Northern Illinois University - Norther Yearbook (DeKalb, IL)

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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

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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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,..-.. -..-23.24 1-----:L-L . ..,. g , ' - 7M: . ,QV .Z 1-x yy.,-,,t .. .V., , rg-.gil L . , - - -A yi T-1 g.- .- - 5 57: I .5 V ..-55.-1,-,--.S .Vx Y - I - t 0 M R THE JVORTHER 27 four years as County Superintendent of schools in her native county. In iQ2 she graduated from Emerson College, Boston, and after that was appointed to the chair of Oratory in the Kansas State Normal, where she taught five years. She spent the next year in special work in Psychology and English Literature at Chicago University, and is at present teacher of reading in the N. I. S. N. S. KATHARINE P. WILLIAMSON was born in Minnesota. Her first professional training was a two years' course at the Kindergarten Training School, St. Louis, Mo. The next three years were spent in traveling over a greater part of the United States. In 1895 she graduated at the Cook County Normal and took a post graduate course there the next year in Geography. This was followed by a geographical course at the University of Chicago. She has studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and other art schools of America, making a specialty of blackboard illustrations and sketching from nature. She has taught Geography and Art at the State Normal, VVinona, Minn., and had charge of the physiography and methods in geography in the summer session of the Minnesota State University. She is at present Assistant in History and Geography at the N, I. S. N. S. ANNA PARMELEE was graduated from the High School at Polo, Ill. She has had about seventeen years of experience in teaching and has pursued some definite line of study during the greater portion of the time. She was for ten years principal of the High School at Sterling, Ill. In '98-'99 she was first Assistant in the new Township High School at Sterling. She resigned this position to take that of Assistant Teacher of Mathematics in the N. I. S. N. S. ALICE C. PATTEN was born in DeKalb county. She attended first the county schools, later the DeKalb High School, completing the course in two years. She then entered 9