North Division High School - Tattler Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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NE, I Agfa? MR. J. F. MCKEEVER It is with a good deal of regret, and yet with the pleasure that must accompany a job well done, that The Tattler in this issue bids farewell to j. F. McKeever, head of the Department of Manual Arts. Coming to North Division twenty-eight years ago in the in- fancy of our school, he has been one of the stalwarts who helped to mold its policies and its future. Meticulous in his demands for excellent work in his department, he early achieved the respect and admiration of his colleagues. Many of his pupils have been placed in positions of responsibility in industry, and there is a record that one of the largest industrial firms in the city has always been willing to accept a recruit from his classes without question. ' In the building, Mr. McKeever was always a champion of law and order. To him, rules honestly made should be honestly enforced, and in this he set a standard which was respected and appreciated by faculty and pupils alike. The Wisconsin Journal of Education pays the following tribute to Mr. McKeever in the April issue: The 'journal' search for unusual teaching records has brought to light a fine record of professional service on the part of F. McKeever, North Division High School, Milwaukee. Mr. Mc- Keever says that he started teaching at seventeen, and has piled up a record of more than fifty years of teaching, in ,most every kind of school: as teacher in one-room rural schools, principal of village graded schools, principal of city graded schools, and for the past twenty-eight years a teacher at North Division High School . . . 'and am still going strong' 'Them was the days' when Mr. McKeever started pedding. His first assignment netted him thirty per month for a term of three months, and his teaching was so successful that the follow- ing year he got a raise of S2 per month. 'There was no age limit recognized for pupils in those good, old days,' reports Mr. McKeever. 'Mature, bewhiskered young men attended during the winter months-and children three years of age were often sent to school with their older sisters so that their mothers would be relieved of this extra burden on their busy days. Compulsory attendance was unheard of. Attendance was more a matter of convenience' North Division will miss him much. May we express the hope that his retirement will bring with it the rewards of leisure he so justly deserves. 937 I5

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l MISS CORA MEYER On June 25, when Miss Cora Meyer has completed all of the last-day-of-school tasks in her customary systematic manner, she will close her teaching career in the school she has served so faithfully. Miss Meyer joined the North Division faculty in 1905 when the school was housed in barracks on the west side of Twelfth Street, and had an enrollment of about 400 students. During all these years, with the exception of two recent periods of absence, one occasioned by illness and death in her family, and the other by the unfortunate breaking of an arm, her record for continuous daily presence in her classroom is one that is rarely excelled. In the early days of North Division's existence versatility was de- manded of the teachers. Miss Meyer, at various times, taught physiology, physical geography, algebra, and geometry. Later she instructed classes in science. In vacations, Miss Meyer was an extensive and indefatigable traveler. A record of her travels reads like a Baedeker or Cook's Tours. She has been in Europe twice, she has been in Norway, Sweden, England, Scotland, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, and that not-so-often visited country, Iceland. She has been twice to spectacular Alaska, and has made three trips to sun-drenched Hawaii. There is scarcely a state in the Union or a province in Canada that she has not been in. Concerning her travels Miss Meyer had this to say: In the early days when I was teaching physical geography, my first-hand knowledge was especially valuable. I visited nearly every sort of place I taught about. I worked hard to earn my money, worked hard to save it, and had a great deal of satisfaction in spending it for my many wonderful trips. Obviously, of course, Miss Meyer was not the only person to benefit by these travels, her classes prohted greatly from the information and inspiration she obtained in her frequent tours. As a result of her journeyings she could bring far places near. Miss Meyer was able to make her students feel that she had a real personal interest in them. A young woman graduate of a year or two ago, in a chance meeting with one of the women of the faculty, made inquiries concerning North Side. And how is Miss Meyer? said she. She was like a mother to all the chil- dren. I just loved her. Miss Meyer says that her freedom from school duties will give her leisure to continue her adventuring, to see her friends more frequently, and to engage more fully in the work of her church. Her fellow-teachers greatly regret her leaving, but they are frankly envious of her new program. THE TATTLER