There are happy coincidences in life, and I received one yesterday. I’ve written about the campus in the last few days. Yesterday, a post card arrived that someone sent of our college campus in Whitewater, with a picture of the school during the Depression. The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s campus appears on part of the card as a ‘Normal School,’ a common term for a teacher’s college.
The postmark is from 1934, at a time when America was still mired in unemployment and uncertainty.
I think there’s something hopeful about the picture of the campus, even in hard times — a representation of strength and confidence. That strength didn’t come then, and doesn’t come now, from how something looks, but from the teaching and opportunities offered.
Lovely, in the deepest way, I think.
