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

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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

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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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Frank A. Ferguson This young man is the teacher of Physics. One of the students told me that he is a very smart young fellow. He finished at High School and then went to Ferris Institute at Detroit. After that he studied pharmacy for a year and then entered the University of Michigan. He studied science there, and after he graduated he taught in Michigan, then in Ohio, then in the Solden High School, St. Louis, and from there lie came to the Normal. Mr. Ferguson is always at work, helping some one or trying new experiments. They say he's trying to make an air ship that is heavier than air. one which will fly. Hard task, 1 should think it would he. No doubt he will surely become as wealthy at this as did Marconi through his inventions. Emma Rund This young lady is Emma Rund. She was horn in Bessemer, Michigan. When she was just a little midgit she told all the children in the neighborhood how “The Goblins will git you” until none of them dared to go out in the dark. Then when she got older they were always wanting her for school entertainments and such like. Well, she finished High School and then went to the University of Michigan to study oratory. After she graduated, she taught a year, then went to Columbia School of Expression, and then to Bush Temple Conservatory in Chicago. She is a success at giving recitals, but the way she enters into school work up there at Oshkosh is wonderful. Aleida J. Pieters Another new teacher. You didn't know Aleida Pieters,Samanthy, did you? She has such a pleasant disposition that a person just enjoys getting acquainted. Her people were Dutch, making their early home in Holland. Michigan. Here she attended the graded school, and later the Preparatory School at Hope College. I remember how popular she was when she went out to teach in a district school. But she was not satisfied to stop at that, and when Downer College at Milwaukee was organized. Aleida Pieters was one of the first pupils. She read every spare minute (she had a knack of making spare minutes for such purposes) and wrote for the school paper, holding a prominent position on the staff. It was one of her girlhood dreams to be an author. This writing passion continued through the University of Michigan, but when she graduated and began to teach again, her time for writing grew less and less, until she finally drifted away from it. After a varied life in High School work she came to the Normal. Her life has been like a gipsy’s, roaming around from place to place. You can't beat the Dutch. They’re bound to get-around any difficulty, and I shouldn’t wonder if she'd take to writing some day, and quit the school teaching business. But she’ll always l e happy, and find time to make others happy. Lucy A. Potter Little Lucy Potter is the next one. She’s a pleasant little body. The students say. “Rare gifts come in small packages. Her wish as a child was to be a very tall, majestic-looking woman. She failed in that, but grew up as kind and obliging as she had wished to be tall. She’s a comfort to the Freshman. They feel that she isn’t so far above them that they dare not make their timid requests. She has always lived in Oshkosh, except for one while when she went away to the Wisconsin School of Library Science. Page Twenty-four