The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-06-25
sRookINGs LADY IN PRINT.

magazine contains an excellent like
ness OF Mrs. r. L. Slagle OF this city,
together with the following interest
ing write-up:
Mrs. Anna R. Slagle. the wife Of
President Robert l.. Slagle. Of the
South Dakota State College of Agri-
culture and Mechanic Arts, is an
other college presidents wife that you
should know. Mrs. Slagle is a lady
OF culture and refinement. all of her
life has been spent in an educational
institution either as student or teacher.
Born in Albany. New York, May
%, 1868, in childhood moving to Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania, where the best
part of her girlhood was passed and
where were made those friendships
that still endure. is the first chapter
of her life.
In Philadelphia Mrs. Slagle attended
the Girls Grammar school, the Girls
Normal school, and later the New
York State Normal at Albany, and
Cornell University of Ithaca. AT AL
bany she was valedictorian of her
class and was awarded the Junior
prize in English Literature and the
Senior Shakespeare prize at Cornell.
The latter prize was given by the Uni
versity Shakespeare Society of Lon
don, England. She has been a teacher
for thirteen years with English a
special line of work. She was precept-
ress in the high school and academy
at Walton, and had charge Of the
English department in the Auburn.
New York High School. She has also
taught in the School of Mines at Rapid
City. this state.
Mrs. Slagle is a member of the
Alpha Phi Gree letter fraternity and
had the honor to serve as president of
the Cornell Chapter and also as presi.
dent Of the PhilOmathean at the State
Normal.
She was married to DR.. Slagle on
May 2S, 1896, coming Immediately to
~Brookings, where DR.. Slagle was pro-
fessor of chemistry for the college and
also chief chemist for the Government
experiment station there. She taught
English in the Brookings college and
has acted as principal of the City High
School, serving as substitute and leav.
ing the latter position when DR.. Slagle
was elected to the presidency of the
School of Mines.
OF German extraction on her faith
er's side and of substantial New Eng
land stock on her mothers side, be-
longing to the Everett family, Mrs.
Slagle is a we'll balanced combination.
She was brought up a Presbyterian,
but the Episcopal church is the one
of her choice. When in Rapid City
she belonged to the Current Events
Club and the F~ortnightly Club of which
latter body she was twice president.
She is o a member of the Woman's
Club, of Brookings.
DR.. and Mrs. Slagle have planned a
trip TO Europe this summer and will
leave June Is to spend several months
abroad, a part Of the time in Ger
many at her fathers old home. They
will visit England, Scotland, Holland,
Belgium, Germany and France. The
coaching trip in Scotland and England,
automobile tour of France, canoeing
trip down the Seine, the Rhine trip
and stay at Bingen, are among the
pleasures they have planned. But
there will be loved faces to look upon
at Antwerp and in Germany, and a
family reunion in the old chateau built
in the year 1900, in August. There,
this South Dakota daughter will lay
awake in the old clock tower to hear
the ghosts walk. and visit old caves
(defunct quarries) to see the mush-
rooms that are growing for the Ameri-
can market. Here. too, they will ex-
perience the quaint and kindly hospi-
tally of the cave dwellers.