Ferris State University - Ferriscope Yearbook (Big Rapids, MI)

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C 9 ERT S T1 axis the only son of Elijah and Nancy Quick Tiayis, xx as born une 30, 1866. His moth- 9 D er died when hc was only a few weeks old and he ct-,oss was brought up by her parents. His youth was spent working on a farm and attending the district school. In 1892, at the age of twenty-six, he came to Big Rapids as a student of the Ferris lndustrial, remaining here one year. After teaching' a year, he returned and took up work preparatory to a life certificate. which he secured in 1896. He began teaching in the Institute at once, also having' charge of the office work. :Xs the school grew, his oiiice work increased so that he has had to give up most of his teaching to attend to those duties. For the last eight years, he has also served as Secretary of the Ferris Institute, Mr. Travis was married in 1888 to Mildred llrainerd, one son, George, being born to this union. In August. ISQI, Mrs, Travis was killed by a stroke of lightning. In I8Q5, he was married to Irene Schaeffer, who had been a teacher in Toledo, Ohio for several years. They have three children, Mildred, Geraldine and Irene. 7 f f x ' I x N sy sl sx s ' 1:59 can 1 1 ' FYNCTQ R. Carlisle's boyhood days were passed in a pleas- ant little New York state village, where he re- Q Q It 9 9 9 XT Q . . . . . C JQQ ceived lns first formal instruction in select ,si ,tae 5 ' schools. His youth was spent on a Michigan farm. During this period he attended district school, and later had the advantage of a year of grammar school and one of high school training. He took his college course at Racine, Vvisconsin. Here he received the degree of IE. A. from Racine College, and later the degree of M. A. He began his active life by teaching district school, giving elo- cutionary entertainments, and clerking in a store. Deciding finally to give his time to elocutionary work, he attended Mrs. Edna Chaffee Nobles school of elocution in Detroit. He received a diploma from this institution, taught there several years, spent a year in Minneapolis, and then re- turned to Michigan to take the position of supervisor of reading in the public schools of Ionia. This position he held seven years. He was called from it to Big Rapids by Mr. Ferris in ISQ2, since which time his work has been with Ferris Institute.

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gf NVINNIE MILOR E. E. MAGOON Music Gregg Shorthand 2 E. M. CLARK j. L. FELTON W. D. CRAMER History and Geograuhy Literature and Rhetoric Biology g-5 ALICE R. FORD Typewrilinii '-vp. r' vl 'X C. W. WILLIS ROBERT A. BANNEN Telegraphy History and Geography MINNIE FRANKII O. O. BISHOP English Chemistry ar- ELSIE B. HANCHETT Drawing