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

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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

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William M. Crichton—Special Assistant. A Scotchman by birth and an American by education; graduated at Monmouth College, Illinois, from the old-fashioned five-year classical course. He has been a life-time admirer and student of Horace Mann. David P. Page and Al- fred Holbrook, and carries the theories and methods of those great hut humble teachers into all his work. Carrie E. Ludden—Bom near Albany, New York. After enjoying the beauties of that state for some time came to Lincoln, Nebraska. Graduated from the Lincoln high school; attended the University of Nebraska; came to Kearney State Normal school October, 1906, as assistant in biology. Professor Edward G. Williams—Assistant in Physical Sciences. Born in Nebraska. Received early education schools; graduated from the Grand Island high school; attended University of Nebraska and State Normal school at Kearney as principal of village schools. His last work before coming to Kearney was principal of North Ward in Grand Island. in the common spent some time Loka Huntley—Assistant Kindergarten. Is a graduate of the Kearney high school and the State Normal school. She has always been interested in athletics, having played on the high school and Normal basket ball teams, and in addition to her Kindergarten work she is assistant coach on the present team. Anna ivian Ji nnings—As old as she feels. An Iowan by birth, a Nebraskan by parental authority. A graduate from Davenport high school. Nebraska State Normal at Peru, and the Illinois Library school. A school ma’am for six years; a librarian since 1903. A com- pendium of suggestions for organizing a library in a new Normal school. J. Wayne Chapman—Assistant Librarian. Normal in 1905 and graduated in 1907. Born and raised in Nebraska. Has spent most of his life in public schools—entered the Sarah L. ( Jarrett—Known as the patient member of the faculty. Has been known to use the midnight oil in doing work as the faithful registrar of the Normal. Is a graduate of the Northern Indiana Normal school at Valparaiso, Indiana, and attended for one year at the University of Nebraska. Miss Virginia Mercer—Born in Bellaire, Ohio. Graduated from Lincoln high school in 1901 ; attended the State University; finished business course in Lincoln Business college; three years in office work in Lincoln; now secretary to the President of the State Normal school at the Commercial Department during the past two years. Kearney. She has also assisted