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

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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.

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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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■is m %, i m .. } f. SAMUEL CHRISTIAN SCHMUCKER, A.M., Ph.D. He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small. For the good God who loveth us He made and loveth all. Received elementary education in the schools of Reading, Pa. ; a graduate of Muhlenberg College, from which he received the degree of A.B. in 1882; later re- ceived the degree of Sc.D. from the same institution. Received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Penna., in which 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 1884-1889; Indiana State Normal School from 1889-1895; Professor of Biology, West Chester State Normal School since that time. Pres. of the Chester County Directors ' Ass ' n. ; member National Educational Ass ' n. and National Geographic Society; Fellow of the American Ass ' n. for the Ad- vancement of Science; member of Penna. Academy of Natural Sciences; a Granger and a Mason; a distinguished lecturer. Author of The Study of Nature, 1907; Columbia Elementary Geography, 1907; Under the Open Sky, 1910; The Meaning of Evolution, 1913. Contributor to various magazines ' . Page Twenty-six