Millersville University - Touchstone Yearbook (Millersville, PA)

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time, and by means of which he has risen to his present position of usefulness and responsibility in the school and of prominence and deference among the scientists and geographers of the country. I D ln 1889, the Millersville Normal induced Mr. Roddy to enter the ranks of its teaching force, and since then he has been honorably connected with the school in the capacity of an instructor, performing well his part 'in establishing the enviable reputation which the faculty of the Millersville Normal now possesses: In 1891, he completed the scientific course at the Normal. His diploma is embellished with many of the university degree studies in science. ' At the request of the University Publishing Company of New York, in 1899, Mr. Roddy revised Mawry's entire series of Geographies. In the same year, the American Book Company, of New York, 'requested him to write a two-book series of common school geographies. Work on these was begun at once, and the books were pub- lished in 1902. They at once grew popular, and now the series, Roddy's Elementary Geography and Roddy's Complete Geography, is extensively used in the public schools. ' The public, which appreciates Mr. Roddy's work, will soon welcome a text-book on Physical Geography, the manuscript of which has just been finished. In recognition of his attainments and personal worth, a number of influential organizations have elected him to membership. The American Association of Geographers, which receives into membership' no person who has not published an original work in geography or geology, recently elected Mr. Roddy a member. For many years he has been a member of the Geographical Society of America and of the National Geographical Society of America. As secretary of the Linnman Society, Mr. Roddy has notably influenced geographic and geologic thought and study in this section of the State. A -5-