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

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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

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ffi pg T ftm 3— O. g- c Vou have the gift of elo()iienre — We sit amazed and awed. Your wisdom cosmopolitan We now esteem and laud, Initiative, full of zest, Profound and most conclusive The workings of your master 1 mind Are glorious but elusive. We recognize your higher scope To equal you, is all we hope. ANDREW THOMAS SMITH. Ph. D. Graduated from the West Cluster State Normal School in 1883; also a gradu- ate of the New York University. Special student in Pedagogy under the late Dr. William H. Payne of the University of Michigan and in Philosophy under Dr. George Stewart Fullerton of the University of Penna. Author of Quarto-Cen- tennial History of the West Chester State Normal School, Mind Evolutions for Teaching Purpose, and Systematic Methodology. Teacher in the West Chester State Normal School, being head of the Department of Education. Became Prin- cipal of the Mansfield, Pa., State Normal School in 1899, and of the Clarion, Pa., State Normal School in 1913. Was later made Prin. of the well known Thomas Normal Training School at Detroit, Mich. He now conducts the course in His- torj of Education at the West Chester State Normal School. Page Tvienty-one