Western High School - Westerner Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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DR. ELMER S. NEWTON 20 'IDIIIIIH Dr. Elmer Slayton Newton was born in 1872 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. The Newton family left this town about a year later and moved to East Brookfield, where they made their home for seven years. Besides going to school, Dr. Newton made an acquaintance with Connie Mack, who was just a boy himself. Dr. Newton fondly remembers the days he spent watching Connie Mack and his brothers play baseball, and later when he played the game himself during his high school days in Spencer, Massachusetts. Dr. Newton decided to go to Amherst to college, and there, to- gether with getting an education and having a good time, he met Dwight Morrow and Calvin Coolidge as classmates. His first posi- tion upon graduation was an instructorship of chemistry at the University of Iowa. After a year in Iowa, he returned to Amherst, where he remained for two years on the faculty. At the end of that time, he came to Western as a chemistry teacher. Four years later, in 1902, he married Miss Edna Daisy Towne, an English teacher at Western. He received his doctor's degree at George Washington University in 1905. As a result of sincere interest, perseverance, and ability, Dr. Newton was made principal of Western in 1915 upon the retirement of Miss Edith Westcott. The rest is quite well known. Dr. Newton is still our principal and is one of our proudest possessions, one whom we shall always remember as a congenial, friendly man-our friend.