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

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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.

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 V. C. Smi th— Studied art in Nebraska State University, Chicago Art Institute and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, laugh ! in antiago College, Santiago, Chile, three years. Supervisor of drawing Columbus, Nebraska, two years, immediately preced- ing ope • ' Neamey Normal, ■ Miitrn Principal of the department of commerce. Was born in the historic valley of the Fox Tiver in Wisconsin. He is a pr u awrence University at Appleton. He has held many important positions among them principal at the Platte Valley Institute and the p date business College at Kearney. grcdua d - at Drak ’ OWN—i?oni m Ohio; graduated from high school; came west; taught in rural, grade and high schools in southwestern Iowa; Highland Park College; grammar and high school teacher in Nebraska four years; county superintendent seven years; studied ‘ rrsity. University of Nebraska, and Chicago University. Taughr in Uni vers ly o !! INI Hicks—Bom in western Nebraska. Graduated from State Normal at Peru, having entered model school at six years of age. T u,)! c schools, could not lie parted long from a Normal, so in 1905 entered practice department of Normal at Kearney. Attended Chicago in 1906 for eleven months. u. Greves Spoken of as the happy teacher who accepts her lot in a “Grace-ful” way. Her preparation for teaching has been made Fr- o i high school. State Normal at Kearney, from both of which she is a graduate; also attended the Chicago University and the Univer- at th sitv of Henris ;a Critic teacher in the primary department. i . i !■: Lowe Horn, educated, served an apprenticeship of seven years to the teaching profession, and taught for two years, in Liverpool. Poland; came to the United States in 1900; has taken work in Peru State Normal and the New York State Normal college; taught three year; in . earney and is at present critic teacher of the intermediate department of the Normal. A s .w Euzabkth Calowei.i.—A native of Ohio, obtained her kindergarten training in the Froebel Kindergarten Normal Training School of Minneapolis, Minnesota. She came to Kearney from Lincoln, Nebraska, where she was in the kindergarten work for live years. Aside from her specific training she is a woman of broad culture. { 1 k Crawiord—Department of English, jr-ago University; graduated from Peru State ish. Came up through the public schools of Nebraska. Attended high school, Drake University, • Normal with degree of B. Ed,, and from the State University with degree of B. A. Taught in aded schools and assisted in English Literature department while attending State Normal and University. lught in