San Jose State College - La Torre Yearbook (San Jose, CA)

Page 13 text:

EHamltg Nntw U tember, several new faces were noticed on the platform, and some well-known faculty members were missed. V . Miss Agnes E. Howe, head of the History Department, returned from a years leave of absence, during which she traveled in several European countries, spent the spring at the University of Wisconsin, and taught in the summer at the University of Reno. Miss Basseler and Miss Whitmire also returned from a year in Europe, which they spent in Visiting and studying along their special line. Miss Trimble returned to the Training School after a year at Teachersi College, Columbia. We missed Miss Etta Kinney, who left for a year to take up vari- ous lines of study and to travel in the Eastern States and abroad. Her place was filled by Mr. Charles J . Pierson, who came to the Normal as head of the Zoology Department fromthe El Cajon Union High School. Miss Foster left the Drawing Department, and was succeeded by Miss Elizabeth Lee MeDermott, who also took charge of the Reviews Course. The Arithmetic Department received a notable addition in the per- . son of Mrs. Adelaide Hornbrook, who became a supervisor of arithme- tic. Mrs. Hornbrook came to the Normal last year on leave of absence from her school in Chicago, to do experimental work in the Training School. She is the author of several standard works on mathematics, one of which, Hornbrook7s ttConorete GeometryK has lately been trans- lated into Russian. Several changes were made in the Manual and Household Arts Departments. Mr. W. S. Marten of the San Jose High School, took the place of Mr. A. P. Hill. Mr. B. W. Spaulding, formerly located at Red- lands, a graduate of Stout Institute, undertook the Woodworking courses. Mr. Harold Boyle, from Columbia, took charge of the Metal Work and Design. Miss Lila O,Neale, of Columbia University, was added to the Faculty of the Household Arts Department. ' Mrs. George also acquired an efficient assistant in the person of Miss Clara Hinze, a graduate of the University of California, and of the San Jose Normal. J ust before Christmas the Normal School and Faculty were greatly interested in the honors Which came to two members of the Faculty; 7 namely, the election of Dr. Margaret Shallenberger, Principal of the Training School, to the position of State Commissioner of Elementary Education, and of Dr. Anne M. Niohloson, as Secretary of the State Board of Commissioners of Education. Both Dr. Shallenberger and Dr. Nicholson carried with them the sincerest good wishes of the Faculty and the Student Body to the honors and responsibilities of their new pos1tions- Miss Howe succeeded Dr. Shallenberger as Principal of the Train- ing School, and Dr. Nicholson,s place was ably filled by Miss Post, for- merly head of the English Department of the San J ose High School. IN the first assembly at the beginning of the school year last Sep-

Page 12 text:

over the state. At the close of the reception, When, according to the custom, Faculty and students join hands in a great circle and sing HAuld Lang Syne,;, memories come crowding through the mind of plans and conference, tttrials and tribulations,7, and many pleasant hours spent under the red-tiled roofs of old Normal. The reception is in the hands of the following able committees: General Plan: Miss MeCabe. Program: Miss Beal, Miss Bradley, hMiss Buckingham. Refreshments: Miss Trimble, Miss Post, Miss Mignon.

Page 14 text:

New faces again greeted the Student Body at the beginning of the mid-year term. Miss Payne had left for the Orient, and her place was filled by Miss Wilkins and Miss Buckingham, both. instructors at Stan- ford. Miss Enid Kinney returned at this time from her years leave of absence, and Miss Twombley came from Stanford as assistant in Zoology and Physiology. Over in the Training School no change was made, save that Miss B. Shillingsburg, who had been ably filling her sisters place, during the latteris illness, resigned, and Miss Wunderlieh, 0f the San J ose School Department, took her place. In March the school lost two of the most well-known instructors in the Normal, when Professor Wood left for siX monthsi study and travel in the East, and Mrs. George, a few weeks later, set out on a long- planned and mueh-needed vacation trip to Switzerland. In the absence of Mrs. George, Miss Hinze has taken entire charge of the Geography Department. k EHarultg mpnia manqupt U . The men of the faculty under the leadership of President Dailey have from time to time entertained the young men students of the school in evening functions. One of the most successful of these was given recently at which a banquet was served in the South Society Hall. It is rumored that this was by 110 means a iipink teaii, but that such substantials as roast beef and potatoes topped off with pumpkin pie and iee-eream, interladed with flowing bowls of black coffee and rich cream made the three-hour meal a satisfaction, The young men, after the repast contributed a program to the evenings entertainment. This consisted of recitations by J ohn Faulds and Charles Flower. several guitar solos by Waldo Worden, and a quartette by R. Williams, F. Argall, L. Hawkinson, L- Albertson. Last of all Raymond Perry laid aside his coat, rolled up his sleeves, and waded into the piano. A11 encore was insistently called for, and when Mr. Perry finished there was many a whisper about the room suggest- ing that much was to be expected of this young manTs musical career. The banquet was prepared by faculty committees in regulation domestic science style. The whole affair was another illustration of the Normal spirit which goes so far to build happy associations and good fellowship among those who go out from here into the States schools.