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Rh that class that was largely responsible for her taking up the study of home economics and also perhaps the reason for her taking up chemistry when in college. While pursuing her course in chemistry she became very much interested in science in the home, a line that has since claimed her attention. Following her graduation from college she taught for a year in the public school at Barberton, Ohio and was planning to teach chemistry, but decided that she would study home economics and entered Drexel Institute. All during her student days there she took every subject that she thought would have any bearing on household science. In 1905 she was graduated from Drexel Institute and immediately after began to teach in the Kansas State College, at Pittsburg, Kansas, where she remained for three years. In 1908 when plans were being made for the East Technical high school at Cleveland, Professor Orth remembered that Miss Greer had been in one of his classes in Buchtel College and wrote, asking that she come to Cleveland, which she did and was made head of the department of home economics in that school. When she first took up the work in Cleveland, she headed the food department and when the food and clothing departments were combined, she became head of the department of home economics, in which position she continued from 1908 to 1929. Then the character of the technical schools of Cleveland changed and she was made head of the department of home economics in the John Hay high school, in which capacity she is still serving.

Miss Greer is the author of a work on Home Making, which was written in 1932 and revised in 1937. In January, 1938, there was organized over the country an honorary society of teachers, the Delta Kappa Gamma, composed of women who have done outstanding things and Miss Greer became one of the charter members. Her hobby is interior decorating and nearly all of the work she has done in the laboratory she has applied in her home and school work. She has at all times been actuated by a most progressive spirit and has advanced steadily step by step since taking up educational work.

ELIZABETH GUILFOILE, principal of Twelfth District School, Cincinnati, is the author of children’s stories that have appeared in magazines for juveniles, the writer of educational articles that have enjoyed publication and collaborator of a text book, “English Activities,” a series of language text books for elementary and high schools. The series were written by Miss Guilfoile in collaboration with Wilbur H. Hatfield, editor of the English Journal and president of the National Council Teachers of English, and Dr. E. E. Lewis of Ohio State University.

She compiled the Primary Beading- Curriculum Bulletin and is now at work on “The Teaching of English in the Elementary Grades,” a work for teachers. She is chairman of the committee on language expression in kindergarten and primary grades.