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

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Dean nf DJmnrn Girls from all communities, all walks in life, and with varied amounts of home training enroll in a normal school. Through the necessary associations with students and certain responsibility toward housemothers, they receive a valuable type of training. Suggestions are made through a scries of girls’ assemblies or through individual conferences to encourage girls to conduct themselves in a manner becoming to those of the teaching profession. Such ideas as correct business dress, courtesy toward ami co-operation with associates, a proper selection of social activities ami various forms of social training are presented to the girls of the school. In societies, especially those in which all suggestions are made and carried out by the students, an unlimited amount of experience and training is gained. The responsibility of one girl for another in a society makes her forget self in her interest for others. The efforts made to earn a name for the society and for the school in scholarship, oratory, debate, drama ami music, in athletic contests and other worthwhile activities tend to develop a certain amount of initiative, self-possession. and self-control—qualities necessary to every teacher. Girls who were more or less dependent upon others gradually realize the necessity of independence. Through the responsibility thrown on their shoulders, by serving on committees such as the Student Council, the Entertainment and the Social Life committees, the girls are made self-reliant. Serving upon committees, they have not only carried the responsibility of each party, but have also acted as hostesses. It is needless to say that such experience will be of value to them after leaving school. Our aim is to develop healthy, happy, charming young women, equipped with poise and self-control and inspired by a definite purpose. Ruth S. Mack PagrJtcfHiy-cH

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Hire {Irrsiftrnt The Oshkosh Normal School offers to its students the advantages of a professional and technical institution. Unlike the student body of a liberal arts college, the men and women of this school have determined upon their life work and their thought and effort lie in a certain direction with a definite end in view. This results in a professional attitude of mind and an esprit « « corps that is impossible in a heterogeneous group. The school offers two courses that arc proving very attractive to young men. The Manual Arts course, with its well-equipped shops and its corp of efficient instructors, presents to those who are mechanically inclined an opportunity to become expert craftsmen and at the same time to broaden themselves academically and acquire skill in the art of teaching. The demand for the graduates from this department testifies to the high regard in which its work is held. For those who prefer class-room instruction or who aspire to administrative positions, the High School course offers a wealth of opportunities. That this course is an inspiration to high achievement in the field of education is proved by the large percentage of alumni who have acquired higher degrees and who occupy positions of leadership throughout the state . Practically all high school teachers are required to manage some extra curricular activity and this school offers to its men a wide choice in these activities. The Oshkosh Normal holds an enviable record in athletics, debate, oratory, music, dramatics and publications, and her students can acquire training along these lines that will l»c of inestimable value. Very few professional schools have so nearly an equal enrollment of men and women, ami this provides for a more normal social life within the school and also offers a valuable training in social usages and customs. The teaching profession demands a high type of individual both as to ability and character anil the young man of exceptional ability, fine ideals and high purpose who enrolls here will find himself in congenial company. ’age twenty

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□ (•AURA M. JoHXSTOX Director of Trowing School. I’h. It.. University of Chicago. 1923. • ira.lu.itc Student Harvard University. I92fl. Clara Augusta Trottkr Director of ntermediate Course. 11. S.. Columbia University. 1923. A. M„ Columbia University. 1)21. F LOR I. NCR It. WlCKUtSMAM Director of Grammar Grade and Junior High School. 1‘Utteville Normal School, Wisconsin. 1909. I’h. It.. University of Chicago. 1921. Rubkrta NV.rcott Smith Director of Primary Curriculum. State Normal School. T’lymoutb. New Hampshire. 1913. It. S., Teachers College. Columhia University, 1924. A. M.. 192.%. N. I’. Nhaov Director of Division of Secondary education. State Normal School. Oshkosh, 1»2« I’h. It.. University of Chicago. 1924. • iraduatc Student in Education. University of Chicago. 192.%. Frank M. Karnks Director of Division of Industrial education. State Normal School, Whitewater, Wisconsin, 1903. State Normal School, Oshkosh. Wisconsin. 190 . Student in Education. University of Chicago. 1921. Chicago. 1921 and 1921; It. S.. Stout Institute. Page tteenty-lvco