Dickinson State University - Prairie Smoke Yearbook (Dickinson, ND)

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CHARLES E. SCOTT President PRESIDENT SCOTT Mr. Charles E. Scott was inaugurated as president of the State Teachers College at Dickinson in the early fall of 1939. Mr. Scott is the descendent of Scotch highlanders who migrated to New York state in the nineteenth century and thence to Illinois, Iowa and Missouri. He was born in Elmo. Missouri, in 1889. He was graduated from the Colorado State Teachers Col- lege with the degree of Bachelor of Arts; from the Colorado State Teachers College of Education with the degree of Master of Arts; and has done advanced graduate study at Peabody College. President Scott began his teaching in the rural schools of Polk County, Mis- souri, in 1909. He moved to North Da- kota in 1932 as professor of education in the State Normal School at Dickin- son. In 1927 he became director of training in the State Teachers College at Minot, and in 1939 returned to Dick- inson and the State Teachers College as Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Scott in its president. 1939 Homecoming Parade.