University of North Dakota - Dacotah Yearbook (Grand Forks, ND)

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MARIAN R. FIELD. Mrs. Field was born near Oakes, N. D. She received most of her art education in the Art Academy of Cin- cinnati, studying later under Robert Koehler, Director of the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. She became instructor in Freehand Drawing at the University in September, 1905. New Officers JAMES W. WILKERSON, Secretary of the Board of Trustees Mr. Wilkerson graduated from the commercial de- partment of the Stanberry Normal Schoo1 in 1902. He first came to the University as instructor in the School. of Commerce. Mr. Wilkerson was made Assistant Reg- istrar in 1903 and in 1906 assumed the duties of Secre- tary of the Board of Trustees. W. MACLAY OATEs, Registrar. Mr. Oates was born at Benton, Wisconsin. He re- ceived his early education in the Iowa Falls High School, Iowa, afterwards spending a year in the E115- worth College, Iowa. He then took up the study Of Shorthand at the Gregg School, Chicago, completing the course there in 1903. Mr. Oates spent the next two years teaching commercial work in the Western Union Col1ege, LeMars, Iowa. He came here in 1905, as in- structor i11 Shorthand and Typewriting, and in the fol- lowing year took up the work as Registrar. 17

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JAMES E. BOYD, M. ACCT. Mr. Boyd was born near Bethany, Missouri. He re- ceived his education at several institutions in Kansas and Missouri, receiving the degree of. Master of Ae- counts from Stahberry Normal School and Business College in 1903. Mr. Boyd filled the position of princi- pal of the business department in the Labette County High School. Altamont, Kansas, from 1903 to 1906, when he reSigned to accept the position of instruct- 01' 0f Shorthand and Typewriting at the University of North Dakota. CHARLES H. CLAPP, B. S. Mr. Clapp was born in Boston, Mass., receiving his early education in the public schools of that city. Upon graduating from the Boston English High Schoo1, he entered the Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology. There. in 1905, he graduated from the course in Mining Engineering, with the degree of Bache1or of Science. Directly after graduation he entered upon his duties here as assistant state geologist, and, in the fall of the same year, took uphis duties at the University as instructor in Mineralogy and Economic Geology. GEORGE A. STOUT. Mr. Stout was horn at Fairview, 111. At the age of nineteen he began the study of music in Knox Conser- vatory, graduating in 1899. In the same year he as- sumed the Directorship 0f the Geneseo Collegiate Instr tute Conservatory of Music. After a year there he came to Fargo, N. D, and taught piano, violin and pipe organ for Eve years. In 1905 Mr. Stout went abroad and took a special course in music at Berlin under noted piano and Violin masters. He came to the University of North Dakota in the fall of 1906 as Director of Music, and also as director of the afhhated Wesley COIV lege Conservatory of Music. M. ESTER PIKE. Miss Pike was born at Sauk Center, Minn. After graduating from the high school of that city she attended Fargo College. Later she graduated from the New Haven Normal School of Gymnastics, at New Haven, Conn. Miss Pike afterwards took a special course in massage and remedial gymnastics, doing work in the Or- thopaedic Clinic of the New Haven City Dispensary. She came to the University in 1906 as Physical Director for Women. 16

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