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

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,» • I v. O .v; • ,C'.i . .• Earl A. Clemans I’ice-Presidcnt, Physics A. B., University of Michigan. 1901. University of Chicago. 1921. A Frank M. Karnes Director of Division of Industrie Education State Normal School. Whitewater, Wisconsin, 1903. State Normal School, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1907. Student in Education, University of Chicago, 1921. 1923 and 1924: B. S., Stout Institute. 1925. Florence B. Wickersham Director of Division of Junior High School Education State Normal School. Plattcvillc, Wisconsin, 1909. Ph. B., University of Chicago. 1924. Ph. M., University of Wisconsin, 1927. Ruth S. Mace Dean of Women New Haven Normal School of Gymnastics, New Haven. Conn., 1911. Arnold College of Hygiene and Physical Education, 1925. Laura M. Johnston Director of Training School I'll. B., University of Chicago, 1923. Ed. M.. Harvard University, 1927. Roberta Noxcott Smith Director of Division of Elementary Education State Normal School, Plymouth, New Hampshire, 1913. B. S., Teachers College, Columbia University, 1924. A. M., 1925. Page eighteen

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| S A Year of Idealization and Hope This fifty-sixth year is notable in the history of our school for the celebration of the first commencement to confer degrees and the completion of the new training school building. It is a year of Realization and of Hope. Thirteen young men and women will receive degrees in June and at the close of the summer. The enactment by the last Legislature authorizing us to confer degrees, is advancing us rapidly to a position in the training of teachers comparable to other branches of professional education of college rank. At the beginning of the year new four-year curricula were arranged in all departments. It has been a trial year devoted to testing and perfecting these new courses and standards. This year has been distinguished by the construction of our new laboratory for the training of teachers, which we hope to have ready for occupancy at the opening of school next September. This outstanding addition, a milestone marking ten years of earnest effort, at last places in our hands facilities for training future teachers along the lines of all that is latest and best in educational thought and practice. N’ot long after this year opened, the Board of Regents of Normal Schools approved for us a biennial budget which recognized the crying need for new buildings at our school, which they recognize as necessary if we arc going to secure results in preparation and culture at all proportionate to the importance of such a school as this. Nearly one-half of this budget is for new equipment and buildings. Its approval is an act which marks the realization of Hope. It indicates clearly that the Board of Regents realizes and will support the things which we need so keenly. This proposal looks forward to a new auditorium which will at least complete our unfinished Main Building, a new central heating and power plant, ample equipment for our new training school unit, basement laboratories for domestic science, and the grading and improvement of our campus with walks and driveways. The fruition of these hopes will bring a campus and buildings which suitably represent a school with the traditions and the splendid body of men and women, students and faculty, who have been a part of the history and growth of this school. The close of this year will mark the completion of ten years of association with our School on my part. The first years were times of world war and post-war stress when it was only possible to hold what we had. The last five years have witnessed a march of progress for all of the state normal schools in Wisconsin. We now stand at a point where our ambitions may be realized in a campus and buildings prepared to give a great service to the teachers and the children of Wisconsin. It is true that no matter how beautiful the campus, or how commodious and imposing the buildings, these of themselves can never constitute a school. The student body and the faculty, however housed and equipped, constitute the body and soul of a school, and only in proportion as they are fine and strong, idealistic and capable, can a school be said to be worthwhile. Let us highly resolve that the improvement in the physical plant of this school shall Ik- matched by a higher standard in life, scholastic improvement, and teaching service and that the future alumni of Oshkosh shall outstrip in strength and quality the service of the beautiful and adequate buildings. Only so can we realize the best in ourselves and repay our debt to the state. 1 congratulate the senior class, the first in our history to receive the Bachelor’s degree. I have only praise for the loyal way in which you have carried on under what could be termed serious limitations. As members of one great body of undergraduates, alumni and faculty, let us all rejoice in the present Realization and in a renewed Hope for the future of our dearly cherished school. H. A. Bronvx Page seventeen

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 X. Peter Nelson Director of the Division of Secondary Education State Normal School, Oshkosh Wisconsin. 1921. Hi. B., University of Chicago, 1924. Graduate Student in Education. University of Chicago, 1925, 192G and 192T. Joseph F. Novitski Director of Division of Rural Education State Normal School, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. 1917. It. S.. Massachusetts Agricultural College. 1921. Graduate Student in Education, University of Chicago, 1925 and 1926. M. Etiiel Batschelet Supervisor of Student Teaching in Division of Exceptional Children A. B.. Colorado State Teachers College. 1923; A. M.. 1924. Graduate Student, University of Chicago. 1923- 1924. University of Minnesota, 1925. Ruth Willcocksox Acting Director of Curriculum for Intermediate Grade Teachers Ph. B., University of Chicago, 1924. Graduate Student in Education, University of Chicago, 1925. William L. Dtally Director of Division of Education of Exceptional Children A. B.. Brown University, 1913; A. M.. 1913. University of Leipzig, 1912. Columbia University, 1915. Ph. D., Clark University, 1916. Allisox A. Farley Educational Psychology A. B., Beloit College, 1893. A. M., University of Chicago, 1904. Ph. D„ 1906. Page nineteen WM