p fed with nothing less than the
old Office, with Harvey's sanctun
where President Lewis once hello
= sway.
S, The entire down stairs of the IN
e dustrial building is to be given over
IS to "eats." I'll bet that's where yoU
l. shine, isn't it, and yes-by the way
s how do you fare along that line
= Hope you are not acquiring such ;
fastidious taste that hoe cake vii
not be appreciated when you com.
IL back to the dining hall. Domestic
'r Science is going up, like everything
else in war times, and will have th'
e. upper floor, art, not Art-who? bu
Domestic Art will take Wooster's anC
IS Matthew's old room.
y Probably you might like to know
something of the personnel of the
= new faculty members: J. E. Rouse
graduate of University of Wisconsin
= comes as assistant to Mr.. Matthews
Rel Christopher from Warren, Ohio
soloist in Chautauqua orchestra a
Chautauqua, n. Y, takes Mr.. Knorr'
place as head of the band; LcRet
Cave as assistant in domestic scienc
and teacher of German and Latin
Olivia Youngquist, takes the place o.
Miss Stone in the rural schools, ant
Marie Hamilton as assistant in piano
| wonder if ouplayed footballwhe1
you were here. l think Uncle Sam
my must have some of our boys a
any rate, for there were only thin
ten out to the first practice-two o
them letter men. Eighteen has beel
the highest number at any time bu
others are expected in this week.
among them Rex WeIty, Brun
mr. and Compton. Mr.. Harve
has taken picture of tn
team. for the State paper, OF
we expect to be doing things befor
long. Have games on with Southwest
en, Haskell Indians, st. Mary:
Baker University, Salina Wesleyan
. Bethany and Cooper, which is to b
- the Thanksgiving game and playe
at Hays.
Oh, say, 1 suppose you remembe
your first assembly meeting here .
school and how you were impresse
with President Lewis fatherly &C
vice. Those who have been here fo
severalyears say it does not vary frol
year to year, but is an annual affair
Lest you have forgotten some of thu
speech I am going to try and reea
some of it, for it was my first expel
fence and I really thought it We
good. He said homesickness was
condition of the stomach and not tn
head, so If you ever dare have any c
the symptoms don't forget his miro
cure. He promised to write letter