Eastern Michigan University - Aurora Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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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

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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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A man of books: his mind is filled With thoughts of writers old, who may have lived in poverty, Yet left us mines of gold. E g He loves to share in sports: And often spends his holidays On the links and tennis courts. FLORUS A. BARBOUR, received the degree of A.B. from the University of Michigan in 1878, and that of A.M. fcausa honorisl in 1900. From 1878 to 1880, he was principal of the high school at Coldwater, Mich., and the following year was principal of the Central Grammar School at Grand Rapids. During the next four years Professor Barbour was superintendent of schools at Coldwater, and in 1885 accepted his present position as Professor of Eng- lish. And thou h he Funds deli ht in these, Teacher. orator, reader-but past the pale of these, A genial and a kindly friend, whose every power doth please. J. STUART LATHERS, B.L., Professor of Reading and Oratory, was graduated from the Michigan State Normal College in the year 1893. After graduation, he was prin- cipal of Memphis schools for two years. From 1895 to 1899, he was a student in the University of Michigan. where he took the degree of B.L. He then entered the Michigan State Normal College as Instructor of English, two years later being made Associate Professor of Reading and Oratory. Three years ago he was made head of the department, which position he now occupies.