Northern Illinois University - Norther Yearbook (DeKalb, IL)

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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

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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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23 TH If N O R T H fi R Illinois State Normal University, but after two years began university work at Ann Arbor, Mich., receiving, however, a diploma from the State Normal School with the class of '93. For two years she taught history in the seventh grade of the Austin QIll.j public school, and then returned for her third year in the University of Michigan, graduating in '97 from the Ph. B. course and receiving a states certificate and teachers diploma in Latin. The fol- lowing two years found her at the head of the Latin department in the Bloomington High School, which position she resigned to become teacher of Latin and German in the N. I. S. N. S. SXVEN E. PARSON is a native of Sweden and received his elementary education in the People's School fEolk-Skolanj. He came to this country when he was fourteen and by the end ofthe first year could not only understand English, but could speak it. Prom the age of fifteen to seventeen and a half he attended the village school at Cary Station. McHenry county, Ill. At the end ol this time he passed the teachers examination For several years after this he taught district schools and village schools. He entered the I. S. N. U in '86, leaving it the next December on account of ill health. Upon recovery he became Principal of the Delialb High School and remained there two years. Re-entering Normal in 1889, he graduated in '92, and in the Pall ot the same year became Principal of the Grammar department there. He has done some work in the department of Pedagogy of the University of Chicago, and is at present head of the department of Mathematics in the N. I. S. N. S. ELMA 'WARXVICK graduated from the East Denver High School, Denver, Col., in '95 and from the Department of Library Economy in Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill.. in '97-. The next year she was cataloguer at Scoville Institute, Oak Park, Ill., and from September, '97, to May, '99, was periodical and accession clerk at the University of Illinois, Champaign, Ill. She came as librarian to our Normal from the XVither's Public Library at Bloomington, Ill. GRACE E. BABBITT, our assistant librarian, was educated in the city schools of Chicago. the Brown school and the High School. She attended one session of Summer School Library Science at Madison, XVisconsin. She spent a year in the library of the Normal at Bloomington studying the work, and' came to us from there. --aan-a