Clarion University of Pennsylvania - Sequelle Yearbook (Clarion, PA)

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WILLIS YARDLEY WELCH. Willis Yardley Welch was born in Searsburg, Schuyler County, New York. He studied in the common schools of New York until, in his sixteenth year, he began teaching. Two years later he entered Starker seminary, New York, go- ing from there to Union Christian College, Merom, Indiana, where he was in- terrupted in his Senior Year by sickness. On recovering he taught in Indiana, Illinois and New York for several years. After taking a three years ' course in free hand, mechanical, pattern and architectural drawing in the Kochester, N. Y., Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute, he entered Oswego Normal School, and in his Senior Year his popularity was manifested by his unanimous election to the presidency of his class. He was graduated with highest honors in the clas- sical course in February, 189!). Immediately after graduating, he became As- sistant Instructor in Science and Nature Study at Oswego Normal, retiring from that position in September, 1899, to accept the position as head of the Sci- ence Department in the Clarion State Normal School, Clarion, Pennsylvania. Prof. Welch has specialized in Psychology, Pedagogy, Science and Nature Study and Literature at Cornell, and the past summer in Quantitative and Ana- lytical Chemistry, at University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. At the Clarion State Normal School he has built up the Science Department until it is now considered to be one of the best in the state. Prof. Welch has done commendable institute work. His lectures are in- structive and scholarly productions. He has contributed to educational period- icals on scientific and educational themes, and is the author of the Chemical Laboratory Manual now in use in the Clarion Normal. Bucknell conferred the degree of M. S. on Prof. Welch in 1907.