isa-normaladvance-1915-00193

Description:	X. S3. 1ST. ^Sfc.professional Career* of nje JfacultpWILLIAM WOOD PARSONSWilliam W. Parsons, President Indiana State Normal School. Attended primary school in theCounty Seminary building, which occupied the site on which the main Normal School building nowstands. Later, attended ward schools of Terre Haute. Graduated from high school Tuscola, Illinois.Entered State Normal School the first day of its opening, January 6, 1870. Graduated with first class.Taught a six months country school in Douglas County, Illinois. Superintendent of Schools Gosport,Indiana, one term. Taught English in Indianapolis High School two years. Elected Assistant Professorof English in the State Normal School, July 1, 1876. Elected head of the Department of English 1879.Elected vice president 1883. Elected president of the State Normal School July 1, 1885. In 1888 received the honorary degree of A. M. Indiana University. Later received the honorary degree of LL. D.De Pauw University.HOWARD SANDISON.Professor Sandison entered Indiana State Normal School on the opening day, and was graduated inthe first class, 1872. He then taught country school in the fall and winter of 1872-1873, and in thegrades in the Indianapolis schools, 1873-1874, where he was principal of the Twelfth Ward. He thenre-entered the State Normal School in the fall of 1874 and completed one year of work on the AdvancedCourse, which was at that time organized. In 187S, he was assistant superintendent of the Terre HauteCity Schools, and in 1876 he was principal of the Terre Haute High School in the Department of Latin.From this time on, his record is as follows:Author of The Theory of the School, 1877 work in summer session of Cook County NormalSchool, 1885 department of Psychology, Methods and Practice, 1881-1887 A. M. Indiana University,1888 Vice President and Head of Department of Psychology, Methods and Practice, 1887-1904 work inSummer Session Clark University, 1905 author of The Problem of Method, 1909 Vice President andHead of Department of Psychology, 1904-191—.ALBERT ROSS CHARMAN.Professor Charman began his professional career in a District School. Soon after this he becameassistant in the Department of Psychology, Methods and History of Education in the Indiana StateNormal School. He is at present Head of the Department of Methods, Observation and Practice.LOUIS JOHN RETTGER.Dr. Rettger began his teaching as laboratory assistant in the Normal School while in his senior year.During his first graduate year at the Johns Hopkins University he held a University scholarship andwas assistant in biology. In the fall of 1889 he was appointed instructor at Indiana University. InSeptember, 1890, he accepted the position as teacher of science in the South Bend High School, resigning this position the following spring to accept the position of Professor of Biology in theIndiana State Normal School, which position he has held since that time, except for two years whenon leave of absence he spent one year, 1895-1896, in study at the German Universities of Heidelbergand Berlin, and the second year, 1908-1909, in graduate study at the Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, Md.
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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