This morning we woke up to a campus which looks quite similar to this scene from 1943…
For those of you you aren’t exactly embracing this, close your eyes and envision the following in the words of IU alumna Edith Hennel Ellis (1911) about campus:
” It is more than a thing of beauty. Its trees are sanctuaries under which old men may dream dreams and young men may see visions. Certain scenes stamp themselves indelibly upon the mind: lingering shadows of tall trees creeping across the grass on long summer afternoons;… masses of of Forsythia bursting into sudden yellow bloom; and that loveliest of all Indiana springtime pictures, white dogwood and pink red bud blooming against a green background of maples.” (Indiana University Alumni Quarterly, Vol. XVI No.3, p.331)
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Nice to read the quote from Edith Hennel Ellis. I read about her in a book titled “Letters From Honeyhill” by Cecilia Hennel Hendricks, edited by Cecilia Hendricks Wahl. Published a long time ago but very interesting reading. The late Ms. Hendricks was a professor emeritus of IU and lived for many years in Wyoming, where her husband ran a bee farm. Edith Ellis was her sister.
Hi Linda! Carrie will be happy to help you find some more! She will be in touch with you, if she has not been already.
Where can I find more poetry or historical prose about IU online?
I stumbled upon you looking for pictures of dogwood! I am an alumna; Bloomington, 1977. I will come back and browse your collection when I have more time. Thanks for being here!