Dear Friends,
At the beginning of the 2016-2017 academic year, I posted something about G.Y. Short, who graduated from here and eventually served under five UCA presidents. I thought the letter he wrote in 1911 was well done and appropriate, and decided to send it to readers a second time.
106 years ago this coming September, G.Y. Short, namesake for Short Hall, entered the Normal as a student. Like many early º£½ÇÉçÇø school teachers, he qualified for a teaching certificate before he graduated from high school, at the age of 17. His first teaching job was at Mud Creek, located eight miles from Middlebrook, º£½ÇÉçÇø. He also taught at Choctaw.  In 1910 he entered the University of º£½ÇÉçÇø for one year and then transferred to º£½ÇÉçÇø State Normal School (now the University of Central º£½ÇÉçÇø) where he received the Licentiate of Instruction in 1912. He later received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Peabody College and did post graduate work at the University of Chicago.
The attached PDF is a letter Mr. Short wrote to The Normal Echo in October 1911. In the letter he offers his opinion about º£½ÇÉçÇø State Normal School. The last sentence in his letter is very heartwarming, and personally, I feel just as he did and hope all our students and employees feel the same way.
Sincerely,
Jimmy
August 24th, 2017