University of North Texas - Yucca Yearbook (Denton, TX)

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J.. N. Simmons R. jf N. SIMMONS matriculated as a student in the North Texas State ' Normal College on April 21, 1909. He remained in school the remainder of the session of 1908-09 and during the session 1909-10. He was a student also during the summer terms of 1909 and 1910 and graduated with the class in May, 1911. After graduating here he was a teacher at Josephine, Texas, one year, 1910-11. The next year he accepted the superintendency of the Navajo Industrial School, maintained by the Methodist Church of the Indians at Farmington, New Mexico. Before the close of the session the buildings of this school were literally swept away by a flood. Mr. Simmons had succeeded, before the main crest of the Hood reached the school, in sending to a place of safety all the pupils and all the corps of teachers except one teacher and himself, who remained in the buildings. The teacher who remained with him was drowned and Mr. Simmons himself narrowly escaped, being forced to remain in the swollen and turbulent stream thirty-six hours. The next year Mr. Simmons devoted his time to traveling and lecturing in the Northwest and Northeast for the purpose of raising funds with which to rebuild the institution. He succeeded in his undertaking and the school was rebuilt in a place of safety and given vastly improved quarters. From 1913 to the time he came as a member of the Faculty here, he was either teaching in the states of Indiana and New York or attending college. He received the degree A. B. from De Pauw University in 1918 and A. M. from Teachers College, Columbia University, in 1920. In both these institutions he majored in Education. He began his work as a member of this faculty in the capacity of Director of the Training School in February, 1920, which place he held till his death in May, 1921. Mr. Simmons was painstaking as a teacher, an industrious worker, an exact scholar, conscientious in the performance of every duty and faithful to every trust ever imposed upon him. He was highly esteemed by faculty and students and he was best liked and appreciated by those who knew him most intimately. Sixteen

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