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

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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

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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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Ellis J. Walkf.r Now 1 want you to look carefully at this picture. There's a lot to admire in Miss Walker. They say she’s supervisor of practice in the Normal School. As a youngster she always took the lead. When the neighborhood children played soldier'’ and some l oy announced, 'Tin captain, she calmly said. All right, then I’ll be general.” Any one to get ahead of her either in word or deed must get up early in the morning. Whoever has practice with her always has a higher ideal when he has finished the work. Margaret E. Fisher And if here isn't Margaret Fisher. She likes to straighten people out! She was always an energetic little body. Folks say that when she was two years old she showed a will of her own by trying to jump overl oard on her way to Europe. I don’t know how true it is. but I do know that no one ever dictated to her. Throughout her school life in Ponkapoag village school. Roxbury High, and Boston Normal School of (iymnastics. she was always doing amazing things in athletics. She played many a good game of basketball, and lived through a good many hard knocks. Don’t you ever tell me that basketball isn’t a good game for girls. Look at Margaret Fisher, and you’ll see why. That Normal School at Oshkosh was mighty glad to have Miss Fisher step in and take charge of the gymnasium. She’s the good friend, comforter, nurse, and doctor of the students. May B. Moulton This one is their artist. Miss Moulton. I met her one time on one of my visits at the scIkm)I. and it did seem so good to talk with her. She made me feel just as though I'd always known her. I was real timid, you know, about talking of those pictures up in the Art room. But she told me considerable about the work, and I forgot myself entirely. It did my heart good when I discovered that she was bom at Xeenah. It seems from the time she was a little girl, she was always a draw in and a paintin’. Then as she grew up she went to—let me see—oh. yes. Art Institute at Chicago. After graduating there she came to Oshkosh to help teach art. Now what made me admire her was, that she wasn't satisfied to just sit down and say, Now, I have a good position. and 1 shall not lnuher about advancin’.” No. sir, instead of that, she went out East to Pratt, where she got more learning that ever in drawin . After that she was down at Aurora, in Illinois, but it wasn’t long before she came back to Oshkosh to take charge of the Art department. Hannah M. Cundiff Can't you guess who this is? That's right. Hannah Mathews Cundiff. Let me think—she was born way down in St. Joseph. Missouri, the daughter of a Confederate colonel. In the St. Louis kindergarten she began to study music. She hated the way it was taught, but you ought to have heard her when she was eight years old. She sang in public then and made every one hold his breath. Later while in New York City, Miss Cundiff was a member of the Festival chorus of twelve thousand who sang at the May Festival when Madam Patti sang daily. Yes, she has been very successful in many ways— as director of children's plays, as a soloist, and on the Chautauqua platform. Where is she now? Oh. she’s at the Oshkosh Normal School—has been there since 1908. She directs all the musical plays given, has charge of the music at opening exercises: and with the Glee Club and all the rest of the music in school, is kept pretty busy. Miss Cundiff makes all the students admire and respect her—in fact, she has only to smile and one and all lose their hearts to her. Puge Twenty-one