University of Central Missouri - Rhetor Yearbook (Warrensburg, MO)

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Qlumni HISTORY OF THE FIRST GRADUATING CLASS N THE fifth annual catalogue of the South Missouri State Normal School, located at Warrensburg, Johnson county, for the scholastic year 1875-76 we find enrolled the names of the first class that received diplomas from this institution. This class was composed of five girls and three boys, and graduated in june, 1875, at the expiration of a three-years administration of President james L. johonnot, an eminent educator and author. All followed the pedagogue's path for a time and with the exception of Mr. Ford Byersdorf, who died in the spring of 1911, all are faithfully serving God and humanity today in their own places. Three are now in Missouri and one is in Oklahoma. Another recently moved to San Francisco, while one has for years taught music in Tacoma. And last, but not least in worth, is one, to be found in the old city of Baltimore, Mary A. Worley, who has been an invalid for thirty-eight years. Her very presence is a benediction, and the memory of one day spent at her bedside remains with the writer of these lines, as that of a low sweet psalm sung on quiet waters at eventide. -Virginia Gilkeson Hedges. ROLL OF FIRST GRADUATING CLASS Mary E. Brown CMrs. Ed. Kirkj, San Francisco, Cal. Fred E. Byersdorf, Krakow, Mo. . Edwin M. Gilbert QPhysicianD, Warrensburg, Mo. Virginia A. Gilkeson CMrs. W. L. Hedgesj, Warrensburg, Mo. Frank H. Miller CBankerj, Appleton City, Mo. Ida May Pierce QMrs. Chas. Newelll, Oklahoma City, Okla. Jennie A. Welch CTeacher of Musicj, Tacoma, Washington. Mary A. Worley CArtistj Baltimore, Maryland. Frank Deerwester, educator, born in Illinois, moved to Missouri at an early ageg went to rural school: graduated Warrensburg State Normal School, 1889, taught in village schools of Adrian and Montrose, Missouri: county commissioner and teacher in small college, Butler, Missouri. Member Warrensburg Normal Faculty, 1892-19059 President Maryville State Normal, 1905-075 Professor of Education, State Normal at Bellingham, Wash., 19073 later made Vice-President and Dean of Summer Schoolg Ph. D., University of New York, 1913. En- gaged in work of psychological examiner in army with the rank of Captain. Department of Education, LaCrosse Normal School, Wisconsin. Page 20

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Baath uf Regents HON. SAM A. BAKER, State Superintendent of Public Schools, Ex Ojficio Term Expires January, 1.921 F. O. DENNY ........... J. L. SPILLERS .......... Term Expires January, 1923 N. M. BRADLEY ........... E. F. YANCEV . . . . . Term Expires January, 1925 C. A. KEITH ........... DR. J. T. HULL . . OFFICERS CHARLES A. KEITH, President of Board of Regents Kansas City Otter-ville Warrensburg . Sedalia Lexington . Butler E. F. YANCEY, Vice-President of Board of Regents N. M. BRADLEY, Secretary of Board of Regents MARCUS YOUNGS, Treasurer of Board of Regents E. L. HENDRICKS, President of School Page 19

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Zllumni p joseph Marr Guinn, educator, born in johnson county, graduated War- rensburg State Normal School, taught in public schools of Missouri, graduated University of Missouri, Superintendent of Joplin Schools. Head of Depart- ment of Education Warrensburg State Normal 1903-1906, graduate scholar in Teachers' College, Columbia University, A. M., Columbia University, 1907. Head of Department of Education, Tulane University, 1907-1910. Superin- tendent of Public Schools, New Orleans. james M. Wood, educator, born in Wright county, Missouri, taught in rural schools of Wright county, Ph. B., Warrensburg State Normal, 1901, Principal of Public Schools, Green Ridge, Missouri, 1900-1904, Superintendent of Public Schools, Edina, Missouri, 1904-1906, A. B. and B. S. in Education, University of Missouri, 1907, Phi Delta Kappa, Superintendent Public Schools, Fredericktown, Missouri, 1907-1910, A. M., Columbia University, N. Y., 1911, Professor of Education, State Normal School, Springfield, Missouri, 1911-1912, President of Stephens College. john Edward Rouse, educator, born in Illinois, attended public schools in that state, Ph. B., Warrensburg State Normal, 1896, Ph. D. in Philosophy, Harvard University, 1902, Instructor in Philosophy and Education, Dart- mouth College, 1907, Instructor in Philosophy, james Millikin University, 1908-1910, Student in Philosophy and Education, Universities of Berlin and Leipzig, 1910-1911, and Jena, 1912, Head of School of Education, jamesMillikin University, 1913. Dean of Millikin University. George Grant MacCurdy, anthropologist, born at Warrensburg, Mo., graduated State Normal School, Warrensburg, Mo., 1887, Harvard University, A. B., 1893, A. M., 1894, University of Vienna, Paris and Berlin, 1894-1898, Ph. D., Yale, 1905, assistant professor of archeology and curator of the anthro- pological collections, Yale University, member of the Anthropological Sciences of Paris, Brussels and Berlin, National Geographic Society, Connecticut Acad- emy of Arts and Sciences, Archeological Institute of America, American Anthro- pological Association, American Ethnological Society, Sigma Xi, Navy League of the U. S., Fellow American Association for advancement of Science, corres- ponding member Institute of Coimbra CPortugalD, School of Anthropology CParisj, Anthropological Society of Washington, D. C., Missouri Historical Society, Member of Graduates and Country Club, New Haven, author of nu- merous papers on anthropological subjects and a volume entitled A Study of Chiriquian Antiquities, Professor Yale University. Page 21