Eastern Michigan University - Aurora Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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% ■ Florence Shultes, B.Pd. Bertha G. Instructor i Florence Shultes, B.Pn., Rraduattrd from the Mich- igan State Normal College in 1883. From 1883 to 1887 she was preceptress in the Centerville High School, Mich- igan, and the following five years were spent tenching in the Department of English and History in the Traverse City High School. In 1892 Miss Schultes was elected to her present position. She received the degree of B.Pd. from the Michigan State Normal College in 1901, and during that year did advanced work in the I ' niversity of Chicago. Miss Shultes is a member of the North Central History Teachers ' Association. Bertha G. Buell, B.L.. was graduated from the Michigan State Normal College in 1893, and for the next three years acted as high school instructor. In 1899 she accepted her present position as Instructor in History. Miss Buell received the degree of B.L from the Uni- versity of Michigan in 1899. This year she has been granted a leave of absence, which she is spending in study at Radcliffe College. Lucy S. Norton, A.B., is a graduate of the Michi- gan State Noriral College. Following her graduation Miss Horace Z. Wilber .Assistant ill science and History Norton spent five years teaching in the Grand Rapids City Training School, and five years in the State Normal School at Superior, Wisconsin. The following year was spent in travel abroad and study at the University of Michigan. Miss Norton then spent three years at New London. Wis- consin, organizing a county normal school, and accepted her present position as Instructor in History in 1907. She received the degree of A. B. from the University of Michigan in 1906. Hor. ce Z. Wilber graduated from the Michigan State Ncrmal College in 1902. The following year he was Superintendent of the Marlette, Micnigan, schools: since that time he has been in the State Normal at Emporia, Kansas, the first two years acting as high school critic, and the three following as Professor of School Administration. This year Mr. Wilber is here on a leave of absence, and is acting as assistant in the Science and History of Education Department. He will take his decree of A. B. in June from this institution. Mr. Wilber is a member of the National Educational Association and the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

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Julia Anne King was born in Michigan, and was grad- uated from the Michigan State Normal College in 1S58. From then until 1875, she taught in different High Schools in the State, and then accepted the superintendentcy of the Charlotte, Mich- igan, schools. In 1882 she was elected to her present position. Miss King spent last year i i travel. She is a member of the National Historical Association. ]ulia Anne King Professor of His[or ' nd Civics M. KY B. Putnam, Ph. B., M. Pd., is a graduate of the Michigan State Normal College and the University of Michigan. She has had charge of the work in English in the State Normal School at Mankato, Minnesota, and in the Central High School at Minneapolis, Minne- sota. In 1892 she accepted the position of Instructor in Civics and Economics here and later was made Assistant Professor in that department. Miss Putnam received the degree of M. Pd. from this institution, and the degree of Ph. B. from the University of Michigan. She is a member of the National Historical Association and the Collegiate Alumnae. Mao- B. Putnam. Ph. B.. I«. Pd. Assislant Professor of Civics.

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Elmer A. Lvman, A.B. was born at Manchester, Vermont. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1S86, and the fol- lowing year was Assistant Superintendent of Schools at Paola, Kansas. From 1887 to 1890, he was Principal of the Troy, Ohio, High School. Mr. Lyman was Instructor in Mathematics in the University of Michigan for the succeeding eight years. He accepted his present position as Professor of Mathematics in 1898. Professor Lyman is a member of the Michigan State Teachers ' Association, The Michigan Schoolmasters ' Club, The Central Associ- ation of Science and Mat hematics, The National Educational Associ- ation, The xAraerican Mathematical Society, and The American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the author of the following text books: Plane and Spheri- cal Trigonometry, ' ' and ' ' Computation Tables ' ' with Professor Goddard of the University of Michigan; Advanced Arithmetic, and a Plane and Solid Geometry, which is yet at the press. Elmer A. Lyman, A. B. Professor of Mathematics. John Ch. ri.es Stone, A.M., began his work as a teacher in the rural schools of Illinois in 1884. After nine years in rural and village schools, he entered the University of Indiana. During ' 95- ' 97 he was tutor of mathematics in the same institution, while doing advanced work, and he received his degree of A. M. from there in ' 97. The following year he was head of the departments of mathematics and physics in the Elgin, Illi- nois, High School. Mr. Stone then took a similar position in the Lake Front, Illinois, Academy, where he remained until coming to this institu- tion in 1900 as Assistant Professor of Mathematics, being made Associate Professor the next year. Mr. Stone is widely known as a text book writer, institute lecturer, and contributor to educational magazines. He is a member of the Michigan State Teachers ' Association; The Michigan Schoolmasters ' Club; The The Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers; The Amer- ican Mathematical Society and The National Educational Association. Among his text books are The Southworth-Stone Arthmetic and The Stone-Millis Algebras. He also has monographs on The Teaching of Algebra and The Teaching of Geometry. John C. stone. A. M. Associate Professor of .Mathematics