Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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J. E. WEATHERLY was a student of this Normal during the years 'SS. '00. and '91. Me was graduated from the University of Missouri with the class of '97. taking the B.S. degree. Me has spent one summer in the Missouri State Univer- sity, one summer at the University of Chicago, and one at Harvard. He taught two years in the Springfield High School, where he had charge of the Department of Mathematics. Me has been in charge of the Department of Physical Science in this institution for three years. Mr. Weatherly was President of the. Association of Science Teach- ers of Missouri for the year 1900. This year he holds a scholarship in Harvard, where he is spending the year studying.

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MISS E. M. PREWITT is a graduate of Howard College. Payette, at which institution she also took post-graduate work in Mathematics. English, and Latin. She holds a diploma as a graduate in a three-vears course in German under Miss Eberhard. of St. Louis and Switzerland. She took the B.S. de- gree of the State Normal at Kirksville, where she gave special attention to Pedagogy.and later she re- ceived the M S. degree. Her instructors in Mathe- matics were Mrs. Agnes Watts Caples (a student for several years under Dr. Carr Pritchett) and Prof. E. I). Seitz. Miss Prewitt was one year asso- ciate teacher in the Training Department of the Kirksville Normal, and is at the present time assistant in Mathematics. DR. L. S. DAUGHERTY by his own persistent efforts worked his way from the common school u: high school, normal school, and through the Cniversity of Illinois H.S.. ’S9. M.S.. '93: summer term Northwestern Cniversity. 1892; resident grad- uate work in the Cniversity of Chicago. 1894-6; non-resident graduate work Wesleyan Cniversity, Bloomington. 111.. 1898-1901. receiving the degree of Ph.D. He taught six years in the Ottawa Town- ship High School, affiliated with the University of Chicago, and had charge of the Nature Study work in the Vacation School of Chicago in the summer of ’96. He came to the Normal in 1S97. His work speaks for itself in the remarkable growth of the opportunities for modern biological study under his ditecticn. 12

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1 SI I.AS V. LONGAX. A.H.. teacher of Physics and Chemistry, received his earlier training in the Kansas City public schools (Central High School. Class of '9:H and his degree in Central Christian College, where he also taught three years. Mr. Lcngan was in attendance at Chicago University when elected to the Department of Physical Sci- ences in the Sodalia. Missouri. High School. He held this position three years, attending Chicago University summer school, where he expects to complete the course for the B.S. degree. Re-elected for a fourth year at Sedalia. he resigned to accept his present position in the fall of 1901. A. P. SETTLE is a native Missourian, having been born and reared on a farm in Ralls County. He received his elementary education in the rural schools, then look the Literary and Scientific courses in one. of Missouri's colleges. Mr. Settle has experience in teaching from the rural schools through various grades and types of work, includ- ing that in private academy, private normal, and as superintendent of public and high schools in four of our up-to-date Missouri towns and cities. He was elected to the head of the English Depart- ment of the State Normal in June. 1900. 14