University of Wisconsin Superior - Gitche Gumee Yearbook (Superior, WI)

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Faculty Changes MISS JENSEN M iss Marie Jensen came here at the beginning of the year, to succeed Miss Hinkcl as assistant English teacher. She is very well equipped for her work, being a graduate of the Oshkosh Normal, the University of Wisconsin, and the Emerson College of Oratory, in Boston. She has also attended the Chicago University, and has taught elocution for two years in the Boston High School. Reading, academic grammar, and composition arc under Miss Jensen’s charge; and, besides this, she has trained oratorical and declamatory contestants and had charge of public rhetorieals. Her work with Miss Van Kirk was especially good. To her, as well as to our orator, great credit is due for the place Superior took in the state contest. MISS LOWRY The vacancy left by Miss Lawton, when she married and went to Germany, has been ably filled by Miss Lowry. The latter’s home is at Austin, Minn. She graduated from the Winona Normal, and taught the primary grades in Austin for two years. Deciding to specialize in art, she did private studio work in Seattle, and graduated from the Art Institute in Chicago, where she afterwards taught. Her work here as a drawing teacher and critic has been very successful, and she is one of the most popular of our teachers. MISS PAGE Miss Page, who fills the temporary vacancy left by Miss Schlcgcl, is a graduate of Dcs Moines College and the Chicago University. She has also attended the University of Paris. She came to us from the Woman’s College of Jacksonville, 111., where she taught French. Miss Page has shown herself to be a thoroughly competent German teacher. MISS ROBBINS With the enlargement of the kindergarten, an associate teacher was needed, and Miss Jane Ward Robbins, of Detroit, Michigan, is the one who was secured to fill this position. Miss Robbins is a graduate of the Detroit Home and Day School, and of the School of Education of the Chicago University. For three years she was kindergarten and primary associate in her alma mater, the Detroit Home and Day gitc he GUMEE PAGE THIRTEEN

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School. Both in the kindergarten, and in the primary, where she has helped Miss Rowland, Miss Robbins has shown exceptional ability in teaching small children. Her stories are fascinating, and win the little folks immediately. MISS HENDERSON Miss Henderson came to us last fall, well equipped for her work as intermediate critic. She is a graduate of the Stevens Point Normal, of the class of ’02. For two years she taught in the Green Bay city schools, and taught for the same length of time in the Marinette schools. She has also taught in the Madison Boarding School in New ork. Miss Henderson is a graduate of the Teachers’ College of Columbia, having attended that institution for two years. She has been a helpful and inspiring critic, and wins children and practice teachers alike. 'Flic two plays which the intermediate children gave in the assembly room under her direction were exceptionally good, and were heartily enjoyed by every one. Such work cannot help but be very valuable to the children themselves. GITC HE GUMEE MISS ST. CLAIR Miss Varian has been spending the past year in Atlantic City, caring for a little sick niece. Miss St. Clair, who takes her place as instructor in gymnastics, is a graduate of the Sargeant School at Cambridge, the same school from which Miss Varian graduated. Miss St. Clair has proven herself very well able to take care of the physical side of our education. The children of the training department look forward to their gymnastic period with great pleasure, and the work is enjoyed by the Normal students as well. MISS GUNN When Miss Prin , gave up her work as teacher of domestic science to put her teachings into practice for the benefit of one person, we were fortunate in securing Miss Gunn to take up her work. Miss Gunn is a graduate of the Michigan Agricultural College with a B. S. degree. She was matron of the Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis for one year, and spent three years in starting a department of domestic science in Iron Mountain, Mich. She organized a department of home economics at the Illinois Woman’s College, at Jacksonville, and spent there the two years previous to her coming here. For the first time, our domestic science classes have been conducted in a way similar to the manner in which regular classes are conducted. Recitations in home economics arc heard once a week, examinations are given, to the sorrow of the pupils, and ten weeks’ credit is given for twenty weeks’ work. In this way, every student in the department means business, and, in a systematic way, learns the principles underlying the domestic arts. Students of the Normal school have a better chance than ever to equip themselves for any emergency which may call them away from the teaching profession. Extension classes for the benefit of teachers and residents of the city have also been organized, and have been thoroughly appreciated by the members. MR. EHLMAN Mr. Ehlman came to us last fall to teach physics ami chemistry, while Mr. Whealdon studies science, domestic, natural, or both, in Germany. Mr. Ehlman is PACE FIFTEEN