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

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THE SERPENTINE Page ig ELVIRA Y. SPEAKMAN Tausbt in tliu public sclinols of C ' liester County, Colloi iatc Institute, Xewton, X. I., SL ' niinaries in rnionville, Ercildoun and Christiana. Pa. Miss . ' ' pcalvnian came to tiie West Cliester State Xc ;rnrd .Schoul in 1876 and has been connected with it continuously since that time. .She now holds the position of Preceptress. FRANCIS H. GREEN, A.M., Litt.D. Educated at West Chester .Xornial School, .A.mherst Colles e, and Har vard Cniversity. Teacher in Delaware and Pennsxlvania. Professor of English in Juniata College, linutin don. I ' a.; Head of English l)e])artment of West Chester Xormal School since i8yo; lecturer on literary, educa- tional and moral subjects: widely known as an after-dinner speaker; au- thor of numerous bits of verse and magazine articles; prepared a book of sentiments by leading living .Americans. What They Say Day by Day. President of Y. AI. C. . . ami leader in the religious life of the school. Has traveled wideK ' in this ciinnlr and in lun ' ojK ' ; member of Transatlantic Society, Dickens I ' ellowshi[), London, lingland, and Chester County Plis- torical Society. Long interested in Children ' s Country Week Association of Philadelphia; was President of the Philosophical Society, West Chester. Pa.; has probably visited the homes of more literary personages in the L ' nited States and iMigland than any living man in . merica and has had the honor of meeting and knowin;.; many of the foremost writers of the Xineteenth Centurv. SAMUEL C. SCHMUCKER, A.M., Ph.D., Sc.D. Received elementary education in the schools of Reading, Pa.; a grad- uate of Muhlenberg College, from which he received the degree of .V.l ' .. in 1882: later received the degree Sc.D. from the same institution. Received the degree Ph.D. from the l ' niversit of Pennsylvania, in which institution he was an honorary fellow in l ' .nt;in in X ' )u: Professor of Xatural Science in Carthage College. Illinois; taught at I ' .oys ' High School, Reading, Pa., from 1884-S9; Indiana State Xormal School from i88 j-95; Profes.sor of Iliology West Chester . ' tate . oimal School since that time. President of Chester Countv Directors Association ; member Xational Educational . s- sociatitni and Xational (k-ographic Society; bellow of the American .Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science; member of Pennsylvania .Academy of Xatural Sciences; a (Iranger and a Mison. A distinguislied lecturer. . utlior cjf The Study of . ature, 1907; Columbia I ' ' lementary (Jeography, ' njcxj; Cnder the ( )pen Sky, lyio; The Meaning of blvoln- tion, iyi3. Contributor to various magazines.

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Page 1 8 CLASS NINETEEN SEVENTEEN Elvira Y. Speakman Francis Harvey Green, A.M.. Litt.D. Samuel C. Schmucker. A.M.. Ph.D.. Sc.D.

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Page 20 CLASS NINETEEN SEVENTEEN v H Ca || Smith Burnham, A M. Robert F. Anderson. A.M., Sc.D. EII» A. Johnson