Memphis University School - Owl Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

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DAVID IIARl.hY HIE This is Professor Fite ' s first year as a teacher at M. U. S. lie came to M. I . S. at the beginning of the vear, and has been head of the Historv Department lie has also held a class in Geography Mr kite came to M. U S from the Middle Tennessee State Normal Teacher-; College, at Murfreesboro. Mr. lite is a most popular teacher with the boys, and many times gets out and plays various sports with them. He is liked by all the boys, and we feel that he will be back again next vear Mr. kite has aided many a boy in his lessons privately and has given them his best attention. We all wish him luck and we hope to see him with us again next year. R. C. PROVINE Robert C. Provine has just completed a very successful vear as English instructor at M. U. S. He first attended Bowen school in Nashville, and later graduated from Vanderbilt in 1923. receiving his A. B. degree. The following year he received his A. M. degree. In 1926 he attended the Union Theological Seminary in New York, and the next year took a course at Harvard. He taught at two other schools before he began teaching at M. U. S. He is one of the best liked teachers here, and gets along fine with the boss. He came to M. U. S. in the middle of the year ami has rounded the boys into great shape for their next year in English. We all wish him the best of luck and success m his following years as a teacher. MR. [ONES W. P. Jones, expert penman. This is the classification that he is listed under. He has taught at M. U. S. since 1916 except for the five years he taught at Ford-Kilvington Joneis went to Greensboro College, where he graduated with a B A degree He also graduated from many various commercial colleges. Mi. Jones has had great success with his classes. He has had many graduate from these sessions. Mr. Jones has taught writing for thirty-five years, and has never missed a day of teaching in this time. He has aided in tracing many forgeries, and is an expert in this line lie has been called to many distant cities on cases of this kind Mr. Jones used to he a great pitcher. He was on a Mississippi baseball team.

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MR. BEESON John A. Bee-son has been at M. U S. for live sessions now and we hope he will remain with us for many mine. Mr. Beeson received his B. S. degree at Mississippi College in 1920. He then went to Sarasota High School, Sarasota. Ela., for one session as Instructor in Mathematics and Natural Science. In 1922 he received his B. A. degree from the University of California. From there he went to Clarksville High School in Clarksville. Tenn., where he taught Natural Science. In 1923 Mr. Beeson came to M. U. S.. where he has remained ever since. He has proven highly successful here as Professor in Mathematics and Science. During Coach ' s absences he has coached baseball and football teams, the last two years he has also coached the Junior beam. During the summers Mr. Beeson takes a group of boys to one of the large camps in the Carolinas where he is one of the directors. MR. SNIDER Joseph P. Snider has been the instructor m French and Spanish for the past two years. Snider is a graduate of the University of Virginia, where he received his B.S. and M A. degrees. From 1923 to 1926 he was the assistant in Romance Languages. In the fall of 2() he rame to M. C. S. as instructor in French and Spanish. While at the University of Vir- ginia he was a student instructor in these languages, lie knows how to teach these subjects, .md always holds the interest of his class. Snider is a great believer in dress, and each day he startles the school with his clothes. He weails the latest styles, and he is immaculate And. by the way, you should see those tan and brown socks. . O, L. STONE Oscar Fee Stone has completed his seventh year at M. U. S.. all of which have been quite successful. He attended the University of Tennessee, and Peabody college. During the war he was in the army, and attended Camp Zachary Taylor. Tor two years he was the principal of the Junior High School, lie was head of the Mathematics Department at the Pearl River County Agricultural High School at Poplarville, Mississippi, for five years. He was also head of mathematics at the Clarksville High School at Clarksville, Tennessee, for two years. He came to M. U. S. in 1921 as math, instructor and in 1924 became asso- ciate principal. He has had charge of the study hall also for about five years. He is quite popular with the boys here, and we wish him continued success as a teacher and an all around good sport. Page I en

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