Peru State College - Peruvian Yearbook (Peru, NE)

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Dritiratnnj auit lluuu aj.ihiral l'kl-:i) ,MAK I( X (IKI-JiC. ’nil . Mn'jrx ni -Jii. Wln«ii 11• Tjiiitflil Mis Kirsl Sclionl. Ilu greatest tact in the life of the class of i« i i is its close personal rela- tionship with its adviser. Kadi member of the Senior class feds that out ad- viser is his adviser and that he has a special interest in him and his individual weilare. lie is truly an adviser, for he is one not only in name, but in deed. Kver organization of worth has its leader. The majority of organizations would never ob- tain results were there no leader to whom they could at all times look for friendly advise and wise direction, and who could be ever ready to point out the right course and suggest the best methods. At the outset the members of an organization are attached to their leader through respect and admiration: later a real friendship develops which grows deeper and stronger as time advances. So has it been with the Class of toil and Professor (Jregg. Professor («regg s career had its beginning on a Northern Ohio farm. Three years of his early boyhood were spent in Jackson Countv. Kansas, where his first schooling began. Returning with his parents to ( )hio he continued living on a farm adjacent to the village of Nevada, alternating work on the farm with schooling through the village High School. Me then decided to enter the teaching profession, spending two years in a rural district and a year as principal of the High School from which he had graduated, lie afterwards attended the hio Northern Cniversity. completing the classical course there. It was while here that Professor «regg met the young lady who a f t e r w a r d became Mrs. (iregg. After graduation he be- eame a member of the hoard of managers of a private .Normal at Scottsboro. Ala- bama. and a teacher there of Latin. ireck. and Kuglish. I lie engagement eont inning three years. It was his pri ilege while there U» assist in raising the meriean llag for the first time it had been n ,,,n wm.i. in W lii li II. iiihI

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1 i m. c;kK(;c; Professor of Physiological Sciences, Peru Stale Normal

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floated from any public building’ there for thirty years, this. t . . in a enmity where his father had served in tlie I’nion army in 1X63. A year of teaching language subjects in a female seminars at linn at. Mi- souri, was followed by his coining to Nebraska in |X ;X i•. take eharge i the science work of tlie Wayne Normal, lie labored there for seven seat’s along with the late President f. M. Pile and other teachers in the building up «o' that institution, teaching an average of nine classes a das for lifts ss eks in the year, rarely taking any holiday except Thanksgiving and hri'tmas. While in Wayne the people there manifested their esteem for bint bs electing bint rep resent Wayne and Stanton counties in tin- state legislature of to .T ssltieh lie did most satisfactorily, securing among other things the passage of the present law prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors under eighteen years of age The Winding Stream on tli Old ;r«-gg Kurin For the past six years Professor (iregg has been a teacher in the Stale Normal School at Peru, being at first an associate professor in biology, and now a professor of the physiological sciences, lie has always proven himself a loyal Peruvian, at all times manifesting the true Peru spirit. I le has taken an active part in the building up and supporting of the literary societies. ( In is tian associations, and debating clubs. Our college paper owes the major por- tion of its success to that untiring “push manifested by Professor iregg in its behalf. He spent two quarters of the year ipop in post-graduate work in psychology in the University of Chicago. He is the author of two books for teachers of physiology, and more re ccntlv f a work on parliamentary law which is rapidly- coming into very gen oral use.