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Show 10. GSCAR RUSSELL TO BE 1 INSTRUCTOR AT COLUMBIA G. Oscar Russell, head of the English Eng-lish department of the Weber college, will sever his connection with the local lo-cal Mormon church school at the Hose of the present school term, according to an announcement made b Principal James L. Barker. He has accepted a position as an instructor in the new school of commerce at Columbia university uni-versity and will assume the position next fall. This recognition of the young Weber college instructor (he is only 26 years of age) is taken as a G. OSCAR RUSSELL. fine criterion of the faculty of instruc tion that is afforded the academy and Weber college' students. Prof. Russell teaches Spanish at the academy and also special classes in the same language, under the direction direc-tion of the University of Utah extension exten-sion department. He was born and reared in Conejos, Colo., on the Tierra Amarilla grant, one of a group of colonies col-onies established by Spam, about 1592, before the Pilgrim fathers landed on American soil. His elementary and high school education was obtained in the Sacred Heart academy at Conejos, among the Spaniards and under the tuition of the Spanish nuns. He served serv-ed as a missionary of the Mormon church in Germany from 1910 to 1913, and then took a college course at the Brigham Young university, Provo, receiving re-ceiving an A. B. degree. Post-graduate work at Columbia university followed fol-lowed and he returned to Utah in 1916 to take a position in the faculty of Weber college. While at Columbia, he was assocl ated with Prof Raymond Weeks, head of the romance languages department, and at his request equipped the phonetics pho-netics laboratory at the universitv. It was due to this work that he obtained his new position and he will teach Spanish. He will also continue his work for a higher degree. Five Weber We-ber college faculty members will be at the University of Chicago this summer, sum-mer, two at Columbia and one at Berkeley, Cal. "Improvement while in service is our aim," said Principal Barker this morning, speaking of the college faculty. fac-ulty. "We hold regular meetings for the purpose of discussing the best methods nf teaching and reporting upon up-on the latest findings of the educational education-al world. The best is none too good at Weber. Our college department, especially, Is becoming recognized for its high standard of scholarship and its instructors are being sought by the institutions of higher learning throughout through-out the state." nn |