Bethany College - Bethanian Yearbook (Bethany, WV)

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F. M. LONGANECKER. A.M., Professor of the Latin Language and Literature. Professor Longanecker was born in a vil- lage near Akron, Ohio. His undergrad- uate course was taken at Hiram College, from which institution he graduated in 1899. For two years following his gradu- ation he was Professor of Greek and Latin in the Fayette Normal University. Fayette, Ohio. The next year he spent in Texas, as Principal of the Preparatory Department of Texas Christian Univers- ity. In the fall of 1902 he entered the University of Michigan as a graduate student. From this institution he received the A.M. degree in 1904. During the year 1903-04 he was an Assistant -in Latin In the University of Michigan. In 1904 he came to Bethany as Professor of Latin. MRS. D. W. READ, Teacher of Art and Elocution. Mrs. Read was a pupil in a private studio in Lynchburg, Va., for the two years from 1SS4 to 1886. In 1S93-94 she was a member of the Lynchljurg Art League. In 1899 she was a member of the Balti- more Art League, and Charcoal Club, and the summers of 1903 and 1904 she spent as a special student in the University of Virginia Summer School. In 1890 she be- came teacher of Art and Elocution in the New London Academy in ' irginia, where she remained for six years. In 189S she accented a similar position in Belmont Seminary and remained in that position until she came to Bethany in the fall of 1904. JOHN M ' KEE. A.M., B.D., Professor of the Greek Language and Literature. Bethany College matriculated Professor McKee as a student in 1875. He attended Bethany for several years and later en- tered Butler College, from which institu- tion, he graduated in 1883, with the A.B. degree. A year later he received the A.M. degree. In 1887 he graduated at Yale, with the B.D. degree. The ne.Kt eleven years were spent in pastoral work in Indiana. In 1S9S he entered the University of Chi- cago for graduate work and a year later he was called to the chair of Greek and Hebrew in Butler College. He remained in this position two years, when he re- signed to take up pastoral work. After serving the church at Beaver Falls, Pa., for three years he was called to the chair of Greek in Bethany in 1904. CORNELIUS BEATTY. A.B., Professor of Natural Sciences. Our Professor of Natural Sciences was reared in the City of Baltimore, Md. He graduated from the Baltimore City Col- lege in 1S95. and a year later graduated from Johns Hopkins LTniversity, with the A.B. degree. The year following he spent as a graduate student at Johns Hopkins. In 1897 he became Professor of Natural Sciences in Des Moines College, Iowa. He remained in this position four years, when he resigned to accept the Professorship of Physics and Chemistry in Grant Uni- versity, Tennessee. In 1904 he came to Bethany as Professor of Natural Sciences. JEAN CORRODI MOOS. A.M., Director of Department of Music and In- structor in Piano, Voice and Theory. Professor Moos claims Switzerland as his native land. From 1884 to 1888 he was a student in the College of Music in Zurich. The next two years he spent as a student in the Royal Conservatory of Music in Leipsic. In 1S90 he became Di- rector of Music in the Kidder Institute. Kidder, Mo. In 1S92 he became a member of the faculty of Stephens College, Co- lumbia, Mo. In 1894-95 he taught in Ripon College, Ripon, Wis. For the next two years he taught in the Music School of De Pauw University. In 1897 he accepted his present position in Bethany College. 15 F. T. McEVOY, Principal of Commercial Department. Professor McEvay began his student life in the Pine Flat Academy, in 1874. The next three years he attended the State Normal School at Indiana, Pa. The year following he was a student at Hiram College. The next ten years were spent as a teacher in the public schools of Penn- sylvania, with the exception of the year 1 8G, when he was a student in the Matthews Business College. From 1890 to 1894 he was a Professor in the Normal Business College in Youngstown, Ohio. The next year he was at the head of the Lockport, N. Y., Business College. Dur- ing the years ' 9G- ' 97 he was Principal of the Duke Centre, Pa., High School. The next year he was Principal of the Little Falls Business College. He accepted his present position in 1902.