ciation of the beginning days at the academy. He recalled two of the earliest songs sung there, and described the construction in 1851 of the building that still stands and is still in use on the campus of Pacific University:
". . . That summer the frame for Tualatin Academy was raised. It took about sixty men gathered from all parts of the Tualatin Plains to raise it, the pioneer women furnishing the meals on the grounds. . . . On a May morning in 1852 the old academy bell first sounded forth its joyous notes upon the air. . . . The leader of our singing school was J. B. Wyatt, . . . During that spring Mr. Wyatt taught singing school in the academy building. . . . Of schoolmates most distinctly remembered in the succeeding winter's school, 1852- 53, were Maggie Scott and Mary Jane Kinney. They composed a song commencing "We have come to our school room" and embrac- ing the names of only a few of the scholars, as follows:
"A Song of Names"
Henry, Joseph, Joel, William, Walter, John,
George, and Logan, Marion, Marcus,
Charles, and Cyrus and Lee Laughlin are our
names,
We're a band of brothers, etc.
Caroline, Jenny and Joanna, Lucy, Emma,
Julia, Anna, Kitty, Delia,
Sarah, Mandy and Louisa are our names,
We're a band of sisters, etc.
"Far from the Tones of the Academy Bell"
Part of a Tualatin Academy song which, according to Cyrus H.
Many, ah! many, have passed away,
Like the setting sun at the close of day;
Or like a cloud that floats at even,
Mid the spangled arch of yon blue heaven.
Once they were young and gay as we,
With hearts as light and fancy free,
But their spirits have gone with the blest to dwell
Far from the tones of the academy bell.
