Show plan permanent memorial for late joyce kilmer prairie du chien wis black robed jesuits at campion academy the adopted alma mater of joyce kilmer quietly pushed toward completion plans for a permanent memorial to the man who penned poems a are re made by tools fools like me but only god can make make a tree workers will soon begin remodeling a gymnasium into a library dedicated to the memory of alfred joyce kilmer whose short but remarkable literary career was stimulated by visits to campion and prairie du chien in 1922 the movement for the memorial was begun by the rev claude pernin S J who died last year he donated a legacy he had received and the fund later was increased by the kilmer family when completed the library wit wil be the largest of any private second ary school in the united states the thirty one year old kilmer a member of the infantry w ww killed in action near france franca on august 1 1918 not long after ht ha had written lord thou suffer more mora tot fot me than all the hosts of land and see sea so let me render back again this millionth of thy gift amen |