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

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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

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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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4 Louise F. Encking If here isn't Louise! Those students like her pretty well. It jest made me laugh to remember what some of them were telling me not long ago—how she looks at them when they get to “cutting up” in the library—and I shouldn’t wonder if she dees more than look sometimes. If she doesn’t then she’s not the Louise Encking I knew as a child. You needn’t smile—she was a wonder. The way she could read when she was jest a little midget! And the books she had! It was surprising. Natural as a duck to water, she took to the study of the language; and after her college course was completed, she travelled in foreign countries. It docs my heart good to learn that she is always willing to help any of the students look up material on any subject. The last time 1 saw her. i spied a new possession, which set me to wonderin’ how much longer she will Ik- helpin’ them. Anna I. Curtis Here's Irene Curtis, the girl who could always be heard, if not seen. She was a jolly soul, and whenever she was around there was no danger of things getting dull. At least, that's what her teachers ucsd to think. There wasn't a more thoroughbred tomboy in all that Iowa town, and what Irene Curtis couldn't do wasn't worth mentioning. Whenever anyone attempted t«» remonstrate with her she had a way of winning them with a tender lullaby or a charming ditty. Her singing saved her so many disasters that she finally began to realize what a good thing it was. and when she graduated from the High School she entered the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Obcrlin. Ohio, to study music and incidentally to have a good time. Her good time did not end when she began to teach, and when she took up work in the Oshkosh Normal, life looked very agreeable to her. especially on the Faculty skating rink. But for all her fun. she loves to help, and no one who goes to her is ever turned away unaided. Nellie A. Smith Who is this, you ask. Nellie Adams Smith. She is one of the jollicst among the Faculty. She can sing, she can paint, she can dance. There isn't much of anything she can't do. She comes from Union City. Indiana, and the students say. The Hoosiers are alt right. She has studied music and drawing at several different schools, very successfully from all reports. Just now she is trying to show Normal students how to make nictures. Sakes. alive! They can see how pretty things look, but their brushes ami pencils just make daubs and awkward lines. I saw them working up there one day. Such looks of dismay I never saw. Miss Smith came along, laughed a little, showed them how to put in a little light S|K t here, a dab of color there, a little curve in the line, and beliold a satisfactory piece of work and a student's face wreathed in smiles. Walter W. McMillan Who's this? Coach McMillan. I remember him when he played bawl for the amusement of his parents and the neighbors, not for any grand-stand crowd. Yes. he went to school: graded, high, and college. No, he hasn't that scholastic air. but. as the boys say. that scholastic air doesn't carry the ball up the field or make a touchdown;” that's what he can do, and he knows how to inspire others to do likewise. He can teach algebra, too; and I've heard say he has learned to brew as tine a cup of tea as youVI wish to drink. Page Twi'Div-lwo