James Madison University - Bluestone Schoolmaam Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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= 4-Jil4lLllLsttutLVe td LAFAYETTE CARR Assistant Secretary to the Dean of Women LAURA FUNKHOUSER Secretary to the Registrar BESS T. HAMAKER Assistant to the Business Manager DORIS HEATWOLE Assistant Secretary to the President WILLIETTE HOPKINS Supervisor of Dormitories RUTH HUDSON Social Director Necessary to the last degree and very vital to the smooth running of the college was the administrative staff. It was the mission of Miss Hopkins to inspect our rooms and to see that our dormitories looked up-to-standard. She always came on the one morning of the week when we had decided to sleep late and had dashed out of bed as the bell rang for class — showering the room with our possessions, causing it to look as if a cyclone had just hit. Remember the dandelions which came up all over the campus? Mr. Long, who supervised their clipping when they grew up into puff balls, also had men ready when anything needed moving or any repair jobs were to be done. His duties were taken over during the spring quarter by Mr. Early, and we saw the buildings given a new exterior trimming in the form of a coat of paint. Most of this staff worked in offices. It was Miss Blain ' s and Miss Carr ' s responsibility to aid the Dean of Women in her sanctum, keep-

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w H r I JANE ELIASON GLADYS GOODMAN LUCIBEL CROOKSHANK Supervisor of Third Grade Supervisor of Fourth Grade Supervisor of Fifth Crude ...„ r% i i r o n r -ii i a r dlj B.S., State Teachers College, Johnson City, B.S.. Mad.son College-. M.A.. George Peabody B.S.. Mad.son College; M.A.. George Peabody Tennessee . M A George p Co , |ege f ' College for Teachers; 1936— College for Teachers; 1924— rge r ' eabody Teachers; 1930— ETHEL SPILMAN Supervisor of Junior High School B.A., Presbyterian College for Women, Norlh Carolina; University of North Carolina; Sum- mer School of the South; 1911 — ANNABEL ASL1NGER Supervisor of Junior High School B.S., Slate Teachers College, Johnson City, Ten- nessee; M.A., George Peabody College for Teachers; 1933— SALLIE H. BLOSSER JOSEPHINE WALKER MARTHA SIEG Supervisor of Junior High School Supervisor of Home Economics Supervisor of Home Economics B.S., Madison College; M.A., George Peabody B.S., Madison College; M.A., Teachers College, B.A., Wittenberg College; M.S., University of College for Teachers; 1920 — Columbia University; 1938 — Tennessee; Virginia Polytechnic Institute; 1939 — MILDRED KEMMER Supervisor of Home Economics (Dayton) B.S., State Teachers College, Murfreesboro, Tennessee; M.S., University of Tennessee; 1937— VIOLETTA DAVIS RYAN Supervisor of Rural Junior High School (Pleasant Hill) B.S., Madison College; M.A., Columbia University; 1930— yite J- ' cuLiiLiia cko l Into the life of every prospective teacher among us there came a time for participation in what is known as Student Teaching. It may have been at the Main Street School, at the Harrisonburg High School, or in one of the outlying communities, Dayton, Bridge- water, or Pleasant Hill — to which you commuted in the college car. But the problems were essentially the same: lesson plans, which always worked out in the way exactly opposite to what you wanted, when someone asked the wrong question; individual differences of children — if they had only been made all alike, they might stick together; conferences, in which you discussed everything from the child ' s history to the ethics of a future teacher; home visiting, when you didn ' t know what to say, so you said nothing. These were the trials of a student teacher, but it wasn ' t so bad after all ; and you got practical experience for the years in which you are to follow the profession.

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E.MMER F. LONG Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds LENA RALSTON Postmistress and Clerfy ELIZABETH ROLLER Assistant to the Business Manager HELEN SHARPES Assistant to the Business Manager EVANGELINE THOMAS Assistant Dietitian MARY R. WAPLES, R.N. School Nurse ing straight how many week-ends we had been off campus during one quarter, seeing to our date slips and late permissions. Mrs. Funkhouser assisted the registrar in keeping our essentials for graduation and our class cuts. Mrs. Hamaker, Miss Roller, and Mrs. Sharpes worked in the business manager ' s office and presided over the records and our bank accounts — which were usually at the status of zero. Miss Waples helped Dr. Weems in the college infirmary to cure our ailments, which ranged from flu and mumps to cuts and bruises. They always had some healing salve or pills to administer. Miss Ralston ' s work was to keep the lines at the switchboard straight and to put the mail, when there was any, into the right box. Miss Thomas saw that our food was on time, and Miss Hudson super- vised the social activities of the seniors. Yes, theirs were necessary ministries, and they performed for us services which we shall not soon forget.