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

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8 THE NORMAL ADVANCE MISS LOTTA DAY. MISS MARJORIE 0UPPY. Miss Day, teacher of grades 1 and 2 in the Miss Guppy was graduated from the college training school, is a graduate of the State Nor- course in the Class of 1914. She is now, during mal. In addition she has had two terms7 work the absence of Professor Curry, lining the posi- in Columbia University. tion of Miss Moran, Who was appointed acting head of the department of literature. MARJORIE CUPPY LOTTA DAY 111188 ALICE 1VUELLER., During the past two years Miss Day was , . . , ' Miss Mueller, instructor in German 1n the em 10 ed in trainintr school work at Evans- , villi in d b training school, received her B. A. degree from , the State University of Iowa, and her M. A. MISS N ORM A F AI LIN G. degree from the University of Chicago. Miss Failing, Who during the past three Miss Mueller has been connected With the years has been teaching in the West Terre NORMA FAILING ALICE MUELLER Haute graded schools7 is a graduate of I. S. N. grammar schools of Davenport, Iowa, and the Miss Failing is now teacher of grades 3 and 4 high school of Oshkosh, Wis. She has also in the training school. taught a class in the University of Chicago.

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THE - NORMAL ADVANCE q 31 acultp Manges: MR. THOS. J. BBEITIVIESEB. R. BREITWIESER, assistant professor e of psychology, received his B. A. degree from Central Normal College, Danville, Ind.7 and his A. M. degree from Indiana University. He has, moreover, had one year of advanced work in Columbia University. ' THOS. J. BREITWIESER Mr. Breitwieser has had a Wide range of eX- perience in educational work. He has taught in the graded schools, served as high school principal, and was laboratory assistant in eX- perimental psychology at Teachers College, New York City. MISS ANNE 0 ONJIY. By a recent ruling the state of Indiana was divided into three sections, under the super- vision of Purdue University, Indiana Uni- versity and the Indiana State Normal School, respectively. Each institution appoints a rep- t resentative to go into the schools of the state to assist in any way possible the teachers in their domestic science instruction. Miss Conmy represents the State Normal in thirty counties of the state. At the opening of the spring term she Will take up active work in the Domestic Science Department. Miss Conmy comes to us from Pembina, N. D., the oldest town of the state, and the site of old Fort Pembina. She received her col- lege training in the University of North Da- kota, and her special training in Domestic Economy at Stout Institute, Menomonie, Wis. MISS EDITH BADER. Miss Bader, Who for some years past has been teacher of grades 3 and 4 in the training school and has at various times assisted in the EDITH BADER lVIethOds Department Of the Normal, has now been transferred to the position of assistant in the Department Of Methods. MISS HARRIET JOSLIN. Miss Joslin, teacher of Domestic Economy in the training school, is a graduate of De Pauw University. She received her diploma in domestic arts from Columbia University. She has, in addition, taken work at Stout In- stitute, Menomonie, WVis., and Lewis Institute, Chicago. Miss Joslin has taught at Urbana, Ohi0.; Nephi, Utah, in the Greencastle public schools, and in the DePauW Music School.

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THE NORMAL ADVANCE 9 3m memoriam ROBERT PARSONS. 4cHow Long IVe Live Not Years, But Actions Tell?7 Robert Parsons, son of President and Mrs. W. W. Parsons, passed away in his twenty- first year on July 23, 1914. Robert began his student life at the age of siX in the Normal Training School and con- tinued there until he was graduated from the high school four years ago. He then entered Wabash College, where he distinguished him- self in scholarship, winning the Rhodes scholarship in his junior year and Phi Beta Kappa in his senior year. In college, as in the Normal School, he endeared himself to his teachers and associates by his gentleness of spirit and unfailing courtesy. It is the regret of all who knew him that this life of such great promise did not bloom into its full maturity; and yet few men of three score and ten have lived so full a life as Robert did in his twenty-one years. To President and Mrs. Parsons in their great sorrow, the faculty and the student body extend their warmest sympathy. CAPTAIN TVILLIAM H. ARMSTRONG. In offering this tribute to the services of Captain William H. Armstrong as member and President of the Board of Trustees of the In- diana State Normal School, it is fitting to reo- ognize not only his valuable work and the fidel- ity and zest with Which it was always per- formed, but also the uniform courtesy and kindly spirit which accompanied it. This edu- cational service was only a small part of that larger field of good citizenship in which these same qualities were shown. To indicate the liberal equipment he brought to his service upon the Board, brief reference, is made to his life career. Captain Armstrong was born near the town of VVigton, Cumberland County, England, May 14, 1844, but when three years of age came with his parents to Knox County, Illinois, and from 1847 to 1863 he was receiving an education from this new, strange environment, from his home life and from the country and village schools. He thus received the. influences of two nationalities. At nineteen years of age he entered the Federal Army, and served until March, 1866, thus taking up into his educa- tion the great and enduring influences of the Civil War. At the close of this service, he en- tered upon the business of real estate and col- lection of government claims, in Paducah, Ky. In 1869 he received from the government an appointment in the Internal Revenue Service. Later, he removed to Terre Haute, entered upon the business of druggist, identified himself with the general interests of the city, serving with credit a term as Mayor. About 1885 he re- moved to the larger field of Indianapolis, and established himself as the head of a firm en- gaged in furnishing druggistsi supplies and ap- paratus. In all these forms of activity he was a conspicuous representative of good citizen- ship. He filled with credit his place as a house- holder, as a churchman, and as a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and its allied organizations. It was his characteristic to en- ter with strong and constant interest and zest into the affairs of each organization with which he was allied. In 1892 he was appointed a Trustee of the Indiana State Normal School, and became President of the Board. In his long and valuable service of more than twenty- one years, he manifested in a marked degree,