University of Nebraska Kearney - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Kearney, NE)

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if ranmHKMQH 3 ! Faculty Facts and Faces Professor Snodgrass—Born in Pennsylvania; graduated at Tenth District State Normal school. Pennsylvania; attended other schools. For several years he has directed the activities of students in Nebraska as super- intendent at Osceola, Wisner and Wayne. He has a most heavenlike head, for certainly there is no parting there. This is a sign of higher mathematics. Y. A. Clark—Department of Education; native of Ohio; attended country school, high school. Normal school, college. Harvard university and University of Chicago ; received degrees of A. B., A. M. with honor. Fed. D. cum laude; holds professional life certificates in Ohio and Nebraska; has had thirty years of happy work teaching and superintending in country school, Nonnal school, college and university. C. N. Anderson—Graduated from bombard college; taught four years in Illinois; was superintendent of city schools of Tecumseh, Neb., six years; has taken work in history at Chicago university and University of Nebraska; is a member of the American Historical association; is instructor in American and European history; has been adviser of the class of 1908 since 1905. Wy.ni-kkd E. Alien—Biology department; native state, Indiana; married in 1900: age, 34; taught thirteen years in Young Men’s Christian Associations, high schools. Normal schools, colleges and university, in Massachusetts, Indiana. Nebraska. Texas. Washington. North Dakota and Wisconsin; graduate of Business college, Nonnal School of Physical Train- ing and college (B. !..) (A. M) ; three years graduate study. PROFESSO I: ANDERSON, Class Adviser.

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President Thomas President A. O. Phomas was born in Illinois, and educated in Iowa, graduating from the Normal at Shenandoah with the degree B. S., and from Amity College with the degrees Ph. B. and Ph. P. He chose teaching as his profession, Nebraska as his field of labor, and here he has led a strenuous life, indeed. As city superintendent of schools he spent two years at Cambridge, three years at St. Paul, five years at Minden and four years at Kearney, before becoming president of the new State Normal at Kearney. His summers were largely employed in institute work and he has always been a prominent and enthusiastic figure at teachers’ meetings, both local and state. President Thomas has won a reputation for his tireless energy and his administrative abilities. He turns olT great quantities of work, of a most varied character, at high speed. He is able to grasp the large questions in their entirety and yet work out all the petty details with the hand of a master. In all he is a constant marvel to those able to comprehend it. But President I homas’s power lies not in the education he has acquired, nor in the prestige obtained from the positions he has held, nor in his numerous other splendid qualifications ol head and hand, but in his kindly feeling towards those about him. If his teachers are sick, or downcast, or overworked President I humas is the first to note it, and at once apply the healing balm ; should students be homesick, or discouraged or m trouble, he is never too busy to hear their story, and never lacks for words of comfort, cheer, or seasonable advice. If there are sick and dis- tressed in the community, he seems some how to hear of them and takes time to look into their troubles. His sense and his sympathy, his hand and his purse are always on the move iii the interests of those about him. an bounded confidence in the goodness of humanity I I is patience with the wayward students is almost unlimited though their short comings at times grieve him beyond measure. Me simply can’t give up a bad boy. H is heart beats for the family. He seems always to put himself in the other man s shoes, and does as lie would like to be done by. Words of censure he rarely uses, but words of praise are constantly on his lips. He leads often, seldom drives. It is needless to say that he always has a host of followers in his train, Teachers, students and friends look to him for advice and lean on him for support, assured of his hearty sympathy, and arc rarely disappointed, even in the least. It is this great heart power more than anything else, that has made President Thomas the popular personage in the position he now holds and that insures the strength and stability and future greatness of this splendid young institution of the West.

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H. (). St'TTON'—V oungest member of the faculty j graduated University of Nebraska 1898; assisting in department of Geology, University of Nebraska one year. Elected to scholarship society Phi Beta Kappa. Instructor in science Grand Island high school seven years. Exten- sively engaged in normal and institute work this state. Elected member of National Chemical Society. George N. Poki er—Professor of English Literature. A native Nebraskan. Early education obtained in country and village schools of Otoe county. Worked on farm, taught country school. Graduate University of Nebraska class of 1898. Professor of English Literature in State Normal school at Peru, Nebraska, from 1898 to 1905. Gertrude H. Gardner—Teacher of Latin. Has spent the last twenty-two years in the schools of Nebraska, without missing a week. She received the degree of L. B. from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1898. and A. B. from University of Nebraska in 1899; has also attended seven summer schools ; has taught six years in high school, and three in the State Normal: is secretary of the State Teachers’ Association. Alma Hosic—Professor of German Language and Literature. Came up through the common schools of Illinois. Attended Peru from which she secured a diploma and the degree of B. Ed. From the Nebraska University she received the degree of B. A. and M. A. She won Phi Beta Kappa honors. She has taught in county school, grades, high school and university. Professor A. J. Mercer—Department of Geography, Agriculture and Manual Training. Born in Ohio; early education in common schools. Received B. A. and A. M. from Bethany College, Bethany, W. Va.; received A. M. from University of Nebraska. Has had varied experience as teacher, having taught in high schools, principal of schools, superintendent of schools, in college, and president of college. Twenty-eight years experience. Professor (). W. Neale—Department of Arithmetic, Civics and School Law. Born in Ohio; education in common schools of Ohio, and received his college course in Denison University, Denison, Ohio. Has spent fourteen years in the public schools of Nebraska; taught in North Platte high school, principal at Ogalalla, and was county superintendent of Lincoln county two terms. Grace J. Hamer—Teacher of Elocution and Physical Training. Graduated from Marden School of Music and Elocution, Chicago, 1902; student of English at University of Chicago, 1901, 1902 ; student of Music under Frederick Bruegger. W. C. E. Seeboeck, Sara K. Connor, Chicago, 1901 and 1902; student of literary interpretation Chautauqua, New York, under S. H. Clark and Mrs. Bertha Kunz Baker, 1904. Member of Physical Education Department, Columbia University, 1907. Miss Mary Bailey—Came to Nebraska twenty years ago, and has grown with the alfalfa. Unfolded as a leaf at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Ohio, in 1906. Blew around Ohio aud Nebraska, alighting in the State Normal at Kearney where she continues to blossom in the musical sphere.