Fairmont State University - Mound Yearbook (Fairmont, WV)

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R8 nO w L 5 v 5? . v : - - js m ?— n g) IN MEMORIAM rsssi ss s i r s i si ssir truing — 3n Jllemortam F. WARREN SHAMBLEN Died October 19, 1917. By loyalty and close application our beloved fellow student won a position of leadership in the school; and at his death was president of the Senior Academic Class, president of the Moz- art Literary Society, and president of the Student Body As- sociation. ' Nor blame we Death, because he bare The use of virture out of earth; We know transplanted human worth Will bloom to profit, otherwhere. 11283

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Mtorris fiuvby Sljawke? EBsaaeffl Morris Purdy Shawkey, to whom this issue of the Mound is respectfully de- dicated, was born February the seventeenth, 1868, in Jefferson County, Penn- sylvania. His education was finished at Oberlin College and Ohio Wesleyan Uni- versity. After his graduation from the university he accepted a position in the Methodist Conference Seminary, now known as West Virginia Wesleyan College, at Buchannon, West Virginia. In 1896 he became Deputy State Superintendent of Schools of AVest Vir- ginia, afterwards becoming Superintendents of Schools of Kanawha County, and later a member of the legislature from the same county. In November, 1908, he was elected State Superintendent of Schools, assum- ing these duties March 4, 1909. He has held this position since that time, hav- ing been re-elected in 1912 and 1916. He is a member of the National Educational Association and was President of the Department of Superintendence for 1915-1916. Mr. Shawkey is also one of the editors of the West Vi a member of the State Board of Public Works, and Presid of Regents. He is recognizee! as one of the educational leaders of the country and ha done much for the development of the Public Schools of West Virginia. Recognizing in him one whom any teacher might well emulate as a man o: high ideals and willing service, we take great pleasure in dedicating this annua to Mr. Shawkey. a School Journal, f the State Board