isa-normaladvance-1915-00197

Description:	X. S3. 1ST S3.ERLE ELSWORTH CLIPPINGER.Professor Clippinger began his teaching career in a Michigan rural school the year after he wasgraduated from the Benton Harbor Collegiate Institute. The two following years he was principalof the school in Plummers, Florida, and then for two years he was a student. After graduating fromthe Michigan State Normal College, in 1899, he returned to Florida to become principal and superintendent of the school at White Springs. The following year he had a similar position in Deland, Florida.From 1901 to 1904 he was a student in the University of Michigan, and during that time he receivedthe degrees A. B. and A. M.In the fall of 1904 Mr. Clippinger was appointed assistant professor of English in the Indiana StateNormal School. During the year 1907-1908 he was a student in the Graduate School of Harvard University. In 1912 he became author of Illustrated Lessons in Composition and Rhetoric, and in 1914his Teachers Manual of Composition was published.FRANK SMITH BOGARDUS.Professor Bogardus is a graduate of the Springfield, 111., High School, 1893, and of the Illinois StateNormal University, 1896. He attended the University of Chicago, summers 1902 and 1903, and wasgraduated from the University of Illinois, with the degree of A. B. in 1904.Mr. Bogardus taught one year in rural school, two years in a village high school. Metamora, 111.,served one year as principal of a city grade school, Danville, 111., four years as principal of TrainingSchool, Illinois State Normal University. Since 1904 he has been professor of European History, Indiana State Normal School.ULYSSES O. COX.Professor Cox taught two years in the country schools and three years in the grade and high schoolsof Randolph County, Indiana. He was for fourteen years in charge of the Biology in the State NormalSchool, Mankato, Minnesota.For the past ten years he has been head of the Department of Zoology, Botany and Agriculture inthe Indiana State Normal School.EDWIN MORRIS BRUCE.Professor Bruce began his pedagogical career in a country school house which was not even adornedwith the proverbial cross roads. His equipment included neither education, pedagogy, maturity ofyears, experience nor money. After the first year he accepted a position in the Lebanon public schools,where he taught a year or two. He then entered DePauw University but at the end of the first year thebank account was running so low that he returned to teaching. After being superintendent of theWhitestown school for several years he entered the Indiana State Normal School and completed thecourse in 1897. He was then elected superintendent of the Hymera schools, which position he heldfor one year and he then entered Indiana State University and graduated from this school. His majorwork was in chemistry. From here he became a teacher in the Princeton High School. After three yearshe took up teaching in the Oregon State Normal School. He remained here a few years and then accepted a place in the North Dakota State Normal School. After a year in this school he came to theIndiana State Normal School where he has been for ten years. His post graduate work has been donein Chicago University.MERIT LEES LAUBACH.Professor Laubach began teaching in the district schools of Pennsylvania, and taught in the country for four years. He then taught four years in the State Normal School at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Then, after teaching four more years in the High School at Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, heaccepted his present position in the Indiana State Normal School, which he has held for , the past tenyears. ^ilw~ -*jr
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