Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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Alston Ellis v. ALSTON ELLIS, A. M., Ph. D.. LL. D., was unanimously elected | J to the presidency of the Ohio University on July is, 1901. As an executive be has few equals. The administration of affairs at the hi i L ' niversity is of the quiet-and-efficient order. There is but little display of authority ii the part of the executive force of this University yet the progress in this, the oldest higher institution of l earning in the Old Northwest , is self- evident. Magnificent buildings, a highly efficient faculty, a large attendance of industrious and well-behaved students, and a finished product that successfully rivals the output of institutions of the highest order are the fruits of his ad- ministratii in. Dr. Ellis was born on a farm in Kenton County. Kentucky. January 26, 184T. He acquired the rudiments of an education in the country schools and later made preparation for college in a private academy in Covington. Ky. He taught country school and at the expiration of the term returned home and worked for some months in his father ' s factory, his father having left the farm and engaged in the manufacturing business in Covington in 1863. In September, 1864, Dr. Ellis entered the Sophomore Class of Miami L ' niversity and three years later graduated with honor. While in school he was known as a splendid Latin and Greek scholar, a ready debater and an excellent speaker. Soon after graduation he was married to Miss Katherine Ann Cox. of Westchester, Butler County, Ohio. Mrs. Ellis is a loveh woman, kind to everyone and especially interested in the students, who are always welcome in Iter delightful home. Dr. Ellis has ever been keenly interested in education and as a teacher, very successful. He has been connected with many well-known schools. Principal of a ward school in Covington, Ky. ; Principal of the Newport (Ky.) Schools; Superintendent of the Hamilton (Ohio) School- for seven years; three times member of the Ohio State Board of School Examiners; Superintendent of the Sandusky (Ohio) Schools. In 1881 he accepted his former position as head of the Hamilton Schools, and served five year- as trustee of Ohio State University. In 1892 he was elected to the presidency of the State Agricultural College of Colorado which position he held eight years and brought the College to a high state of efficiency. He has been elected to many honorable positions in the edu- cational, social and fraternal world. He is a gentleman of striking and dignified personality, a tireless worker and a prof, mud thinker. Kiiieteen

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4 BBf . BE 5 ■ 1 1 i M BH C B ■f 1 bM y B » ■ ' ' bV HENRY G. WILLIAMS, D. PED. '

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Edwin Watts Chubb EAN EDWIN WATTS CHUBB was born in Lebanon, Pennsyh nla. 1 9 in LS65 ; attended the public schools in Philadelphia and Reading; grad uated from the Schuylkill Seminary in L884 ; and from Lafayette I ol- lege in 1887. Eie taught Latin four years in the Schuylkill Seminary; two years head of the English Department in the State Normal School, at ( ali- fornia, Pa. In 1893- ' 94 he studied in the University of Berlin and traveled extensively in England, Holland, France and Italy. He was for some time President of the Albright Collegiate Institute; then head of the Department of English in the State Normal School, Plattsville, Wisconsin; then teacher of English again in the State Normal at California, Pennsylvania. Fur the lasl eleven years Dr. Chubb has been Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature m t Ihio University and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts since 1907. Besides being an excellent teacher he is an author and writer of much note. His delight- ful 1 k, The Story of Authors. has been adopted by the State Reading Circles in ( Ihio, Indiana, and North Dakota. lie worked out his Doctor of Letters under F. A. .March, the famous pioneer Anglo-Saxon student and teacher. Me has lectured extensively before teachers ' institutes and associations and is much sought after in Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania. Henry G. Williams i. AX HENRY G. WILLIAMS of the State Normal College of the I J Ihio University is one of the best-known Normal School men in the niied States. He is a voluminous reader and a careful student. As teacher he has served in every capacity from the rural, village, and city school, to high school principal and superintendent. He is now Professor of School Administration in the Normal College and has been I lean since its organization in 1902. He has spent twenty-nine years as teacher and administrator. He is a pro- lific writer on educational subjects, editor of the Ohio Teacher. author of -everal text 1 ks for teachers and a forceful public speaker. He has appeared on programs in eighty-live counties in Ohio and has had prominent place in educational gatherings throughout the country, lie is a graduate of the National Normal University and was granted the degree of Doctor of PedagOg) b Miami University in 1909. Dr. Williams is an educational authority, a national figure and a polished gentleman. Twi i i