Eastern Michigan University - Aurora Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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Training School Faculty 1. DIMON H. ROBERTS, A.M., Superintendent 2. Mary M. Steagall 9. Adella Jackson Principal of High School Critic Teacher, Second Grade 3. Alma Tuttle 10. Margaret E. Wise Critic Teacher, Eighth and Ninth Grades Critic Teacher, First Grade 4. Mattie Alexander Martin 11. Hester P. Stowe Critic Teacher, Seventh Grade Kindergarten 5. Abigail Roe 12. Clyde E. Foster Critic Teacher, Sixth Grade Supervisor of Music 6. Ella Wilson 13. Alice I. Boardman A Critic Teacher, Fifth Grade Supervisor of Manual Training 7. Harriet M. Plunkett 14. Annette Chase Critic Teacher. FOl1rth Grade Supervisor of Domestic Science 8. Abigail Lynch , 15. Elanor Thomas C1'ifiC TCSCYICT. Third Grade Assistant Critic in the Ninth Grade

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Professor Dimon H. Roberts MARY ETHEL BALLARD -HAT the Michigan Normal College has gained a national reputation is due in no small measure to the standard of excellence attained by the Training School. For the status of the Training School much is due to the able administration of its Superintendent, Professor Roberts. Dimon H. Roberts was born in Chenango County, New York. He graduated in 1887 from the classical course of the State Normal School at Cortland, having been a pupil, a student teacher in the training school, and an assistant dur- ing his senior year in the pedagogical department of that institution. He was desirous of entering at once upon a college course but postponed this work to fultill a pledge to his Alma Mater to teach at least a year, and accepted a position as principal of the public schools of Cazenovia, New York. The following year he entered Amherst College, from which institution he was graduated in 1892. In his college life, Mr. Roberts was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, of the College Glee Club, was prominent in oratorical and athletic work, and was distinguished for strong scholarship. From Amherst he went to Pueblo, Colorado as principal of the high school, at the same time continuing his work as astudent in the pedagogical department of the University of Colorado, thus in 1895 securing his master's degree from Amherst. In 1896 he became superintendent of the training school at Winona, Minn., remaining there until 1900 when he was elected to his present position as Superintendent of the Training School at Ypsilanti, Michigan. Professor Roberts's training as a student and a teacher has well fitted .him for his present position. Linked with native courtesy and abroad culture are aggressive energy and enthusiasm. An inspiring teacher, he is also a man of marked executive ability, and in his private office he listens with concentrated and sympathetic interest and responds graciously to all who go to him for counsel. Quick to grasp a situation, decisive in his judgments, frank, discerning, kind, tireless in his efforts to render helpful assistance, he wins the esteem and friendship of all who know him. 25

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