Adrian High School - Sickle Yearbook (Adrian, MI)

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1. ROFESSOR DE Mo1V11E's great great great grandfather was an Huguenot refugee from France, who came to Lo11g Island near the close of the 17th century, and established the first professional black- . s1nitl1 shop on the island. He was known as Richard DeMotte, tl1e blacksmith of Lo11g Island. giiviz? The descendents all along the line, have been sober, industrious men, distinctly loyal to America, and active in all reform work of education, state a11d church. A large percentage have been ministers ,,.Y..ffi' and teachers. 'WMA i Professor DeMotte was born in a Methodist parsonage at VVareland, Ind., in 1848. He enlisted o11 the day he was I5 years old fron1 Rochester, Ind., in tl1e One Hundred and Eighteenth Indiana Volunteers, was honorably discharged in the following springg was a teacher for two years at Lafayette, Ind., and in 1872 was made principal of the Preparatory Department of the Indiana Asbury C now De Pauwy University, from which institution he graduated in the classical course i11 1874. He was at once taken into the faculty and given the chair of Mathematical Physics, which position he resigned in 1891, to accept a desirable offer of work in a larger Held of usefulness, with the Redpath Lyceum Bureau of Chicago and Boston. His lecture lists for last season and the present one are larger tl1an those of any otl1er person in the field. He received his A. M. degree incursu, and his M. D. and Ph. D., upon the basis of work do11e in Germany, mostly at Bonn and Heidelberg. He came into the lecture field with the feeling that the A111erican public wa11ts something higher than mere amusement, and tl1e list of his Gllg9.gC1HG11tS is sufficient guarantee that the better class of our people would prefer to tl1ink alo11g lines helpful to society, tl1a11 111erely to be amused. When Professor DeMotte entered tl1e lecture field i11 1891, Adrian was one of his first engagements. He has since lectured three times in our city, always to crowded houses. Two years ago our people listened, for the second time, to that grand and most helpful lecture upo11 Character Building. Whenever it l1as been possible, Professor DeMotte has visited our High School a11d given our you11g people such talks as might fall from the lips of a father who is bidding farewell to the son leaving the parental roof for the first time. He has endeared himself, in so many ways, to the old a11d young alike in our city that OIIC is 11ot surprised to learn that he has been adopted as a citizen of Adrian, and has been presented with a key to the hearts of his loyal friends. Long live Professor DeMotte to preach the doctrine of right livi11g, and to inspire the youth of our la11d to the attain- ment of high ideals.

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PROFESSOR DE MOTTE

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CHARLES S. JAMES. BOARD GF EDITCDRS. SARAH E. EDWARDS. A WILF-'RED B. SHAW. susmzss MAI-ucrn. FLORENCE BENNETT, GRANT T. DAVIS.