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

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THE SEQUELLE 1921 Our New Principal Dr. Steele, our present principal, was graduated from our Normal School in the class of 1902, and was graduated from Bucknell Uni- versity in 1908. He took graduate work at the University of Pitts- burgh and the University of Wisconsin, and received his master ' s degree from Teachers College in 1925 and his degree of doctor of philosophy from Columbia in 1926. Dr. Steele has had broad educational experience, first as a teacher in the rural and graded schools of Jefferson and Camsron Counties, later as teacher in Shippensburg Normal School and Clarion Normal School, and as principal of Latrobe High School from 1912 to 1914. During his principalship at Latrobe the number of pupils of the school was doubled. A new building was necessitated by the increasing numbers of pupils and was built under his guidance. He became Superintendent of Schools in Latrobe in 1914, remaining in this position until 1920. During the World War, Dr. Steele served as superintendent of instruction of the Ninetieth Division of the American Expeditionary Force. He organized and directed high schools, trade schools, and post schools for this division, while it served in the Army of Occupation in Germany. He holds a commission as major in the United States Army Reserve Corps. After the war he became director of the Training School at Slippery Rock Normal School. During that time he organized the off campus training schools at Butler and New Castle, which came to be recognized among the best training schools in the eastern part of the United States. While at Columbia University, Dr. Steele was appointed to make a survey of the normal schools of Vermont. The results of this survey were published in the Teacher ' s College Contributions to Education. Dr. Steele is the author of A Study of Teacher Training in Vermont ' published in 1926.

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1927 THE SEQUELLE Bebication Eofaert iH. Steele (Dur principal [e Bebicate ijisi equeUe

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1927 THE SEQUELLE DR. STEELE