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Elizabeth Stevens, teacher in the primary department of the Normal, is a native of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and received her early education in the public schools of that place. She is a graduate of the Bridgeport high school and Teachers’ Training school. I-ater she taught in the primary department of that place. She was tutor of students in New York College for a period of two years. Miss Stevens is also a graduate of the Potsdam Normal, doing l ost-graduate work. In August. 1902. she accepted a position as teacher in the primary department of the Oshkosh Normal, which position she now holds. Grace I.. Shepardson, director of gymnastics, was born in Pittsfield. Mississippi, receiving her elementary education in the schools of that place, graduating from the Pittsfield high school in 1897. She entered the Boston school of gymnastics, from which she graduated in 1901. The following year she was director of physical training in the public schools of Northampton, Massachusetts. Miss Shepardson came to Oshkosh in Septemlxr. 1902, to succeed Miss I-ook as director of physical training. Eloisk A. Bell, assistant in the graniar grades, is a native of Watertown, New York. She is a graduate of the advanced English scientific course of the Oswego Normal. Prior to her coming to this school she was employed as teacher in the grammar grades of Burlington, Vermont, and also in the grammar department of the schools of Akron. ()hio, for a period of four years. In the fall of 1902 she accepted a position as assistant in the grammar room of the training department and is at the present time serving in that capacity. 22
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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
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