Eastern Michigan University - Aurora Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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lm - -.tSi'..,. . .,,, U m '7'-1 VNW1' lv 1 x, 4 5 T Her next work was in the Public Schools of Flint, where she took charge of the girls, hall and taught modern languages, history and literature for nine years. During those years she was active in all kinds of religious and church work, and exerting an influence for the good upon all with Whom she came in contact. From Flint she went to Charlotte, and for one year was Principal and then was promoted to the Superintendency of Schools in that place, which position she filled for Eve years with marked success. At this time the position of Preceptress in the Normal School became vacant and the Board of Education unanimously gave the highest honor it had to con- fer, at that time, upon Miss King. by electing her Preceptress of tl1e institution. Having a love for the department of History, she soon made that department her specialty, and from that time to the present, has continued to enlarge the boundaries of her work, and to make her methods of teaching History worthy of imitation in all first-class schools. In the Faculty, in the Council, and in the deliberations of Committees, Miss King has sustained a position equal to that of any other Professor in the School. A most important feature of her work in the School has been, until the last three years, her Conversations, so-called, which she held with the ladies on Friday afternoons. In these she attempted to supply a want which all connected with the institution have felt. She sought to furnish the girls with an ideal after which they could model their lives and their work. All who have attended these Con- versations acknowledge the help derived from them, and it is regretted most sin- cerely by the young ladies of the College that they have been discontinued. They feel that they have suffered a great loss, for close relationship, and heart-to- heart talks, as the conversations were, with a strong character having high ideals, is a help and inspiration greater than any book can give. In addition to the ordinary duties and labor of a teacher in the class room, special duties devolve upon one charged with the care, to a greater or less extent, of a large number of young ladies in a mixed school. This duty Miss King has always discharged cheerfully and willingly, and no one has ever gone to her for help, in vain. She is the true friend of all, and all her work has been done in the hope of helping, elevating and blessing the rising generation of our State. Miss King has remembered, as some teachers have not always remembered, that some-

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3ulia Zlnne 1Ring BIOGRAPIIIC.-XI, ROFESSOR Julia Anne King was born in Milan, Monroe County, , Michigan. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram King were Puritans, 353 who came from Vermont to the Territory of Michigan and took up land in the Township of Milan. Her early school days were passed in a log school-house in the district Where the family resided. Later she entered the Adrian Public School, and on inishing there, became a student in the Michigan State Normal, graduating in 1858. . After graduation she did not give up her work as a student, but studied French and German and other branches in vacations, and at other times While she was engaged in teaching, and all through her life teaching and studying have gone hand in hand, she having constantly kept herself in touch with the modern trend of thought, a proof of the true teacher. Miss King began in St. Clair her life work of teaching, which has been con- tinued Without interruption to the present time. After leaving St. Clair, having assisted the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to organize a regular graded school at that place, she returned to her Alma Maier for one year of post- graduate work. The next position which she filled was that of Principal of the Lansing High School. At the end of the year she accepted the offer of the position of Lady Principal or Principalgof the Ladies' Department of Kalamazoo College. For three years she taught there, filling the Principalship with great satisfaction to those Who had the ,opportunity of enjoying her teaching and her other college Work.

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Charge of me Fears. workx and ntact. and then ll position mme vacant .uf to Con- mstitution. department enlarge the 'yr worthy of masters. Bliss : the School. The last three gm UB llilftlffli Will! all .1:t:fwhlCl1 wi UPU' 2251.2 9.25212 alll' i.jgggesCfll1UCl-l- mel ltcC1I3'YU' is guilt zifcixlsv gfymlv if mill-hx r 'PSS f n, ,s . has ,J lm for N -1 4 ,I- ' . X up , Qi.. ,v'1 f , Nlifi uf 5531 , . .me- 'i Winn 513 me thing is needed in dealing with students besides mere mental acumen and intel- lectual vigor. The human soul knows, and rejoices to know, but it does more than merely know. The teacher should be able to lead the student beyond know- ing aloneg there is need of feeling as well as knowing. Of this truth Miss King is fully awareg she leads those whom she instructs in the paths of uprightness and righteousness, and keeps constantly in mind that to lift up the soul above that which is merely temporal, is of more value than to gain an abundance of the things which perish with the using. - -rr ull I' I W flliu fi mi - W 5 ,.,..- , lt .ll 112' Jwdllll, HHH lnlnllr ll u'