Manchester College - Aurora Yearbook (North Manchester, IN)

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being Dean. Mrs. Leasure is a returned missionary from Africa and is living here with her three boys. Miss Kessler used to teach the third and fourth grades when the grade school was in the Library Building. Some of us can remember her making us learn the multiplication tables. Now- a-days she has us make scrapbooks like that one being made in the picture. Any one who comes late to A. R. Eikenberry ' s class has to pay a fine. That is, he must buy a Hershey bar for the class. A. R. goes to such places as Logansport, but he always escapes. He takes students along because there is safety in numbers. He is a loyal pal, a sympathetic adviser, and an up-to- date teacher. Alice A. Doner, A.M. Tax on Late Comers A. R. is more than a col- lege prof, for he takes an interest in the town, an in- terest that makes him an excellent mayor. Nettie Norris Leasure, B.S., A.M. Agnes C. Kessler, A.M. Scrap Book

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best answer tests and for his goatee ; or maybe it is for his daughters. M. Irene knows more about the school children of Manchester than they do themselves. She can tell you just what to do to make Johnny behave and how to interest Mary in arithmetic. Her manual contains many helpful hints on discipline, neatness and care of the room. Vaughn and John Hamer have been used for trying out the Farm Babies books which O. Stuart Ham- er, their father, is writing. Besides these books he works on the diagnostic tests which the department is making. He was the superintendent of a township system of schools in Iowa and taught at Elizabethtown College. The lab work in this de- partment is student teach- ing, but the would-be teach- J. G. Meyer, Ph.D. A. R. Eikenberry, B.S., A.M. O. Stuart Hamer, Ph.D. M. Irene Johnson, A.M. Student Teaching ers more frequently are experimented on than vice versa. Miss Doner teaches several classes in the Normal division in addition to 25

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Oncjllsk Fred R. Conkling is Deer Teechur to most freshmen. He is their class adviser and has to be initiated each year. His pet lady friend, next to Mrs. Conkling, is Miss Min- nie Mum Essentials. He knows a lot about grammar, Fred. R. Conkling, A.M. too. Rabbits and Refuge are his specialties. One of the playwrights on our faculty is Professor Lloyd Hoff who dashes plays off in his free moments. Music is another love of his Lloyd M. Hoff, Ph.D. Theme Returned R . C. Wenger, B.D., A.M. The M. E. M. Board which he follows by playing a viola in the string ensemble. Green ties are Professor R. C. Wen- ger ' s favorites. Maybe that ' s due to the fact that he teaches freshman comp. He is an authority on children ' s poems and spends a lot of time collecting them. He used to teach the Bible courses here so that accounts for his interest in that field. He is adviser to the Volunteers. 27