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Caption: Illio - 1896
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<&rancte (Ut. (Jttc(Kag. Francis If, McKay, o f Chicago, graduated from the I n i v e r s i t y of Illinois in 1879. lie it one of Chicago's moat p r o m i n o n t •dncator*. Now principal of t h e AIM lemon Si hool, In* s has, since l* 2, been siicn—I \. I y principal of tin* West .Jackson Street School, the Washington School IUMI the H o n d a s School. Probahly the one thing which, in the opinion ol all friends of the 1 . of I. above all others, renders Mr. McKay distinguished is the fact that he is the author of the bill in the Legislature which made the Trustees of the ("niversitv SI elective officers. He is also t h e author of the bill in the last Legislature providing for state scholarships in the University. Mr. MeKav served nine y e a r s on t h e Hoard of Trustees. having retired in lv».">. BJ (Katharine Q& T&absttortfc Katharine B. Wadsworth graduated from t h e University of Illinois in 1881. After graduation she spent three years studying with Madame .Jennv T. Kempton. In the fall of 1*84 she took charge of t h e music d e p a r t m e n t at t h e University of Illinois. Daring the winter of 1893 ami 1894 she studied with the old impressario, Max Maretzek. Receiving new enthusiasm, she went to New York, where she studied with 8ig. Achille Errani. She traveled through the West with an opera company under the direction of Max Maretzek, taking the leading role of Elvira in the opera 44 Ernani." In the fall of 1804 she resumed her studies in New York, and made an engagement with Maud Powell's String Quartette as soprano soloist. While with them she sang in many of the leading cities of the New England States with pronounced success. f 84
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