EFFIE GRAHAM.
The last place one would expect to find romance is in arithmetic and
yet--Miss Effie Graham, the head of the Department of Mathematics in the
Topeka High School, has found it there and better still, in her lecture
``Living Arithmetic\'\' she has shown others the way to find it there. Miss
Graham is one of the most talented women of the state. Ex-Gov. Hoch has
called her ``one of the most gifted women in the state noted for its brilliant
women. Her heart and life are as pure as her mind is bright.\'\'
She was born and reared in Ohio, the daughter of a family of Ohio
pioneers, a descendant of a Revolutionary soldier and also, of a warrior of
1812. As a student of the Ohio Northern University and later as a postgraduate
worker at the University of California, Chicago University, and
Harvard Summer School, she has as she says, ``graduated sometimes and
has a degree but never `finished\' her education.\'\'
Desiring to get the school out into the world as well as the world back
to the school, she has spoken and written on ``Moving Into The King
Row,\'\' ``Other Peoples\' Children,\'\' ``Spirit of the Younger Generation,\'\'
``Vine Versus Oak,\'\' and ``The Larger Service.\'\'
``Pictures Eight Hundred Children Selected,\'\' ``Speaking of
Automobiles,\'\' ``The Unusual Thing,\'\' ``The High Cost of Learning,\'\' and
``Wanted--A Funeral of Algebraic Phraseology;\'\' also, some verse, ``The
Twentieth Regiment Knight\'\' and ``Back to God\'s Country\'\' are magazine
work that never came back. School Science & Mathematics, a magazine to
which she contributes and of which she is an associate editor, gives hers as
the only woman\'s name on its staff of fifty editors.