OCR Text |
Show H- PRINCIPAL R. F. HOMER H Man creates in his own image. 1 Another way of saying the same H thing is: "Every great institution H is but the lengthened shadow of H some man." The Branch Agricul- H tural College may be taken as the H lengthened shadow of Prin. R. I. H Homer. True, when the task was H set for him of creating an agricultu-H agricultu-H . ral college, he had a splendid foun- H dation in the Branch Normal Col- H i Jcgc. But between a normal col- H lege and at agricultural college H there is a wide difference. They B arc almost extremes in type. So H that it may truthfully be said that 1 the Branch Normal had to be born m again. From a school designed H primarily to fit boys and girls to bc- B come teachers, the institution was H changed to a school for practical, H producing men and women, not H merely farmers, but community H builders, homemakcrs, homckecp- H crs, the highest type of citizen, af- H ' tcr all is said. H To realize what Mr. jFlomcr is H as an executive, builder and tcacli- H cr, it is necessary to know the col- H lege today and what it is doing. H Those who know it best place 'the H'.j liighcst estimate on the ability of h u -, '-itslcadr--N0-innrt.lainaSptn5aj,c; H but in the school and in Cedar City, H Principal Homer is going to be H missed, and if another man as big, H broad and full of understanding and H human sympathy takes 'his place, H ' the school will be indeed lucky l''- H yond measure. |