One Ball State landmark really caught my imagination when Melissa and Samuel and I visited the campus a few weeks ago. It is the statue of an angel named Beneficence, i.e. "charity or the doing of good".
Beneficence was completed in 1937 by sculptor Daniel Chester French, more widely known for creating the statue of Abraham Lincoln sitting in the Lincoln Memorial in D.C.
She was created to honor the legacy of the 5 Ball brothers whose jar industry gave them the means to financially found the university years ago.
The five columns represent the brothers, but she herself represents education as an ideal.
As a teacher, I love the imagery: With her right hand she beckons anyone who would come to her and in her left hand she holds a box of unknown treasures!
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