Western High School - Westerner Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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BHTIDII Miss P. Edna Thiinssen received her B.S. and M.A. degrees at George Washington University. She took her Dean of Women course at Colum- bia in New York City, and studied at Cornell and the University of Vermont. She taught physics, chemistry, and math at Limestone College before coming to Western as a teacher. Miss Thonssen taught chemistry until 1911 when she went into mathematics teaching ex- clusively. She was made the first assistant principal of Western in 1924. Miss Thonssen is in charge of the making of the master pro- gram, the lunchroom, and is the dean of girls. Her special interest is her new home in Wester- leigh. She is fond of trips and is called a veteran traveler. Her favorite spot for short trips is Atlantic City. Mr. Robert Anderson came to take Mr. Nelson's place in 1935. Mr. Anderson received his early education in a country school in Pennsylvania, the Westchester State Teachers College, and the University of Pennsylvania. He was principal of an elementary school in Upper Darby, a suburb of Philadelphia, for seven years. During this time he earned his Bachelor's Degree at Columbia University. After completing work for the Master's Degree at Columbia in 1931, he came to Washington as a statistician at Franklin School, where he remained until his appointment at Western in 1935. Mr. Anderson, a member of Phi Delta Kappa, is interested in travel, antiques and music. Miss TH5NSSEN Ma. ANDERSON

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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.

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