The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-31
BRILLIANT EDUCATOR accepts.
frof W, C. A. Hammel Joins Faculty of Nor
NAL and Industrial College.

Especial to the News and Observer)
Greensboro, N. c.. March 30.-Profes-
sor William c. A. Hammel, professor of
Physics and Director of the Manual
Training Department of the Maryland
State Normal School. in Baltimore, has
just accepted a similar position in the
North Carolina State Normal and In
dustrial College. He will move to
Greensboro in June so that he may direct
the preparations already begun for
equipping the Manual Training Depart
ment, which is to be as good as any in
the country, and to be ready for use in
september.
Professor Hammel is we'll known to
the teachers of the South. especially in
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Tennessee, having worked with brilliant
success in the summer schools at Chapel
Hill, Rock Hill and Knoxville.
Mr. Hammel is thirty-four years old.
He is native of Baltimore and was
educated in the public schools and in
the city college of Baltimore. He is also
a graduate of the Maryland State Nor
NAL School, in which he has been a
professor for nearly fifteen years. He
Johns Hopkins University and studied
manual training under Everett Schwartz
of Mas, Sweden
Besides Mr. Hammers work as pro-
fessor in the State Normal School, he is
director of Manual Training in the
Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. He
has been instrumental in securing the
adoption of manual training in many of
the public schools of Maryland, having
outlined the course adopted by the
State Board of Education. and having
been appointed by the board in 1898 in
spector of manual training schools for
the State.
He is a successful institute worker,
having conducted Institutes in Maryland
and Pennsylvania, though most of his
summer work has been in the South.
Professor Hammel has lectured on
scientific subjects before such bodies
as the University Club and the Johns
Hopkins Club of Baltimore. and ne has
received recognition in the scientific
world at home and abroad for work in
wireless biography. He conducted the
first research work in wireless telegraphy
in Baltimore and operated the first wire
less telegraph station in that city. lie
has also done expert X-ray work for
the Baltimore hospitals.
Mr. Hammel is the author of Obser-
walton Blanks in Physics, and of a series
of manual training books. He is presi-
dent of the Manual Training Teachers
Association of Maryland; president of
the Maryland Audubon Society, vice
president of the Maryland Academy Of
Science, and is member of the Maryland
Historical Society, and of the American
Forestry Association.
1t goes without the saying that a man
thrty-four years old, who has done such
work and holds these positions is a hard
worker and is highly esteemed at his
home and wherever he is known.
He leaves the home where he and his
wife were born because he believes that
the educational activity in North Caro-
lima is only the beginning of great
achievements and that he will be in a
more favorable position here to influence
the educational life of the South. He
could easily work in the North if he
so desired, but he is a thorough South
erner and wishes to work for the train
ing of Southern teachers.