University of Wisconsin Stout - Tower Yearbook (Menomonie, WI)

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. . . f ,... .......... ......,..............,....................X...............................,.,......... K .......................,.......,.,..................................................,,,,............ ..-.. X LORENZO D. HARVEY A. M., PH. D. RESIDENT HARVEY started his career as a teacher in the district +V schools, leading to positions in village graded schools, private schools .1 wa . . . . . 5, and high schools. He has held positions as city superintendent of 541-at schools, and as a member of two boards of education in cities of this state. For a time, he conducted institute work, and taught economics and civics in the Oshkosh Normal School. After holding the position of president of the Milwaukee State Normal School, he became the state superintendent for four years. From that time, he has been resident of the Stout Training P Schools and The Stout Institute. The Wisconsin State Legislature appointed him as a commissioner to investigate and report on industrial education in the rural communities. He was made committee chairman to investigate and report to the National Council of Education on the same subject. The report was finished and submitted in l905. Mr. Harvey has held several positions of responsibility in local, state, and national educational associations, having been president of the Wisconsin Teachers' Association, twice president of the Library Department, and once of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association and president of the entire Association. During the past thirteen years, he has given special attention to the sub- ject of industrial education in its many phases and has lecturedupon this and other educational subjects in most of the states of the Union. - U51

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x...- - rm fire xxx.. ,,-- f X 1 X 'TF-'DX mm xxxx xxxx wx x wx W wx xm xx Wx m xxw mxxxx wx ww xxxxw xm wx . xxm X ,tg ,re 2 . ......... .............. .. .... , .... ........ ...... . ......... ..... .. ....,,.. .................................. . ........ . 52. N. :X . . ,. SN A Nw .... .... ........ ........... . ................... .... . ...... ,N SI, R Q, I -- e -..-- - M.-- ,.-f ' ss.. ' is-..NtA,,,. X X5 ,af x. 1 f .. .f Xytg.-' X IKM- GRACE FISHER attended the University of Michigan, 1900-OI, at the same time complet- ing the University entrance requirement in language in the Ann Arbor High School. She received the degree B.S. with major in domestic science l904, from the Utah Agricultural College. In l907-08 she attended Teacher's College, Columbia University, completing the requirement in education and language for the bachelor's degree from that institution and pursuing work toward her master degree with major in nutrition. She received the degree BS. with Bachelor's Diploma for teaching Domestic Science from Teacher's College in june I908. In the year l904-05 she took a position as instructor in English and History in the preparatory department of the Utah Agricultural College and in l905-07 that of instructor in domestic science in the Utah Agricultural College. She was the supervisor of domestic sci- ence in Throop Institute, Pasadena, California, l908-09, and the following year came to Stout Institute as Director of the Domestic Economy Department. MRS. ,IOSEPHINE HOBBS studied in the Cook County, Ill., Normal School, Summer Sessions, IS94-973 in the Y. W. C. A. School of Domestic Science, Boston, Mass., l906-07. She was a teacher in the public schools of Dubuque, l898-l906. In 1907 she became super- visor of domestic science and matron, Moore Street Neighborhood Houses, Cambridge, Mass. The next year she held the position of principal in the Y. W. C. A. training school for household service in Boston. She came to Stout Institute in l909 as Director of the Home Makers Department. GEORGE FRED BUXTON was graduated from the high school at Portland, Maine in l896, and from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, I899. Began teaching wood carving in the summer school of New York City in IS99. Taught woodworking in the high school at Newark, N. from 1899 to l90I , handling an elementary class in a private school and taking special studies at Columbia University at the same time. Taught elementary drawing and woodworking in the Walker Manual Training School at Portland, Maine from l90l to l903. Studied at Teacher's College of Columbia University during the year l903-04, taking the Bachelors Diploma in Manual Trainingg during this year teaching manual training at Yonkers, New York. Taught mechanical drawing and mathematics in the high school at Spring- field, Mass. during the year l904-05. Took charge of the manual training department of the Stout Training Schools Cnow Stout Institutej in September l905. Studied at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin during the summer session of I908 and received the degree of B.S. from Teachers College the following fall. Taught manual training classes at Ohio State Uni- versity during the summer sessions of 1909 and 1910. Director of Stout Institute Summer Sessions since l906. O. C. MAUTHE, graduate of Normal School of North American Gymnastic Union, Milwaukee, Wis., l895. Has been Physical Director in german gymnastic associations in Milwaukee, Wis., Minneapolis, Minn., and Dayton, Ohio, l895-l903, and Athletic Associa- tion, Shreveport, La., 1903-09. Supervisor of Vacation Playgrounds in Dayton, Ohio and Shreveport, La., 1906. Special Instructor of general gymnastics at Harvard Summer School, Cambridge, Mass., IS97-98, 1902-03. At the present time he is instructor of gymnastic dancing Y. M. C. A. Summer School, Lake Geneva, Wis., Ql9l0-IZDQ Physical Director, Stout Gymnasium, Menomonie Public Schools, and Dunn County Normal School, Menom- onie, Wis., CI909-IZJ. H. W. JIMERSON received his early education in the grade and high schools of Geneva, N. Y. In l88l he entered the plumbing trade as an apprenticeg in IS84, he moved to Minne- apolis, Minn., working as a journeyman until 1889, when he started in business for himself. In l903 he left his business to become salesman of wholesale plumbing supplies. In 1904 he founded the Minneapolis School of Plumbing and Heating, which became a part of the Stout Institute in l908, with Mr. Jimerson as its director which position he still holds. In 1909 he took a Mechanical Drawing Course in the Stout Summer School. WILLIAM T. GOHN was graduated from the Wrightsville high school, Wrightsville, Pennsylvania in 1906. He was a student at the Williamson School of Trades in the Masonry Construction Department from 1906-IO. During the year of I9l 0-I I he was journeyman for the Adams and Gerhart Companyg partner with Mr. Adams, foreman for the Mawbroy, Erwin, Company, in Philadelphia. He has been Director of the Bricklaying Department of The Stout Institute the last year. l'7l