West Chester University - Serpentine Yearbook (West Chester, PA)

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FRANCIS HARVEY GREEN

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DEDICATION t In loving appreciation of the cheerful services devoted to our welfare and happiness and wishing to make these pages a bond between us, the Class of 1912 affectionately dedicate its Serpentine to FRANCIS HARVEY GREEN

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jfvancis Marvc ? (3rccn (.i o « OR. I ' RAXCTS II R ' KV CREEX was h-.m at P..M,tli ' s O.nier. Delaware Cminty, I ' a., mi May ly, uSOi, and is the son uf Sharpless and Mary Pjouth (ireen. His early education was olrtained at the country school in the immediate neiii ' lihurhood of his Ijirthphice. In the fall of 1S79, he entered the West Chester State Xornial School, and remained throut h the fall and winter term. He taught in the pulilic school at Hanhv ' s Corner, New Castle County. Del., during the spring term of 18S0. and for two months of the fall term of the same vear. He then returned to the State Xormal School and re- mained until his graduation in the class of i88j. flis class was the first one that graduated under the principalship of Dr. (i. M. l ' hili])S. . lwa ' s talented in literary wiirk. he was prominent in such wurk here, and was one of the most active and prominent organizers and charter memhers of the Aryan Society, which was organized in the fall of 187Q. Miss Mary E. Speak- man, Principal of the Model School, and Professor C. B. Cochran, of the De- partment of Science, were prominent memhers of the faculty who were interested in this new literary society, and Miss Carrie E. Benius, Mrs. [ary Sharpless Schaeffer, Grant Pierce, I ' ls(|.. Principal Louis B. Ambler and Warner P. Roberts were among Professor Green ' s fellow-students acti eh ' associated with him in its establishment and organization. Immediately after his graduation, he taught a i)ublic school at Romansville, in Chester Count}-, during the year 1 88 ' - :;, and then at Mar.shallton during 1883-4. In the spring of 1884 he was appointed t 1 take charge of the English Department at Juniata College, Huntingdon. Pa. There he remained until 1888, estai)lishing a reputation fur scholarship and etticiency which is still appreciated at Juniata College. In 1888 he came to West Chester as assistant to Dr. ].] Welsh in the De- partment (jf English, and when, in 1890, Dr. Welsh resigned to become Principal of the State Normal School at i ' .loomsburg. Pa., Professor Green was ajipointed head of the l nglish ilepartment, where he has ever since remained. He sjjcnt 5