Bloomsburg University - Obiter Yearbook (Bloomsburg, PA)

Page 15 text:

w Professor George Ldgar Wilbur [AS BORN September second, eighteen hundred and fifty at Waverly, Pennsylvania. He is the son of a Methodist Episcopal Clergyman, Rev. John L. Wilbur. He received a good home training and at the age of nineteen he entered Wyoming Seminary, where he received his preparatory work. In the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three he entered Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and stud- ied law two years. In the year eighteen hundred seventy-three he received the A. B. degree and three years later the A. M. degree. After graduating from Dickinson College he came to Bloomsburg and was elected su- pervising principal of the public schools of Bloomsburg. He held this position for two years, then gave it up, only to accept a better position offered him by the officials of Bloomsburg State Normal School. For seven years he w as the professor of Ancient Languages and History ' , in which he was eminently successful. From this he was transferred to the department of Mathematics, which position he still holds and in which he has been very successful. Professor Wilbur was married October twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and seventy-four to Frederica L,. Hiller of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. They had three children, two grew to manhood, both are occupying re- sponsible positions ; one is the principal of a High School in Jacksonville, Florida ; the other is Secretary to the Governor of Wisconsin. The distinguishing characteristics of Professor Wilbur have been thoroughness in .scholarship, deep perso- nal interest in his pupils, and his phenomenal success as a disciplinarian. He was always very successful in hold- ing the esteem of all with whom he came in contact, his faculty of winning complete confidence of students was great, not only as an instructor but as a friend, which proved to be of the highest value. Large numbers of young men have received training under him and gone out to higher institutions of learn- ing. He has used his influence to stimulate young men to the pursuit of higher education. Ties of friendship are not stronger between any member of the Faculty than they are between Professor Wil- bur and the former as well as the present students of the school. No one connected with the school has as wide an acquaintanceship among the alumni members as Professor Wilbur. He has been secretary of the Faculty ever since he joined the Faculty forty years ago. He has alwavs been a cordial co-worker and no man has been more loyal to the board of trustees. As has been intimated, our com- mencement will round out his fortieth year of faithful service to the Bloom.sburg State Normal School. Professor Wilbur, the senior member of the Faculty, has been a tower of strength to our school and has given his energies and heart to his work in a most unselfish way. He is not only a worker in school, but out of .school as well, being one of the most prominent Masons of this section. He is a thirt. -third degree member of the Scottish Rite, also member of the Chapter, Commandery and Shrine, has been actively identified with all the various bodies for many years, and has been secretarj ' of the Blue Lodge for sixteen vears. 11

Page 14 text:

n ►J OS o Q W W O o: o w o « o tyj tn W n, o

Page 16 text:

state Board of Lducation William Lauder Riddlesburg and Harrisburg. Dr. John P. Garber Philadelphia. Robert C. Shaw Greensburg. E. S. Templeton . Greenville. James M. Coughlin Wilkes-Barre. Dr. Nathan C. Schaeffer Harrisburg. Dr. J. George Becht Executive Secretary, Harrisburg. Board of Trustees A. Z. Schoch, - - President. James C. Brown, - Vice President. John M. Clark, Esq , - Secretary. Charles W. Miller, Esq. Paul E. Wirt, Esq. Hon. Voris Auten. M. G. Youngman. L. E. McGinnes. Benjamin Apple. D. J. Waller, Jr (Ex-Officio.) Wm. H. Hidlay, Treasurer. 12