Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Oak Yearbook / INSTANO Yearbook (Indiana, PA)

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JANE E. LEONARD, M. S., A. M. Miss Jane E. Leonard, the precejitress of our school, who comes of fine old Quaker ancestry, spent her life as a student and teacher. Her life ' s work has been in the Normal Schools in Millcrsville and Indiana. She came to Indiana when the school was first opened in 1875, and has lived and worked here ever since. This has resulted in a great love for the school and the town, such as is possible only to a life spent like hers. Miss Leonard has kept abreast of the times by associating with new teachers and others of learning and ideas. Schol- arly people, educators, and her old students make up a i)art of her wide ac- quaintance with people in many walks of life. She spends her summers at a school in Chautauqua, in travel or in some course of study, improving and growing in mind. Miss Leonard has traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe; and was planning a visit to Turkey, Greece and Palestine just before the war broke out. She retains and shows her enthusiasm for the work and her love for her students, old and new. All the students highly esteem her, but those who have the privilege of her classes, realize not only the richness of her char- acter and learning, but the rare privilege of an association which is a delightful memory for a lifetime. It is the wish of the Senior Class of 1918 that there be many years of work and haiipiness at Indiana yet in store for Miss Ijconard.