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

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CLASS NINETEEN SIXTEEN Francis Harvey Green, A.M.. Litt.D. Elvira Y. Speakman Samuel C. Schmucker. A. M-, Ph.D.. ScD. Page IS

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=DC= THE SERPEZNTINE (Bent t MorrxB 5pl)tli;ia RIXCIPAL of the West Chester State Normal School since i8Si : born at Atg len, Pa., October 28, 185 1 ; college prepara- tory work was received in the local schools : graduated from Bucknell University, 1871 (A.B., AAI , Ph.D.); Prof, mathe- matics, Monongahela College ; Prof, higher mathematics at this school in 1873, leaving here in 1878 to accept professorship of higher mathe- matics and astronomy, Bucknell University ; pres. Chester Co. His. Soc- since 1894: mem. Sons of Revolution: jjres. Penn ' a State Teachers Assn., 1891 ; vice-pres. Nat. Edn ' t Assn., 1894 and 1899: dir. Nat. Bank of Chester Co.; pres. Dime Savings Bank, West Chester; trustee of Bucknell Univ. ; Chester Co. Hosp. ; mem. Coll. and Univ. Council of Pa. 1895-1912; mem. and secretary of Pa. School Code Commission 1907- 191 1 ; mem. State Board of Ed. of Pa. i gii-1914, and first secretary of same ; frequent lecturer and instructor at teachers ' institutes, contributor to educational publications. Author ; { with pres. Isaac Sharpless, of Haverford Coll.) Astronomy, 1882; Natural Philosophy, 1883; Key to Philoso])hy (with C. C. Balderston), 1884; Civil Government of Pa., 1893; Geography of Pa., 1895; Nation and State, 1905; Pennsylvania Geography, 1907. The Silver-Burdette Arithmetics (with Dr. R. F. Anderson), 1913. LL.D. of Temple Univ., 1906, and Univ. of Pa. 1913. Page 17

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1 THE SERPENTINE Francis Harvey Green, A.M., Litt.D. DUCATED at West Chester Xomial School, Amherst CoUege, and Harvard University. Teacher in Delaware and Pennsylvania. Professor of Eng-fish in Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pa. ; Head of English Department of ' est Chester Normal School since 1890; Lec- turer (.11 literary, educational antl moral subjects; widely known as an af- ter-dinner speaker; author of numerous bits of verse and magazine ar- ticles; President of Y. M. C. A, and leader in the religious life of the school. Has traveled widely in this country and in Europe; member of Trans-atlanlic Sociiety, Dickens ' Fellowship. London, England, and Chester County Historical Society. Long interested in Children ' s Coun- try ' eek Association of Philadelphia; was President of the Philosophi- cal Society. West Chester, Pa. ; has probably visited the homes of more literary personages in the United States and England than any living man in America, and has the honor i)f meeting and knowing many of the foremost writers of the nineteenth ceuturv. Elvira Y. Speakman Taught in the public schools of Chester county. Collegiate Institute, Newton, N. J.. Seminaries in Unionville, Ercildoun and Christiana, Pa. Miss Speakman came to the West Chester State Normal School in 1876, and has been connected with it continuously since that time. She now holds the position of Preceptress. Samuel C. Schmucker, A.M., Ph.D., Sc.D. Received elementary educaticjn in the schools of Allentown, Pa. ; a graduate of Muhlenberg College, from which he recei ed the degree of A.M., in 1882; later received the degree ScD. from the same institution. Received the degree Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in which institution he was an honorary fellow in botany in 1899; Professor of Natural Science in Carthage College, Illinois; taught at Boys ' High School. Reading, Pa., from 18S4-89; Indiana State Normal School from 1889-95; Professor of Biology West Chester Normal School from that time. President of Chester County School Directors ' Association ; Member National Educational Association and National Geographical Society; Fellow of the American Association for the Adancement of Science ; Associate of the American Ornithologists ' University ; Mem- ber of Pennsylvania Academy of Natural Sciences. A distinguished lecturer. Author of The Study of Nature, 1907. Columbia Ele- mentary Geography, 1909. Under the Open Sky, 1910. The Cleaning of Evolution, 1913. Contributor to various magazines. Page 19