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

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TO THE ALUMNI The Junior class deems it a great honor to dedicate these pages of The Quiver to you, members of the Alumni. Very fitting and proper is it that we should, for many are the privileges now enjoyed by us. due to your most persistent labor. Many of you were in the Normal when it was undergoing changes. You it was that published the first Normal Advance; established the system of self-government; edited the initial Quiver; and wrote the first examination under the present plan. To your nobleness in purpose in co-operation with the faculty was it due that these enterprises proved a success. Such are some of your accomplishments while at school; but these are far surpassed in their greatness by achievements in the teaching profession. Here your attainments have made the Oshkosh Normal a highly recognized factor in the educational interests of not only Wisconsin, but the United States. Your stirring personality is found in the College; in the High School; and in that most exalted of all institutions, “The Common School. Wherever you have gone, almost without exception, you have done honor to the White and the Gold. Hut the schools alone can not claim all of our noted Members of the Alumni. Turn to law; turn to medicine; turn to the bank; and to many other professions, and you will find in them, many of our graduates. Here. too. they are lifting high the banners their professions. Our Normal School owes much of its advancement to the Alumni. No catalogs of advertising; no letters of recommendation; and no personal testimonials, are ecjual in their intent to your honesty, loyalty, and enthusiasm, as you tread the paths of your calling. In the Alumni, indeed, lies the life of our dear Alma Mater, and as it, aglow with energy, lets fall its life-giving light on us, the Junior Class, we cannot help but pay tribute to those who have promoted its growth and development. MISS SARAH A. DYNES Sarah A. Dynes graduated from the Advanced Course of the Oshkosh State Normal School in June. 1888. The following year she was assistant in the High School at Ironwood. Michigan. In the spring of that same year she resigned her position at Iron-wood to accept an appointment in the faculty of the Oshkosh Normal. She continued a member of the faculty from April of ’89 until June of 92. In September of 92 she entered Cornell University and graduated from that institution in June of '94. taking the degree of Ph. H. In September of ’94 she entered upon graduate study leading to the degree of Ph. D. Her major subject was Modern History, her first minor. Political Science, her second minor. French Literature. In ’95 she accepted a position in the State Normal School, located at Trenton, New Jersey. In June of '00 she was given a year’s leave of absence for European travel. During the year she visited England, Italy. Egvpt. Palestine. Greece, and France. She resumed her work as head of the department of History and Civics” in September. 1901. Her assistant in that department is a 17