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

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ELIZABETH RHEEM STONER. Allegheny, Penn., is the birthplace of Elizabeth R. Stoner. Her early education was received in the Pittsburg schools. The first work done to prepare herself especially for her vocation was the completion of the Chautauqua Junior and Senior Course in Physical Education. She also had training under the German system in club swinging and fencing. Miss Stoner taught two years in the Almida Preparatory College in Pittsburg; at the same time she conducted the gymnastics in two of the large schools in this city. In 1897 she entered the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics and was graduated in 1899. In the fall of the year she was appointed Physical Director in the Oshkosh Normal. 15

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 EDNA CARTER. Miss Edna Carler, the new assistant in the department of physics, comes to us admirably equipped and trained for the work. Her home is Oshkosh, and she obtained her early education in the schools of this city, graduating from the High School in 1890. In September of the same year she entered Vassar College at Poughkeepsie, New York, and after a four years course graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1894. Wishing to remain at home a year after so long an absence, she entered the Oshkosh State Normal School, taking up only the professional work, and receiving the diploma with the class of 1895. During the succeeding year she was assistant in the High School, at De Perc, Wisconsin, where she taught sciences and mathematics. At the close of the school year, she resigned her position at I)e Pere, and returned to Vassar College in the fall, where she had been called to teach. She remained there for two years, assisting Dr. Cooley in Physics. The next year she took up advanced work in her favorite science under the instruction of Professor Michelson at Chicago University. Miss Carter is a woman of a quiet and strong personality, and already her iniluence has extended throughout the school and won for her an honorable place in its faculty. 14 t

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WILLIAM R. BLAIR. The assistant teacher of mathematics during-the first half of this year was Miss Noble, a graduate of the University of Michigan. Her successor, whose portrait appears here, came to us from the University of Chicago. Mr. Blair was born in the Province of Ulster, and received his early education in one of those excellent schools for which the Scotch people are noted. At ten years of age he removed with his parents to this country and settled in Kansas. He graduated from the State Normal School at Emporia, in 1895, with a good record in athletics as well as in scholarship. Then he was for two years principal of the high school in Pittsburg, Kansas. While in this position he played on the baseball and football teams of the school, and held the championship in jumping, though the last year one of the boys made it necessary for him to train in order to keep it. But he is as fond of mathematics as of sports, and talks to Mr. Clow in logarithms when they go walking together. Once, however, soon after he came to Oshkosh, he did not notice where he was going and tin points of his mental compass got turned one hundred and eighty degrees; he saw the moon in the north and looked for the big dipper in the south; now he is very certain that the evening star is not seen in the East nor the Normal building in the neighborhood of East Irving Street. 10