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

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Walter C. Hewitt Aiul here's Mr. Hewitt. Samanthy. I met him when lie first came to Oshkosh. He’s a fine man. Such resolution as he has! When he was only a young lad teaching in country schools, he spent three years working over a hard problem that an old man had given “to catch the teacher. He finally worked it. although he had to study an entirely new phase of mathematics to do it—Maxima and Minima. Not that he wasn't prepared to teach—he was a graduate of the State Normal College of Michigan. He taught ten years in Michigan and then was appointed secretary of the World’s Fair Educational Commission of Michigan. Then President AI bee met him and persuaded him to come to (). S. 1 don’t know what they would do without him—he always says the right thing at the right time. He’s the poet, orator, and wit of the Faculty. He’s very fond of apple pie. I suppose if he has his wish he will he transported to a region where “all the world is apple pie. Josephine Henderson So. Martha, you are anxious to know who this serene one is. are you? It’s Miss Henderson. She teaches the students how to write compositions. Hard task it must Ik. . I reckon, but she is just the one to do it. for she learned how on The Chautauquai! Magazine. Do I sup|K se she ever used slang or giggled? Why. bless you. child. I’ve heard some say, as knows, that she was one of the regular “cut ups” in school. No. one wouldn’t think it to see her now in the Faculty circle. She graduated at a Normal over in Pennsylvania, and then from Allegheny College. After several years’ experience she came to Oshkosh. The Juniors say in subdued tones. Shall we ever he as calm as she? and the Seniors wistfully sigh. “Shall we ever Ik able to teach rhetoric Lillian G. Kimball Yes, this one is Lillian Kimball. You and she were schoolmates, weren’t you? My, but there was a sight of difference between you! Her hair never flew around wildly as yours did. and her hands were always clean. hen you wanted to make mud pies she would always say. That will never do. surely.” After she finished the Oshkosh High School she taught in Oshkosh • for a few years, and then went to Yassar College, and later to Chicago University. After teaching in St. Paul, she came to Oshkosh to teach in the High School, and a little later liecame an English teacher at the Normal. My the way, Samanthy. do you think there is anything in that report that Miss Kimball intends leaving the teaching profession? Frederick R. Clow Samanthy, did you ever notice how many of the men who amount to something are sons of farmers? Here's this picture of Frederick Clow now just brought to mind that he was a farmer boy. A Minnesota farm at that, when the country was new, and ncighlors, schools, railroads, towns (I might add. trees) were few and far between. I rememlier what a likely little chap he was. Wonder if boys then didn't use to have more grit than they have now-a-davs. Leastways they got what they aimed to get: and if you don’t believe it. just recollect how Frederick Clow went off to grammar school ten miles away—graduated from High School—taught country school—shoved on to Carlcton College—edited a country newspaper—and then, not yet satisfied, went after some more of that book-learning at Harvard. Relieve he got some letters hitched onto his name liefore he finished. What did he do after leaving Harvard? Why, he came to Oshkosh and has been there ever since. Folks here hope lie’ll keep right on instructing 'em in history, sociology, general thinkology, etc., but I’ll never be satisfied until 1 see him foremost of the Philosophers and Thinkers of the country. as Miss Henderson does: Page Eighteen

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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

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Ellf.n F. P. Pf.ake Yes. Marthy, this is Miss Peake, who teaches literature. No, she wasn't always fond of liooks. When she was a little girl site wanted to keep a menagerie, and later she grieved because she could not he a soldier. However, her attention soon turned to literature; and now when she tells a story of a fierce dragon to a Senior class, they listen just as you would, Marthy. Every member of her class really enjoys iiis work. When studying Shakespeare or Browning, she takes them all with her to England, where she received her early education. When a young woman, she went to the University of New Brunswick, and she had post-graduate work at Chicago. Then she taught in Massachusetts and New York, and after awhile came away out here to Wisconsin to teach in a little town up north. Oconto, and from there she came to the Oshkosh Normal. B. Mack Dresden Now we come to die jolly German professor. It. Mack. the students call him. He spent his boyhood iii Germany and had an excellent education when he came to America. Arriving here he entered Baldwin I Diversity in Ohio. After finishing there he came to the Oshkosh Normal; but, still not satisfied, he went to the University of Worcester in Ohio. A few years of experience as a teacher, and he was called to Oshkosh to teach German at the Normal. Teaching German isn’t his only accomplishment. When a play is given, there is no one who knows how to apply the rouge so well as Mr. Dresden. He has become a necessity in that school. When a student is in need of sympathy or advice, he is always sure of just the right kind in the right quantity if he goes to Mr. Dresden. Harry R. Fling Here's a man from Maine! Don't you remember. Samanthy. that we were visiting morning exercises when Mr. Fling was telling the students how horses came to look as they do? He has the Eastern accent, hut lie also has the Eastern smartness, for he graduated from Bowdoiu College. Then, after he had taught a few years he studied in the University of Minnesota and also in the University of Chicago. Next lie spent three years in research work in Massachusetts. I don’t know exactly what research work is. but if it is studying plants and bugs and animals, lie has spent more than three years at it. I'm told that when he was a little curly-headed fellow—oh. yes. Marthy. lie had long golden curls ,when lie was a boy—he used always to Ik- chasing grasshoppers up in Maine. He has been here thirteen years now, and seems to he contented; hut I do think his ambition is to l»ecome a spiritualist that lie mav talk with Darwin and Wallace. Frank E. Mitchell What’s this sticking out from under this picture? 1 declare if it isn’t a page of Frankie Mitchell's old diary. Here, read it. Samanthy: Sept, jo—I’m 13 years and , old and 1 live in Indiana which is pink on the map hut it ain't pink because it is most all yellow sand. I have to go to school most of the time. 1 can lick all the fellers only bud Simons and he is J times as big as me. Sept, j2—Today I got licked cause I didn’t no all the captals of the states. 1 told teacher that was not no geography lesson, and she said it was mine. Then I said I would not Ik- so mecn as to make kids learn captals then she licked me but when school was out I nearly licked hud Simons anyhow. Sept. 25—Went fishing for trout. Bully good luck. Sept. 26—Ma made me have my picture took today hut I was mad cause tlu-r was some goats in the yard and I wanted to watch them worser than have my picture took. He hasn't lost some of his tricks yet. He likes to fish as well as ever, and lie has his old grudge against capitals. He kept it through his course at the University of Indiana, and since he has had the chair of Geography at Oshkosh. I was visiting his class one day. and he changed his chair for the desk—and quoted Scripture and Shakespeare—well. I was fairly amazed. He surely is a smart man, and what's more, lie has lots of common sense.