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

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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

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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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Evan Vincent Here is one who has almost as much to do with the running of that school as our President himself. He has had charge of the building since 1893. He came from W aterloo, New York. At first the building was not so large, and he could do the work himself, but since that time there have been several additions to the building, and of course his duties have increased. But no matter how many herct are employed to do the work. Mr. Vincent inspects everything, carefully. There is always something for him to attend to. It's a call from the office or from the library, or a dozen from various members of the Faculty. Then some girl can’t get her locker open, and Mr. Vincent goes to the locker room to wrestle with the obstinate lock. What would the students do without him when it is time to give a play? No one else can manage the curtain. No one else can find all the stage furniture. No one else knows the wonders of the store room. The former students say, it wouldn’t seem like the same school if. when they come back, they didn't hear Mr. Vincent's cheery. “How-do-you-do ?’’ Lathrop W. Vosburc Now I come to the end of my album and this last picture. Samanthy. is that of Mr. Vosburg, one of the best matured men up there, too. It's a good thing he is. especially in cold weather, as he has charge of the heating arrangements in that building, .vfaybe you think that isn't much work. This being engineer has its disadvantages. All is very nice in warm weather, but when a sudden cold snap comes, and the mercury goes down. down. Then’s when Mr. Vosburg has to be careful or his own temperature will go up. up. Calls come from all over the building, More heat, please. Mr. Engineer. All the reply heard is. ‘A cs. What is said after the receiver is hung up no one knows but the little dog who is his constant Companion. Page Twenty-seven