Eastern Michigan University - Aurora Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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John C. Stone

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President of the Department of Superintendence and as a member of the notable Committee of Fifteen. He has always been closely identified with local and state associa- tions and has taken a leading part in shaping educational policies. What he has done since coming to Michigan is best told by the unprecedented growth of the institution which he serves, the loyalty of the State Board of Education, the faculty and the entire student body. Few men combine the rare qualities of the philosopher, the scholar, the administrator and the gentleman that are found in our President. He is a man at whose handsteveryone receives justice. His courtesy and sympathetic attitude toward every question make him the conident and trusted friend of all. Long may our college continue under his adminis- tration. Vo

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lgrufvannr Ilnhn Ol. Shine dedicating this volume to some worthy member of the faculty whom it is desired to honor, the choice this year has fallen upon John C. Stone, Associate Professor of Mathematics. Professor Stone was born forty years ago on a farm near Albion, Ill. He worked on the farm and went to a country school until he was sixteen and in 1887, at the early age of seventeen, began his career as teacher in the rural and village schools of Illinois. He continued in this work for eight years and then, feeling the need of higher education, went to the University of Indiana. By strenuous application he was able to finish the four- year course in two and one half years and after grad- uation was invited to remain as Instructor in Mathematics. At the close of that year he took the A. M. degree and the following autumn became head of the Department of Mathematics and Physics in the high school 'of Elgin, Ill. He remained there but one year, being elected in 1898 head-master in Mathematics and Physics in the Lake Forest Academy, a position which lie filled until 1900, when he came to the Michigan State Normal College as OLLOWING a precedent of many years standing of Assistant Professor of Mathematics, being later made Associate Professor. Since his connection here he has added greatly to his reputation, and no less to the fame of this institution by his excellent series of mathematical text-books, which are favorably known the country over. This is abrief summary ofa busy and successful life which is not yet at full tide, but gives promise of greater achievements yet to come. We find in it a combination which is sure to lead to successg the combination of innate talent with a willingness and a boundless capacity for hard work. Many teachers fail through a lack of ability, or a lack of industry. Professor Stone has shown what can be accomplished by the union of industry and ability, and his career should be a useful lesson and an inspiration to every young and ambitious teacher. Professor Stone is a prime favorite with the students. Combined with an intensely nervous and energetic dis- position, they have discovered a kind and generous heart, and an eager readiness to assist the man who is doing his best. He has been heard to observe that a teacher's heart should be as big as a foot ball, and the students say that his is well up to that standard.