Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-01
Miss Elsa Ueland Genuine
Woman as Well as Expert
Educator With Practical
Ideas
By M,LIss


FryHOsE persons who have heard OF the
y appointment Of Miss Elsa Ueland. TWEEN.
IL ,tt-eIaht-year-old educator. TO the RESPONSE
tie position OF dean OF Carson College. with
apital Of 100000 as a working basis
~ Irmur: "She ls to be congratulated, SO
Eminent and so young"
Talk to her for quarter OF an hour
md you transpose your viewpoint. The
tbllege at Flourtown, which will not begin
IL operate until about a year hence. and
fhe orphan girls who are to be Its resident
$ludents are to be congratulated. re-
tsarkable young woman has been brought
ID Pennsylvania.
Tho manner OF her coming should be an
Inapiration to every woman who has put
,.ast her hand 20 grasp the fruit OF success
rom the tree marked Careers" IL proves
that you can no moro hide merit and
teadth of vision than you can hide the
E4ramlds or Billy Penn. They tower.
she Is Interested in children. in educa-
4Ibn. in life She was pursuing these inter-
aHls in an inconspicuous. but IL is safe to
tas a very intense way. at Gary, Ind. In
tts schools made famous by William Writ
mem the trustees of the Carson College
md, who had been touring the country
1.AhtInR educators and reviewing various
&ducational systems, arrived. They wanted
lS be shown. Miss Ueland was assigned to
&|.byy them. They got" her instantly, as
Essi cannot fail to get" her when she talks
Is yot-a woman among women. That Is
nm and how she is the arst dean of this
etIw college.
DEPEND ON HER JUDGMENT
According to this young womHn's juds-
inent will. in large measure, the income
"a 81 O0O, 900 be spent. Upon her rests the
responsIbility OF the choice of the stan OF
the college To her will be entrusted the
4bvorkinR out of the careers. the shaping OF
4he lives. Of ultimately. 200 girls. To her'
Il has been said virtually;
"TIere Is n vast sum of money. Here Is
n eighty -two-acre farm. Here Is college
IIere are parentless girls at the most forma-
i've age Do what you win with them
She is thrilled at the prospect but not
tfratd She has the pellucid, clear blue eye
n the ideaIist. the determined mouth and
.iear-cut jaw and chin OF the sane prao-
licalizer It's n good combination.
asked her about the personnel or the
htaff and how she would go about selecting
ID. and. learned instantly. as ! might have
ruessed, that she has a rock-ribbed faith In
Fomen.
.'one of the most important positions"
HE said in the slow. measured tones OF one
&sho not only wants the reporter to get
thlnEs straight but wants also TO help along
by getting them straight In her own mind
FIRST will be the person in charge or the
Farm. 1 want woman II l can get her.
An agricultural expert who loves children.
.Dns who knows how TO run farm sue
eessfully and yet. who will not prohibit the
children from riding on the hay wagons.
who will not want to have them punished
if the raspberry bushes should get torn.
Then, OF course. there will be house
mothers for each of the cottages and teach
|ers. Ultimately we hope to have 200 girls
Mt the college. Our stan should not number
less than twenty-five, l shall pick them
year to do IL in-and
my idea is to get people who are expert In
their lines and also who have q deep love
and understanding OF children
II do not OF course. want all women"
she said with most human sort of smile
THE plumber for instance. or the carpenter.
or maybe the gardener. will be men. But
they must love children she reiterated.
MUST LOVE CHILDREN
You see, have very definite ideas about
these things-plumblng. let us say" she
went on. celebrating humorously. Now.
know nothing about plumbing aE.d yet
plumbing is very necessary to the home.
Let something go wrong with a pipe a
Splgot and We women have TO send for q
man, He comes. turns littls nut or some-
thing-it's no great physical exerton-and
the thing is fixed. Why couldn't we do it2
II want a plumber at the college who
would not mind five or six little girls watch
ing him work. who would consider II a
part OF the children's education, would
answer their questions and show them how
70 ix these little things
1T Is my idea that the heads of depart