University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Quiver Yearbook (Oshkosh, WI)

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cMembers of the Faculty. May B. Moulton. Prof. Frank E. Mitchell. 15 Prof. H. R. Fling.

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Prof. Frank A. Manny. PROFESSOR MANNY is a native of Illinois, and received his school training in public and private schools of Indiana and Illinois. He began teaching in a country school in Indiana, but later entered the freight department of the Louisville, New Albany Chicago railway, in which work he remained over four years. lie was also book-keeper for the Michigan Salt Association, and in the early days of the natural gas boom kept the books of the Delaware County Land Company. During these years he kept his hand in school work by teaching in night schools: also by acting as tutor for private classes. After this he took a course at the University of-Michigan. receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. After graduation, he was employed at the university as general secretary of the Students’ Christian Association. He was next principal of the high school at Moline, Illinois. Here he organized a number of lines of work in what might be called high school extension system, so that as large a number of students from factories received instruction as there were pupils in the day school. From Moline he returned to the University of Michigan to take the degree of master of arts. After this, he became assistant in pedagogy in the University of Chicago, under Professor Dewey. This gave him an opportunity for a study of the experimental school at the university, also of the evening schools and kindergartens of the city. Then he became supervising principal at Indianapolis, in charge of about sixty teachers and twenty-five hundred children. This year he was to have had charge of all grammar schools in that city, but resigned to become director of observation and method in the Oshkosh Normal School. 14

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Our Librarians. Emma I . Lkvings was born in Williamstown. Vermont. She was educated in the city schools of Oshkosh, and graduated from the High School with the class of ’95. She was appointed Assistant Librarian at the Normal in 1898. Anna G. Hubbakd was l orn in Wheeling, W. V„ in 1872. She received her early education there, and her High School training at Frankfort, Ind., and was Librarian at the latter place until 1897. She entered Pratt Institute Library School, and was graduated in 1898. In the fall of that year she was appointed Librarian of the State Normal School at Oshkosh. Ella Goodwin Parmblk was born in Oswego. N. Y. She was graduated from the Central High School. Cleveland. O., in 1896. She prepared for library school at Armour Institute. Chicago, and was graduated from Pratt Institute Library School, Brooklyn, in 1898. She was appointed Librarian of the State Normal School at Oshkosh, May 1, 1899.