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

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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

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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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Marietta Neff An interesting face, you say? Indeed it is. As a child, Marietta didn’t play like most children, but often we’d see her sitting in her little red chair sewing patchwork. At eight that quilt was done, and she had more time to read. One day I found her curled tip in a big chair reading Dante’s “Divine Comedy. Imagine a child reading that! Nothing was too deep for her. After she finished High School in St. Louis she went to Chicago University. Then she taught in a high school, and a year ago she came to the Oshkosh Normal to teach. The students say that she still loves deep things, and that some days they are simply stricken dumb at the wonderful way she has of saying things. Ruth G. Bagley Do you remember Ruth Bagley? She was a chubby little girl, and as droll as could be. Ruth was born in BufTclo, New York. Her early education was received at Worcester, Massachusetts, and her college course at Ann Arbor. Michigan. Yes. she has taught—first in Detroit, later in California, and last fall she came to Oshkosh, where she is teaching Knglish in the Normal School. She received her Master’s degree at the University of California, and Bachelor’s at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Miss Bagley says she can think of nothing more pleasant than to remain in Oshkosh and spend all her energies upon the students in the Country School Course, which she thinks is the finest course given. As for the students, they say they wish that Miss Bagley’s wish may Ik- granted. Pauline Bromberg Oh. yes! I rcmemlier Pauline Bromlnrg well. This is her picture. Why. when I was in Boston hardly twenty years ago, she was but a baby, and from what I have heard lately, she isn’t very big yet. Yet, little Pauline has a tine education. She went through the public schools of Boston, through the High School, then to Miss Simmons’ College for Girls, and graduated from the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics just last year. She must lie a good teacher, for people say it takes a rogue to catch a rogue, and she is one all right. You can just see the mischief in her eyes. In her Senior year in High School she was tardy seventeen times, and had a plausible excuse every time. But nobody is ever tardy in her classes if he can help it. She is a great favorite among—well, you can guess. Daisy M. Harner Well, here’s a new picture—Miss Harner. I remember now that the girls just can’t say anything too good of her. She is young and as sweet and kind a bodv as one could wish to meet. One of her friends told me that she began her schooling in the country; and judging from all she knows about tricks of country school children, 1 guess her teacher had all she could do. After a while she entered the Kansas State Agricultural College. After finishing her course, she taught chemistry there, and later in Norfolk. Virginia. In 1009 she came here to teach Domestic Science. My sympathies are with her. because I know what it is to teach school girls to cook, but she loves to do it. Her efforts don’t stop with the girls, either, for she has succeeded in teaching a numlier of Ik vs to make pic and tea. l UKe Twenty-three