Drake University - Quax Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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l NSW' PI'Of6SSO1I'S PROF. O. B. CLARK, our new Professor of History, was born on a farm in Illinois in 1864. As a boy, he attended the public schools, and after finishing workin the grades, enrolled in an Illinois normal school. He soon began teaching, but resumed his college work again, and graduated from Eureka College in 1896. He then pursued graduate work,'took his master's degree and specialized in History and Sociology. He became a member of the faculty of Eureka College, and organized the Department of Pedagogy, and became associated in the Department of History. He was also an institute instructor of marked ability. He then did graduate work in the University of Chicago, specializing in History and Political Science. In 1900 he was made a member of the American Historical Association, a member of the Illinois Historical Society and of the State Commission on local historical societies. He accepted the position of Professor of History in Drake University in the fall of 1904. joHN DIEDRICH DAsEN1mocK, A. B., University of Nebraska, 1902. Born in the village of Etzhorn, Grand- duchy of Oldenburg, Germany, February 21, 1869. Attended the i'Volksschule until his thirteenth year, when he was brought to America, the family settling in Platte county, Nebraska. In 1895 he attended a Normal School, taught a country school the following winter, and in 1897 entered what is now the Lincoln Academv, of Lincoln, Nebraska. The following February he entered the University of Ne- braska, teaching a parochial school in the summer. Upon his graduation, June, 1902, he was honored by an appoint- ment to the position of Scholar finstructorl in the De- partment of German. In addition to this he was made instructor in German in his old alma mater, the Lincoln Academy. The year after this he filled the newly created position of teacher of Commercial German in the Omaha High School. While there he received a call to become professor of Modern Lan- guages at Drake University. MR. F I. MEIER was born in Bloomfield, Iowa, February 4, 1877. X He was educated in the Bloomfield Public Schools, and the Southern Iowa Normal of Bloomfield. After graduation in 1899 he became a member of the faculty, which position he held for two years. He took up public school work in 1901, but at the close of the first year decided to return to Normal School work, and again accepted a position as a U member of the faculty of the S. I. N. From the Normal School he went to the Chicago Business College, graduating in 1903, and came to , Drake in the fall of 1904 as assistant principal of the Commercial Department, and upon the resignation of Professor McGregor was given charge of the department. N.

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