The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-05-26
HONOR GIVEN WHERE DUE
Prof Charles Evans Made Present
Schools Of Ardmore Possible.

OSUOOlS OI NuU1Olt FObolDlcs
The state board OF education paid
4 compliment to most worthy man
on the DIST Of this month when the
members thereof. without a dissent
ing vote adopted the Growing Life
for the Teachers Reading Circle
work in Oklahoma. This work is
from the instructive pen Of Prof
Charles Exams. one Of the best known
educators in the state and the best
educator who has ever worked for the
welfare of the youth Of t9!s, or any
state.
Prof. Evans needs no words of
eulogy from any one. He is recog
ni2ed today by the people all over
this great educational state, for his
true merit and worth. AromOre
knows him for what he is-Okla-
homa knows him for what he is. He
has been tried and found true 70
the test And the adoption by the
education board of his work for the
Use and instruction of the teachers
Of the state speaks in the most CON
elusive manner of the appreciation of
the people which he so richly de-
serves.
Coming TO Ardmore six years ago,
Charles Evans has made possible the
high standard which the schools of
this city today enjoy. He 1t was
who took hold of things and pushed
them along in this city, until today
Ardmore stands prominently at the
head of the long list of cities of
good schools in this state of good
schools.
We can say without fear and sue
cessful contradiction, that had II not
have been for Prof Evans the mag
nificent high achpol building, now
under course of construction, would
be as far from realized certainty
today as it was when he first came
to this town seven years ago
Seven years ago the 10th day Of
next August, Prof. Evans began to
do things as soon as he got Off the
train here-and he has been doing
Things ever since. Furthermore, nm
less we are very sadly mistaken, he
will keep on doing things as long
as there in anything additional to be
dcne for the furtherance, or the bet
terment OF educational Advancement
in this entire state.
Here is a brief sketch of the mer-
tied preferment that has been accord
ed Prof. Evans since he first came
TO Oklahoma in 1903. Employed SUI
perintendent of city schools OF Ard
more in 1905 at a salary of $l2OO
per wear. salary raised to $500 per
year in 1906: elected director of the
Chickasaw Teachers Institute in
1906; made executive committeeman
the Indian Territory in 1906. brought
about. after most bitter ser'isSie,
the amalgamation OF the teachers az
sociations of the Indian Territory and
Oklahoma in 1907: elected president
of the ChiCkasaw Teachers assocla-
ton in 1907; made president OF the
State Teachers association. dean
of the A. and NJ. college and chosen
vice president of National Educa'
tional association in 1908. during
which year his work on civil govern
ment was adoTed in the schools. In
1909 he was reelected dean ol the
4 and NJ college and also elected
annual orator of Oklahoma university
In 1910 he was elected to the lstS
or Who's Who in America and his
salary raised to $500 per year. In
1911 he was elected president OF the
Central state Normal at Edmond,
and took the master Of arts degree,
Thus far this year he has finished a
wcvk on pedagogy Growing LIE
and the same has been adopted lor
the ReadinH, Circle of Oklahoma
teachers.
All of which goes to show that
the man is most worthy ana wen
oualified and that the good people
of this state recognize true merit
and render unto Caesar tha'
which is Coesar's.'
Much has been said OF the eN-
tremely fortunate things that nave
contributed to make Oklahoma a
great state-one of the greatest new
states ever born-much has been said
OF the advanced system of education
to he found here, but too much car
never he said of the great men VINO
have made the states and the educa
tioual greatness possible. And when
the roster of the great educators o.
this state is made up we venture the
prediction that Charles Evans name
like that OF Abou Ben Adhem's II
days OF yore, will lead all the rest
Our Limcade made MS famous.