This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rouse Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/10.2 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, August 31, 1916 PROF. E.L. ROUSE OF PERU NORMAL HERE ON FRIDAY Former city superintendent E.L. ROUSE, now of the Peru normal school will be at the Home Coming and school reunion on Friday, as the following letter received by County Superintendent MARQUARDT will show: “Fall City, August 28, 1916. Miss Eda Marquardt: I have had many invitations to be with my old pupils and friends at the school phase of the ‘Home Coming’ time. Sorrowfully I have written each that an institute engagement would not permit it. When I found yesterday that Prof. BROWN was to be with you, I thought, ‘Why couldn’t we swap work?’ I spoke to him. He is willing and thinks it a good move. I laid the matter before Supt. WEBER this morning. He most heartily approves. Now are you willing to grant this favor to your old friend who is so anxious to mingle with the boys and girls of other days? I promise you I’ll get on my toes and give you the best speeches I ever made, as many as Brown is down for Friday. I will pay all the extra expense we are both too [sic] in the change. Trusting you can see your way to do this I am your friend, E.L. ROUSE. “ The offer of Mr. Rouse has been accepted and he will be on deck Friday to join in the school picnic. Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, September 4, 1916 Returned to His Former Home in Plattsmouth. Professor E.L. ROUSE, dean of the Peru State Normal school and former superintendent of Plattsmouth schools has been visiting his many friends and admirers in this city during Home Coming week. Professor Rouse endeared himself to a large circle of both young and older people during his administration of the public schools at this place. He made an extra effort to come here for the festival. He wished to see his old pupils and he marched in the school parade on Friday. His genial “hello” was heard up and down Main street as he greeted former friends and he was the recipient of many congratulations on his success as a teacher and friend to the young people with whom he has been associated both here and elsewhere.