Eastern Michigan University - Aurora Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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Elulia A. liing, 'X No institution of learning in the land has had a more consistent or honor- able history, or has rendered greater returns to the Commonwealth that has nourished it than the Normal College of this city and state. The College has been particularly close to the life of the people, impressing itself upon the mind of this Middle VVest as standing for certain educational ideals and standards that have furnished and guaranteed the very best educational fruits for the State. It is not too much to say that no other institution has been able to cultivate and main- tain that intimate contact and close relationship with the educational life of the State that has been the peculiar providence of the Michigan Teachers College. Indeed if the State Normal College were to close its work tomorrow, the State of Michigan would owe more -to its great and distinctive contributions to the life of the Commonwealth than to any other institution of learning. And the secret of all this is not so much in the growing equipment of the college, or in the generous financial provision of the State, as in the spirit of its .Turin XXNNE .IQING Professor of History and Civics administration and the character and personnel of its faculty. Here is the secret of the Norrnal's large and firm hold on the loyalty and devotion of the State. And among all the distinguished educators Who have adorned the faculty of the Michigan State Normal College no name stands higher than that of Professor julia King of the Department of History and Sociology. Not only her great gifts as a teacher, and her academic learning, but her personal qualities, blending in such beautiful'balance both gentleness and strength, the impression also' of realness and genuineness and transparent honesty, which Miss King ever imparts to her students, have given her a place in the affection and admiration of all who have been fortunate enough to come under her influence, really quite rare among educators, Absolutely fair, yet exacting, with a gift for stimulat- ing others not only to learn things, but to enjoy the habit of learningg a marked power, too, of discovering the shirk and the drone to themselves and revealing the ruinous character of such a policy for the studentg Miss King above all else stands as the students' friend, because the best in a student is italicized by contact with her and the worst dis- credited. A gifted teacher, with a high sense of vocation and a high sense of the vast importance of the educator's Work in creating ideals, and giving form and substance and spirit to the life of the day and the life yet to be. the services of Julia King to the supreme things that make the life of a people have made and make today the State of Michigan her abiding yet grateful debtor. 32

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The gods approve The depth. and not the tumult, of the soul. 'WOYdSw01'f1l. Al-ARY B. PUTNAM 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 Minne- apolis, Minnesota. In 1892 she accepted the position of Instructor in Civics and Economics here, and later was made Assistant Professor. 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 Ameri- can Historical Association and of the Collegiate Alumnae. During the winter and spring quarters of this year Miss Putnam has been away on leave of absence. doing advanced work at Chicago University. 1 MARY B. PUTNAM, PH. B., M. PD. Assistant Professor of Civics A just woman steady to her purposeg Noble by birth yet nobler by her good deeds. -Longfellow. FLORENCE SI-IULTES was graduated from the Michigan State Normal College in 1883. From 1883 to 1887 she was preceptress in the Centerville High School, Michi- gan. The succeeding five years were spent teaching in the high school of Traverse City. and in 1892 she was elected to her present position in the history department. ii U f B. Pd. from the Normal College in 1901. During that She received the degree o year she also did advanced Work at the University of Chicago. She has been abroad twice in the interest of her subject, once in 1899, and again in 1905. Miss Schnltes is a member of the North Central History Teachers' Association. 33 I: 1 LORENCE Sl'lUL'l'IES, B. PD Instructor in History