Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1909 — Former Rensselaer Teachers Ascend Educational Ladder. [ARTICLE]

Former Rensselaer Teachers Ascend Educational Ladder.

The success that is being attained by former teachers in the Rensselaer public schools pays an indirect compliment to the insight of tie school board that made the selections. The Republican recently reported the selection Of Prof. W. H. Sanders, a former superintendent of our schools and now at Bloomington, as one of the professors in the Wisconsin state normal school at LaCrosse. Our attention was recently called to the selection of a president of the River Falls, Wis., normal school. The man selected unanimously by the state board of normal sobool regents Is Howard L Wilson, who was principal of the Rensselaer schools in the early nineties and who will be remembered by many off the pupils of the high school of that period. Prof. Wilson was a young graduate of Indiana University when he came to Rensselaer and this was his first high school work. He was an able instructor and a great student He has a fine educational record. After his graduation from I. U. he took post graduate work for two years at Cornell and, then completed, with a year’s work at Harvard. He taught school in Indiana for a few years and; then became principal of the Sioux Falls, S. Dak., schools, and later, became one of the teachers of the River Falls Normal School, of Which he has just been elected the president. Another former teacher here to climb to greater height is Prof. Eugene Bohannan, who is now the : president of the normal school at Duluth, Minn, Prof. Purdue, who was here one year, is now the professor of geology in the University of Arkansas. The Rensselaer schools seem to he a firm stepping stone for ambitious teachers.