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

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! : a H$ a °«« 1 L GEORGE MORRIS PHILIPS, Ph.D. Born at Atglen, Pa., on October 28, 1851 ; college preparatory work taken in local schools; graduated from Bucknell University in 1871 (A. B., A. M., Ph. D.) ; Prof. Mathmatics at Monongehala College; Prof. Higher Mathmatics at West Chester Normal School 1873; leaving in 1878 to accept professorship of Higher Mathmatics and Astronomy at Bucknell University ; Prin. of West Chester State Normal School since 1881 ; President Chester County Historical Society since 1894; Director of Nat. Bank of Chester Co. ; member Sons of Revolution ; President Penna. State Teachers ' Ass ' n. 1891 ; Vice-Pres. Nat. Educational Ass ' n. 1894 and 1899; Pres. Dime Savings Bank of West Chester; Trustee Busknell University; Trustee Chester Co. Hospital; member Coll. and Univ. Council of Penn. 1895-1912; member and Sec ' y. Penna School Code Commission 1907-1911; member State Board of Education of Penna. 191 l-1914,and first Sec ' y- of same ; frequent Lecturer and Instructor at teachers ' institutes; Author (with Prof. Sharpless of Haverford College) of Astronomy 1882; Natural Philosophy, 1883; Key to Philosophy (with C. C. Balderston ) 1884; Civil Government of Penna., 1893; Geography of Penna., 1895; Nation and State, 1905; Pennsylvania Geography, 1907; The Silver, Burdette Arithme- tic (with Dr. R. F. Anderson), 1913; L.L.D. of Temple University, 1906, and of University of Pennsylvania, 1913. Page Eighteen

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r -« g= 3e »jT7it n ' T , ; — — mT ELVIRA V. SPEAKMAN Born on a farm near Chatham, Chester County, Pa. She received her earliest education in the public schools in the vicinity of Chatham, but latter attended a Semi- nary at Christiana. For a time also she was a student in an Academy near Chatham. She began teaching when only a little over fifteen years of age, in the public schools near her home. She left this ' to take a position in the Academy at Chatham, where she had been a student. From here she went to a private school at Ercildoun. Af- ter leaving Ercildoun, she accepted a position in Jacob Harvey ' s Academy at Union- ville, and then went to Newton, N. J. With the exception of the first six years, all her teaching has been done in private schools and in the Normal School. She came to West Chester in 1S76, as a teacher in history, geography, and spelling. However, when the history was formed into a separate department, she retained the latter two subjects. In 1909 she was elected to the office of preceptress, a position which she held un- til her recent illness, which has taken her away from our midst. Page Twenty