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

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JOHN A. 1 1. Keith State Supenntcndent of Public Instruction i wentv -nine

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February l ' . H)27 To the Seniors: In a recent poem entitled Who Builds a House, Edgar A. Guest sa s tiiat such a person: makes open guarantee That loyaIt - and faith shall ne er cease. does all that mortal can To show he will be steadfast through the years. has sv orn to do the right. To be the strength and bulwark of his race. I know that in your years at Indiana you ha e done something more important than the building of a house or the planting of a rose. So, instead of Who Builds a House, may we not use Every member of the Class of 1927 as the subject of the poem? 1 hope, w hen nou reread the quoted affirmations with this new subject, they will be true of ou — and true of ou through all the years. Cordiall ' ours, John A. H. Keith ' r tMii -cifi ' it

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John Alexander Hull Keith Go ' cnK)r John S. I-isher showed his tliscriminating judumt ' iit when he chose Dr. John A. II. Keith for the position of State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Pennsvivania. Indiana feels the great loss, but as interested citizens of the Commonwealth and future teachers, we realize just as Dr. Keith realized, that every person should be in that position where the most and best service can be rendered. Dr. Keith is a man of national reputation as an educator. His varied experi- ence tits him aciequatel - for this tremendous work. He is interested not onl ' in education as a state affair but as a national concern. Dr. Keith was born at Homer. Illinois. He graduated from the State Normal L ' ni ' ersit ' , at Normal. Illinois and secured the B. .A. and .-X. .M. degrees at 1 lar ard. In 1919 he was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Pedagogv b ' .Miami L ni er- sity at Oxford. Ohio. Dr. Keith ' s teaching experience has been wide and aried. He has taught in rural and village schools in Illinois and in the Training Department of the State Normal School at Normal, Illinois. He served as teacher of pedagogy and psvchologv in the Northern Illinois State Normal School at DeKalb. Illinois. In 1907 he was elected President of the State Normal School, at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where he remained for ten ears. coming from there to Indiana as Principal in 19|7. For two summers Dr. Keith has gi en courses in normal school administration at Teachers College, Columbia L niversity. As an author Dr. Keith is known by Elementary Education. Its Pro:esses and Problems. published in 190r He is also joint author with Dr. W. C. Bagley of Teachers College, New ' ork Cit ' , of The Nation and the Schools, published in 1909 and .An Introduction to Teaching, published in 1923. He is joint editor with Dr. Bagley of the .American Teachers College Series , published by Mac- millan Compan - which includes text books on education and on various subjects piimariU ' for those v ho are preparing to teach in public schools. We are er - proud of our principal for. though he may be Superintjndent of Public Instruction to others, he will alwaxs he the human, ssmpathetic, and kind Doc Keith to the class of ' 27. Thirty