University of Wisconsin Eau Claire - Periscope Yearbook (Eau Claire, WI)

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 • t I r c ,v r , • V MARGARET CRANKY Eau Claire Principals’ Course Ambitious, steadfast and true. CARROL MILLER Augusta Principals’ Course Sweetness and kindness predominate. DELIA M. ANDERSON Eau Claire lliirli School Teachers’ Course Modest and quiet in all she does. CARMEN AIADER Eau Claire High School Teachers Course 11 ways a miss hut never amiss. i ARGARKT COSH AAV Chippewa Falls Principals’ Course Like perfect music unto nobler words. Cage Twenty-nine

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HARRY SWANSON I kinder friend one ne'er could find. ESTHER VI. OLSON Eau Claire Grammar Grades Teachers' Course II e smile at her frankness. DOKOTIIA W l DRY Eau Claire Primary Teachers Course If e lore, admire and adore her. ellen r. McDermott i iv Richmond Principals Course True blue, through and through. ELEANOR L. SHORT 11 urn bird Principals Course Though her name is Short, her brain is not. BETH CROW ELL Bruce Primary Teachers Course Divinely lull, and most divinely fair. SELMA OLSON Fairchild Primary Teachers Course Sorry to see yon go. PHILIP LAW Chip pen a Falls Pre-medical The object on which his thoughts center, begins with 7” and rhymes with most. •c Rage Twenty-eight

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OUR PRESIDENT President 11. A. Schofield was horn March 2d. 1877. The first fourteen years of his life were spent on a farm near Augusta, in Eau Claire County. He attended a rural school until his family moved to Augusta, where he was graduated from high school. As soon as his course was finished in high school, he began to teach. He taught one year in a rural school, and one year in the grades at Hum-hird. The next report of him. we get from the Stevens Point Annual published in 1901. the year of his graduation from there. It tells us that he was very prominent in debate, oratory, football, track and stage activities. After graduating from Stevens Point, he taught in Wausau one year, then entered the University of Wisconsin in 1902. Here we again find him one of the leaders in athletics. He played full-back during 1903-1 on the Varsity football team, and was captain of the basketball team in the same year. After he was graduated from the “U,v he taught civics and history, and was athletics coach in the Madison High School. Next, he became superintendent of schools at Ellsworth. He later accepted the high school principalship at Ncillsville. It was during this time that he became interested in Miss Dorothy Packard of Stevens Point. She was teaching dome-tic science in Marshfield at the time. Many week-ends found him hoarding the little shortline freight to Marshfield. He succeeded in winning the lady in question, in 1909 Mr. Schofield then became principal of the Nelson Dewey High School of Suoerior and following that, of the Central High School of the same city. In 1912 he went to St. Paul to become the principal of Central High. He held this position until he became president of the Eau Claire State Normal School in 1916. Pat: ’ Thirty f