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

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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.

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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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Livingston L. Summers Here’s the man from Iowa who loves to handle the saw and hammer. When he was just a little fellow, he was asked what he wanted Santa Claus to bring him. A hammer and LOTS of nails.” There was one other thing he liked, too. Both tastes grew faster than he did. The first one he developed at Pratt Institute, the second course there did not satisfy him, so Mr. Summers studied Manual Training in London, Paris, and N’aas, Sweden. Then he was supervisor of Slovd work in Cuba until he came to Oshkosh. Since he has been here, he has developed another taste—that tor roast corn. I heard lie had a corn roast for the Faculty out at his lake-side cottage, and he won the prize himself for eating the most ears. A soon as he gets money enough so he can afford it, he is going to quit teaching and buy a farm. All he will raise on it will he sweet corn, and then he will have a party out to a corn roast every night. I don't think that he could make people like him any better than they do now. because every one you talk to says. Summers is all right. Maurice H. Small Here is Maurice Small! You remember. I told you about him. He’s had an awful lot of eddication. He went to Colby University and later to Clark University. He teaches psychology at Oshkosh now. What he doesn’t know about children isn’t known by any one else, 1 guess. If lie had his sav there wouldn’t be a child in all the country round who wasn’t having his full share of fun, and a chance in the world. I don’t see how that man ever has time for any recreation unless he finds his rest in change of occupation. Earl A. Clemens This one is Earl Clemens. They say he is one of the finest men in the school. I remember him. for he was a lively lad. although he did get tired of taking the cows to pasture and picking berries for market. He was rather fond of school in spite of the fact that he did play “hookey when the nuts were ripe down in the hack pasture. After finishing the district school at Clemensville and the Oshkosh High School, he went to nn Arbor, Mich. Later he taught physics and chemistry in Bay City and Detroit. Now. as I said, he is teaching chemistry in the Oshkosh Normal. I often tremble when I think of him using all those dreadful explosion things, but I suppose he knows how to handle them just as well as I know how to wash dishes. Allison Farley Now. Martha, here is Mr. Farley. He is one of the most active men 1 ever saw. And he fairly brings a student out of his chair when lie puts a question to him. One morning while visiting his class. I began to think that man was surely an animated interrogation point;” but suddenly he stopped with a, What do you thing of that, Mr. G.---?’’ And Mr. (i.----- got up as though the finger pointed at him was a magnet. Energetic? Yes. indeed, lie has been known to row a boat several miles with the anchor dragging, just to show how strong he is. W hat does he teach? Pedagogy and such things. The students say. it’s heaps of fun in Mr. Parley’s classes, but one learns a lot. He makes it so interesting if you study—and he can make it interesting, too, if you don’t. Page Twenty