Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1918 — OMAR DAY TO BE PURDUE UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTOR [ARTICLE]

OMAR DAY TO BE PURDUE UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTOR

Omar Day, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Day of this city, and a graduate of Rensselaer high school and Purdue University, has been appointed assistant instructor of vocational education at Purdue University and will take up his duties at that institution about the fifteenth of the present month. For the past several years Professor Day has been the manual training instructor in an Indianapolis high 3 ‘hool where he met with great success and his splendid work attracted the attention 0 f the Purdue officials. Since leaving Ren.weia*r Pro* feasor Day has met with marker success in all lines es endeavor and his friends will be greatly pleased tp learn of his selection as a member of the Purdue faculty. The offer came as a distinct surprise to Mr. Day, as he had not made application, for the position. However, he accepted the opportunity readily, and there is no doubt but that he will make good in his nfew field.