Western State Normal School
"The Brown and Gold 1910"
Kalamazoo, Michigan

Western Michigan University
opened as the Western State Normal School educating future teachers in 1903.

Western State Normal School

Our Counselor and Friend
We Dedicate This Book
(1910 Census for Kalamazoo City.
Wife; Annette S., Mother; Mary B.
Professor at the Normal School.
Birth Circa 1869, Illinois).

Some Remarks of Appreciation

In behalf of the Junior Class I compliment you upon your aim and work. After a year's association with the student body of Juniors and Seniors on finds so many things in common in the working system that he ceases to wonder at the lack of an antagonizing class spirit and a very marked element of rivalry. It is the intermingling of students on the same basis in so many classes that does away, to a great extent, with the formality usually shown in institutions of learning above the grammar grades. It shows a strong element of democracy and more of the leveling aspect than of the selecting aspect. The Seniors have been instrumental, in a large degree, in bringing this about. Through their efforts and general attitude the lower classmen have come to be more tolerant, a thing which is of intrinsic value in the normal school, in the high school, and especially in the common business world.

Class of 1911

The School Song

Air--"The Heidelberg Stein Song."

Hail to our jolly student life! Hail with a right good cheer!
Hail to our hopeful daily strife, to conquer without a fear!
Hail to the bright and sunlit hours, swiftly they pass away!
Ever they seem like beauteous flowers, that blossom but do not stay.

O, Brown and Gold! O, dear old shool! Thro' all the coming years
In fancy we will turn to thee with all our smiles and tears.
The dear old hall we'll e'er recall with tender hearts and true,
And breathe a sigh for days gone by, the dear old friends and you.

Hail to thy hills and sunny skies! hail to thy mem'ries fair!
Hail to the merry hearts that sing, light on thy peaceful air!
When in the sunset of our lives we turn to former days,
We'll think with glowing hearts of thee, and chant thy hymn of praise

Words by Berenice Crandall Forsythe and Gareld Whitney

Other Photos

Staff Members	Normal Literary & Amphictyon Society
Class Officers & Board of Editors	Normal Orchestra & Chaminade Club
Erosophian Society & Choral Union	Rural Sociology Seminar

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