Albert Henry Yoder
Supt. Schools, Tacoma, Wash.
Born Nora Springs, Iowa,
1866. Educated at State Normal School, Madison, S. D.;
University of Indiana; Clark University, Chicago, and Northwestern
Universities. Taught three years in common schools;
Superintendent schools, Madison, S. D., three years; pedagogy Indiana
University, 1893; Principal city schools, California, 1895; President
Vincennes University, 1896 - 1900; Editor Journal of Childhood and
Adolescence; Professor of pedagogy University of Washington, 1905 -
1906. Lecturer on Childhood and Adolescence.
Manual training, cooking,
sewing and freehand and mechanical drawing and gymnasium work for boys
and girls have been introduced in the schools. Has inaugurated a
series of Eighth Grade debates, and the pianola is used in all the
schools to aid in the teaching of music. Have the parental
school and are arranging for medical inspection of the
schools.
Source:
"Brewer's Directory of School Superintendents and Normal
Principals", In cities with a population above two
thousand Revised to February, 1907 Published by the Orville
Brewer Publishing Co. The Auditorium, Chicago.
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