O.E. PETERSON PASSES AWAY

Director of Placement at Northern Dies Tuesday at Cincinnati

   O.E. Peterson, director of placement at Northern Illinois State Teachers College and head of the department of education, died last evening in the Deaconess Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he had been since stricken by paralysis March 24.
   The attack came while he was visiting his son, Orville, during the Easter holiday.  Other survivors are his wife, Esther, and two daughters, Olive and Bette, respectively Mrs. Donald Powell of Sterling and Mrs. Bud Plapp of Sycamore.
   Otto Edward Peterson was born May 4, 1885 in Litchfield, Minn. He graduated from Augustana College in Rock Island in 1907 and took his Master's degree at the University of Chicago in 1910, later doing graduate work at the University of Wisconsin and University of Illinois.
   His experience in education included teaching at East High School, Aurora, and the principal ship of Elburn public schools and superintendency of Sycamore public schools.  He came to Northern Illinois State Teachers College in 1923.
              Was a Leader
   His life given to education, Mr. Peterson at various times served in positions of leadership among organizations of the profession.  He was president of the Northern Illinois Conference of Supervision as well as of the Northeast Division of the Illinois Education Association in 1923.  He was president of the Teachers Placement Association of Illinois Colleges and Universities from 1935-1937 and was a member of the Educational Survey at Mooseheart in 1926.
   A member of Kappa Delta Pi, national honor organization in education, he published numerous articles in his field including; "Teacher Training Survey - 17 Counties in Northern Illinois" which was published in Illinois Teacher in 1929; "Whither is the So-Called Science in Education Leading Us?" published in Educational Review in 1928; and he collaborated with others in such articles as "Why Not a Planned Attach on That 40-Year Lag?" which appeared in Elementary School Journal in 1945 and an article "Child Guidance Program and Teacher Preparation," Educational Administration and Supervision in 1943.
   For many years he was an active member of the DeKalb Rotary Club and of the DeKalb First Lutheran Church.  He belonged to such professional groups as the National Association advisory committee of the Illinois.  He was a member of the Conference on Supervision of Northern Illinois of the Committee of Seven of the National Education Association m and a member of the advisory committee of the Illinois Institutes for Juvenile Research. 
   His son, Orville, who recently took his doctorate from University of Chicago, is director of curriculum research of the public schools of Cincinnati.

DeKalb Daily Chronicle
DeKalb Illinois
Wednesday, April 25, 1951