Volume 12, Number 2 (1940) The Purple Pen
Front Matter
Nonfiction
Brooding Hamlet
Mona Jane Van Duyn
Fiction
Father and Son
Audrey Peet
"Doc" Marlin
Robert McNabb
Biology Vs. Literature
C. Esther Copp
Dr. Dysart
Mary Eveleen Richards
Opportunity
Ruth C. Holt
We Pause to Judge
Gordon Hoxie
The Old House
Genevieve Rivers
Principal Plus Interest
Edna Lansiedel
Lamps in the Dark
James Van Houten
Dear Dead Days Beyond Recall
Charlotte Foster
Handsome Is --
Martin Hauan
Sixty-Four Measures Rest
Lois Moessner
Life's Work
Betty Schuchert
Poetry
If You Must Go
Maybeth Gaskell
Unknown Valleys
Dorothy Jean Tostlebe
A Jest of Fate
W. Wendell Phillips
Art
Winter Sport
Harriet Kerr
Prose
The Picture Speaks (Illustrated)
Genevieve Rankin
The Student
Richard Corton
A Mountain Picture
Donald J. Stout
Ice Skater
Norma Bollhoefer
Editors
- Editor-in-Chief
- Lois Moessner
- Business Manager
- Audrey Peet
- Faculty Adviser
- Selina M. Terry
