Kansas City Teachers College - Ye Pedagogue Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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Aids In Supervision of fPersonal Fitness '5ests Have you seen your Personal Fitness Test yet ? is often heard in the halls of Teachers College at certain times of each year. The Personal Fitness Test, which is given once each year in the college, embodies those qualities which are considered essential to the character of a good teacher and is given for the purpose of giving a girl her standing in her class in regard toithese qualities. Each person rates the other l1l6l1llJE1'S of her class on various attributes. These ratings are strictly conlidential. being seen only by the advisers. Miss Gertrude Greene and Miss Emma Serl, by the person concerned, and some times by the President of the college. Each girl learns of her ratings through a con- GERTRUDE GREENE ference with one of the advisers. Among the qualifica- Ilwrlioloryy - . . A ' t tions upon which students are rated ale posture, neat- ness. broadmindedness. courtesy. dependability. loyalty, cooperation, leadership, honesty, perseverance, self-control. rehnement. sincerity, enthusiasm and opti1nism. Miss Gertrude Greene. Dean of Teachers College. with Miss Emma Serl. has charge of the Personal Fitness Tests and confers with the students regarding their ratings in the test. Besides her duties as adviser to the students, Miss Greene teaches psychology, school administration and freshman drill classes in English, spelling, pronunciation, board-writing and arithmetic. Miss Greene is one of the organizers of Teachers College and has been an instructor and Dean since its organization in 1911. llll

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G. XV. DIEMER, President l ll I

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ff' Ninth .Annual Literary Cfontest .Arouses Winch Interest The Ninth Annual Literary Contest was held Friday, May 11, in the auditorium of Teachers College. The contest was won by the Kappa Phi Alpha Dramatic Club. FIRST PLACE VK-'INNERS Declamation-RUTH RHOIXDS ...... Kappa Phi Alpha Story TClllI1g-DOROTHX' FERGUSON .... Kappa Phi Alpha Oration-PAULINE BUSCH ...... Phi Lambda Sigma Extemporaneous S.-VERA LIERICLE .... Kappa Phi Alpha Poem-Emrn BROWN ...... . . Tau Kappa Delta Essay-IRENE KI.EBAN ...... . . . Athletic Club Children's Story-ESTHER VVATSON ..... Nature Club Adult's Story-MARION BRENNER .... Phi Lambda -Sigma SECOND PLACE VVINNERS ' IJCCIHIIIZ-1lZl0ll-IXIARY HEIAEN NIERRUGGE .... Music Club Story Telling-GERALDINE FITZGERALD ..... Nature Club Oration-EULA HOLDER ......... Nature Club Extemporaneous S.-EDITH CooK .... Phi Lambda Sigma POCITI-IMIRIAM XVAITE ..... . . Kappa Phi Alpha Essay-MILDREU MESSLIORE ...... Kappa Phi Alpha Children's StOfy'-'MAIYDE BURNS .... Phi Lambda Sigma Adult's Story-E1.1zABE'r1-I PINNARD. . . Tau Kappa Delta THIRD PLACE VVINNERS DCCl8lllHtiOI1'-'JEAN MARIE FULKERSON .......... Story Telling-NELLIE CHRISMAN . Extemporaneous S.-DoRo'rHy Gmss . Poem-GLAm's BRIERLY ...... ESSHJV'-DOROTHX' VVooD ....... Children's St0Fj'-DOROTHX' MINIACE . . Adult's Story-HELEN MUELLER ............ EMMA SERL English . . . Art Club . . . Music Club Tau Kappa Delta Phi Lambda Sigma . Tau Kappa Delta . Kappa Phi Alpha . . . . . . Nature Club Rhoads, Ferguson, Busch, Mericle Brown, Kleban, VVatson, Brenner ll3l