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Kansas University Weekly.
Alumni as High School Instructors.
The conditions which have constituted the effectual demand for a state university have also called many of its graduates to be instructors in the high schools of the state. It is manifestly proper that the work of the University should be such as to prepare teachers for the more difficult places in the public schools, especially those preparing students for college; it is equally evident that the authorities having charge of such schools should look to the University for candidates to fill those places. So mutually advantageous has this relation between the University and the high schools proven that superintendents and boards of education in some of the best cities of the state apply immediately to the University for an applicant for any vacancy that may occur in their force of teachers. This fortunate situation is largely the result of the successful labors of graduate and other ex-students who have been filling these high school positions. Great credit is due many of them for their capacity and fidelity. More directly than any others, they have carried the university influence to the people and have been instrumental in enlarging that influence by encouraging many students to enter college who would not otherwise have considered the matter seriously.
A complete list of alumni engaged in high school work is impossible. The following are the names of those whom the writer happens to know, together with the places which are and have been occupied by them. Such a list may well be headed with the name of W.H.Johnson,'85, not merely because of long service but on account of unexcelled success as a high school principal. From 1885 to 1891 he had charge of the high school at Emporia. The next three years he was principal of the Lawrence high school during the period when it took the first rank among the preparatory schools of the University. This position he resigned to accept the chair of history and economics at the state normal school. Because of failing health he has recently accepted the principalship of the
high school at Helena, Montana. His place in Lawrence has been acceptably filled by F. H. Olney,'91, who had previously been in charge of the Newton high school. Since its foundation, S. M. Cook,'85, has been at the head of the Dickinson county high school at Chapman, and has at different times had associated with him Mrs. Hattie Williams Whitehill,'85, E. C. Hickey,'93, W. W. Reno,'93, and J. H. Mustard,'94. Mr. Hickey is now located at Florence and Mr. Mustard has served a year at Minneapolis. Before Mr. Olney, Dr. L. M. Powell,'85, conducted the high school at Newton, and since the former came to Lawrence, W. S. Allen,'88, has occupied that position. Newton has also employed Nina Bowman,'93, E. C. O'Bryon,'94, D. R. Krehbeil and E. P. Lupfer. The University has sent to Topeka L. M. Powell, W. E. Higgins,'88, Mrs. Mary Woodward Doran,'81, Mary E. Wilder,'82, Mrs. Hattie Williams Whitehill,'85, Ova P. Davis,'92, Mary W. Barkley,'94, Anna E. Murphy,'83, and M. L. Field, normal '85. At Leavenworth are Florence Reasoner,'90, and Rose R. Morgan,'94, in the high school and B. K. Bruce,'85, and Eva Halstead, normal '84, in the grades. Effie J. Scott,'91, who has been there for the past two years has been called to a place in the University faculty. S. J. Hunter,'93, who for three years has conducted the Atchison county high school has also been called to the University. H. F. M. Bear has for several years been superintendent of schools at Wellington where the high school has been in charge of J. E. Dyche,'92, and T. M. Butcher,'94, assisted, part of the time, by J. E. Baker,'94. The high school of Kansas City, Kans., is under the supervision of George E. Rose, normal '83, assisted by M. E. Pierson, normal '85, J. W. Hullinger,'96, and C. H. Nowlin; while in the list of instructors of the high school of Kansas City, Mo., are Eveline Gano, normal '83, Mary E. Wilder,'81, and E. E. Rush,'95. Of all the cities in the state none have kept more closely in touch with the University than has Abilene. Among the gradu-