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

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. .,,..,Y-qppsumw , - - yE jgg- -'ff'-H --' -'V' ' ' ' v.f.,. ,., ' - 'I , GERTRUDE GREENE Dean E77i6l'ff7lJ EMMA SERI. Efzglifh Teachers College is indeed proud to have on its faculty two who have been with the college since the Year Onef' These two are Miss Greene and Miss Serl. In the years previous to 1911, when Miss Greene was principal of the Irving school, it was the custom to send inexperienced teachers to her school to get their baptism of fire under her supervision, and so to be saved to the teaching profession. In january, 1912, Miss Greene was appointed as Dean of the Normal Training School in the old Central High building and since that time until her resignation in 1935, she served Teachers College as Dean. She is now Dean Emeritus. Miss Serl has witnessed the gradual growth of the Normal Training School, then located at Eleventh and Locust to the present location of Teachers College. She is known as a teacher, authoress, and traveler. She holds degrees from the University of Denver, and has attended Oxford and Cambridge universities of England. ln 1917, Outdoor Adventures became indoor enjoyments when Mr. Shirling came to teach natural science classes. Mr. Shirling emphasizes the fact that the teaching of nature study should be made more concrete. To prove his point, he includes in his curricula, the plotting of an imaginary-160-acre farm in geography, and the whistling of numerous bird songs. He is our Bird Man of Kansas Cityll' Miss Glenn was so interested in teaching that she taught in a little country school for one year before she started a training course. Her pupils, she says, were just as 'tall as she at that time. ln 1922, Miss Glenn came to T. C. after 12 years of experience in college towns. 1 1 A. E. SHIRLING fxldllillfdl Science IDA GLENN Ar! llll

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,fair fLnt:,ff 1u...... Q... -. -,. f- -- n- :fig .Fi 1r'.'. V4-...Q -71 Af. f STELLA PIERSON Libfzzrjazfz GENEVIEVE JONES Swimming Adviser to the first student council, adviser to the first weekly paper, and adviser to the first Ye Pedagogue are only a few of the positions which have been held by Miss Pierson during her years at Teachers College. Her earliest ambition was to be a high school librarian. Toward this end she taught literature and history in high school be- fore taking professional library training. While in Library School at the University of Illinois, she accepted a position in the library of the Nebraska State Teachers College at Kearney-from which place she came to T. C. Taking possession of an almost empty room, Miss Pierson has worked to build up a college library of high quality. Miss jones says she knows the girls of T. C. better than any other teacher. She has every reason to, for who doesn't act natural in a swimming pool! Her art of swimming and diving is certainly enviable but these are not her only skills. Not only does she play the piano, but she is also greatly interested in psychology and has studied that subject extensively. Today, twelve years after Miss Cannon's arrival at T. C., the origins of her happy personality and her use of sarcastic pleasantries has been discovered in her own explana- tion of just the nature of the brute. Having been brought up with seven other children in a Methodist household, where bickering was never allowed, she received a stable foundation for adjustment to the groups she now must control at Teachers College. Of the entire faculty, Miss Clouser is the only one that may be righteously accused of having pets -not only a few, but dozens of them. These pets are not of the class- room type, however-but rather a heterogeneous grouping of what she terms her feline friends. We mention only a few as examples: China cats from Vienna, Paris or Scandinavia, and even some from as far south as Italy. ELIZABETH CANNON Music LUCY CLOUSER Edzzmfiofz l12l r 71. Q., V .,, , V PM . ' ' . . ni R154 -V mv...