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  • THE CULLOWHEE YODEL MB ALEXANDER PRAISES WORK AT CULLOWHEE (Continued from page 1) greater progress under a president than Cullowhee has under the leadership of President Hunter. He has a vision for the school, and if properly supported, this vision will be made a reality. Again, the faculty at Cullowhee is second to none. No one can visit the school and fail to see and feel the influence of the faculty. The methods employed in the Training School and College departments rank among the best. The desire 'to serve' seems to permeate the whole atmosphere. While there, I was much impressed with President Hunter's success in constantly raising the standards of teaching. Anyone acquainted with or interested in recent pro- i education will find Cullo- study." Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen In Lyceum Attraction (Continued from page 1) nailed to the stands; about the railroads which had to be built to carry food; about the water pipes which had to be run under the sands of the desert; then, when the soldiers had reached the front of the mountains which overlooked the Holy City, about the other water pipes which were connected with the great acqueduct of Augustus Caesar on the mountain; and finally about the capture of the Holy City. Mrs. Owen described several hos- . pital scenes bringing out the horrors of war; and then she said that she hoped the U. S. would help the other nations to see the advantages of settling their disputes around the peace table rather than by sacrificing their splendid youth in war. As a concluding statement Mrs. Owen said, "There are two 'ships' which the U. S. needs to improve— Citizenship and Statesmanship." THE YODEL ORIGINATED WITH MOUNTAIN SWISS (Continued from page 1) Even among the hills of our own Western North Carolina it can often be heard, sometimes only as an echo, again, clear and joyous. It is for this reason, the name, "The Cullowhee Yodel" presented by Miss Clutie Bloodworth, was accepted and adopted as the name of our school paper. The sub title of our Paper, which was presented by Present Hunter, lends a final significance to its name, for we, like the shepherd boys among the hills of Switzerland have an original message of joy and good will which we wish to send from our school to others. Ours is "A Neighborly Call Prom the Hills to Kindred Spirits Everywhere." !t is through the pages of the Yodel that our message echoes in the n°tes of our school work, various activities, and recreations. We wish others to know of the good things We enjoy, therefore, we send it joyously echoing through our western mountains, to the plains, even throughout the dominion of our great republic. (From The Cullowhee Yodel, Jan., 1925) Plans Being Made For Cullowhee Tournament (Continued from page 1) Although the Yodelers will not enter the tournament, all of the Normal students are looking forward to it with great enthusiasm. The tournament for 1929 is expected to be the greatest ever held on the campus, and, even though it is almost a month away, plans and preparations are being made to entertain the visiting teams. The teams which have been invited to participate are the strongest west of Asheville, and Cullowhee State Normal hopes that every team will find it convenient to accept her invitation. They are as follows: Murphy, Andrews, Almond, Bryson City, Whittier, Qualla, Franklin, Sylva, S. C. I., Clyde, Waynesville, Cullowhee, Webster, Rosman, Brevard, Hayesville, Robbinsville, Ogden, High- Mrs. Katherine Davies An Appreciation R. L. MADISON The greatest single earthly power for good is a cultured Christian wife and mother. Such a one was Mrs. Katherine E. Davies, widow of the late well-known and eminently useful citizen, Daniel B. Davies. Coming to Cullowhee in 1864 as the bride of Judge Davies, she courageously took her place as co-founder of a country home, appropriately named "Forest Hill." Here, undaunted by the isolation and hardships of pioneer life, she planned and wrought and dreamed, with hope as her star, love as her motive power, and faith as her guide and guarantee to the realization of her daring visions. And what did she find, this brave bride that came so long ago into the little valley of Cullowhee, where Indians had dwelt but a few years before? A country sparsely settled; homes built of logs; roads little more than trails; mail infrequent and uncertain; the nearest railroad hundreds of miles away; primitive ways and methods everywhere; no stores; covered wagons twice a year making long, slow journeys to distant markets to sell produce and bring back thread, coffee, sugar, salt, and other bare necessaries; the spinning wheel, the loom, the blacksmith shop, the crude tannery, and the water-mill— these the only factories; schools few, short-termed, and poorly taught; lawlessness not uncommon; a church here and there and preaching rarely heard. The prospects were not encouraging, because pioneers must toil and moil for scant recompense, must sow for others to reap, and seldom survive to see their harvest. The young mistress of "Forest Hill" was a scion of one of Haywood county's best families and was a graduate of Asheville Female College. Facing the fearful features of her crude environment and the remote prospect of its improvement, did the young matron quail and fail? Not she. Everything challenged the heroic heart within her With love for her mate, with confidence in him and herself, with sublime faith in God, she saw unafraid the tremendous task before her Then, never faltering through the long slow years, with marvelous patience and perseverance, this wonderful help-meet cooperated with her sturdy, intelligent husband in making an ideal country home and in better ing surrounding conditions—industrial, social, educational, and spiritual. This pious, patriotic couple helped establish churches, helped provide good schools,—first at East Laporte and later at Cullowhee,—helped encourage agricultural improvement, and they (with their son-in-law, Air. Thomas A. Cox) pioneered and pre- severed in good-road making. But their greatest single civic contribution was what they both contributed to the establishment of Cullowhee State Normal School, whose loyal and untiring promoters they became. A wonderful wife and mother this cultured, consecrated woman proved to be. Five sweet daughters came to bless her home. No pains or means were spared to rear and train and thoroughly equip them for life. Carefully nurtured, the daughters grew to womanhood. They had been given Christian home training and the best local school opportunities that community cooperation could provide, supplemented by college advantages in Raleigh. Then came a crushing grief. Gentle, modest Otelia, loved by everybody, sickened and died. r! he devoted mother never entirely recovered from the shock. She bore it with Christian resignation and fortitude, but the wound never healed. Mr. Davies was brave and buried his sorrow deep in his big, warm heart, yet he could never refer to his loss without a flow of tears. The mother's faith and self-forgetting service, the fond father's wise and liberal provision were rewarded not onlf in their living to see their daughters educated and four of them happily married, but also in living to see nearly all of their grand-children educated and usefully employed. A unique distinction and great gratifi cation was theirs when, in time of the World War, four grandsons were across seas in the service of the U. S. A., one of whom, Major George C. Cox, received the Distinguished Service Cross. Mrs. Davies loved nature. The changes of the seasons and the varying loveliness of the landscape, especially as viewed from "Forest Hill", fascinated her and evoked her enthusiastic expressions of wonder, rapture, and praise. Birds found her their guardian angel. Hundreds flocked about her home, came at her call, fed from her hand, and gratefully repaid her loving-kindness with their sweetest morning melodies and softest vesper serenades. She was devoted to flowers, and, as long as she was physically able, she gave them constant, tender, prideful care. With her love for all that is beautiful, how much heaven will now mean to her glorified spirit! Farewell, dear friend and loved one. What a glory does your life assume when we realize, even to a limited extent, how much it has already blessed the world! But no one measure its value, ever-increasing as its beneficent influence extends from generation to generation. Verily your children and your children's children will rise up to call you blessed; and a great host of friends and acquaintances who have enjoyed your hospitality, known your loyal friendship, and felt the inspiring spell of your fine personality will miss you and long mourn your departure. Carrie: Do you know anything about the sun's motions? Vernell: I stayed awake a whole night trying to figure it out and finally the whole thing dawned on me. * DON'T MISS IT $ I % I THE SECOND ANNUAL FASHION SHOW 1 ! 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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolin...

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