Ralph Lee Eyman

Ralph Lee Eyman (also Ralph L. Eyman , born August 5, 1885 in Golden , Adams County , Illinois , United States , † April 28, 1986 in the United States) was an American educationalist .

Life

Family and education

Ralph Lee Eyman was from the state of lying Illinois village of Golden. He was the son of Daniel F. Eyman (1853-1927) and Sarah Emily Eyman, nee Shank (1857-1924). After graduating from high school , he studied at the Western Illinois State Teachers College in Macomb from 1908 to 1910 . A subsequent study of agricultural sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , he graduated in 1914 with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture. In 1928 he received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, Doctor of Education (EdD) .

The Presbyterian baptized Ralph Lee Eyman married on August 20, 1914 with Esther Allen Kern (1891-1961), who was born in Normal . The children of the relationship were David Russell, Ruth Louise (Mrs. William Clyatt), Mary Jeanne (Mrs. LA Smith) and Robert Lee. After the death of his first wife, he married Lenora Nott on November 11, 1961, widowed Brownlow (1889-1965). Ralph Lee Eyman died in April 1986 at the age of 100. He found his final resting place next to his first wife in Oakland Cemetery in Tallahassee .

Professional background

Ralph Lee Eyman taught at a one-room school from 1904 to 1907 . In 1910 he was appointed principal at the John Swaney Consolidated School in McNabb, Illinois, in 1912 he resigned. From 1914 he worked as Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the State Teachers College in Kent , Ohio . In 1920 he moved to normal as Professor of Agriculture at Illinois State Normal University , and in 1920 he resigned. He was then employed until 1926 as a County Agricultural Agent in Jerseyville , Illinois. In 1928 he followed a call as Professor of Education at Florida State University in Tallahassee, in 1937 he was appointed Dean of the College of Education, in 1956 he was adopted into retirement. In addition, Ralph Lee Eyman was a consultant for the Point IV program in Thailand from 1951 to 1953 .

The Freemason and staunch Democrat Ralph Lee Eyman was one of the leading educationalists in the United States of his time. Ralph Lee Eyman was a member of the Academic Associations Alpha Zeta, Kappa Delta Pi, Phi Delta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi and Zeta Psi.

Publications

• Differentiation in the function and training of rural and urban elementary school teachers. Thesis (Doctor of educ.) - University of California, May 1928, Berkeley, 1928
• Ralph Lee Eyman Papers. Archival material: English

literature

• Robert Cecil Cook: Who's who in American Education: A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Living Educators of the United States. : Volume 9. Who's Who in American Education, Nashville, Tenn., 1940, p. 252.
• The Nation's Schools .: Volume 42. McGraw Hill, Chicago, Ill., 1948, p. 20.
• Who's Who in America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women. : Volume 28 (1954-1955). Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1955, p. 826.
• Who Was Who in America. : Volume VII, 1977–1981 with world notables . Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1981, p. 186.

Web links

• Ralph Lee Eyman in the database of Find a Grave (English)