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

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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

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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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Have you seen Miss Jennie G. Marvin, principal and critic of the Grammar Department, respected by the practice teacher for her prompt, businesslike ways, and loved by every student for whom she has paved the way into the Normal. Miss Marvin renders the institution an inestimable service by inculcating into every graduate of her department, a code of sentiments that makes them thoroly in touch with the affairs of the Normal. One of her lx st known characteristics is her desire for fair play, and one of her most frequent remarks is, “1 will sift this matter to the bottom.” Again, she is a woman who is closely in sympathy with the interests and amusements of her l oys and girls, as is voiced in the words of one of them, who said. “Aunt Jennie is all right; she knows what the kids like.” The latest acquisition to our faculty is Miss Lizzie M. Arnold, as assistant critic and teacher in the grammar grades. Miss Arnold's home is in Oshkosh. She is a graduate of the Normal, to which training she has added a course at Wisconsin University, and several years of experience as a teacher. She comes to us from Indianapolis, where she has been teaching for the past three years. We sincerely hope that Miss Arnold will find the work here both pleasant and congenial. Already several grammar room pupils have been heard to make remarks highly complimentary. Of her upon whom devolves the task of managing such an unruly set of youngsters as those of “Intermediate age, is required an unusual amount of determination and executive ability. It is well for Miss Adelaide M. Parsons that she possesses these characteristics. It has been rightly said of her that she is a woman who could run anything. You can read it in her features. In the school-room she wears a brisk, business-like air. and in all cases of misdemeanor is very stem. Her practice teachers are very devoted. When asked why. they say. Oh. I don’t know, but she is lovely.” Never was there such a popular critic teacher as Miss Grace Mead, of the Second Primary Department. Being a practice teacher is but an excuse to spend much time in her very artistic room. Never before was there such a combination of good nature and common sense. Children and practice teachers all seem to imbibe her spirit and enthusiasm, and everything moves on happily, resulting in an unusual number of “Exccllents” in her department. Ix ng may she remain. Miss Mead! At least, until we. the Junior class, have had our practice work. It is Miss Elizabeth Stevens, the little lady front Connecticut, who presides over the First Primary Department. Miss Stevens has a firm, yet sympathetic, way with the children, which wins their love and inspires them to their best efforts. The practice teachers are loud in their praises of her. After a quarter with a class in her department, they begin to feel that practice work is not a disagreeable, but rather a pleasant task, after all. She has a way in dealing with them which gives them confidence in themselves. Accordingly, their classes arc so successfully conducted that we find a large number of them reaching the high standard of Excellent.” 19