Council biographies project
- Scope
- Creating biographical pages for National Council members, past and present
Contents
Guidelines
Please feel free to add projects as you see fit and join in tackling some of the projects as a participant. As projects are completed and reviewed please remove them from the Open Tasks section below.
Open tasks
Current Council
- Colleen Dougherty
- Lisa Howard
Scholar's Province and Past Council
Referring the the Scholar's Province (12th Ed) I have broken up task sections based on the text sections where we can start creating biographical pages on the information provided. Please take a section and complete the respective biographies for the individuals covered in that section. After you complete a section please remove it from the list. Not all individuals mentioned are necessarily former Council members, however please still create or complete biographies for everyone mentioned. * Founders, pages 11-13
Dr. Eldo L. Hendricks
President of Warrensburg instituion from 1915 until his retirement in 1937.
Head of the History Department in 1910. Served as Phi Sigma Pi's Central Regional Director from 1931 until 1935.
Died on November 22, 1938
Dr. Claude A. Phillips
Spent a total of eighteen years at Warrensburg before becoming the director of the University Elementary School at the University of Missouri.
Served as the chairman for the University of Missouri Committee on Accredited Schools and Colleges from 1926 to 1949.
Wrote several books on education, including Adventuring in Young America and Building Our Country, both publised in 1929.
Dr. C.H. McClure
Served Warrensburg for eighteen years and thirteen years as the head of History Department.
Accpeted the teaching position at the State Teachers College, Kirksville, Missouri (now known at Truman State University) in 1928 where he worked to form the Beta chapter of Phi Sigma Pi. He formed the Beta Chapter in 1929.
Served both National Counselor and Vice President from 1930 to 1937. Publised several books including The Story of Ancient Times in 1937 and A World Background for the United States in 1946. He was awarded for the first Distinguished Service Key ever issued by Phi Sigma Pi in 1931.
* Growth and Stability, pages 14-19
Joseph G. Bryan
Elected as the first National President of Phi Sigma Pi.
Rolla F. Wood
Became the National President in 1928.
Walter P. Percival
Elected Natioal President in 1930.
Clarence O. Williams
National Secretary from 1930 to 1936
Used his position as an associate professor of education at Pennsylvania State College, State Collge, Pennsylvania.
Clair B. Wilson
National President
Recognized the need to encourage the learning of the material and transformed his ideas into the Handbook of Phi Sigma Pi.
* War Years, pages 19-22
* Co-ed 22-23
* Rebirth and revitalization, pages 24-28
* 21st Century, pages 29-30
Participants
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.
- Jonah Goodman (I am getting current Council to add and edit their biographies)
- National Alumni Development Committee (the committee will be working on the Scholar's Province section)
- Patrick Herron (I will look through my original notes I used when editing and working with Hoyt to re-write historical section. The new content in the current edition ie. list of publications were from research I did last year)
New articles
Please feel free to list your new Council Biography-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page.
- Colleen Dougherty
- Lisa Ambrosia Howard
- Josh Marder
- Joshua Coonrod
- Patrick Herron
- Jonah Goodman
- Erik Walschburger
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