Eastern Michigan University - Aurora Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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Page Twenty-four CLEMENS P. STEIMLE Regi.rtr'm'

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FANNIE BEAL Acting Dean of W07l267Z gf' Twvuly-1111

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WILLIAM H. SHERZER, Ph. D. Profermr of Natural Science B. S., M. S., Ph, D., University of Michigan NATURAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT The Natural Science Department stands on the platform that there is nothing more beautiful or more to be desired then Truth, and on this foundation it has built a scientific training for nearly three hundred specializing students. This year's group will join with past graduates in looking back with gratitude to the teachers who opened their eyes to the great wide beautiful wonderful world. There have been few changes in the personnel of the Department, old friends are best. Professor Sherzer took up the infant department in 1891, guiding and nurturing it through years of gratifying growth to a maturity fitting the child of his brain and heart, Miss Phelps came in 1898 to teach Zoology, her interest in human beings shifted her field later to physiology, Miss Goddard's name has been consistently identified with the world of plants since 1900, Mr. Edwards began being invaluable in 1908, and has never ceased to be on call to help anyone do anything, Mr. Hover in 1919 took the agricultural work out from under the wing of the botany classes, and has made it a vital growing entity on the campus, in 1910 the physiology laboratories were privileged to share the time of Miss Supe, Training School Nurse, the next year Professor Hankinson took the Zoology work laid down by Dr. Bertram G. Smith, vitalizing it with the spirit of the fields, and in the same year came Mr. I-lenstock to be the presiding genius of the greenhouse and gardens. Even the architectural lines of the Science Hall seem to the students who love it symbolic of the spirit of its teachings, sturdy yet sweet, conservative yet far-visioned. Page Tttcntx five