New York University School of Education - Education Violet Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Dr. Ambrose Leo Suhrie ORN in New Baltimore, Pa., Dr. Ambrose Leo Suhrie came to New York Uni- versity in 1924 from Cleveland, Ohio, where he had been the Head of the School of Education. In 1911, he received his A.M., and a year later his Ph.D., from the University of Pennsylvania, while six years previous, he had received his Ph.B. and his L.L.D. in 1919 from the john B. Stetson University. Besides belonging to a number of fraternities, Dr. Suhrie is the head of the Teachers College and Normal School Educational Division, President of the Eastern State Asso- ciation for Teachers which is a Regional Conference including hundreds of teachers from institutions in New England and the Middle Atlantic States, and is attended annually by 800 administrative oflicers, professors, teachers, and 1,500 students. Although the Editor of New Possibilities in Education and Problems in Teacher Training, he is the author of two text-book series for Public Schools, Experimental Determination of Educational Method. 59

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Dr.'Ned Harland Dearborn R. NED HARLAND DEARBORN came to New York City from Couneauty- ville, Pennsylvania. He received his B.S. degree from Columbia University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the same University. He is a member of the Kappa Delta Pi and Phi Delta Kappa fraternities and also of the Acacea Club, Columbia University. He is the director of the Institute of Educa- tion and Professor of Education. Dr. Dearborn 'is the author of the following: Introduction to Teachingng Oswego Movement in American Education g the co-author of Social Studies in Teachers' Col- lege and Normal Schools. I 58

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Dr. Charles Emile Benson E may well feel proud to have had Dr. Charles Emile Benson with us for the past eight years. Born in the state of Iowa, he spent a good many years in Nebraska, in which University he received both his Bachelors and Masters degrees. His Ph.D. he received at Columbia in 1922. He spent a year in Washington, where he was Superintendent of Schools. Wliile living in Missouri, he was head of the Department of Psychology and Education, at the Teachers College, Cape Girardeau. He was Dean of the School of Education in the University of Oklahoma from 1922-23 and during the summer of that year, he was the director of the Summer Session. Since then, he has held various positions in the psychology department of New York University. He has been professor of Educational psychology and Mental Hygiene since 1925. At present he lives in Montclair, New Jersey, and commutes daily to and from school. 40