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

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Hans W. Schmidt R. E. Gruenhagen University of Chicago. University of Wisconsin. A.B., University of Minnesota. University of Berlin. i Hkbkrung University of Chicago. Bradley Polytechnic Institute. 21

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THE youngest child in the large departmental family of the Oshkosh Normal School, is the department of Industrial Education. It is due to the efforts of President John A. II. Keith and Regent Harrington that the Board of Regents of Normal Schools of Wisconsin established this department for the purpose of training teachers for such positions as supervisors of manual training, manual training teachers for high schools and for grade schools, teachers of industrial, vocational, and continuation schools, etc. The course covers a period of either two or three years. This department is housed in a building but lately completed and erected at a cost approximating $80,000. The equipment, all of the latest design, was installed at an additional expense of $15,000. The department is thus in a position to offer unexcelled facilities to our young men to acquire a practical working knowledge of the subject matter pertaining to these industrial courses. Among the courses offered are the following: joinery, wood turning, cabinet making, advanced cabinet making by the factory method, mechanical drawing, forge work, pattern making, foundry practice, machine shop practice, applied design, etc. The instructors in charge of the mechanical subjects are Mr. R. E. Gruenhagen, Mr. R. Hcberling, and Mr. H. W. Schmidt, the director.

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EVERY institution must have the machinery well oiled, lest disorder result in friction. From Mr. Keith’s office to the remote boiler-room, there are certain factotums necessary to its existence. When a telephone call needs response, when there is an order to be delivered, or a kindness to be done. Miss Burke and Mrs. Riorden stand ready. They are valued by the entire school. Mr. Keith would be lost if he lacked their assistance. The deus-ex-machina below stairs is Mr. Vincent, assisted by a corps of engineers the leader of whom is Mr. Vosburg. No dust is allowed to settle long, no window to remain open, no locker to be out of commission. One or all come to the rescue with vigorous aid and a gallantry that soothes the distressed. In the opinion of the entire school, the weight of the day is balanced on the Engineers of the Office and of the Boiler-Room. We could afford to lose one of the departments rather than either of these. Frances Burke Mrs. Mabel Riordan Oshkosh Normal.