The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-05-07
PROF. R. n. BLACK
HAS BEEN CHOSEN
70 Preside Over the state Normal
and industrial School at
A DESERVED PROMOTION

A DESERVED PROMOTION
Come. 70 one Of vahps ston's Most
Experienced and scholarly
Educators
Prof. R. M. Black of this city
is now president-elect of the state
Normal and Industrial School at
Ellendale and will begin his du-
ties there with the next school
year. He was apprised of his elec-
tion last week, and bears his new
hOnors with the modesty that be-
comes a man SO we'll fitted for the
responsibilities of the position.
Prof. Blacks host of friends in
this city and county, where he. has
so long resided and taught, will
rejoice over his well-deserved
promotion, while deeply regret
ting to lose him and his excellent
family as citizens of our city and
county. Few people in the county
are better known or more highly
respected than are Professor and
Mrs: R. M. Black. both of whom
are highly educated and very tai
ented people, who have always
been active in every movement in
tended to improve both the moral
and the intellectual condition of
the people among whom they re-
side.
Biographical Sketch
Prof. Black was born and
brought up on farm in north
eastern Ohio. He was educated
in the common schools, the high
school at Geneva and the Ohio
Wesleyan University at Delaware.
He came to Wahpeton in 1895 as
Professor of Greek and Higher
Mathematics in the r. r. v. u, re-
naming two years. He then ac-
cepted the principalship of the
public schools at Hamilton. this
state l1697-9), and then return
ed to Wahpeton as Professor of
History and Science in the Red
River University, 1899 to 1903.
He was next elected superinten-
dent Of the Wahpeton public
sen schools, t which fioao position he held
served four years (t905-9). as
county superintendent. From
1909 to the present time (l9l4)
he has been Professor of History
and Political Science in the State
School OF Science in this city.
In 1910, he received from his
University, the degree of Master
of Arts.
Other Work
Prof. Black has always been an
indefatigable worker. and during
the past fourteen years he has
performed an immense amount of
labor in addition to that of full
class work as an instructor. In
19Oi-2. he was graduate stud
ent in the University of Chicago.
From 1906 to 1909 he was MEM
Der Of the Committee on Course of
Study for the North Dakota
schools. and from 1909 to 1914,
he was member of the School
Law Compilation Commission,
having been appointed by the
Governor in obedience to the law
requiring him to select trdee best
known and best qualified edu-
Gators in the state.
He was member of the First
State Board of Examiners (t9Il
to 1919 for teachers certificates
In the summer of 1909 and 1910
he was field deputy (personal re-
presentative) for the State Super
intendent of Schools. He has also
been Institute Conductor in sew
eral counties. and has been Sc
lected to conduct the Summer
Normal School for the S. S. S. this
coming summer.
He has been a member of the
N. d. Educational Association for
the past nine years, and six OF
those years has been on its pro-
gram. He is also a member of the
National Educational Association
His Literary Work
He is the author of a popular
Course of Study in Physiology for
the common schools which he
wrote in 1907. He was editor Of
Literature for the Study of Lam
guage" in the Riverside Litera-
ture Series in 1908, and the. auth
or OF History of the Constitu-
tiona! Convention of 1885," pub
lished in 1910. For the past two
years he has been a contributor
to the Westland Educator, fur
nishing that periodical with many
OF its articles on educational to-
pics. He is also member of the
North Dakota Historical Associa-
tion and a member of its board
of editors.
The trustees of the Glendale
Normal and Industrial School
have made no mistake in the Sc
lection of Prof. r.. M. Black of this
city for president of that insti-
tuition, and the Times eongratu-
lates them on their excellent
choice.
OFFICIAL PHoT0oRAPHER
Governor Hanna has appointed
F. .Holmboe of Bismarck to ac-
company him and his party to
Norway next month to attend the
Centennial Exposition at Chris