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

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Mr. James (i. Wilkinson. Professor in Biology. Mr. Wilkinson received a It. S. decree from Northwestern University in lone, He has taught biology In the •Ugh School at KI wood. Indiana, in • In- I liuli School at Burlington. Iowa, and hi the Central State Normal School at I.nek Haven. Pa. Next year he will teaeh In Kl Monteelto School for Roys, near Santa Itarlmra, California. Miss Julia Luei.i.a Bckkiiakd. Music. Miss Itnrkhard's home Is in Trinidad. Colorado. She attended the Now England Conservatory. Boston. Massachusetts and the College of Music. Heaver. Colorado. She is a graduate of the Thomas Normal Training School. Detroit. Michigan, and also took voice lessons with Mr. Prank Webster, Chicago. Miss Ci.ara M. Pexstone. Grammar Grade Critic. XIIBs Penslone takes the place of Miss Norton as critic of the grammar department. Iler home Is In Pilts-llchl. Illinois. She Is a graduate of the Illinois State Normal t’nlvcrslty at Normal. Illinois, and a graduate of the University of Chicago, Ph. D. Miss Lucia C. Spooner. Latin. Miss Spooner is a graduate or the Kau Claire High School, I'.mm, and a graduate of the Superior Normal School. 1!H)3. a graduate. P.I07. of the University of Wisconsin. Ph. It. Since then she has taught Latin In the Superior High School.

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C new faculty members. ) Miss Ei.i.kn I. Hi rk. Sccona Intermediate Grade Critic. Miss Burk's homo Is at I'M Inn. Missouri. She received a scholarship from tlu- Woman’s Club of the Minnesota rnlverslty. the first one given by that club. She received . . U. de-gree and life certlllcate at Minnesota I'diversity in Wftii. She was grnmmar grade critic at Madison State Normal ill 101ft. Miss I’.kssik Howard Craig. Drawing. Hand Work instruction. Miss Craig Is a graduate of the Normal Art and Manual Training department of Pratt Institute. Brooklyn. N. V. She has taught drawing and manual training in 1! 0S. 1910, in Berwyn. Illinois. Miss Amy G(x i ricii IJosson. Librarian. Miss liosson has been here for ten weeks as librarian. Miss Itosson graduated from the University of Wisconsin in li 10. and also from the Wisconsin Library School. 1910, in the legislative reference course.

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Miss Harriet L. Eaton. Miss Eaton was compelled to leave temporarily, on account of ill health. She is now traveling in California. Miss Adelaide M. Parsons. Supervisor of Practice. Miss Parsons graduated from the State Normal School, Plattsburg, N Y., and Columbia University, N. Y. She has taught in White Plains, N. Y., at the Normal School, Oskosh, Wis., and in a private school. Denver, Colorado. She will not be here next year, Miss Hbi.kx Fitz Gerald. Miss Fitz Gerald, of the Latin department, left at the end of the third quarter. She went to Chicago for a short time. On April 27th she was quietly married to Merwyn Whipple of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Whipple will make their home here. Plans for Next Year. Prof. E. M. Gilbert has decided not to return to the Normal this fall but will remain at U. of W. as instructor in Biology Mr. Royce will have charge of the training department next year. Mr. Roycc’s work in Theory and Psychology especially fits him for this position and we arc sure that the students will enjoy their teaching under one who is so intensely interested in the work. Miss Clara Penstone will leave next year to take a position at Normal. Illinois. Miss Penstone has accomplished so much this year, it is with regret that the school loses her. Alumni Notes. Esther Moran is teaching Domestic Science in St. Paul. Norma Craven. 1906. has been teaching for the past three years in the Strait Settlement out of Singapore. India. Genevieve MeGraw, 1905, has graduated with honors from the New York City Hospital. She has shown great ability in the short time that she has l)ccn nursing in Superior and Duluth. Katharine Lenroot, 1909. has been attending the University of Wisconsin. Excellent reports have been received of her work there. Bessie St. John. 1905. has been studying music in Boston during the past year. Otto Schmitt. 1906. is attending the University at Madison. Olga Larson. 1906, has begun her duties as County Superintendent of Schools in Douglas County in a most praiseworthy manner. We wish her great success. Marie I-ong. 1906. is teaching Domestic Science in Highland Park. Illinois. Thomas Casey is a successful lawyer in Seattle. Wash. Irene Durlcy is teaching in one of the Milwaukee I ligh Schools. William J. Crumpton, consulting electrical engineer of Chicago and Boston, was married in February to Miss Jean Stone, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Stone of Pittsburg. Pa. PAGE EIGHTEEN