Millersville University - Touchstone Yearbook (Millersville, PA)

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R I Sebiratimt So % Justin iEniiiui. M.. £ . BUjose untiring rfforts attb great brnotion to his work lump been an Inspiration to ns. uir. the rbitors of the unurfystour ' gratefully bebiratr this work

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4 TOUCHSTONE H. Justin Roddy A Dr. H. Justin’ Roddy is a native of Landisburg. Perry County. Pennsylvania. His ancestors on the paternal side are Scotch-Irish and on the maternal side. German. Nature endowed him with the l est qualities of each people, and to-day lie is a man of whom Millcrsvillc Normal School, as his Alma Mater, and we. as his pupils, may feel justly proud. He attended Landisburg Academy, at which school his father was a teacher for many years. In 1881 he graduated from the Millersville Normal School, after which he taught in the public schools of Pennsylvania. Ret ween the time of his graduation and 1896. in which year he completed the Scientific Course, he earned the degrees of 11. I’d. and M. Pd. from his Alma Mater. Later, the degree of Ph. I), was conferred u]x n him by Kansas City University. Prom boyhood lie has been a lover and a student of nature. The promise of his lx yhood has been fulfilled, and he is to-dav an authority on many phases of Nature and Science, as is shown in the papers which he has contributed to the Scientific Society on ( frnithology. Geology.“ Physical Geography, etc. Dr. Roddy well deserves to be a member of the American Association for the advancement of Science, for he is ever ready to aid another in his researches. I)r. W alcott. Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and the greatest authority in the world on the lower Cambrian Formations. says of him. in his work on Trilobites, I am greatly indebted to Dr. 11. Justin Roddy, of the State Normal School at Millersville. Pennsylvania. for his permission to study his collection made in Lancaster County, for the loan of specimens, and for conducting me over the areas from which his collection of Lower Cambrian fossils was collected.