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

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DR. JOHN A. H. KEITH Dr. .lolui A. H. Keith lias been the head of Indiana State Normal School of Pennsylvania since the autumn of 1917. Dr. Keith graduated from the State Normal School at Normal. Illin- ois, in 1894, having had two years experience in country school work. The followiu : two years he spent in the Training Department of the Normal School as Principal of the (irammar Room, i-esigning that position in 1896 and spending three years at Harvard Univerisity, taking the de- gree of A. B. in 1899 and A. .M. in 1900. While at Harvard he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity, the entrance to which requir es high scholarship. He was twice a member of the Han ' ard debating team against Vale, and coached two Harvard Debating teams against Prince- ton. After finishing at Harvard he was elected as assistant to Dr. John W. ( ook, president of the De Kalb Normal School, 1899-1906, devoting most of his time to the field of psychology and pedagog; ' . He then returned to the State Normal School at Normal, Illinois, as Principal of the Training Department from 1906 to ()ctober, 1907, when he was elected President of the State Normal School at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He remained in that po- sition from October 1907, to August 1917, resigning to come to Indiana. He came splendidly reconunendeil. In 1905 Dr. Keith jiublished a book Elementary Education, Its Processes and Problems, and has contributed largely to educational lit- erature. Through all these trying days of war and epidemic. Dr. Keith has been a calm, considerate executive, holding Indiana to an even higher standard of scholarship than foi ' mei ' ly and facing with courage the problems of finance, and reconsti-uction involved. The class of 1919 has been exceedingly fortunate in having as guide thi ' OUgh the years spent at Indian.-i a man of such si)lendid character and faithfulness.