Castle On The Hill
1926 NSTC Yearbook - Northwestern State Teachers' College

1926 Castle on the Hill Yearbook – The Art Department

Opal Roche, B.S. –  Miss Roche came to Northwestern in the Fall of 1925.  Her post-graduate work was done at the Chicago Art Institute and special study with Professor Bishop of Broadmoor Academy of Colorado and Frederick V. Poole of Westminister School, England.

The yearbook of 1926 mentions, “Art is the union of our best thoughts, feelings and fancies preserved in a concrete form of expression.  Without ability to appreciate the beautiful in life we have no capacity for the practical for we cannot foster highest ideals or evenest personalities.  There is nothing in the schools of our country that builds more character or teaches truer values.  Ah! But a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a Heaven for?”