University of Wisconsin Stevens Point - Horizon / Iris Yearbook (Stevens Point, WI)

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RURAL Mr. Neale is the enthusiastic leader of the Rural Department. He is deeply interested in his students as individuals, thus having won their respect and confidence. They soon realize his word is law. The possessor of a fine sense of humor—like Miss Roach he is proud of his ancestry. His grandmother was an aunt of Phil Sheridan. Mr. Neale has a fine sense of taste in artistry and devotes a good deal of his time to art. He has published several books on this engrossing subject. Miss Roach is the answer to a freshman’s prayer, having that rare ability of being able to make you her friend in an instant. Although she is chiefly affiliated with rural education, she is easily accessible and known to everyone. Her greatest interest is talking to audiences. She has contacted as many as nineteen audiences in as little as three weeks. Her radiant personality and keen Irish wit distinguish her to any audience- P.T.A. or college assembly. She has more of the good old spirit than a goodly number of the other faculty and students combined. Outside college her joy is in her nieces and nephews. Almost like the training school, she says. Another interesting member of rural faculty is Miss Hanna. She is distinguished by her beautiful white hair and her tasteful grooming. Students of C.S.T.C. have acclaimed her the best dressed woman on the campus very dignified. She is a fine cook and delights in house-keeping. She’s devoted to her home community, Manawa. Miss La Vigne is little—but, oh my! She is a great worker—devotes her whole to her work at the Demonstration School where rural teachers are given the final touches to their preparation. She is the kind of teacher one reads about—doctor, lawyer, and spiritual director for her community. She comes from Wood County which she uses as her measuring stick for all other localities. She thinks the demonstration school children are the most ideal youngsters on earth. She has an unfailing faculty for losing things. As Chairman of the Advanced Standing Committee and Administrator of the Primary Department, Miss Susan E. Colman has advanced education a considerable notch or two, besides being another patron of the arts. She’s enthusiastically interested in concert music—(listens to the Philharmonic every Sunday afternoon), dabs with water colors, and sketches. Miss Colman has spent much of her time traveling in the U.S. She has fished and hunted for many years, and is a sportswoman par excellence. Her biggest catch was a 275 pound sturgeon, caught several summers ago. But it’s during the winter months that Miss Colman really goes to town.” Versatile as she is on roller skates, she merits the spotlight on the ice rinks. Each year she ’’majors” in skating and tobogganing, and “minors” in skiing. She hurls a wicked snow- QUITE A BIT OVER LAST YEAR’S TOTALS . . . FROSH MIXER STAGED Past 15

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TRAINING SCHOOL verse and writing. She is eager to develop a new hobby in color photography. In 1933 Miss Van Arsdale received her master’s degree from Columbia. She came here as third grade critic in 1934. Another primary critic teacher of infinite experience is Miss Frances Dearborn who has at one time or another been affiliated with eight different universities. Her home is in southwestern Iowa and she received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees there. She delights in writing children's books— How the Indians Lived ’ and Daily Life Language Series are two of them. Her spare time is devoted to revising these. Sonny is her pride and joy, as well as her prime source of worry. He’s fond of books, too (he worries them, as a puppy will!!). Miss Dearborn enjoys travel. She had spent four years in California before taking a position here in 1938. Although she has covered nearly all of the U.S. except the Northwest, she has never been abroad. She prefers travel by train to automobile. Miss Dearborn has quite an extensive collection of old glass. Her major activity is bowling. Dr. Jayne has extended what he has called his hobby, visual education, into a field of professional attainment. He used material obtained through recordings of teachers conducting classes as his thesis for his degree of doctor of philosophy. These sound records were analyzed and Dr. Jayne has published articles on his results in the Journal of Experimental Education. He highly advocates the use of films in teaching. He has prepared a series of radio broadcasts on the subject— What of Our Movies? —in which he discusses the effect of films upon children and makes a review of pictures that can be used. Dr. Jayne’s work has distinguished him and our school as well. His only recreation during the past few years has been travel. He can give exciting reports of the Puget Sound region. Last summer he traveled in Canada and Spokane, Washington where he was born and lived for many years. Miss Leah Diehl is also interested in visual education of a kind—color photography and candid camera. She has enjoyed travel in the East and West but has never been in the South or abroad. She spends most of her summers teaching. She was in Stevens Point last summer and enjoyed it. For four or five years now she has been a Girl Scout Counselor. She likes hiking. Another hobby is collecting old glass and china. Miss Lydia Pfeiffer, fifth grade critic in the training school, is well known and well liked by all her student teachers. Her pleasant nature and her understanding have endeared her to her pupils. She received her bachelor of philosophy degree at the University of Wisconsin and her Master of Arts from Columbia. She has made a record for herself and for the school in the field of intermediate education. The enrollment in this department is small, but placement is excellent. Page 14 BACK TO THE OLE INSTITEWTION . . . ENROLLMENT HITS 770 . . .

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ADVANCED STANDING ball, too. By and large, she is probably the most active feminine member of our faculty. Miss Colman’s greatest pleasure comes from driving about in her car, “Suzabella III” (What happened to the other two7). Mr. Raymond M. Rightsell, Director of the High School Department, and faculty adviser to The Pointer, has been a professor of physics for more than a quarter of a century. He has taught in California, Arizona, Indiana, and Wisconsin. Mr. Rightsell has seen his long-cherished boyhood dream come true—he has his own miniature railroad, steam engine and all, for which he built the parts. He also has another hobby, that of photomicrography, and has a Leica camera and other wonderful equipment. The glass case in his office is full of the results of his work in this field. Mr. Rightsell delights in fooling his friends with photomicrographs of match-heads and pin-points. He has been active this year in creating a course in aeronautics and putting the forum on its feet. Dr. Arthur S. Lyness has confessed that this summer he hopes to continue his interests as a naturalist, to hike and collect plants. However, his duties as Director of the Summer Session are a serious threat. He has a beautiful collection of ferns. In his odd moments he works crossword puzzles. Dr. Lyness’ musical inclinations have drawn him into choral work. He sang for a number of years as a member of the University of Wisconsin’s Mixed Chorus. Dr. Lyness becomes so engrossed in his own lectures that he sometimes keeps his classes overtime. Mr. Thomas A. Rogers, like Dr. Lyness, has been teaching for 29 years, and recently applied his knowledge of Chemistry to an industrial use when he improved the taste and quality of Fox Valley Canning Company’s peas. At the same time he began his experiments with soy beans, which he helped develop into an edible vegetable food. Mr. Roger s classes are a model of industry and interest because he's a good listener as well as lecturer and has a twinkling sense of humor. In his spare time he putteis about in his beautiful Rower garden. He’s a philatelist and a coin-collector, too. As administrator of student activities and adviser to the Iris he contacts many non-chemistry students. AND VOTED S U C C E S S . . . P R A C T I C E TEACHERS HEADACHES BEGIN... Page 16