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

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Eloisc Bell Irving King Elizabeth Stevens Livingstone L. Summers Grace L. Shepardson Walter F. Coolidge 20

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MISS ALFARKTTA HASKELL. Miss Haskell has lx en connected with the Oshkosh Normal School, cither as student or teacher, from the first year of its establishment. She graduated from the elementary course in 1875, a member of the first class graduated from that course. She afterwards took a course for the training of kindergartners in the St. Louis training school, at that time under the able supervision of Susan K. Blow. She taught for several years in Menomonie and Sheboygan, and later as critic teacher in the Winona. Minnesota. Normal School. In 1883. she was invited to take charge of the primary department of the Oshkosh Normal School, and from that time until the present, with an interim of but four years, her own school has lx en the fortunate school of her labor and the object of her untiring and devoted service. She was a woman of great energy, high ideals, unusual industry, and varied aptitude. Whatever she did, she did well. It was l oth her disposition and her delight to see every matter for which she was responsible done in the liest manner and finished in every detail. She jjossessed. in a marked degree, the housekeeping instinct, and so her school room was always bright, orderly, and rejxiseful. like a well-ordered, well-kept house. She had great natural jxnver of control and ability to inspire children with a sense of resjxmsibility, and to secure from them dignity of demeanor and real scholarly effort. She had the faculty of establishing pupils in right habits, and of teaching them self-control and self-direction. As a teacher of subject-matter she had few equals. Her instruction was always clear, attractive, stimulating, and of permanent impression. In method she was rapid, deft, and worked with the sure hand and effectiveness of the artist. Her teaching was never slow, never dull, never clumsy. She had the jx wer and the charm to take a group of children to whom she was an entire stranger, and in a few moments fix their attention upon a piece of subject-matter. set them thinking toward some definite end. and reciting with natural ease and evident satisfaction. All this may lx summed up in the statement that she was one of the most skillful of primary teachers. She lived with and for the children and loved so to live. She was a daughter of the most devoted character: besides her school duties, she took the most patient, faithful, and loving care of an aged father and mother for many years. She was a woman of marked executive ability, of courage, and of power to lx ar her part without flinching or complaining. She met the world with'a cheerful face, and found no fault with the demands life had laid upon her. She died with the same quiet courage with which she had lived, and uttered no complaint as to the time or way. She has left behind her not only schoolroom lessons well taught and well learned, but lessons of life, a record of virtues that we all may admire and emulate. These words as a testimony to her worth and a tribute to her memory, from one who knew her long and well. 19

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4 nkw i;Acri;rv mkmrhrs. Livingstone I.. Summers, supervisor of the Manual Training Department of this school, is a graduate of the Marshalltown. Iowa, high school. In 1891 he graduated from Grinnell College, and since then he has devoted himself largely to drawing and manual training, lie was supervisor of drawing in the Milwaukee schools for five years, and two years circuit supervisor of drawing in fifteen W isconsin cities. It was during this work that he saw the jmjs-sibility of correlating manual training with other school work. Mr. Summers has fitted himself for teaching manual training spending two and a half years specializing in that work, one year at I’ratt Institute, Brooklyn, and a year and a half in luirope, studying in London. Paris and Naas. Sweden. Since then he was supervisor of Sloyd work for the Island of Cuba, remaining in the island during the American occupation. W hen the Manual Training Department was opened in the Normal in the fall of 1902, Mr. Summers was given charge of the work, and this department is still under his supervision. Irving King, the head of the Department of Psychology and Pedagogy of this school, was born in Indiana. At an early age lie began teaching school. He graduated from Karlhan College, Richmond. Indiana, after which he was engaged in high school work for four years, first as principal at Tonganoxie. Kansas, and then at Bloomingdale, Indiana. Mr. King then went to the I niversily of Chicago, and spent three years in further fitting himself for his work, specializing in philosophy, psvcholog). and education. He had a fellowship the last two years. Mr. King has just completed the work necessary for a doctor’s degree in philosophy with the exception of writing his thesis. He has given a good deal of attention to child psychology. W hile in Chicago he carried on some original investigations in a school for feebleminded. Mr. King is an able man for the jiosition he now fills. He taught child psycholog)- at the I 'niversily of Chicago during the summer quarter and the latter part of last year filled a vacancy in the state normal school of Louisiana as teacher of pedagogy and supervisor of practice work. Walter 1 Coolidgf. is a native of Galesburg, Illinois. His early education was received in a country school, after which he entered the ialesburg high school, graduating in 1892. I lis college training was received at Knox College, where he distinguished himself not only as a student, but as a leader in athletics and literary work as well, taking part in two prize debates and two oratorical contests by apijointment. lie was also for some time manager of the students’college paper. I11 the midst of his college course he withdrew from school and enlisted in the Sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, as second sergeant in Company C—the first company to land in Porto Rico. At the close of the war he returned to school, and. although he had missed a year, succeeded in graduating with his class in 1899 with the degree of B. A. In 1 01 he received the degree of A. M., delivering the master's oration. Mr. Coolidgc was principal of the high school at Lockj ort. Illinois, one year, and professor of mathematics in the Galesburg high school for a year, coaching the athletic teams at lx th places. lie came to Oshkosh in August, 1902, to succeed Mr. Blair as assistant in mathematics. 21