University of South Dakota - Coyote Yearbook (Vermillion, SD)

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lV1Li,I.,xM G.-ximian WAlJIDl,l'l, A ss'1'sIm11 'in Collage of Comlmcrrc, Mr.lVaddle is a native of Grant County, Wis- consin 3 but early moved with his parents to Weis tern Iowa, where he received the rudiments ol' his ed- ucation in the district school. I7Vhensixteenyears of age he began his career for himself, working on the farm for wages during the sunnner and attending the Nortlnrestcrn Normal School at Le Mars, Iowa, during the winter. At eighteen he procured a teachc-r's certificate and taught school, attending the Normal between times. .ln '97 he entered the Northern Illinois College of lfen Art and Drawing from which he grzuluated in August, '9S. Il11SC'13tU1'l'llQ7Cl' of the same year he was employed as Instructor in Pennmnship and Pen Art in tho 'University of South Dakota. He is also a student Cnow in the Law l,7epa.rtmentJ and excels in the Political Sciences. I-le is fond ol' debate and has twice represented the Uni- versity of South Dakota in Intercollegiate contests. ANNA M. IJRICYIG, Librarian. Miss Price was horn in I,l2ll1l1lVlllC, Ill. She re- ceived her early education in the public schools of that state and wus graduated from the high school at Chzinipaign, lll. Later she came west with her parents to the state ol' Nebraska, where she entered the State l'nivcrsity, and took a two years' course in special WU1'li1J1'l-'lDl11'I1'LlJl'j' to enter- ing the class in Library Science in the lfniversity ol' Illinois. The summer ol' 1809 she assisted in the re-organization of the l'ublic LilJ1'a1'y, ljanville, Illinois. After graduating from the l'niversity of 1' Illinois in 1000 she accepted the position of organ- izer ofthe Iiibrary of thc lfniversity of South Dakota. Upon completing the O1'g2LI1- ization of the Library she was appointed Assistant Librarian. During the year 1901 she also held the position of Secretary of the University. In 1901-'02 she was made Librarian. CHAnLif1s A. S1,o.A.N. Sccreiary of the Universily ol S01llIlD!Lk01!l. Charles A. Sloan was born at T ownsend, Mass. I-Ie attended at village school for some years and at the age of nineteen he entered a large clothing and furnishing goods store in Fitchburg, Mass., which business he followed for eight years. Being kept so closely indoors it was thought a change was needed so he took a trip to the Azore and Maderia Islands. The trip proved beneficial and after his return to Boston, he was employed by Stimson, Huntley tt Co., a irm engaged in the shipping and commission business with the islands above named. Later he came West and for four years was assistanteashier of Flandreau State Bank. In 1900 he was appointed to the position of Cashier at the Agricultural College at Brookings, thence transferred in 1901 to the position of Secretary in the University of South Dakota, which position he now holds. 25

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.ALICE Lnonoars TALco'rr, Instructor in Instrumental Blusic. Miss Talcott graduated from the Conservatory of Music at Yankton College in 1895 and the next year finished the post-graduate course. She then contin- ued her study of music at Chicago, where she was the pupil of Emil Liebling, the eminent Chicago pianist. After having spent two years there she returned to Yankton, where she accepted the posi- tion as Instructor of Piano and Harmony at Yank- ton College. From there she was called to the University of South Dakota to act as assistant in the Piano Department MARIN lVIQ!MELAN, ' Instructor in Normal cmd Preparatory Department. Miss McMelan is a native of Toronto, Canada. Wlrerr she was very young, her parents came to the United States, and settled in Missouri. Her first ex- perience as ateacher was in her home town where she taught very successfully for a number of years. She has spent a few years since teaching in the public schools of Montana. Miss McMelarr attended the Oswego Normal School of New York, where she completed the English and Critic Courses in the year 1900. Before coming here she had charge of the Training School in the Wesleyan University of Nebraska. She came to Vermillion in 1901 as Instructor rn the horrnal and Pre paratory Departments of the State University. HARRIET L. LATHROP, Registrar and Assistant Librarian- Harriet L. Lathrop was born, grew to maturity and received her education at Vermillion, South Dakota. She was a member of the first graduating class of the Vermillion Public School. At the age of thirteen she entered the University as Preparatory student and after seven years' study received the degree of B.A. in 1896. Since September, 1898, Miss Lathrop has been Registrar and Assistant Librarian at the Univer- sity of South Dakota. She has helped re-arrange and re-catalogue the library of 6,500 volumes under the Dewey system. i 24:

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