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

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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

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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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Jennie G. Marvin Jennie was a happy little maid always ready for every bit of fun a-going. She always liked to play “make believe.” and all her Mother Goose rhymes and fairy talcs were acted out in that way. In every school entertainment she was wanted, for no one could be Cinderella or Red Riding Hood quite as well as she. This love for acting has followed her through life. If you want a treat just drop in on a day where there arc to he exercises in the Grammar room. If you do not leave at the close feeling that Miss Marvin is a wonder at training children in plays, you arc a queer person. Mary O’Keefe Is she Irish? Why, to he sure. A look at those eyes and that hair will settle that question. She was always a pet. We could tell from the first what kind of a woman she would he. You know she would sit up in that baby buggy, and with her eyes and hands darting in the same direction she would just make everyone mind her and everyone wanted to. No one dared resist her fiery look or the impetuous stamp of her foot. People say. “What the girl is, so the woman will be.” and after visiting the intermediate department 1 can tell you that is true. She rules those children with a rod of iron, but it is a human rod. with her eyes, now twinkling, now reproachful; with a heart now rightfully hard, now merciful, now sympathetic; ami with a mind broad enough to grasp the all-sided meaning of human nature. Elizabeth Stevens Now we come to a tiny Connecticut lady, Elizabeth Stevens. She’s almost as small as Miss Bromberg, but her heart is big enough to take in all the primary children in Oshkosh, 1 believe. She was so determined to do the best kind of teaching that after finishing a training school, she took a post graduate course for supervising, and a kindergarten course at the Potsdam Normal. Then she taught at Bridgeport, Connecticut, and in 1902 she came here to Oshkosh. I tell you those children mind her. She is awful nice to them, but they know when to stop. They like her so well, you know that they don’t want to displease her. Everyone knows she is one of the best primary teachers in Wisconsin. Faye Henley You think you would like this one, Martin ? You’d be a queer little girl if you didn’t. Those little kindergarten children up at the Normal all love Miss Henley. After she graduated from the Mailman Training School for Kindergartners at La Porte, Indiana, she did some work at Teachers’ College, Columbia University. She then taught in La Porte and Attica. Indiana, ami also in Newark. New Jersey. Next she came to Oshkosh, and has made every one love her for her sweetness. I guess kindergarten work is all she cares for. and for the sake of the children I hope she will keep at it. Pag . Twonty-flve