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

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H. S. Youker You think you’d like to go to school to this man, Martin. I think you would, too. He doesn’t teach the little people very much himself. He has the supervision of the practice teachers who leach in the training department. This is Mr. Youker's first year at the Oshkosh Normal. It has been a very pleasant year for all who know him. lie is a graduate of Wisconsin University. After teaching for some years he returned to the University to get his degree. From there he went to the University of Chicago to do graduate work. In that quiet way of his he jest worked right along. He was suiwr-vising principal at Brodhead for two years. From there he went to Grand Rapids in this state, where he was superintendent of schools. He remained there a considerable time. When the Oshkosh Normal needed another teacher it was fortunate enough to secure Mr. Youker.

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PRESIDENT JOHN A. H. KEITH T his first one. Samanthy. is a picture of President John A. H. Keith. He is a smart man! You can't catch him on anything—or if you do one day. by the next he’ll know more about the subject than you know or ever will know. He has what he calls “the right attitude toward knowledge. He was born in Homer, Illinois, but he didn't stay there long, for his father was a Methodist minister, and he was always moving around. Little John wasn’t a strong child, so he didn’t get along very fast in school until he was about fifteen years old. After that he became well and strong and he went right along. He taught in the country schools for two years, and then he went to the school at Normal. Illinois. He finished his course there, although he stopped one year to be principal of a village school, where he supervised teachers old enough to have been his mother. After graduating from Normal he was gi en charge of the Grammar Department of the Training School for two years, and then he went to Harvard. When he got his degree he went to DeKalb. where a Normal school was just opened. He taught Pedagogy and Psychology there for seven years. Then he went to Normal. Illinois, as head of the Training Department. He stayed there till he came to Oshkosh in 1909. I tell you. he’s a magnetic talker. He stands on the rostrum and explains some difficult thing to these students, and when he gets through, he says. You see? and they all sec -or if they don’t they are dunces.

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Rose C. Swart Now we come to the picture of Miss Rose Swart. She is one of those women who jest make use of every obstacle to rise to something higher. From her early childhood, spent in Pennsylvania, she has always made use of every opportunity. She came to this state when ten years of age, and when fifteen began teaching. She took the greatest interest in her work, and spared no effort to succeed. After teaching in the district school, she went to the city and taught in both the primary and grammar grades. Former President AI bee heard of her work, and secured her as teacher for the primary grades. Later she taught geography, German, and Theory in the Normal, after which she was made supervisor of the practice work. We wish that each one had the power to work as faithfully as she has, and prove of so much value to others. She has prepared many teachers for Wisconsin, and each one looks back with a feeling of deepest gratitude to the woman whose word and deed has so nobly guided him. Emily F. Webster Yes, Marthy, here's Miss Webster. A good picture of her it is. too. She was born in Ohio, but came to Wisconsin when only five years old. Her early schooling was in the district school, and afterward she took a course at the New Normal at Oshkosh. After graduating, she was asked to Ik Latin teacher at the Normal, and later she was made head of the Mathematical department. The students tell me that Miss Webster is famous all over the state for the way she can teach Arithmetic, coach a basketball game, and play the part of a Red Cross nurse. She can tell a story that will jest make you double up with laughing, and give a little sermon that will do much to disturb your conscience. In fact, she is one of the most all 'round women I've ever met. Lydon W. Briggs I remember when this one was a little boy. Samanthy. Whenever his mother wanted him she went where there was the biggest crowd of little girls—and she always found him. He was a naughty little fellow then, but lie got over that when he grew up. although lie never outgrew his liking for the girls. He must have found it pretty lonesome in the army—Oh, yes, lie fought in the Civil W ar. He learned how to laugh there. You ought to see him when some one springs a joke. His shoulders go up and down faster and faster and his face is the color of one of your red poppies, Samanthy. He is treasurer at Normal now. and teaches law—school law, I think they call it. As they say, he is the youngest acting man up there. oir. lAJjOjLi Mary E. Apthorp Ah, here is Mary Minerva’s picture. How she did study Latin! She Inrgan to enjoy her acquaintance with Caesar and ergil at Iowa College: this ripened into friendship abroad, and she finally dedicated herself to their lasting worship at Chicago University. For many years now, she has been trying to get more followers for Caesar at the Oshkosh Normal. She has succeeded. too. but sometime ago she received a great shock when she overheard a young woman say, Would that I’rut us had killed Caesar e'er Caesar learned to write. One who is such an admirer of the old Roman should have gained some of their dauntless courage, but I'm afraid she hasn’t. Once Miss Apthorp was with a numtier of the Faculty, and it chanced that they must go through a field where a most harmless looking cow was feeding. When Mary saw that cow she went just as fast as ever she could for the fence, which she wasted no time in climbing. The old cow hadn't moved, but nothing could persuade Miss pthorp to rejoin the party while they stayed in that field. Page Seventeen