Eastern Michigan University - Aurora Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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I'd think his days would toilsorne be With many a sharp and flat, With staff and bar and signature, And everything like that. But he seems to find in simplest song FREDERIC I-I. PEASE, Directorof the Conservatory of Music, is anative of Ohio, his father being one of the founders of Oberlin College. Here he obtained his academical education. Taking up music as a profession, he came to Ypsilanti as a teacher of the piano, and in 1864 was elected Professor of Music in the Normal School, a position ,Which he has since held with distinguished suc- cess. Professor Pease continued his own studies under able masters, and early sought a leave of absence which he spent in staadying and visiting various European schools of niusic. As a result of his ability and effective work, the Normal College Conservatory, which he organized in 1880, is now recognized as one of the leading schools of music in the state. Some pleasant thought to help along. One cannot look upon her face With its halo of silver hair, Without reading the depth of character So plainly written there. JULIA ANN KING, Professor of History and Civics, was graduated from the Michigan State Normal College gfiin 1858. She taught in the high schools from 1858 to 1875, and from this time to 1881 was superintendent of schools in Charlotte, Mich. The following year Miss King accepted her present position. as head of the Department of History, which she has now occupied for twenty-ive years.

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How he straightens out the pathways! Of its fears the mind he frees: Quickly calms the raging billovvs. On the students' troubled seas! DIMON H. ROBERTS, A.M., Superintendent of the Training School, was graduated from the State Normal School of Courtland, N. Y., in 1887, acting as assistant in the pedagogical department of the same during that year. From 1887-88 he was superintendent of schools in Caze- novia. N. Y., and from 1892-95 was principal of the high school of Pueblo, Colo. He then went to Winona, Minn., as superintendent ofthe training department ot the State Normal School, from which position, in 1900, he came to the one which he now holds. Mr. Roberts re ceived the degree of A.B. in 1892, and that of A'.M. in 1895, from Amherst College, and also did graduate Work in education at the University of Colorado. 'Tis not always time that binds us To our friends we hold so dear: In our hearts he found a welcome Ere had passed a single year. NATHAN A. HARVEY, Ph.D., was graduated from the Illinois State Normal University in 1884. For three years he was superintendent of schools in Pittsfield, Ill., and later went to the University of Illinois as a student. From 1890 to 1896 he was instructor in the Kansas City High School, and then accepted a position as head of the Depart- ment of Science in the Superior State Normal School, Wis., which he held four years. In 1900, he took the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D., at Illinois Wesleyan University. During the next four years he was vice-principal of the Chicago Normal School, director of extension Work and lecturer on psychology. Mr. Harvey has held his present position as Professor of Pedagogy and Institute Conductor since 1904.

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RUTH PUTNAM A CAROLINE TOWN ER RUTH PUTNAM, Assistant in the Department of Music, is a graduate of the Michigan State Normal College and Conservatory. She was a piano pupil of J. H. Hahn of Detroit and also of Rappoldi-Kahrer in Dresden, Germany. She studied harmony and composition of Remmele and of Braunroth, and later, in Boston, harmony and counterpoint of Homer Norris. 'Miss Putnam has taught music in Lafayette, Ind., Lake Forest, Ill., and two years in the Michigan State Normal College. ' CAROLINE TOWNER, Assistant in Music, studied in the Conservatory of Music at the Michigan State Normal Col- lege, with Mr. Marshall Pease and Professor F. H. Peaseg also at Boston, with Mr. Wheeler. She spent two years in Germany as a pupilt of Herr Haag, and returned in 1893, as a member of the Conservatory faculty. Since 1904, Miss Towner has been substituting in the Department of Music for Mr. Minor E. White, whois abroad on leave of absence. FLORENCE SHULTES, B.Pd., Instructor in History, was graduated from the Michigan State Normal College in 1883, and received her B.Pd. degree in 1901, from the same MARY ELPUTNAM l BERTHAG. Busan. institution. She also did advanced work in the University of Chicago during the latter year. Miss Shultes was pre- ceptress in the Centerville High School from 1883 to 1887, when she accepted a position in the Department of English and History in the Traverse City High School. In 1892, she was elected to her present position. MARY B. PUTNAM, Ph.B., B.Pd., Instructor in Civics and Economics, is a graduate of Michigan State Normal College, and the University of Michigan, receiving her B.Pd. from the former, and her Ph.B. from the latter. She was a teacher in English in the State Normal School, Mankato, Minn., and held a similar position in the Ccintral High School, Minneapolis, Minn., until 1892, when she accepted her present position. BERTHA G. BUELL, B.L., Instructor in History, was graduated from the Michigan State Normal Collegein 1893, and the next three years was a high school instructor. She received her degree from the University of Michigan in 1899, since which time she has held her present position