Wyoming Seminary Prep School - Yearbook (Kingston, PA)

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v fg lf, fW! I JYW' ' 1 1920-2 OF LTY THE F ACU WYOMING SEMINARY iMembers of IFaculty-Continued EDGAR S. BRACE, B. A, ...................................... Oberlin College MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICAL TRAINING ' WALTER R. FLEET, B. A. ........................ University of New Brunswick LATIN AND MATHEMATICS I VERRE JOHNSTON ......... Q ...................... Emerson College of Oratory ELOCUTION DOROTHY E. RUSSELL ..... ..... ..... ........... S yracuse University MARY NATALIE I-IALLOCK .............. Drexel Institute, Columbia University DOMESTIC SCIENCE AND DOMESTIC ARTS ERNEST H. BENNETT .................... Berlin Royal 'High School of Music PIPE ORGAN, PIANO, AND THEORY OF MUSIC NINA BAYLIS, Boston Conservatory, Columbia University, Oscar Sanger, Theodore Van VOICE CULTURE AND HISTORY OF MUSIC York, Trebadello, Paris GEORGE V.'SHEEDER ......................... Brussels Conservatory of Music VIOLIN MARY ANSART, Wyoming College of Business, Head of Shorthand and Typewriting SHORTHAND AND TYPEWRITING Department ANNA ROY ...................................... Wyoming College of Business SHORTHAND AND TYPEWRITING MIGNONETTE M. HOLBROOK .......................... Wyoming Seminary SHORTHAND AND TYPEWRITING MARY GILLOTT ................................ Wyoming College of Business SHORTHAND U MILDRED M. EYER .... ................... ........ W y oming Seminary PIANO RUTH ROBINSON .......................... Chautauqua School of New York GIRLS' GYMNASIUM LAURA SPRAGUE, M. E, L. ............ ' ...... .... W y oming Seminary ENGLISH 15

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WYOMING SEMINARY Abram Nesbitt ecember 9, 1831 and died at his residence September Zo 1921 I-le was of English ancestry, the family summer , . coming to the United States in 1685. 1-lis grandfather was born in Fairfield County, ' 1 l ' ' h ' of cut, coming with his father s family to the Wyoming Valley in t e spring BRAM NESBITT was born in Kingston, Pa., D Connecti 177 3. Mr. Nes it . Seminary. l-le early took up the profession of civil engineering and became expert and an authority in this profession. l-le has initiated some of the largest and most suc- cessful financial undertakings that have characterized the business of Wyoming Valley. Among these are the Second National Bank of Wilkes-Barre and the Spring Brook Water Supply Co. lt was his foresight and financial ability that very largely initiated nd consummated this water system that so bountifully supplies the Wyoming Valley. a l-le has been identified as Director with the Lehigh Valley Railroad Co., Vulcan lron Works and many other large corporations of industrial life. l-le was a Trustee of Wyoming Seminary for thirty-four years and President of the Board for eleven years. Since his election to the Board he has contributed largely to all of the financial under- takings of the Seminary-in buildings, endowment and to the payment of debts arising from deficits in running expenses. ln 1895, he built and donated our beautiful Nesbitt l-lall, one of the finest academy buildings in educational work. Mr. Nesbitt had wonderful f1nancial ability. l-lis keen sense of commercial ' ' ' l nts and his memory of details values, his foresight in relation to industrial deve opme ' ' ' ed in the commercial world as of superior merit. in hnancial transactions were recogniz ' ' d ossessed a fine spirit of good fellow- ln social life, lvlr. Nesbitt was companionablean p V A lhl f iends A large loss was felt in the Wyoming Valley d b ship that was enjoyed by is r . -. ' 'f d his memory will long be treasure y b t was educated at the Dana Academy of Wilkes-Barre and Vifyoming when he passed from the scenes of this 11 e, an ' ' h had enjoyed his fellowship. thousands whom he had helped in various waysand w o 17