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

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Miss Kimball English Language Lillian G. Kimball was born at Superior, Wis., and graduated front the Oshkosh High School. Site taught in the public schools of this city, most of the time in the English Liter-attire department of the High School. After studying at Yassar College and at the University of Chicago, site taught at St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1893. she was called to the Oshkosh. Normal. The love which the student l ody has for our English teacher i- well expressed in these words, taken front the “Quiver which was dedicated to her: “To Miss Kimball, who by her right thinking, right speaking, and right living, has instilled in us a deeper desire to know the truth, to love the truth, and to live the truth.” Mr. Clow History Frederick R. Clow, our tall and learned instructor of history, was born in Minnesota and spent the early part of his life as a farmer boy. He began his education at the Austin High School and, after teaching a few years, graduated at Carleton College. Minnesota, and completed his education at Harvard, finishing there in 1895. Both he and history have some way taught us that the road to perfection is long and difficult. Miss Peake English Literature Kllen F. P. Peake, our beloved instructor in Browning. Longfellow, and Shakespeare, was born in Shakespeare's native land, and was partly educated there. She studied in the University of New Brunswick and has had post-graduate work at Chicago. After teaching in Massachusetts and New York for a short time, she came to Wisconsin, teaching in the Oconto High School, and then in our own Normal. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths arc peace. Mr. Mitchell Geography Prank 1C. Mitchell came to us in 1897 front the University of Indiana. Previous to his course in the University, he took charge of the department of Geography at the St. Cloud Normal School. Minnesota, for five years. For all information concerning Merry Widow bonnets, apply to him. His industrial geography class has been trying to solve the problem of the relation of these hats to the distribution of heat upon the earth. Mr. Fling Biology Harry R. Fling is a New Englander and a graduate of Bowdoin College. Coming west, he entered the University of Michigan for a year of graduate work, later went to the University of Chicago, and besides spent three summers in research work at the Marine Biological Laboratory. Massachusetts. Mr. Fling is a man of commanding appearance, a basso profundo, and it is an undisguised fact that he possesses the clearest head of all the faculty. Miss Pannele Librarian Ella G. Parmele. our amiable librarian, is a native of the state of New York. She is a graduate of the Pratt Institute Library School of Brooklyn, New York. She came to Oshkosh in 1899. where she has held the office of Librarian till the present. Puzzle: Is it the nature of the school or an economy of time that forbids her gracious replies? Mr. Dresden German A veritable emliodimciH of sunshine is our dear little German instructor. B. Mack Dresden. who came from old Deutschland” itself, having been born in Berlin. He came to the United States in 1883. graduated from Baldwin University. Ohio, anti the Oshkosh Normal. After four years teaching at West Bend, a kindly destiny brought him back to Oshkosh. German, heretofore considered an affliction, is now an antidote for all the impending evils of the institution—unfortunate those who cannot take it. 19

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Mr. Summers Manual Training Livingston L. Summers was supervisor of Sloyd work in Cuba before coming to Oshkosh. In 1891, he graduated from Grinnell College, specialized in Manual Training at Pratt Institute, and studied in London, Paris, and Naas. Sweden. In spite of the fact that he get» so mad a peaceful atmosphere seems to pervade our popular manual training room. MiSS Potter Assistant Librarian Lucy A. Potter, our assistant librarian, was born in Oshkosh and educated in its schools. She is a graduate of the High School and of the Wisconsin School of Library Science. She is a ray of sunshine in the sometimes dark and gloomy room of l ooks. Mr. Small Psychology Maurice II. Small, one of our most beloved instructors, came to us from the East. He received his education in the public schools and Academy of Wilton, Maine; at Colby University : ami at Clark University, where he devoted three years to a Ph. I), course in Psychology and Education. For some years he taught in New Jersey, prior to coming to Oshkosh in iqo.v If any of us had previously doubted the practicality of psychology and pedagogy, acquaintance with Mr. Small has promptly allayed all misgiving. MiSS Rooney Associate in fiuglish Anna 1.. Rooney was l orn in New York, and attended a private school there, but preferred Michigan for her higher education, graduating l oth from Kalamazoo College and the University of Michigan. For seven years she taught in a High School in that state, coming to Oshkosh in 1903 as assistant in English. We Juniors can vouch for Miss Rooney. Many a poor, shivering lass, late with her essay, has taken encouragement from her kindly smile, and the vision of an additional assignment has sunk into oblivion. Mr. Clematis Chemistry E. A. Clematis was lioro in Clcmansville, in this county, attended the district school there, and graduated from the Oshkosh High School while President Halsey was principal. After teaching two years, he attended the University of Michigan, graduating in 1901. He taught Physics and Chemistry in Ray City and Detroit until coming to Oshkosh in 1906. A broad, fair-minded, and all-around man whom the students enjoy coming in contact with, is our estimate of Mr. CIcmans. Mr. Parley Observation and Methods Allison A. Farley is a Michigan man, but showed his preference for Wisconsin by graduating from Beloit College. From thence he attended the University of Chicago, pursuing there a course in Psychology and Philosophy, and graduating with the degree of Ph. D. Before arriving at his final great distinction, he was superintendent of schools in Iowa and South Dakota. Through his arduous efforts, we sincerely trust that our future pupils and successive generations of Wisconsin will not lie educated without the facilitating use of the Preparatory Step. Miss Moulton Drawing May B. Moulton was lx»rn in Neenah, Wisconsin. Her first work in teaching was done in Oshkosh. After graduating from Pratt Institute. Brooklyn, she was supervisor of drawing in the schools of Aurora, 111. She has been here only since September. 1907. but she has created great interest in the subject of art by her effectual teaching. 21