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

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iN a= o. te 4 g T tpnffhr ■} o = = Ul| -c=q There ' s a house on a street named Walnat In which lives a man named Green. And he ' s so full of jolly good humor That his like we have never seen. The house is a quaint cozy nook Filled with memories of poets grand And e ' en in his garden are growing Shubs from many a foreign land. And now for our dear Dr. Green, With his chuckles so merry and gay Mav his life be always happy And his path stream with blessing alway. FRANCIS HARVEY GREEN, A.M., Litt.D. He Noble. Educated at the West Chester State Normal School, Amherst College and Har- vard University. Teacher in Del. and Penna. Professor of English in Juniata College, Huntington, Pa. Head of English Department of West Chester Normal School since 1890; lecturer on literary, educational and moral subjects; widely known as an after-dinner speaker; author of numerous bits of verse and magazine articles; prepared a book of sentiments by leading living Americans, What They Say Day by Day ; Pres. of Normal 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- Atlantic Society, Dickens Fellowship, London, England and Chester County His- torical Societies. Long interested in Childrens County Week Assn. of Phila. ; was Pres. of the Philosophical Society, West Chester, Pa. ; has probably visited the homes of more literary personages in the United States and England than any other living American, and has had the honor of meeting and knowing many of the foremost writers of the Nineteenth Century. Page Twenty-four

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CHARLES H. FISHER Horn and received his early education in York, Pa., prepared for college at the York Collegiate Institute; received his A.B. from the Lebanon Valley College in 1904 and spent the next four years in New York City ,part of the time as a student in the Union Theological Seminar - and Columbi i University and part of the time as Secre- tary of the Fifty-seventh street Branch of the Y. M. C. A.; for the next four years instructor in the Department of History and Latin in the York High School ; stu- dent in the Harvard Summer School in 1910; for three years head of the Depart- ment of History in the Trenton (N. J.) High School; since 1910 a student of the Graduate Department of the U. of P., majoring in Education ; received his mas- ter ' s ' degree in Education from U. of P., in 1914, and now doing work in the School of Education. Teacher of Rural School Problems, Philosophy of Education and Sociologv at this school. ADDISON L. JONES Graduate of the Norristown High School, of West Chester Normal School and of Bucknell University. Teacher in the public schools of Montgomery Co. ; Principal of the Unionville High School; teacher in West Chester Normal; Super- vising Principal of the schools of West Chester, and now Superintendent of the Public Schools of West Chester, holding this position in connection with Principal- ship of the Model School. Supt. Jones was Director of Education for Pennsyl- vania at the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- tion. Page Tvienty-three

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t -a— ====gigjrfft7r grace i). McCarthy Graduate of the Carthage High School, Missouri; studied at the University of Mis souri; also at the Teachers ' College of Co- lumbia University, N. Y., has done special work in the University of Pennsylvania; graduate of the University of Michigan; author of Plays from the Wonder Hook ; now teacher in the English Department of this school. CORA E. EVERETT, B.S. When you can ' t get what you want, make what you have do — anyway, get busy. C. E.E. Graduate of High School, Denver, Colorado; of Boston (Mass.) School of Expression; of Teachers ' College; special work in English at Wellesley College, Harvard and Pennsylvania Universities. Taught at Wellesley College, Worcester Academy, Mass., Lasell and Howard Seminaries, Mass. Now teaching Read- ing and Public Speaking at West Chester Normal. RUTH B. MEAKER We used to hail her as student, but now it is as teacher. Miss Meaker spent one year in the Binghampton ( N. . ) High School, having received her early education in that state. She started her Normal School education at the age of thirteen and has worked her way to a position on the West Chester State Normal School facul- ty. Now- assistant in the Biology depart- ment and taking courses offered here by the University of Penna.