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Changes in High S chool . Faculty
LINCOLN, NEB., SEPT.
14, 1914
SPECIAL No.
Our Professional De Corps
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From our commercial department The attitude of our teachers toward we have lost ~wo very capable men. professional progres~ makes an instiMr. \V. L. Greenslit, who has served tute a necessity. The teacher of toour hi.gh school efficiently for the past day is not an ac:ademic hermit. She year, has become the busine ss manais a vital factor in community proger of the Nebraska School Supply gress. She touches intimately almost House on Q street. He will be reevery home in the community repretained as director of our band. Mr. sented by her school unit. She N. I. Cross, who has served us faithknows the social, industrial and civic fully for two years, has accepted the life of the community and at first position of head o.f the commercial hand studies. its demands. She tries department at \Vichita, Kans. Both to make her school room an essential men receive substantial increases in e lement in this life, and to use ' school salary. Our be;,;t wishes go with them room means as a potent agent in prointo their new fields of endeavor. motion of civic growth . Each subject Mr. 0 . G. Shanafelt, who has grown of the curriculum and each class room among us during the past four years process she interprets in terms of and has steadily gained in favor of what it can contribute toward a more pupils and associates as his ability perfect citizenship. She seeks to became known. As a teacher in the broaden her own horizon by increased English department throughout the training, and a continuous search for years, as a successful coach of our the large things in education. She debating team for three years, and as does not hesitate at the responsibility a teacher of German during last seof civic study through the university mester, he has favorably impressed HAROL D M ULLIGAN . courses and original research. himself upon the memories of stuTo this modenn public servant the \Ve are printing Mr. Mulligan's picdents and teacllers. · Miss Myrle Davis, who for many ture first, because it is a line picture professional impetus. of an institute is years has done most efficient work in of a fine feil'ow and, second, because not the fu lfillment of a legal or orthe Latin department, became Mrs. he is the coach of our football team. ganizational exactment-it is a proWoods in June, soon after the close Mr. Mulligan believes we have ma- fessional necessity. It is here that of the school year, and lives in Jeffer· terial for the best team in the Mis- she can touch the spirit of those whose vision of service is that of her CJWlt son, Oregon. Miss Davis has served as sponsor of the Latin Cluli for the souri Valley. If you are interested magnified to a national or even unipast year. Mrs. \Voods possesses a in footba·ll, g c;t out w.i.th the team at versal dimension. The craft spirit for refined personality that most effec- 22nd and J streets allQ I:Jo<n?t f(ll' Lin- the year's work becomes her<} a uniii~d I'Mlity.-Superintendent Hunter. tively influenced the students. Her coln High. presence reminded one of the Scriptural statement that power comes not This year an attempt is being made " ADVOCATE '' ANOT H E R Y EAR . in the noisy wind, but in the "still io look after the welfare of high small voice." It penetrates so quietly The twentieth volume of the "Ad- school girls who are working their and unobtrusively that one is influ- vocate" now comes off the press each way through ochool. High school enced before he knows it and in a week. Since its re-establishment two girlsl who would like to find places to way that disarms all antagonism. years ago, the school paper, we be- work for their board and room may Many happy years to Mrs. Woods! get assistance from Miss P-:)Unu, room Another one of our efficient teach- lieve, ·has been unexcelled by any 112. Parties desiring such help are other high · s chool publication (perioders who left us to become a helpmate asked also to leave their names and to a helpless man is Miss Margaret ical) out. Its columns are open to addresses with Pound. M. Lockwood, who has taught in L. the best efforts of every student in The boys' work will be under the H. S. four years. Miss Lockwood also his or her line. H maintains a.s large direction of Mr. J. W. Hartzell, room was married in June at her home in a proportion of reading space to ad- 16. Word may be left at the office for Michigan to Mr. Dearing, and will live vertising as is advisable and efficient either of these eases. on a fruit farm at Frankfort, over- and its earnings are all returned t~ looking Lake Michigan. Miss Lock- the student body in publication form. The "Ad vocate" has always held an "The Cue" of the Albany Academy, wood was highly esteemed by all who knew her. Her enthusiasm in ele- important place in L. H. S. student Albam, N. Y., has the following to mentary science and physiology was life. Every week the English clll.ss £ay of the Ad vocate: "The Advoca te, from Lincoln High tru ly "catching,'· and her teaching that has assisted in its production most effective. Miss Lockwpod has hunts quickly the ,results.of its labor; School, Lincoln, Nebr., surprised us been sponsor of the Ptolemy society the joke (note the singular) is read considerably upon our hasty glancing for the past ::hree years. All who with eager interest and proper ad- over it. From the diminutive size we !mew her will long remember her as verse criticism; the cartoon on the expected to find it a rather insigone whose influence was helpful and front page is studied over to discover nificant little paper, but this was not wish her abundant happiness in her what it may represent; the photo- the case. Although the paper is graph within is eyed with rational breezy and very newsy from begin· new relations and throughout life. Miss Barbara Burt, who has taught skepticism, and the bulletin is perused ning to end, it leaves one with a in our high school for the past nearly with interest. The net result is a rather prejudiced opinion because the four years in the history department, better idea o.f what has happened to departments are so condensed. Howhas been granted a year's leave of the student during the week, and an ever, we can truthfully say that the outline of the next seven day's' pro- paper is one of the neatest that has gram. ever come into our hands. ( Contim;ed on page 7.)