E.A. Jenner, Professor Emeritus
"I love the teaching profession, and my greatest pleasure is found in leading young people to a higher appreciation of life in the fullest sense of that term."
-Edwin A. Jenner, in a letter to Dr. Paul Linn, president of Central College (now Central Methodist University), applying for the position of Professor of Biology.
Edwin A. Jenner originally came from Iowa-- his college education was at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, where he graduated in 1903, and he briefly attended Iowa State University until receiving a fellowship from the University of Wisconsin in 1907. By the time he applied for the position at Central, Prof. Jenner had been teaching biology for a combined 17 years, and was praised by his colleagues both for his enthusiasm for teaching and for the example he set for his pupils.
When J. Clark Salyer arrived at Central in 1920, Prof. Jenner had just been hired by Central; Salyer may have well indeed been a student in the first Biology classes that Jenner had taught at Central.
