Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-08-01
COLLEGE FAGUI Y
Many New Instructors Secured For
Ensuing Year
ATHLETIC O|RECTORF from EAST
Mrs. Mary ". FanCher, the Dean at Wright
Hall, Formerly at Leland Stanford

President Thomas c. Blaisdell was
i'll Alma last Friday and while here
vouched the following information
relative to the college instructors of
1912-19I3:
Besides the president-elect, Dr.
Thomas c. Blaisdell, seven unfamiliar
faces will be found among the instruc-
tors during the coming year.
As athletic director and coach, Mr.
Of the college family. Mr.. Bleamaster
spent his freshman year at Princeton
university, where he was prominent
in class athletics of all kinds. His
next three years were spent at Grin
nell college, Iowa, where he was
granted the degree of Bachelor of
Science Here he was closely ident-
flied with athletics, being particularly
known for his unusual work in foot
ball and in track events. For two
years he was director Of athletics in
the Council Bluffs High school, and
position at Carroll college, Waukesha.
Wisconsin During his years at Car
roll college he has made the institu-
tion known in Wisconsin athletics by
defeating every college in the state,
with the exception of the university
He believes in intercollegiate contests,
but believes far more in interclass
contests and in floor work in the GYM
nasium Under his charge the re-
quired work in gymnasium for men
will be given careful attention, while
the contests with other colleges will
by no means be neglected.
The ymnasium work for women
will be under the direction of Miss
Henrietta Bjoin. Miss Bjon did her
first year of college work at Wheaton
college, Illinois, after which she ent-
cred Columbia College of Expression
in Chicago, from which institution she
has recently been graduated Miss
Bjoin has been carefully trained in
reading and other types of oral ex-
preston, as we'll as in gymnasium
work She believes in all the out
door work possible for young women,
and will emphasize that type Of ath-
letics whenever the weather permits
Part of her early work was done
under the instruction of Miss Weis,
who recommends her most highly as
her successor.
The work in public speaking has
been assigned to Mr.. Glen Y. Warner,
who has been educated in Baldwin
in Wooster university, and
has his bachelors degree from Ohio
Wesleyan university. He has done
two years of graduate work in
Northwestern university, Chicago, and
has taught five years in various In
diana and Ohio High schools. Dur
ing the past summer he has been plat
form manager for one of the group
Chautauquas and has spent a week
each in many of the smaller cities of
the middle west. By training and
temperament he seems to be pecu-
liarly fitted for the work in public
speaking and literature
Mrs Mary NJ. Fancher, who comes
to us as dean of women, has spent
the past year in New York City Civ
ing particular attention to the study
of her speciality in Columbia univer-
sity. During the two preceding years
she was chaperone in sorority house
at Leland Stanford university, Cali
fornia. During the four years pre-
ceding that she was studying and
travelling in France, Italy and Swift
zerland, perfecting herself in French,
a subject with which she had been
familiar ever since her graduation
from Pratt Collegiate Institute. Brook
lyn, New York Mrs. Fanchcr's wide !
experience in social ways, in travel,
and in foreign study, as we'll as her
experience at Leland Stanford UNI
versity, have peculiarly fitted her fol
her work as dean of women and in.
structor in French.
Professor Reese Harrington Veatch,
recently of Big Rapids, Michigan, will
become director of the school of mu-
sic and teacher Of voice. After grad |
uating from the Ohio Northern Col
lege of Music, Professor Veatch spent |
two years in Japan teaching in con-
nection with the work of the Young |
Mems Christian Association. After
his return from Japan he studied for
several years under private teachers |
in Chicago before settling at Big Rap
ids, where he has maintained a studio. |
The letters which have come from his |
indicate that he is pecu-
liarly fitted on the technical side to
become director of our school of mu-
sic. Letters from many persons who
know of his work as a director of
choral organizations and glee clubs
speak in praise of his success along
these lines. We feel that the college
is peculiarly fortunate to have secured