Byron Cosby Essays
Ms Collection C7
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Record Class: Essays
Date: 1910-1935
Creator: Byron CosbyProvenance: UnknownExtent:
0.2 linear feet
Organization: Subject
Language: English
Repository: Special Collections Department, Pickler Memorial Library,
Truman State University
Access: Open
Processed by: Unknown
Keywords: Byron Cosby; Montreal;
Fredericksburg; Education; Teaching
Biography:
Byron Cosby (February 27, 1878 – February 4, 1961) of Appleton City, MO, earned
a Bachelor of Science in Education (1906) and a Master of Arts (1910) at the
University of Missouri. After completing his Masters, he joined the
faculty of the First District Normal School (later Northeast Missouri State
Teachers College, now Truman State University) as Professor of Mathematics.
In 1925, he moved from teaching faculty to administration and, as Business
Manager, took over the college’s fiscal operations. He left in 1936 to
establish a teachers’ agency, The Educational Service Bureau, in Columbia,
Missouri.
Byron was an active member of
the Missouri State Teachers Association and of the National Education
Association. He was on the 1917 committee that organized the Missouri
Section of the Mathematics Association of America and was the founder of Alpha
Phi Sigma, the national scholastic honorary, on the Northeast campus in 1930.
He also contributed the “Teaching of Arithmetic” article for Bufton’s
Universal Cyclopedia (1922).
Abstract: This collection
consists of seven original typed essays collected in a binder which Cosby wrote while at Northeast Missouri
State Teachers College. One is in draft form with handwritten corrections;
only two are dated.
◙ A Morning in Montreal, Sept 1, 1928
◙ A Day in Fredericksburg, June 6, 1931
◙ The Open Door
◙ Religious Leadership
◙ The Teacher
◙ The Teaching Profession – Its Rewards
◙ Wonderways and Leisure Days
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