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

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 BUST OF PRESIDENT ALBEE.

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FACULTY. Ix OKIIKN OP SKMOKITT op MKMVII'K. RUFUS U. 1IALSKY. President. (William College), School Supervision. ROSE C. SWART (University of Wisconsin), Inspector of Profile Trucking. EMILY F. WEBSTER (Oshkosh Normal]. Mnlif malics. LYDON W. BRIGGS, Trtaurvr. Civicti, Penmanship. HARRIET E. CLARK (Oshkoeh Normal, Bouton School of Oratory), Voice Collarc. Elocution. MARY E. Al’THORP (Iowa Collie . Latin, HARRIET CECIL MAGEE (Ml. Holyoke College . Proving, Social Culture. WALTER C. HEWITT ; Michigan Normal,. Conductor of luiti ulcs, School Economy. JOSEPHINE HENDERSON (AlleghenyCollege', Composition, Hkctoric, ADOLPHUS H. SAGE (Cornell University), Physics. HENRY M. GODDARD tUniversity of Michigan), Chemistry. LILLIAN G. KIMBALL. English Language. FREDERICK R. CLOW (Harvard University), History. Political Economy, History of Education. ELLEN F. PEAKE (University of New Brunswick), English Literature, Library Headings. BENJ. MACK DRESDEN (Wooster Universlty, Oshkosh Normal) German, Associate in Pedagogy. GRACE HEWARD (Potsdam Normal and Conservatory of Music), Vocal Music. HARRY R. FLING (University of Chicago), Biology. FRANK E. MITCHELL University of Indiana) Geography. Geology. FRANCES D. GU10N (Cornell University), Heading. Associate in Elocution. BESSIE TOWER (Boston Normal School of Gymnastics), Director of Gymnasium, and Lecturer ou Hygiene. KATHERINE S. ALVORD (University of Michigan), Associate in History and Latin. LOUISE MOREY (University of Michigan). Associate in Mathematics. MAY B. MOULTON. Associate in Proving. JAMES E. LOUGH (Miami University, Harvard University), Psychology and Pedagogy. FRANK A. MANNY (University of Michigan, University of Chicago). Pireetor of Oh serial ion and Method. FLORA M. HINDS (Oshkosh Normal), Genera Assistant. MODEL DEPARTMENT. JENNIE G. MARVIN (Oshkosh Normal). Princi a! and Critic, Grammar Grades. PERSIS K. MILLER (Cortland Normal) Assistant, Grammar Grades. ADELAIDE M. PARSONS (Plattshnrg Normal), Teacher and Critic, Intermediate Grades. A LEAK ETTA HASKELL (Oshkosh Normal), Teacher and Critic, Second Primary Grades. JENNIE WILLIAMS (University of Michigan), Teachci and Critic, Primary Grades. ANNA G. HUBBARD (Pratt Institute Library School), Librarian. CLARA E. MARVIN (Oshkosh Business College), Stenographer, Secretary.

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'-Pres. George S. c llbee. E had been standing near the main entrance of the old assembly room. in doubt as to which way to go. Our presence must have been noticed in the office, for in a few moments, a well-built man, whose hair and beard were beginning to turn gray, approached us through the library. “That is my name. Come with me to the office,” he said kindly, in response to our inquiry. President Albee spoke to us concerning the school, the examination and boarding places. He even gave us a simple plan of the city, drawn by his own band. “No, we furnish paper and pencils for the examination. You need not bring anything except a clear head.” Uttered in that characteristic way of his, these words of the President gave encouragement to a country lad of sixteen, who had just had his first ride on a railway train, and who hail never seen such a line face before. Nor has he seen many like it since. The President had made a deep impression upon me. I felt that if only he were within reach, no harm could come to me. In my boyish mind he was the school, and my faith in him was unbounded. No doubt there are thousands of boys and girls who have had the same experience. The President’s solicitude for his pupils extended into all details of their lives. Hike all great teachers he shared their joys and sorrows. Ilis personal interest in the individual student was profoundly sympathetic. None will remember this better than those whom he visited in the sick-room, and those whom other misfortunes overtook. On such occasions his great heart renewed hope and inspired confidence. Having attended to all the minute details of administrative work during the earlier period of the existence of the school, President Albee persisted in continuing to do so to the last. It seems he did not sufficiently realize the impossibility of operating the large school of later years on the former basis. It was commendable zeal on his part to make out personal programmes for students at the opening of each quarter, and to grant excuses, even for permission to leave school an hour earlier in order to get ready for a train; but it was a lavish expenditure of energy, and must have been one of the chief causes which led to his premature decline. President Albee wanted to know every student, and he succeeded marvelously well. He was an excellent judge of men, and had a genius for remembering names and faces! It was probably his fear of not being able to keep up this detailed personal knowledge that prevented him from delegating to members of his faculty many administrative duties which they could have performed with efficiency, and which would have left him freer to devote his energy to the larger problems of the school. Hut he was decidedly patriarchal in his attitude towards both students and faculty; and. quite in accordance with the traditions of the family household, only the house father could perform the sacra. Among the many ways in which President Albee represented models for teachers, there is none which stands out more prominently than his loyalty to the faculty. Members of the instructional force had the President’s 6