Northern Illinois University - Norther Yearbook (DeKalb, IL)

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'Q' -M . nuff ' THE IVORTHER 25 University, where he received first grade general honors and special honors in History and Literature at graduation. He took a three years' post graduate course in History, Political Science and Literature in the Chicago University. His first experience as a teacher was received in the rural schools of Ogle county, Ill., after which he served two years in the Academy of Northwestern University. For the next five years he filled the position of Assistant County Superintendent of Schools of Ogle county. The last five years Mr. Page has been a member of the faculty of the University of Chicago, and is at present Prof. of History in the N. I. S. N. S. PRED. L. CHARLES was educated in the public schools of Austin, Ill., graduating from the High School there in 189o. He entered the Northwestern University and graduated in '94 with the B. S. degree. He became a Fellow in Zoology and received his Masters degree in VQS. Erom '95-'97 he taught Biology and Physiography in the Lake View High School, Chicago. During the summers of '93, ,Q4 and iQ7 he studied at the Marine Biolog- ical Laboratory, VVoods Holl, Mass. He was Eellow in Zoology in the University of Chi- cago, '97-'98, and Instructor in L. V. H. S., Chicago, '98-'QQ. In 1899 he was called to the chair of Biology in the N. I. S. N. S. JOHN A. SWITZER was born in Brooklyn and spent his early life there. WVhen he was ten years old the family moved to Philadelphia, where he completed his Grammar School education. In 1888 Mr. Switzer began his college work at the University of VVisconsin, spending one year in the department of Civil Engineering. Study was then interrupted by two years, work in a machine shop near Philadelphia, during which time he organized and taught a night school. The next year he entered Cornell as a Sophomore and completed the course in Electrical Engineering in ,QS. One more year was spent at Cornell in graduate

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- . . . vmrvfvm- Y . . ,FV 24 Y' H13 N U R I H1313 degree, and then spent the next year with Dr. XN7m. Rein at the University of Alena. Prom ISSQ-'92 he was in charge of the Practice School in the VVinona State Normal of Minnesota, ' ' ' ' ' -' 't'c teacher and super- nd from 1897 '99 was in the Illinois State Normal University as cri 1 3 H- intendent of the Practice School. In 1897 he spent a year at the University of Chicago on leave of absenceg 1889 called to the N. I. S. N. S. as Supervisor of Practice. NEXVELL DARROXV GILBERT was born in the state of New York. In infancy he was brought to Mendota, Illinois, by the removal of his parents. He received his public school education at Mendota and Freeport. He graduated at the Illinois Vtlesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, in '79. On leaving college he took the superintendency of the Clin- ton fIll.j schools. After three years in this position he wentto Utica QIll. D, and later to May- wood QIll.j. Prom this place he was invited to Austin to take charge of its public schools. ' ' f He remained in Austin twelve years. In 1899 he was called to De Ixalb to take charge o the public schools. VVith his first years work in De Kalb he completes his twenty-first year of continuous supervision of schools. JOHN A. KEITH was educated in the public schools of various towns of Southern Illinois. In the spring of ,QC he entered the Illinois State Normal University and graduated from it ini1894. During this time he was out of school for one year, 'QI-'Q2, as principal of the schools at Camargo, Ill. Prom '94 to '96 he taught in the Practice School at Normal, Ill., and in the Pall of '96 entered Harvard University, from whence he graduated in YQQ. He entered the Northern Illinois State Normal School in its first year as Professor of Pedagogy and Assistant in Psychology. EDVVARD C. PAGE received his preparatory and freshman work at Old Sandstone, Mt. Morris, and in 1888 he graduated with the degree of A. B. from the Northwestern .,....,,.,.,,,,..,,. , ,,.,,,,,,, 9 ,,,,:,.,M, -VW-W-mmm P i l H 1 1 l

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,, . ,.-V- mp. W 'f 'P ' 26 Y'HE IVORTHER workin Physics and Chemistry. Soon after leaving Cornell he was appointed teacher of Physics, Chemistry and Physiography in the East Aurora High School, Ill. The year at Aurora and two years as instructor in Physics at the University of Pennsylvania constitute his teaching experience before entering the N. I. S. N. S. as Prof. of Physics and Chemistry. MARY R. POTTER entered the Illinois VVesleyan Preparatory in 1884, and passed from that to the college, but suspended work here to finish the course in the VVesleyan Conserv- atory of Music in 1888. In 1891, at the close of her junior year, she transferred to the Northwestern University, from which institution she was graduated in I-392. In the Fall of 792 she entered the Illinois State Normal University as Assistant in the High School depart- ment, but was afterward transferred to the Normal department. '96-'97 was spent at Boston University, and at the end of this time she obtained the Master's degree in Comparative Philology. She resumed her former position in the I. S. N. U. the following Fall, and remained there until the opening of the N. I. S. N. S., at which place she has the chair of Ancient and Modern Languages. . EMMA F. STRATFORD, who is a native of Northern Illinois, received her technical preparation for special work in Drawing at Pratt Institute, New York, where she graduated from the Normal Art Department in 1896. Since that time she has taught in the art department of the State Normal College at Ypsilanti, Michigan, and supervised drawing in the public schools of Des Moines, Iowa. At present she is teacher of drawing in the N. I. S. N. S. SUE D. HOAGLIN was born in the Sunflower state. After completing the High School of her native town she taught four years in the city schools. Then followed a year's Work in the State University and a course in the State Normal School. After graduation she served '3' '- Q ,. 52 1 .Q 53:1'I3f'? i'fi.'f'I5'I-'j5I1I -FZ-' ,-ZfI I1I5.x'I?ZfIw'V-' 1'ii'jS'Q':wY-3 .-fitqsa-:-. 8-5.-4 -5,w.n-.Q..-.-1,,v-:..-..... i, W, - -., .. . . .. .M . .. . . . .. .. .. . . . . . , ., ,.,.,, , . .- -- , A N, Q , . .,, . ,.,,.,,.,.,. 9, ., ,. , , . X . ,, ,, . ,, ,. , J .. . . . . . .H , Q , .. .,-- v- - asv . -, i-- ,ii . - .. . - Ii