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

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Howard H. Hill Alma Hosir Mrs. Lucy P. Hull Anna V. Jennigs Donald Keller Helen Kennedy Walter Klehm Ida M. Ladiges Minnie E. Larson Elsie Leake Carrie E. Ludden Lyle E. Mantor Vernette B. Moore Cora O’Connell Or ro C. Olsen Hans C. Olsen M. S. Pate Mildred M. Payne Paul Pence Pauline E. Phillips Gml F. Powell

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Brussell is an Iowan, foncf of the tall corn, and enjoys being in California for Iowa Day, She received her undergraduate work at Iowa Wesleyan College, the oldest college west of the Mississippi River having had continuous existence. She has her degree from the Uni- versity of Iowa, and has been supervising grades five and six for three years. Recipient of two degrees from the Colorado State Teachers College, Blanche Skinner has been supervising grades three and four for four years. Miss Skinner is well known for her progressive methods, her careful training of teachers, and her devotion to the profession. Recognized as of undisputed first rank as a teacher of primary work, and as a trainer of primary teachers, Malvina S. Scott has been in her present position fourteen years. So well known is her work in the teaching of reading, the Scott trained teachers are sought in many parts of the state. Like so many of Kearney's critic teachers, Letitia Ellicott is a product of the Colorado State Teachers College. She has been supervisor of grade two for three years. Her hobby is interior decoration—plus, always being happy. Whenever one wants to see mankind in the making, he visits a modern, progressive kindergarten. Whenever one wants to see what many educators believe to be the best teach- ing in the whole public school system, again he goes to the kindergarten. The kindergarten of the A. O. Thomas schools is a busy place during the five school days. Watching over the group attentively as any mother could watch over her own children, Agnes Knutzen Anderson, a specialist in kindergarten work, plans and directs the activities through which the little children further their understanding of the life and world about them. Working with her are teachers in training, young ladies who expect to go out and control classrooms of their own. After having studied in the Art Department of the University of Nebraska, the Penn sylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago Art Institute, Minneapolis Handicraft Guild, New York Art League Landscape School, and after having been a pupil of Anshultz, Parker, Chase, Hawthorne, Brecken ridge, Carlson, Batch elder, and Johnnot, Marion C. Smith came to Kearney Normal and liked it so well that she has stayed, and is now one of the few re- maining pioneer members of the faculty. Minnie E. Larsen, with her master's from the Uni- versity of Chicago, has been teaching art in the Kearney State Teachers College for nine years. Miss Larson is a living example of the contradiction to the belief chat all artists are temperamental. W. E. Bruner, Ph. D., is one of the more recent additions to the faculty. Dr. Bruner has been head of the Biological Science Department for two years. He has his degree from the University of Nebraska, If it's bugs, or if it's worms; if it’s birds, or if it's beasts you want to know about, you can get your information from Carrie E. Ludden, who has for twenty-five years been not only teaching teachers, but has also been interesting teachers in Nature, Recipient of his master's degree from the University of North Dakota, Charles Apel has been head of the Commercial Department of the college for six years. Charley is a champion bridge player, is fond of chess, and likes all athletic sports, Ethel Craig Sutton has her master’s from Columbia. For thirteen years she has been teaching typewriting in the college. Mrs. Sutton has served on the most important committees of the college. She is a member of National Association of Penmanship Teachers and Supervisors. Mildred Payne is a Missourian, with her A, M. degree from the University of Missouri. She has been teaching shorthand at the college for two years. A member of the National Geographic Society, Donald Keller has been at the head of the Earth Science Department for six years. He has his master’s degree from Clark Uni- versity. When the United States Office of Education wanted a man to carry on an extensive investigation in the field of secondary education, it sent for William H. Ziegel, Jr. Dr. 78133 Page Eleven

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Ziegel is a Missourian, with his master’s and his doctor’s degree from the University of Missouri. After returning from the Office of Education, Dr. Ziegel accepted the position as head of the Education Department of the college. In his field, Dr. Ziegel is recognized as an authority. It is expected that the Education department of a teachers college should be the most outstanding department. Likewise, it is expected that such a department should have an authority as its head. This we have »n Dr. Ziegel. Calmness, dignity, culture, scholarship—these qualities come instantly to mind when- ever one thinks of Lula E. Wirt, for twelve years a devoted professor in the Education De- partment of the college. She has her master’s degree from Columbia. H. G. Stout has his master’s degree from the University of Nebraska, and is there this year, on leave of absence, working on his doctor's degree. He has been in the Education De- partment for six years. Vaughn C. Wallace, Ph. D., joined the faculty of the Education Department at the opening of the second quarter of this year. His particular hobbies are eating and watching basketball games, Almost all modern conversation,” John Cowper Powys has said, when not between lovers or book-lovers, is a silly interruption of the secret ecstasy of life.” No one can say he has wasted his time who has spent an hour with Mary Major Crawford, for her con- versation, sooner or later, turns to literature. Doubtless she has made more lovers of Brown- ing than has any other teacher in the Middle West. Miss Crawford has been connected with the English Department for twenty-seven years. She is a member of Sigma Tau Delta and Chi Delta Phi, Cora O’Connell, for twenty-four years connected with Kearney State Teachers College, has her master’s degree from Columbia LJniversity. At present she is Professor of the English Language and Literature, Miss O’Connell is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, j. Clark Weaver, author of one-act plays, dramatic coach, and speech specialist, took his early training in the State College of Washington, and his Ph. M. degree from the Uni versity of Wisconsin. He has been connected with the English Department for three years. Professor Weaver is a member of Pi Kappa Delta, Sigma Tau Delta, and the American College Quill Club. For the last two years he has had charge of the dramatic work of the college, j. D. Hansen received his academic and his scientific speech training at the Uni- versity of Iowa, For the last two years he has been the college debate coach, and has super- vised the Speech Department of the A, O. Thomas High School. His work is his hobby. When the charming Irish poet wrote his now famous poem about the London seam- stresses he not only relieved the sweat-shop conditions under which those unfortunate women had to work, he also turned the work of the seamstress into an art. Home Economics is now an art. In the Home Economics Department of the college there are two artists: one with the needle; the other in the dining room and kitchen. Louise Enochs has been training teachers in the art of sewing, in the wise selection of materials, and in the art of being well- dressed, for the last seven years; while Bernice D. Dunlavey, a master of science from the University of Nebraska, has been in charge of the Foods and Cooking division of that de- partment for the last two years. Walter Klehm has been head of the Industrial Education Department of the college for five years, and has been in the department for six. His hobby, so he says, is golf; how- ever, it is not confined to that sport. He can turn his knowledge into practical use, and design a house, build it, and then win a city-wide contest for beauty of structure and de- sign, Mr. Klehm has his master’s degree from the University of Illinois. Running the In- dustrial Education Department without Otto Olsen would he unthinkable as running the college without a president. Mr. Olsen has been in the department for fifteen years. It is one thing to know a subject and pass on that subject to willing listeners; it is still something else to love a subject and transfer that love to both willing and unwilling list- eners. It is one thing to be interesting; it is still something else, and for a teacher, some- thing else more important, to he enthusiastic about a subject. It is one thing to teach the me- chanics of a foreign language; it is still something else to teach the spirit of the language,