Indiana State University - Sycamore Yearbook (Terre Haute, IN)

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THE NORMAL ADVANCE The Training School , Some changes have been made in the corps of teachers in the training school. since last June. Mr. J. O. Engleman has resigned the principalship in order to accept a position in the faculty of the state normal school at La Crosse, Wisconsin, and his successor is Mr. Guy C. Hanna. Mr. Hanna has done a great deal of GUY C. HANNA public school work, having been, in turn, dis- trict, graded and high school teacher, and city superintendent. He is a graduate of the Col- lege Course at I. S. N. For the past two years he has been head of the department of peda- gogy at Marion Normal School. This experi- ence has prepared Mr. Hanna well for his duties in the'Indiana State Normal Training School. Miss Alma McCrum has had charge df grades three and four since last J une. Miss McCrum graduated from the Huntingten High School. She is also a graduate of I. S. N. in the class of t08, and has done more than a year,s work MISS ALMA McCRUM at Indiana University. She has taught two years in Indianapolis. Her friends believe that her scholarship, her experience in teaching, and her splendid persbnality qualify her well for the work she is doing, and they heartily wel- come her back to the school in Which she has spent so much time as a student. I ttThe Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves 011: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your tears wash out a Word of it. eOmar Khayyam.

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20 ophy. In 1902 he became professor of history and public speaking at the state normal at Stevens Point, Wisconsin. He comes from that position to Indiana State Normal as head of ROSCOE RAYMOND HYDE the department of oral reading and public speaking. We quote from the Stevens Point Gazette: tiIn Prof. Bacon the school has lost one of its most popular, capable, and hard-working teachers, one who was a friend to everyone, and who believed in and thoroughly practiced the golden rule. His personality won for him a place in the hearts of the students and faculty alike which his absence will not take away. S. P. N. wishes him only success? BOSOOE RAYMOND HYDE Since last J une Roscoe Raymond Hyde has filled the position made vacant by Oliver S. THE NORMAL ADVANCE Thompson, who was an assistant professor of physiology, zoology and botany. Mr. Hyde has had considerable experience in public school a work both as a-student and as a teacher. As a boy he attended the district schools and the graded schools at Brazil, Indiana. After finish- ing his course in the Brazil High School, Mr. Hyde entered the Indiana State Normal, where he graduated from the 01d four years course and later from the college course, being a mem- ber of the first class to receive the A. B. degree from the institution. He has spent three years as a student at Indiana University, which in- stitution has conferred upon him the degrees of B. A. and A. M. for studies in zoology, bacteri- ology and mathematics. He has done special work in degeneration under Dr. Eigenmann, Dean of the Indiana Graduate School. Mr. Hyde taught one year in a district school and served one year as principal of a graded school. For two years he assisted Professors Cox and Rettger in their laboratories. At I. S. N. he has been an instructor two terms in the department of mathematics and one term in the department of zoology and botany. During the summer of 1908 he was an instructor at the In- diana University Biological Station at Winona Lake, Indiana. For one year he served as an assistant in embryology at the I. U. School of Medicine where he became a member of the Honorary Scientific Association of Sigma Xi. The many friends of Mr. Hyde know him as an enthusiastic teacher and as an earnest stu- dent. By his own eiforts he has made his way through the College and University. It is with pleasure that his friends see him take a position in the faculty of the school with which he has been so long connected: ttThe Revelations of the Devout and Learnid Who rose before us, and as Phophets burnid, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep They told their comrades, .and to Sleep re- turnidy -0mar Khayyam.

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22 THE NORMAL ADVANCE E. B. MILAM. At Eloise, Florida, on J une 4th, occurred the death of E. B. Milam. Mr. Milam graduated from the Indiana State Normal in the class of 1872 with President Parsons and Vice Presi- dent Sandison. He has been identified with public school worli all of his life. From 1876 to 1878 he was county superintendent of Knox County. Later, he moved to Florida where he taught until his death, which occurred in his sixty-first year. Throughout the years he has been loyal to his state and to I. S. N. 91 have fought a good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith? such men may say these words with the Apostle Paul. WILLIAM BRYCE On Sept. 17th occurred the death of William Bryce, our itBillf, at the Deaconess Hospital in Indianapolis. His death was the result of an at- tack of typhoid fever, which is thought to have been contracted at Sparta, Wis., where he was called to do field practice as a member 0f Com- pany A, field artillery. tiBilPi graduated from the Normal with the class of i08, and from the Indianapolis Law School in ,09. He had contracted to assume the principalship of a school in Oklahoma, and it was his intention to set up in the prac- tice of law there at the end of his term of school, but grim death has stepped in and cut short his promising career. During the time he was a student here, he was prominent in athletics, especially track and basketball. He was a member of the Forum Literary Sbciety, and was one of NormaPS best public speakers. The whole student body and faculty knew and loved him, and his death came as a sad blow to all. In Memory of GOLDIA MILDRED GRESSMIRE, Who died August 29, 1909. .Thy gentle voice is hushed, Thy warm true heart is still, And on thy young and iniocent brow Is resting deathis cold chill. Thy hands are clasped upon thy breast; We have kissed thy lovely brow, And in our aching hearts we know We have no Mildred now. -From her Pi Zeta Sisters. 9L0 ! some we loved, the lovliest and the best That Time and Fate of all their vintage prest, Have drunk their cup a round 6r two before, And one by one crept silently to Rest? -0mar Khayyam