Southwestern University - Souwester Yearbook (Georgetown, TX)

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S. H. MOORE, A.B., Principal Fitting School and Professor of History in University. Stephen H. Moore, Professor of History in the University, Principal of the Preparatory School and Manager of Giddings Hall, is a native of Tennessee. McTyeire Institute, in which he afterwards served for a year as an instructor, gave him the training nec- essary to enter Vanderbilt University, where he graduated with the B. A. degree in 1894. Since this date Prof. Moore has been a member of the faculty of Southwestern University. He endeavors to keep abreast with his profession by frequent summer courses in the University of Chicago. A. S. PIGUES, A.M., English. Albert Shipp Pigues is a native of South Carolina. From 1888 to 1S92, he attended Wofford College, graduating with both A. B. and A. M. His first essay as a school teacher was as principal of the Hampton Graded School. In 1893 he was elected one of the teachers in the Preparatory Department of Southwestern, and here he has since taught most successfully. This year, in addition to his preparatory work, he has been made instructor in English in the college. Prof. Pigues spends most of his summer doing graduate work in Cornell or Chicago F. E. BURCHAM, Ph.B., Mathematics in Fitting School. Prof. Frank E. Burcham was prepared for college at the Mayfield-Smith Academy. Entering Central College, Fayette, Mis- souri, he completed the four years ' ourse and graduated in 1895 with the degree of Ph. B. Since graduation he has taught success- fully one year in the Northwest Missouri College, three years in Marvin Collegiate Institute, and five years in the Preparatory Depart- ment of Southwestern University. He holds the Professorship of Mathematics in this last named school. Prof. Burcham has done one summer ' s work in the University of Chicago. 25

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MISSjMAMIE HOWREN, A.M., Latin and English in Fitting School. Miss Mamie Howren took the A. M. degree from Southwestern University in 1890. She was the first honor young lady of her class. Since then she has had a successful career of teaching in Texas, having taught mathematics for three years in Paris Institute, Paris; Latin and English for two years in the Polytechnic Institute, Midlothian: and Latin and English for two years in Granbury College, Granbury. She is now in her third year of teaching Latin and English in the Preparatory School of Southwestern. MISS FLORENCE N. BOYER, Voice. Miss Florence N. Boyer, of Lancaster, Ohio, entered the Southwestern University in 1899 as Instructor of Voice. She had previously spent a number of years of study at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and later continued her studies abroad both in Germany and in Italy. She came to Southwestern University an experienced teacher, having done private studio work, including two years in the Hawaiian Islands. She possesses a soprano voice of rare quality and sweetness, and has been a prominent and pop- ular singer in church and concert. In addition to her duties as teacher during the present school session, she has been Director of the Music Department. MISS OLLIE L. SINER, PlAnOFORTB. Miss Ollie L. Shier, of the Pianoforte Department of Southwestern University, spent the years 1901-03, in Berlin, Germany, studying the famous Leschetizky method of piano playing. She formerly was at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and also with Dr. Goldbeck in Chicago. She came to Southwestern University highly recommended, and has had a number of years of successful experience in teaching in the East, some of which time was spent in the Danville School of Music, Danville, 111., in which town she played the pipe-organ of the Holy Trinity Episcopal church for seven years. 27