The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-07-28
College Announces Eleven Additions to
Teaching Force to Care for In d
crease in Enrolment
COME FROM BEST
NATIONS COLLEGES
Board Member Declares Staff Now Equal
TO That Of Any College or Univer-
sity in Southwest

Miss Annie Smith, for three years
head Of the art department Of Central
State Normal at Edmond, and one OF
the best known art instructors in the
southwest, is to be the new head OF
that department of the Oklahoma Cor
lege FOR Women, according to an an.
nouncement Just made by President
G. w. Austin. And at the same time
the head of the local school announces
the addition of ten other women to
the faculty list to care for the follow
ing years great increase in enroll
ment.
Included in the list are a number Of
women who are among the leaders in
their profession In the entire country.
Three Of the number are students who
have done exceptional work in their
departments during the past year in
The college, and will have the rank Of
student assistants. They are Miss
Ruth Powers Of Mangum; Geneva May
of Chickasha, who held the Mrs. Il
K. Wootten scholarship; and Miss Ora
Bizzell Of Snyder
Among the others are Miss jamie
Hill Miller Of Mississippi and New
York City, Miss Ola Hart Of Illinois
Miss Julia u. Brekke of Iowa Miss
Carrie Ormerod of the New England
Conservatory OF Music, Miss Jennie |
Erickson Of the University of Oklaho-
ma, Miss Annie Kate Gilbert Of Dal- i
las, and Miss Anna White whose
home is in Chickasha and who has
just completed her musical education
at school in Kansas.
Miss Miller is graduate of the In.
dustrial Institute and College of Mis-
sissippi, the school that formed the
model after which the one in Oklahoma
was founded She did postgraduate
work at the University of Mississippi,
then Went to CoIumbial University i
New York City, to do special work in
ler line, foreign languages, and to get
IN A, NJ. degree. She has had several
7ears experience teaching in colleges
n the east Miss Miller will have the
'ank Of an assistant professor in the {
anguage department.
Miss Julia r. Brekke, assistant 10
Mss Zoe Norman in the household
economies department, has Just re. {
eiyed bachelor Of science degree in /
economics from the Iowa
Agricultural and Mechanical College ]
4 Ames, Iowa She was partly self
Importing during her college career !
a which she ranked second in schol- /
rship in her class. Ii
Miss Jennie Erickson, an assistant a
a the piano department, has the de- d
rees Of bachelor of arts and bachelor 5
I music from the University Of Okla e
oma, where she did exceptional work e
9th in the class room and studio, /
nd from the recital platform. She h
as had experience chiefly in conduct. n
ng private classes in music. Her d
ONE is in Oklahoma City. L
Miss Anna White, who was the first v
raduate form the music department o
the Oklahoma College for Women, n
as Just been graduated from the +
Wichita CQllege of Music at Wichita. {
AN. She received her degree from s.
le Oklahoma school in 1912. holding a
student assistantship during her SEN O
II years. She then did special work G,
nd gave private lessons for two
ears, then spent two years at the 4
ansas college. She has the rank Of !
assistant professor in the Women's 4.
ollege. !
Miss Ola Hart who has the rank +
an assistant professor in the his. I.
ry department, has bachelor of arts !.
'gree from Lincoln College. in iii. =
'is, taken in 1914. She has been =
aching since that time. ,
Miss Annie Kate Gilbert. though not =.
richly on the faculty. has just been +
cured for the secretaryship of the ;
W. c. A. Miss Gilbert has an a. B +
gree from Randolf Macon. where +
e was president of the student Y =
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