Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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THE MNAMEION. 15 e M. VIOLETTE, head of the De- ♦ partment of History is a gradu¬ ate of the Clinton High School, 1889. He spent one year in Clinton Academy, graduated from Central College ’98, took the Master’s degree in History at M. S. U. ’99. He has held the positions of Assistant in History in Central and act¬ ing Assistant Professor of History in M. S. U. i ISS CASSIE BAER, teacher of Drawing is a graduate of the Kirksville High School and the Normal. 8 hi is naturally an artist and her work has greatly stimulated interest in draw¬ ing.

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14 THE MNAMEION. l TISS JACKSON has charge of tlie Practical Agriculture. She is a graduate of the Cliillicothe High School and was three years a student in M. S. U. She left the University when within a few weeks of graduation to accept her present position. Her work here has at¬ tracted attention in many states. Miss Reed, Washington, D. C., Supt. of Indian schools of the U. S. secured a full description of Inn- work with a view of introducing the methods into Indian schools. P ROF. JNO. T. VAUGHN of the Department of Civics is a native of Monroe County, Mo. He attended the public schools of that county and later entered West¬ minster College from which insti¬ tution he was graduated with the M. S. degree in 1880. Since grad¬ uation Mr. Vaughn lias been en¬ gaged in teaching. He has held positions at Paris, Markley, Sliel- bina, Macon, and other places, and was instructor in this Normal in the summer school of 1900. Mr. Vaughn has done post-graduate work in History and Civics at the University of Ohio.

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16 THE MNAMEION. ISS OPHELIA A. PARRISH, Supervisor of the Training School graduated from Christian College when Presiden t J. K. Rodgers had charge of that institution. She has spent several summers in the Martha’s Vineyard sum¬ mer school and the Chicago Normal sum¬ mer school. She also spent a half a year studying the school systems of Boston, Indianapolis, Columbus, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and other education¬ al centers of the east and central west. Miss Parrish spent a year studying abroad, taking courses in the Berlitz school of Languages, Berlin; and the Sorbonne and College de France, Paris. She taught twelve years in the Spring- field High School as head of the Depart¬ ment of Literature and was five years Asst. Supt. at that place when she re-1 signed to accept her present position. lyjISS ERMINE OWEN, the teacher ' of Elocution and Physical Culture, is a native Missourian, a graduate of McGee College. She was elected to the chair of history and geography in the Normal in 1889 the subjects of Elocu¬ tion and Civics were also assigned to her. For the past two years, however, her entire time in the Normal has been given to the work of vocal and physical culture.