The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
HAYS IS PROUD OF ONE OF ITS
GIRLS
The Record Which Kathryn O'Lough-
lin Made at the State Schcool
Here Is Believed to be the
RaSf in Kanszs

lin Made at the State Schcool
Here is Believed to be the
Best in Kansas.
The Free Press has seen IL many
of the Kansas dailies of the past few
days many accounts of the record
which Miss Kathryn O'Loughlin of
Hays, has made at the Fort Hays
Kansas Normal School.
The Free Press does not wish to
quote those articles, as they were
written for newspapers outside of
Hays. The Free Press only wishes
to call attention to them to show that
a record such as Miss O'Loughlin has
only that, but big paper outside of
the state, seeing the articles, wrote
to Hays for further facts and pic
ture of Miss O'LOughlin-
Miss O'Loughlin offered for grad
uatiOn the largest amount of credits
ever offered for graduation at the
Fort Hays Normal. Like all the state
schools, as well as colleges and uni
versitieS elsewhere, 120 credit hours
are required for the degree. She
had 154, thirty-four more than
enough. She had made these during
the four years in school
Although she carried this amount
of regular studies, her activities
greater than any girl in the
history of the school, and at
least to any boy She was
editor-in-chief of the Reveille
the school annual, president
of the Kansas Inter-nOrmal Forensic
League comprising the normal schools
of Emporia, Pittsburg and Hays, lea
der of an intercollegiate debate team
that won an unanimous decision, won
the gold medal for the best writer in
school, was a member of the staff and
music editor of the school newspa-
per,-The Leader, was a member of
the normal school orchestra for four
years, was a delegate several times
to the interstate oratorical contest
IN other states, was a member of
general executive committee of the
organized student body twice.
Her hobby might be said to be
making pep" speeches. Jack Grow
er, the best football official in the
Missouri Valley complimented her on
her football rally speeches. Presi-
dent W A. Brandenburg not only
complimented her but thanked her
for the pep" speech she made at
the Pittsburg Normal school the day
after a strike Of the boys of that
school when Miss O'Loughlin's speech
helped "thaw out" the strikers.
Among her many honors one of the
most unique was that one when she
was chosen by c. W. Miller, Sr., to
read at the formal program the let
ter of felicitation which President
Woodrow Wilson sent for the 1917
Presidnet's Day at the Normal School
here in Hays.
She played basketball and took
part in several class and school plays.
She expects to attend the Univers-
ity of Chicago next year to begin her
study of her life profession, that of
law.
Miss O'Loughlin was chosen as one
of the seniors this year to bid formal
farewell to the school campus. The
last sentence of her speech as pub
lished in The Leader shows her
feeling towards the Fort Hays
Kansas Normal School which had
honored her so many times. That
sentence was:
MAY these farewells today to
these class rooms and to these iabora-
tories be constant and ever present
admonitions to US that Democracy.
the geologist leveleth all men; that
for Liberty, the chemist, man is the
I6IOIIS IHdI 1OI AmSIlCdy IHS melting
pot, Kansas is the crucible in which
the product is tested and the Fort
Hays Kansas Normal School the place
where that knowledge is spread
throughout the land"
Miss O'Loughlin is strictly Hays
girl having been born and reared
here. She is a graduate of the Hays
/ High School. The Free Press con-
graduates her on her record and be
/ speaks her a successful career in
her chosen profession.