ELLA McCALEB
1856 - 1933
The death of Miss Ella McCaleb closed the life of
one whose many years reached back well into the
pioneer days of the college and gave her a vision
of its growth now shared by only a few. In almost
its entirety her long career was devoted to the
service of her beloved alma mater. Even her short
experience as a teacher in secondary schools helped
her toward her ultimate duties as Dean.
Endowed with a kindly disposition and a deep sense
of what is honorable Miss McCaleb was happily fit-
ted to be a friend and counselor to the student body.
While she fully appreciated the importance of schol-
arship she never forgot the value of character build-
ing as it touches both a decent industry and an in-
tense loyalty to the principles upon which the col-
lege is based.
Nor did her interest in the students cease at gradua-
tion. Rather she maintained her contacts with the
alumnae so successfully that her house was to them
a homing place upon their return just as it had
always been an hospitable hearth for undergraduates
and faculty, and not least of all her small friends,
the faculty children.
Properly she considered herself a liaison officer
functioning between the college with its compacted
interests and the outside world as it is represented
by its alumnae.
In this memorial the faculty desires to record its
deep sense of loss of a true friend and faithful
servant of the college.
Oliver S. Tonks
Zita L. Thornbury
IX-149