Emma Sarepta Yule

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| birth_date = March 25, 1863

| birth_place = Cedar County, Iowa, U.S.

| death_date = April 16, 1939 (age 76)

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

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Emma Sarepta Yule (March 25, 1863 – April 16, 1939) was an American educator and writer. She is remembered as the first schoolteacher in Everett, Washington; she was superintendent of Everett school from 1897 to 1900. She later taught in Alaska, and was an English professor at the University of the Philippines for 27 years. She wrote three illustrated books about Japan. In 2020, a park in Everett was named for Yule.

Early life and education

Yule was born in Iowa, one of the sixteen children of Samuel Yule. She was the last child of his first wife, Sarepta Elvira Clark Yule, who died in childbirth. Her father was born in Scotland, and an abolitionist; the family's farm was a safe stop on the Underground Railroad.{{Cite web |last=Shattuck |first=Ben |date=2014-06-24 |title=Remnants of the Underground Railroad |url=https://themorningnews.org/article/remnants-of-the-underground-railroad |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=The Morning News}} She graduated from Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls in 1886.{{Cite book |last=University of the Philippines |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pxpf8Om74RoC&dq=Emma+S.+Yule&pg=PA20 |title=Catalogue: Announcements |date=1916 |publisher=Bureau of Printing |pages=20 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |date=July–August 1897 |title=Supt. Miss Emma S. Yule |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UugBAAAAYAAJ&dq=Emma%20S.%20Yule%20Iowa&pg=RA10-PA14 |journal=Northwest Journal of Education |volume=8 |pages=14}}

Career

Yule was a "pioneer teacher",{{Cite news |date=1932-03-13 |title=Pioneer Teacher Here is Paid a Glowing Tribute; Emma Sarepta Yule Organized Everett's School System |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-herald-pioneer-teacher-here-is/159976396/ |access-date=2024-11-29 |work=The Daily Herald |pages=7 |via=Newspapers.com}} principal, and superintendent of schools in Everett, Washington, from 1891 to 1900,{{Cite web |last=Fox|first=Deborah A.|date=2018-09-02 |title=Viewpoints: What Emma Yule taught Everett, then and now |url=https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/viewpoints-what-emma-yule-taught-everett-then-and-now/ |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=The Herald|language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Fox |first=Deb |date=2020-03-09 |title=An Important Woman on Everett's Map: Emma Yule |url=https://www.liveineverett.com/blog//an-important-woman-on-everetts-map-emma-yule |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=Live in Everett |language=en-US}} and in Juneau, Alaska, between 1900 and 1910.{{Cite news |date=1910-04-01 |title=School Board Tells Why |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-alaskan-school-board-tells-why/159976041/ |access-date=2024-11-29 |work=The Daily Alaskan |pages=1 |via=Newspapers.com}} She was a professor of English at the University of the Philippines for 27 years, before she retired in 1937.{{Cite web |title=Emma Sarepta Yule |url=https://nw.epls.org/digital/collection/People/id/33/ |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=Everett Public Library, Northwest History Room Archives |language=en}}

Publications

Yule's articles about the Philippines, Japan, China, and Korea were published in Mid-Pacific Magazine, Scribner's Monthly, Current History, American Speech, and other English-language periodicals. She was editor of The Philippine Agriculturist, a campus publication.

An introduction to the study of colonial history, for use in secondary schools (1912){{Cite book |last=Yule |first=Emma Sarepta |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006557634 |title=An introduction to the study of colonial history, for use in secondary schools |date=1912 |publisher=Bureau of printing |location=Manila}}
"The Virgin of Antipolo" (1914){{Cite journal |last=Yule |first=Emma Sarepta |date=November 1914 |title=The Virgin of Antipolo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jdi6lGISvmIC&q=Antipolo&pg=PA423 |journal=Mid-Pacific Magazine |volume=8 |pages=423–429}}
"Carriers of Light and Laughter" (1917){{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=__xBAQAAIAAJ&dq=Emma+Sarepta+Yule&pg=PA211 |title=Philippine Agriculturist and Forester |date=1928 |publisher=College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines. |pages=211 |language=en}}
"Some Superstitions and Customs of the Filipino Farmers" (1919)
"The Boys' Festival in Japan" (1920)
"Filipino Feminism" (1920)Yule, Emma Sarepta. "Filipino Feminism." Scribners (June 1920) (1920): 738–46.
"Rice Growing as Portrayed in Chinese Art" (1921)
"Japan's New Woman" (1921){{Cite news |date=1921-09-02 |title=Japan's New Woman |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-news-japans-new-woman/159976449/ |access-date=2024-11-29 |work=The Miami News |pages=7 |via=Newspapers.com}}
"Miss China" (1922)Yule, Emma Sarepta. "Miss China." Scribner’s Magazine, LXXI 1 (1922): 66–79.
"The Young Women Rebels of Korea" (1923){{Cite journal |last=Yule |first=Emma Sarepta |date=1923 |title=The Young Women Rebels of Korea |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/45329512 |journal=Current History |volume=17 |issue=6 |pages=1017–1020 |jstor=45329512 |issn=2641-080X}}
"Christmas in the Philippines" (1923)
"Down the Rapids: Week End Trip to Pagsanjan Gorge and Falls" (1925)
Preparation of Scientific and Technical Papers (1925, with Sam Farlow Trelease){{Cite book |last1=Trelease |first1=Sam Farlow |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CLE3AAAAMAAJ |title=Preparation of Scientific and Technical Papers |last2=Yule |first2=Emma Sarepta |date=1925 |publisher=Williams & Wilkins |language=en}}
"The English Language in the Philippines" (1925){{Cite journal |last=Yule |first=Emma Sarepta |date=1925 |title=The English Language in the Philippines |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/452557 |journal=American Speech |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=111–120 |doi=10.2307/452557 |jstor=452557 |issn=0003-1283|url-access=subscription }}
Stories from Japanese History for Boys and Girls (1926)
In Kimono Land (1927){{Cite book |last=Yule |first=Emma Sarepta |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YZqwzIJnWjYC&q=Emma+Sarepta+Yule |title=In Kimono Land |date=1927 |publisher=Rand, McNally & Company |language=en}}
In Japan: Without Clock or Calendar (1935){{Cite book |last=Yule |first=Emma Sarepta |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006574336 |title=In Japan: without clock or calendar |date=1935 |publisher=The Stratford company |location=Boston, Mass.}}

Personal life and legacy

Yule died in 1939, in Los Angeles, at the age of 76. She left money for a women's scholarship fund at the University of Washington.{{Cite web |title=IN RE: Yule's Estate (1943) |url=https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ca-court-of-appeal/1791306.html |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=Findlaw |language=en-US}} In 2020, a city park in Everett was named for Yule; Emma Yule Park opened in 2022.{{Cite web |last=Watanabe |first=Ben |date=2020-02-02 |title=Namesake for Everett's newest park was a pioneering educator |url=https://www.heraldnet.com/news/namesake-for-everetts-newest-park-was-a-pioneering-educator/ |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=The Herald |language=en-US}}[https://www.everettwa.gov/facilities/facility/details/Emma-Yule-Park-161 Emma Yule Park], Facilities, City of Everett, Washington.

References

Category:1863 births

Category:1939 deaths

Category:People from Cedar County, Iowa

Category:American women writers

Category:American educators