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

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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

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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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Nettalie Boucher Yes, Samanthv. perhaps you did know Natalie before. She went to this school herself for four years. She is very tall ami stately, with dark eyes that make many a student green with envy. They tell me that she was born in Wisconsin at Osceola. You know where it is? She has attended a number of schools. She went to Carleton Academy in Minnnesota. and she has been at our University in Madison, the University of Chicago, and Columbia University. Now she is Miss Marvin's assistant in the Grammar room. Gertrude P. Morehart Here is the woman who takes care of the second primary children. She is a serious-minded woman who knows just how to manage little children. She is well-fitted for the task. too. for she is a graduate of the Minnesota State Normal School. She wanted to become still smarter, so she went to the University of Chicago. If experience makes a good teacher, she must l»e an excellent one, for she taught in Minnesota, then she was called way off to Arizona, but finally she came back to Racine, Wisconsin, and from there to the Oshkosh Normal. Mrs. Mabel A. Riordan I remember this one when she was a curly-haired little girl. She was a sweet child! She never got peevish, though up to the age of ten years she never walked a step. No. she wasn’t a cripple—she hopped, skipped, jumped, and ran, but never walked. How she longed to l e the little girl who wore the spangled dress and rode the pony in the circus! When she got older she entered the Oshkosh Normal School and forgot almut the circus girl because she wanted to be a jx etess. She was so earnest a student that she surprised every one who knew her. After she finished her course she taught for some time. Now she is the clerk at the Normal, and she has kept the good habit of never getting angry. Best of all. she still has an ambition. I was talking with her yesterday, and she said that she’d like to live in a little farm house, half veranda, and keep cows and chickens. 1 guess she will have it if she makes up her mind. She usually does get what she wants. George A. Foster The man in the office,” Foster, is the next one. He was l orn up in Florence, Wisconsin. After finishing High School he decided to take a business course, although he did have some thoughts of studying for the ministry. Not that he didn’t have enough patience, though. I certainly believe that one needs more patience in the office than in the other professions. I stopped in the other day, and the telephone calls alone would keep a person busy. One minute he was to see that Thomas wore his rubl»crs home, or that Miss Blank’s dressmaker wanted her to remember the samples.” Then he had to go down stairs to the Manual Training rooms or up in the Attic” to Mr. Briggs’ room. But they do say that he always has time to admire the girls— and boys, too. of course. I’aif Twviily-slx