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

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HORACE B. W OODWORTH. 18

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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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IN MEMORIAM PROFESSOR HORACE B. WOODWORTH W'Oodworth, which occurred at his home in Grand Forks on Dec, let, 1906. Professor Woodworth was born in Vermont, March lst, 1830. He was grad- uated from Thetford Academy in 1850, from Dartmouth College in 1854, and from Hartford Theological Seminary in 1861. Between his college and seminary course, he was principal of Gilmanton Academy, N. H., and Chelsea Academy, Vt He served eight years in the Congregational ministry in Connecticut and thirteen years in Towa, when, on account of ill health, he settled on a farm in South Dakota in 1882. From there, in 1885, he was called to the newly establislv ed University of North Dakota, where he continued in active service, chiefly in Philosophy and History until 1904, retiring as Professor Emeritus of History. Professor Woodworth was with the University during all her early struggles and trials and was invaluable On account of his many-sided preparations, his willing- ness to assume any and all work, and his zeal and devotion to the institution. Sacrificing, with others, a large part of his salary for two years, he stood loyally by the University during the dark period following 1895, when her appropriation was vetoed. His was indeed a life of activity-sof labor and of love. Even after his retirement from active teaching, he was never idleAin fact the paralytic stroke which resulted in his death came upon him while he was busy at his work. And his death came, as he had often hoped it might when it should come, calmly and peacefully. It brought to a close a life full of years and fuller still of noble thoughts, kind words and good deeds. Those students and alumni of the older days will mourn his loss as that of a guide, philosopher and friend. No one has impressed himself more on the young people of the University than he, not alone by his pure and lofty teachings, but by the example which he always set and which shed its benignant innucncc into the minds and hearts of youth like that Great Stone Face Of his native region, into the mind and heart of Ernest. Professor VVoodworth practiced the sincere and simple life, and hence could dwell, as he did, intellectually and spiritually in the higher life; simple living and highwthinking were realized in him. He went about, like his great Exemplar, doing good. Straightforward and trans- parently honest himself, he shrank from or instinctively resented duplicity or trickery; and while always kind and charitable toward others in their weaknesses, IT is with profound regret that The Dacotah records the death of Prof. H. B.