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Show CT VOLUME ZL V. 7h P! LJ u NUMBER DIXIE COLLEGE, SAINT GEORGE, UTAH, NOVEMBER 17, 1925 2. 3 FOUNDERS DAY Founders Day Address, .... Hon, Chas- B. Petty Chorus, Well Fight for the Cause of Dixie. Selection Saxaphone band Benediction J. W. Harrison At the close of the meeting, the glasses once more assumed their competitive attitudes, forme'd their ranks and marched to the amphi theater just east of In appreciation of the sacrifices and hardships that the Founders of the Dixie College endured that they might give to us a higher institution of learning the entire student body and faculty of the present Dixie College, paraded forth early Friday morning with a good showing of In spite of pep and enthusiasm. and jostling of stuthe bustling THE SPIRIT OF OUR INSTITUTION terest in our school and the reason for the hearty cooperation - extended it. The same spirit that charact erized the growth of the school. The improvements made, the in laboratories the equipments and in the various departments are all results of the generosity of patrons. But such is the spirit of our Founders! Such has been the spirit of our students. Much that blesses us each day of our school life is the beneficence of students of our school. The paved walks about the building. The clock in the hallway, the drinking fountain, the throphy case and so on are memorials to the school by graduating classes. These students desire to attest their love for and their appreciation of the school and those who founded it. Scholarships and endowments have recently been made by patrons whose greatest interest is In Appreciation Some brought forth thirty fold, some sixty So spoke the Master and some an hundred fold. when he summed up the deeds of good men sown in fertile soil. And so we say when we contemplate the fruitage of the founding of our Dixie College. Our Founders Day is a great festival of hope ; star has arisen in Southern Utah and jw new through its spirit it will do much to lighten the world and fill the hearts of men with the warmth and hope of life. For this great social, intellectual, and spiritual inheritance we thank those men and women who have toiled and given freely of toils fruitage, that the school might be. the sugarloaf. Preparations for lunch followed and everyone proceeded to eat drink and be The spirit of our institution is the stamp of the men and women who founded it. Not pride or pomposity but sincerity and loyalty to cause characterized their Substantial, aim- com- enduring are epithets that mark their work. Built by sacrifice, toil, struggle, and by surmounting difficulties our school school has carried on from the year of its founding. Built by the labors of our fathers and endowed by the efforts of our students it sheds an influence far beyond the confines of our homeland. A product of sacrifice, through loyalty and devotion it prompts you and me in our daily conduct and our aspirations in life. Walls reared by labor gratuitously given, walks laid by students with their own calloused hands are not to be paraded though of marble and We must not of gold where the motive that in this schoolfail, in connection with all this to inspires such deeds is lacking. appreciate the generosity of the No wonder our students are winChurch Authorities in aiding to ning great fame. No wonder make these dreams of our found- our first graduates now see their ers come true. We have been number multiplied by six. No greatly helped by them. Noth- wonder each year we crowd the ing less than sincere apprecia- added space in our school plant. tion from us should be manifest. This is the soul of our institution H. This is the way we are answering the challenge of those men DIXIE COLLEGE PHOTO who dared quarry the rock, shape them, and lay them to STUDIO form an edifice of learning in the The Dixie College has estab- remotest part of our fair state. II. lished a photo studio to be used fortable, between merry. Immediately after ocolck, lunch which, on account of the each class succeeded in accumulastonishingly enormous appetites of the faculty, was rather and forces scattered its ating drawn out, the classes each gave was prepared to march promptlwere their toasts and presentations to students The nineat y all bedecked in distinguishing their designated classes. Followheaddresses. The parade was ing this, each class staged a led by the color bearers, which clever little burlesque drama was followed by the college band during which the past, present May this college bless them and their posterand then the classes in their ord- and future lives of the members ity. May our students go forth with light in with the First of the faculty were revealed to er. beginning their eyes, with generous loyalty in their hearts Years and ending with the Soph- the entire student body. In the and pay their debt of gratitude to the memory of omore college class. After par- sports that followed, each class these good men and women who have made their ading through the central parts participated and competition was education possible. keen. But at this point of the of town, the classes and townsEdgar M. Jenson. a to days activities, gentle zephyr people met in the tabernacle acof on scene ( the ?) appeared pay homage to our Founders. Each class attempted to excel tion and demanded right of it was granted, and stuthe others in their eager displays of pep. When class enthusiasm dents and faculty hastily descended the hill that the breeze and excitement had finally subthe church auxiliary orwas the might hold full sway. ing the dance, the results of the through sided, following program held inter-clasbasketball contests s during ganizations or by private At seven thirty, a rendered. or both. Some of the as folannounced the between were Mesthe day game was staged Opening song from the were in Nevada wards Years Second and : the outlying school The lows Parowan high Sophs, siah, College Chorus. Our school succeeded and Third Years tied for the but they responded generously Dixie. College chorus. to assist. Inin Karl N. Snow winning by two points, the best headdress ; the decision for to the invitation Prayer not dividuals too, favresiding withscore being 18 to 20. the best toast was given (in Selection, .... Cross and Crown had the ins who but stake in the conor of the Sophs) the First Years Dancing, which was the Saxaphone band. at heart Dixie of gave throughout the winter months terest and the clusive number on the days pro- received second place Lenore Thurston has been apOriginal poem, .... Dixie Spirit for the making of pictures for school. to promote the gram, followed the game. Dur- Freshmen, third ; in the present- freely Arthur K. Hafen estabpointed to over see the mailing Individuals of very humble the year book. This new ation of the dramas, the Fresh-- i will in list of the Dixie News. assist materially lishment men came first, Fourth Years circumstances gave their on book If there is any one who is not the year the Widows Mite completing second and Third Years third ; in is Mr. schedule time. Stewart regularly receiving, who should rest in more he sports, the Sophs came first w'as cast in with the averreceive our paper, we should work some splendid doing instance. Individuals in the Keel Over race, the First than one would were not aging from eighteen to twenty deem it a favor if they Y'ears second and the Freshmen whose humble offerings once. at dollar each (in sittings per day- This phase of notify us third. Some member of the in excess of one some instances only half that the year book is greatly facilitatSophomore class must have been A wager is a fools argument. ed by this arrangement. gave bounteously be-- 1 sadly slighted at lunch time for amount) was their all. It was in the pie eating contest, little cause it fr s sss : s. s ss s s -ss Where eer I go een near and far s s . .s not what they gave but what j difficulty was experienced by And meet a son of Dixie Land no ; Men who had the Soph who m'ade such quick they shared. We greet with joy expressed and real and f brawn of their gave of money out work of putting the pie ' As brothers or as kinsmen true. toil of muscle. Days and days sight. Second place in this con- and This bond that ties both him and me willingly supporting them- an won equally test was by Unites all sons and daughters of the family tree. teams while en- ravenous First Year and a slight- selves and their work It was the in this felt The word expressed, the joy thats ly slower Third Year won third gaging in which these contribuOh what is the spirit of Dixie? true. and Is most unfeigned, sincere, place. In the singing contest, spirit the makes made that were tions The voice of the sands and the hills, we all marspeak; Of comrades, friends, and the Sophs displayed their Hunso contributions great. The dream of the founders of Dixie land , fair Of how each fares in our velous vocal talent by winning list the names of in canyons and rills? dreds compose know we second all And wishing well to first place and leaving school. Yet to our is donors of what the spirit of Dixie Ch go. er fortunate less where they d We bid place for their is obtained it fills? so amount total the That guides so securely each strong-heabrothers, the First Years. cases most In rare A I sum. Dixie Spirit is thus manifesttell not would a many Tis this you spirit great crest In summing up the points for It radiates from domes of sand and mountain one individual has subscribed Yet it. pervades all the hearthstones and dwells in the Lo, classes, different the amount to And permeates the rugged hills and vales. the air. name led all the more than this total Sophomore stiand and world and every of the On every coast institutions The spirit of Dixie The spirit of youth: The and The First Years rest. stand his takes Dixie Dixie cost of of sou! the times the Where e'r a saint of kindness mellowed with truth Third Y'ears tied for second many inand in sublime grand. is felt Tis Lai bed in the courage of pioneers undaunted, spent annually Its seen and won College place and the Second Y'ears whose of shrouded with hope of innocence and love. Arid stitutions learning third place. You ask why this is so as not as is great Tis fame probably wrapped in the prospects of bright futures Dancing then continued until It is a truth that we well know hat school. own our of mantle that eleven thirty. For near and far and ah around wr lied in the friendship 'of heaen above, sig ' ficance attaches to twenty Dixie home. Weve learned to love and praise our donated by dollars and with the vigorous call of the est, dashed thou With hea y heart when we depart. persons-rr-Hiethousand roothed with the peace of humility true; nearly one THE GIFT OF OUR Returning come and peace impart. amount of p same by Hlled with the broad open the than FOUNDERS dozen a But so.or friend persons? D why? 'me hip, Yes this perhaps school founded by a And cloth- d all around with a loyalty true, You ay youd like to know Our school is largely the gift Compare a contributI don t err Ti.; this ar.d much more, the Spirit of Dixie, 'igy; f Imply this it Manj of the thousand people each of our Founders. dollars Pioneer .ome-.hinif the Thi. enand twenty that hoers oer mountain and averaged, are Founder ing, America The schools of great deed ten in founded a school by glen, Bequeathed in spirit and dowed with large sums of money Nth an ' o me ' each contributing nii The people thing we hear in the song of the birds This legacy as Dixie's creed. persons. from wealthy dollars! thousand two of at note the top of the flowers green stem. Ard Church is our greatest donor but average A lecacy most praized and dear ' m.d much more is the spirit of Dixie the contribution each goes thi Ye With the assistance from the general nterest of the contributor. Our That should live on from year to year. Thi something that fills both the air and the sod. discontent church fund is only a part of the Unmarred by wealth and school not a is ehool interesting For tv. man made the roads and the buildings, our amount needed to make stuIt hould endure till time is spent; the and teachers the But the Mjirit was breathed by God! ereconly school. 'At the time of the Till as a band of people in our cheers is justly the It enrolled. Grace Gates, Former Student of the Dixie. dents the and our Pioneers. tion of our school building Yli hail, all praise our Founders not citizens concern of the many H. St. George Stake comprised actively connected with the waid Each wards. o twenty-twof it. We can readily within the stake contributed to v vv vv I 5" the community in understand the erection of the school either dents in the hallways eight thirty and nine way-Thi- s sub-icripti- mite-Literall- Dixie Spirit -- --i- i- i- i- -- -- t- -- s- I- fr I- ; The Spirit of Dixie ! C.od-spee- rt ! 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