Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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Attended Ml. Pleasant College. Hunt: ville, Missouri. '76-78; student at Mi: souri State University. ’78-80; speci; 1 student at Missouri I’niversily in sun: mer schools of ’oo-oi : special student at Chicago University in summer term of y. ; degree A. IL, Missouri University. '01; teacher Latin and Mathemalies in Ilardin College. So 8 2 ; Chaii of Latin. State Normal School. Kirksville. Mis souri, '82 . ■ ' ■ r'y ASSISTANT IX LATIN. CGraduate Lalluop (Mo.) High Sc ho-. I '89; State Normal School. Kirksville. Missouri, '91 ; teacher in ICxcelsior Springs (Mo.) High Sc1kx 1, '95-98; student at Missouri State University. ’98-01. receiving degree A. H.; teacher in Christian College. Columbia. Missouri. ’01-03, 1,1 Hie same time doing graduate work at the Missouri I niversity, re ceiving the degree A. M.f ’05; Assistant Teacher of Latin. State Normal School. Kirksville. Mo.. '05 . »9

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o PRRSIDEXT. Reared on a Missouri farm; educated in rural schools, village school, this Nor- mal School, and the State Universities of Missouri and Kansas; taught in rural, village, and city schools; practiced law two years; as State Superintendent of Schools, '95 99. traveled more than 100,- 000 miles in Missouri, reaching 1 12 coun- ties; Examiner of Schools for Univer- sity of Missouri. 1899; Republican ; Meth- odist; active member National Educa- tional Association, also National Society for Scientific Study of Education, also North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools; traveled widely in United States. Canada, and Europe. EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF ETHICS. Horn in South Carolina,; reared in Georgia and Mississippi; came to Adair Count y. Missouri, in 1857 at age of ; one of the first Hacult of this Institution in 1867, along with Dr. J. Baldwin and J. M. Greenwood; Hrofessoi of English and other subjects from '67 to ’87; for past three years Emeritus Professor of Ethics in this Normal School; character- ized by great skill and enthusiasm as a teacher and by high ethical ideals. 18

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PHYSieAL SeiEMCB. Student Kirksville Normal School, three years; student. l'niversit of Mis sour i, three years; t'niversit of Chicago, one year; Harvard, one year; B. S.. University of Missouri. '97; Phi Beta Kappa. Uni versi t of Missouri; Austin Scholar. Harvard. '01 o:»; traveled and studied Ihrec mouths in Ivurope, '02; teacher in country schools, two years; Salisbm v Academy, one year; Spring held High School, two years; Chair ol Physical Science. State Normal. Kirks- ville, Mo,, ’99-. MATHEMATICS. ('.raduate. State Normal School. Kirks vilh . Mo.; Principal of High School and Teacher of Mathematics, at Richmond, Mo. two years; teacher of mathematics, Woodson Institute. Richmond, one year; special student in mathematics at Ann Arbor; Principal of Nevada (Mo.) High School, one year; Teacher of Mathematics in Prichctt College. Glasgow. Mo., six years; Chair of Mathematics in State Normal. Kirksville, Mo.. 1900-; has stud ied mathematics two summers in the l ni versi tv of Chicago; oratory, one sum hum at Chautauqua. X. Y.; and holds the degree M. S. ; now 011 leave of ab senee. attending Harvard University. 20