Manlius High School - Mirror Devil Yearbook (Manlius, IL)

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THE MANLIUS TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL 1 1 Faculty History VE STUDENTS of M. H. S. pride ourselves upon having the best school, the best students, the best athletes, and feel that all other schools in the County fear us when it comes to competition. But we also pride ourselves upon having the best faculty in the State. Each member of the faculty works with the others for our good. Although we do think them hard-hearted when they impose on our good natures by assigning us fourteen pages for one lesson, with all their faults we love them still. Mr. Lewis Ebeneezer Perry was born July 24, 1899 in a little village called Wellsville, in New York. He attended grade school at Indiana, Pa., and Bethany, W. Va. If consulted, he might say of himself, 1 can little note nor long remember WHO 1 did there”, but his teachers can probably tell you what he did there. When grades were finished, he attended Bethany academy, from which he graduated in 1916. Finding that his boyhood days were flitting he immediately started to attend Bethany College, finishing from that institution in 1920 with an A. B. degree. For three years after graduating from Bethany he attended school at Columbia University during the summer months. His first experience as a teacher came when he was called to St. Clairsville, Ohio, for three months in 1920. From there he came to Manlius as an instructor in Science and Athletics. In the fall of 1922 he became principal at M. H. S. and has served in that capacity for the past three years with a marked degree of success. Miss Sue Williams, our instructor in English and Latin, was born in An-sted, West Virginia in 189? She was graduated from the Western Illinois State Normal and Northwestern University School of Speech. For some time she studied at the University of Chicago. As a teacher Miss Williams is a great success. She has taught for the past nine years, serving in the Macomb Junior High School two years, in the St. Charles School for Boys two years, at the Roodhouse High School for two years, filling the position of both teacher and Principal during one year, and was finally called to the Long Point Community High School where she served two years as teacher and one year as Principal of the school. We may say of her: She was like the dew of the morning Sweet and gentle and good. Fresh as the air that encircles Always in kindliest mood. Miss Frances C. Fields comes to us as an instructor in Bookkeeping, Senior English, Civics and Domestic Art. She was born February 12, 19-? at Goodland, Indiana. She was graduated from the public High School and entered the Indiana State University where she graduated in 1922 with an A. B. degree. While a student in the Indiana University she was a member of the Delta Zeta Sorority and History Club and was Pan Hellenic Representative

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10 THE ALARM 1925 MR. G. E. NEWBURN. B. S. Purdue University University of Illinois Agriculture MISS SUE WILLIAMS Western State Teachers College Northwestern School of Speech Chicago University English Latin Dramatics Library

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12 THE ALARM 1925 for her class. Her present home address is Wolcott, Indiana. Miss Fields is particularly given to the F's as you will see. Frances is a child of the Fields Born on the twelFth of February She is accessed with Friendliness With all her fellow-beings. Freshly Fantastic, Flatteringly Faithful. Mr. Lyle Dale Anderson comes directly to us from College. He says of himself: 1 was born one day in the fall—somewhere near the opening of the twentieth century and a little over forty years after the close of the Great Civil War. Like all other kids (horrors), 1 attended grade and High School, finishing at Coon Rapids, Iowa in the year of our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Twenty. Four years later I graduated from Penn College, Oskoloosa, Iowa, with a B. A. degree. In Penn College, Mr. Anderson took a quite active part in Athletics, being Captain of the track team in '24, hence his successful career here as Coach. Under his guidance our teams have already won honors in Football and Basketball, and we have great hopes for our track team this year. He was a Man of Honor, Of Noble and Generous Nature.”—Longfellow. Miss Anna McMorris was born at Eleanor, Illinois in 190?. She grew up, attending grade and High School in 1918. She then attended Monmouth College, where she was a member of the Amateur Belles Lettres Literary Society. She was graduated in June 1923 with an A. B. degree. From there she came directly to Manlius as a teacher of Science. She has been with us two short years, helping us over our troubles and giving us Comfort or Command, according to the particular occasion. Her home address is Alexis, Illinois, Route No. 4. Mr. Gene Newburn comes to us as an instructor in Agriculture. He was born at Hoopeston, Illinois, in Vermillion County, and about one hundred miles south of old Chicago. As a lad he attended a little country school near Hoopeston. He was graduated from the Hoopeston High School in 1912. He served fifteen months in the army during the world's war. At the close of the war he took a short agricultural course at Purdue College. Then he entered the Illinois State University from which he was graduated in 1923 with a B. S. degree. Mr. Newburn came here in the fall of 1923 and has served this school most faithfully for the past two years. The Senior Classes of both '24 and '25 have a great deal to thank him for. He has been of unfailing help in the production of our annuals and any praise or honor that may be forthcoming is due largely to him. His understanding and advice have guided us over untrodden paths where our inexperience would have spelled failure. Thanks to him. “Thy nights shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs And as silently steal away. —Browning. —M. G. G.