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

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Ili-holci in Miss Edna Carter, assistant in Physics and Mathematics, the future inhabitant of two little cottars at present building on the campus. N’o one seems to know the purpose of these buildings, but rumor has it that she is going to move them to the lake to start up a peanut and lemonade stand. You would never think, to look upon Miss Carter’s calm, peaceful face and gentle manner, that she is a great enthusiast. There arc three things of which she is passionately fond. In the first place she is a golf-player, at one time holding the city championship. Secondly, she delights to while away her leisure hours in whittling. lastly, she is a great lover of scientific research, especially of radium. All remember the little dark-room to which we took our way in order that we might peep at the particle of radium which she patiently exhibited to us. Miss Mary 1. McFaddcn. Associate Supervisor of Practice, needs no introduction. How many times, while coming down the main stairway, has our social chat been interrupted by her authoritative tones, “Girls, there should l c no talking in the corridors. How can I work with so much noise outside?” But thinking of her as a human being. not as a policeman, her canny questions and thoughtful replies reveal the fact that she is Scotch. Miss McFadden is a fluent conversationalist, which explains the frequent calls of her young nu-n practice teachers, ami of a certain worthy member of our faculty whose presence gives her office a cool edge. Some time when you gel lost amid the intricate passages of the lower tl«K»r. you may accidentally find yourself before the entrance to a commodious, well-lighted room, in which are numerous benches covered with little toy-wagons. sleds, clocks, etc. This is our Manual Training Department, established two years ago and presided over by Mr. L. I- Summers. He is about to start one of the largest summer schools for manual training in the state, consisting of two buildings, each iox 12, having a window, a door, and a shingled roof. We have every reason to feel proud of the success of our manual training instructor. He is a skillful workman, and his careful instruction and management have drawn students from all parts of the state. This is the man of the x. y. and z. and our athletic enthusiast. We who have enjoyed the sweets of victory and suffered the pangs of defeat with him. know Mr. Walter F. Coolidge as a true sportsman and a jolly good fellow, a man we all like to have with us on a trip. To the faculty ladies he is known as a very handsome young man whom their charms were insufficient to capture. There is a melancholy, dejected look on his face, which is unnatural to the-man. It is easily understood, however, when you know that his wife had been away nearly a week when this photograph was taken. Upon the rostrum it became necessary to seat him away back in the corner, owing to the fact that his wonderful head of hair so aroused the envy of Mr. Ming. Mr. Dresden, and others, that there was much danger of an attempt at wool-gathering on their part. Attention! Face right! and gaze upon the features of the mistress of the Gymnasium. Miss Grace L. Shepardson. She looks very mild-mannered and good-natured, doesn't she? Well, she is, and she can't help it. in spite of her oft-repeated assertions that she is going to Ik- cross, and her desperate, fitful attempts at it. But the dear girl, she ought not to try. There is nothing that could be more out of place than a cross-looking, disagreeable teacher at the head of a gymnastic class, shouting out the commands. Perhaps there are very few who have more to vex them than Miss Shepardson. yet she den-s her best to treat all with equal fairness. In matters social, she is Miss Downing’s able assistant. 17

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Wouldn’t you like to 15. Mack Dresden, our instructor in German? If you were, you would never need to refer to “Britannica, for Mr. Dresden is a walking cyclopedia himself and knows something about everything. You would also he in great demand as a judge, for he acts in that capacity more than any other member of the faculty. Everybody seems to appreciate his wealth of knowledge. Mr. Dresden is the type of the well-balanced man. There is nothing that he cannot do. from eating a doughnut (which is his favorite article of diet) to training for a play or debate, in either of which he can't he beat. He takes great interest in things in and about the Normal, and is ever ready to extend a helping hand. Behold our deep-voiced, buxom, bald-headed teacher of bugology and catology, etc.. Mr. Harry R. Fling. You will notice how we have grouped these three together. It was out of sympathy for their tender feelings in regard to a little s|K t ordinarily kept under a hat. in order that they might not show up in the light of contrast. Mr. Fling is at present using another new hair restorer and piick moustache grower. If successful, he will become agent for its sale among the other gentlemen members of the faculty. Prof. Ming and Miss Apthorp are directly opjjosed as to the use of cats. The one makes | ets of them, the other, hash. Mr. Fling is an advocate of a course in bluffing here in the Normal, deeming it a very necessary part of any school teacher's equipment. Now, see here, my g« od people, this is Mr. Frank K. Mitchell, head of the Department of Geography and Geology. His name and fame have long l een spread abroad in all the lands of the world thru the invention of the wonderful pendent gloln . and will soon Ik shouted far and wide thru the folding megaphone. From time to time rumors have reached us that he intended leaving us. We sincerely hope, however, that they are but rumors. Mr. Mitchell is one of those great teachers who possess the power to teach much and well without an unreasonable amount of work on the part of the student. He has lately invested in a Jersey cow. and a line horse with which he takes the lady members of the faculty and young women of the school out driving. Miss Katherine S. Alvord. associate in Latin and History, needs no exposition of her enduring qualities. She well deserves the epithet. “Little friend of all the world. In her we see a constant and a willing helper, a diligent worker, and an enthusiast in all her lines. It is not too much to say that these lines extend over every subject in the curriculum, for there are few she has not taught. Even cold does not act as a damper on her ardor, for it is a well-known fact that, altho the usual temperature of her room is fifty-four degrees, she is always at her post and never fails to greet her many callers with a warm and sunny smile. It is she. Ella G. Parmele. who presides over the domains that lie beyond the swinging green baize door, and who from her lookout in the center of the reading room, watches with eager eye lest some indolent student idly fritter away his time in idle gossip. Miss Parmele possesses unbounded knowledge of the library, for she knows the title, place on the shelf and content of nearly every ! ook. Looking at her hen-scratching on some of the orders for books. 1 tear you would never know that she can write ltcautifully. What book did you say. please? she asks of an inquirer and. with sprightly little steps and a sidewise tilt of her head, she hurries away to the shelf for the hook. 16

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Away up on the third floor in a queer, little room dwells a queer, little man with a queer, little name —Mr. Lonna D. Arnett You always go to his class feeling confident that you will be able to recite. Mr. Arnett is a trifle bashful at first, but it soons wears off, and everybody feels at home. The first thing you know you arc talking about some question of a concept or a judgment. Me doesn't say much; you say a great deal, and think a great deal more. Yoti don’t know how he does it, yet you seem to get somewhere. You leave the class with a feeling of having acquired something. You soon learn to love the mail, even for his quaint ways and mannerisms of speech. It is always necessary to have one member of the faculty to do the social end. Such a task is allotted our musical director. Miss Adclyn S. Downing, who. with her general attractiveness and magnificent voice, effects many conquests among the townspeople. Many of them—the men, I mean—arc under physician’s care for cracked hearts. ’T is sad that there is such devastation, and we would urge upon the fair director the necessity of going a little easy, at least stringing the victims out a trifle so that there lie enough to last. The one distinguishing feature of Miss Downing’s classes is that the first row of scats is always occupied by the young gentlemen. This is our new professor of Psychology. Mr. Maurice II. Small. Me also gives a course in outline and note-hook writing, extending over four quarters. In the third quarter, he outlines the ear and eye and oesophagus. Anyone wishing a recipe for concentration should see Mr. Small at once. He can so concentrate his mind upon a subject that his head falls forward, his eyes close, his arms hang limp at his side, and at intervals strange sounds, as of the grating of rusty hinges, issue from his ported lips. Yes, and so deep is his meditation that he must lie spoken to several times in order to bring him back to a realization of his surroundings. If you have any difficulty in keeping your attention on but one thing at a time, you should make haste to try Mr. Small's true and never-failing recipe. Miss Kdna B. Lowd, the youthful assistant in the Art Department, has been with us but a short time, yet her praises are sung thruotit the school. Quietly and unassumingly she goes aliout her work, giving directions firmly and definitely, in her low. calm voice. The clear-cut. regular features show earnestness, frankness, stability, and resolution. It is with regret that we learn that Miss Lowd will not Ik- with us next year, as she returns to Pratt Institute to pursue further the study of art. When she goes she will take with her the best wishes of every one for a brilliant career in the work she has chosen, and we all confidently look forward to a time when we shall be proud to say that we studied drawing under Miss I-owd at Oshkosh Normal in 1904. This is not a Freshman, but Miss Annie I- Rooney, assistant in Elocution and English, who joined the faculty last fall. Her experiences have been varied. She has what is commonly called a crush,” for she passionately adores the head of the Rhetoric Department. She has frequently been taken for a student. Once, while she was talking in the corridor, a Senior gentleman stepped up and said, “My dear girl, you must not talk in the corridors.” However, don’t think her youthfulness a detriment to her teaching. One day, while discussing with Mr. Luke Burns her criticism on his rendition of an Irish selection, she said, “You arc evidently not Irish, and it takes an Irishman to do that selection justice.” Evidently, she is not Irish, for all her name. For further information, apply to Joe Mortimer. I I 4 I I I r I I t 1 1 18