University of Wisconsin River Falls - Meletean Yearbook (River Falls, WI)

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FACULTY

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PHILIP W. RAMER Philip W. Earner was bom on a farm near Lewiston, Minnesota, in the late fifties. He attended the schools at Lewiston and Winona. After marriage to Miss Hattie M. Dubey of Northfield, Minnesota, he lived several years in the Dakotas. Later the family lived in Chicago, where Mr. Warner represented a cereal company of which he was a stockholder. In 1897 he was engaged by the Quaker Oats Company to represent them in foreign countries. He managed all Quaker Oats business in South Africa from 1897 to 1909. He made frequent trips to other countries, among which were New Zealand, Australia, and several islands of Oceanica. Several interesting side trips were made, which his letters vividly describe. He is an inventor of an acetylene gas light plant, which for years he promoted and which now is doing a large business. Upon the resignation of Judge Thompson as local regent, Mr. Ramer was urged to accept the regency, which since the latter part of 1913 he has filled in a highly creditable manner. Mr. Rainer’s wide business experience has fitted him unusually well for the position of regent. Quite unpretentious, he watches with eagle eye the interests of our Normal School. He enjoys the full confidence of the school and the citizens of River Falls. t;

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JAMES WILLIAM CRABTREE, President B. Ed., Peru State Normal. B. S., Bloomfield Scientific Institute. B. A. and M. A., University of Nebraska. Harvard University.