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

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CLASS NINETEEN SIXTEEN Smith Burnham, A.M- Ella Augusta Johnson Robert F. Anderson, A.M.. Sc.D Page 20

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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

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THE SERPENTINE imitli Buinham, A.M. rffi F.CEIVFD early educatii n in tlie rural schools and the Hioh School I i of Vicksburg, Mich. Ciradiiatcd from Albion College, Michigan, w ith the degree of Ph. D. : later received A.M. from the same col- lege lias d(-.ne graduate work in History and Political Science at the Universities of Harvard. Chicago, and Pennsylvania, ' i ' aught in district schools of Kalan:a;:oc corrty, Midi., and in the High School at Vicks- burg, Mich. ; Principal of Schools of Climax, Mich. ; Professor of His- tory at Albion College; member of American Historical Association, and of the American Acadeun- of Poliiical and Social Science. Traveled and studied al;road. . uthi r of . Short History of Pcnnsyh ' ania. Head of the Dei)artmtnt of History, est Chester State Normal School. Ella Augusta Johnson Graduate of Staple ' s . cademy; Sauveur College of Languages; has done graduate work at W ' esleyan Cniversity. Middletown, Conn. ; stu- dent at University of Zurich, Switzerland; student of Klindworth Con- servatory, and of Frau Dr. Hempil, Berlin, Germany; LaSorbonne, Paris; Uni -ersity of Grenoble, France; taught at Shorter College, Rome, Ga. ; Converse College, Spartansburg, South Carolina; head of Depart;uent of Modern Languages, West Chester State Normal School. Robert F. Anderson, A.M., Sc.D. Educated in the public schools of Lancaster county ; graduated from tlie West Chester State Normal ScliooL had charge of work in English in the College of Commerce, Philadelphia; P ' iinci])al of the Public Schools of Langhorn, Pa ; graduated from Villa Nova College; lectures on Mathematics at teachers ' institutes and conventions; Head of the De- partment of Mathematics at this school; joint author with Prof. D. M. Sensenigof the Sensenig and Anderson Series of Arithmetics; author of several pamphlets on Mathematics; joint author with Dr. G. M. Philips of the Sih ' er-Burdett Series of . Arithmetics. Page 21