Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts - Mohawk Yearbook (North Adams, MA)

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i933 I PANORAMA THOMAS F. CUMMINGS PRESENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Supervisor, Practical Arts, State Teachers College. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Grammar and High Schools of North Ad- ams: Summer course-Columbia. EXPERIENCE: North Adams City Schools and State Teachers College. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: Member, Mass. State Teachers College Association. VIVIAN DIX PRESENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Head of Department of Music. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Boston University, B. S.: Faelten School, Boston, Mass., soloist's diploma New England Conservatory of Music, tcacher's diploma. GRADUATE STUDY: Boston University: Private study with Stuart Mason and F. L. Grover, piano and organ. EXPERIENCE: Director of Music, The Colby School, New London, N. H., 1919-22: Supervisor of Public School Music, Chatham, Orleans, Harwich, Mass., 1923: State Normal School, Keene, N. H., 1924: Plymouth, Mass., 1926-27: St. Petersburg, Florida 1925-28: State Teachers College, North Adams, 1930. PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITIONS: Honor Certificate, New England Con- servatory and Boston University. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: National Supervisor's Association, In a.nd About Boston Supervisor's Club, Mass. School Festival Association, Mass. State Teachers College Association, National Education Associa- tion. MINNIE BURKE FIGMIC PRESENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Acting Librarian. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Simmons College, Boston, Mass., B. S. EXPERIENCE: Varied experience in college, scientific, industrial, business, public libraries. Librarian, Plymouth, Mass. Public Library, six years. PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS OR RECOGNITIONS: Contributions to '6House-Organs , newspapers, library publications on library subjects, li- brary problems, book reviews, etc. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: Member, American Library Association, Detroit Writers' Club, Mass. Library Club, Old Colony Library Club, Plymouth Antiquarian Society. 13

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PANORAMA 1933 GRADUATE STUDY: Curry School of Expression Summer sessions, Colum- bia University summer sessions, Chicago University, one year, Boston University summer session. EXPERIENCE: Rural school, Town of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., private school, Nashville, Tenn., State Normal School, Westchester, Pa., University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore., State Normal School, Milwaukee, Wis., State Teachers College, North Adams, Mass., Curry School of Expression, sum- mer sessions, State Normal School, Castleton, Vt., summer sessions, State Normal School, Hyannis, Mass., summer sessions. PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS: Outlines, Language courses for use in Mark Hopkins School, Outline of Story-Telling and Speech Training for use in State Normal Schools of Mass., Outlines of courses in Children's Literature for use in State Teachers Colleges in Mass., Various talks to Teachers' conventions, P. T. Assn., 'kVomen's clubs. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: North Adams Teachers' Association, Berkshire County Teachers' Association, New England Association of Teachers of English, National Education Association, National Council of Teachers of English, Mass. State Teachers' College Association. EUROPEAN TRAVEL AND STUDY: A general European tour. FANNIE ARNOLD BISHOP PRESENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Principal Mark Hopkins Kindergarten, In- structor in Kindergarten Methods. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Connecticut State Normal School at Wil- limantic, diploma in Kindergarten, 1897, certificate for teaching Grade 1 after 5 months training period, 1898. Teachers College, Columbia, B. S., 1921. EXPERIENCE: 319 years, Assistant to Kindergarten training teacher, Wil- limantic Model School, 3 years, Principal, Kindergarten, Norwich, Conn. Returned to Willimantic to take place of instructor, who was called to North Adams, also Principal Kindergarten, Model School, ISLQ years in all, connection with Alma Mater. 1921, North Adams, Mark Hopkins Kin- dergarten. PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTION OR RECOGNITIONS: Honor Certificate from Willimantic Normal School, Member State of Connecticut Pension Committee, Member Committee for Progressive Education in Mass. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: Officer in Kindergarten organizations, Conn. and Mass., Member Grade Teachers' Association, North Adams, Berkshire County Teachers' Association, State Kindergarten Association, Association for Childhood Education flnternational Association-Nurs- ery School, Kindergarten, Primary Grades representedj, National Edu- cation Association. 12

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PANORAMA 1933 ROGER FRANKLIN HOLMES PRESENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Instructor in Educational Psychology, Phil- osophly, Method and Management, Penmanship: Director of practice teaching: Principal, Mark Hopkins training school. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: New Britain, Ct. High School, 1916: Wes- leyan University, B. A., 1920. GRADUATE STUDY: Connecticut Summer Normal School, Boston Univer- sity. EXPERIENCE: Teaching principal, Cummington, Mass., 1921-22: Instructor, Latin, Ancient History, English Literature, Wellesley Hills Junior High School, 1923: Supervising Principal, West Concord, Mass., 1923-25: Sup- ervising principal, Quincy, Mass., 1925-28: North Adams, 1928. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: Research committee, Mass. State Teach- ers' College Teachers' Association: Berkshire County Superintendents' As- sociation: Mass. Schoolmasters' Club. ELIZABETH M. JENKINS PRESENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Instructor in Arithmetic methods, Educa- tional Psychology, Rural Education. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Easton, Me. High School, 1903: Aroo- stook, Me. State Normal School, 1905: Advance course, Aroostook State Normal, 1906. GRADUATE STUDY: Summer school, Aroostook State Normal School, Ply- mouth, N. H., Normal School: Johnson, Vt., Normal School: Columbia University, Chicago University. EXPERIENCE: Rural school, Limestone, Maine: Primary grades, Presque Isle, Maine: Demonstration teacher and supervisor of primary grades, Aroostook State Normal, Presque Isle, Maine: Principal State Teachers Training Class, Barre, Vt.: Supervisor, Rural Schools, Dover, Del.: In- structor, Rural Education, Delaware University: State Teachers College, North Adams. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: Member, Rural Education Committee, National Education Association. EUROPEAN TRAVEL AND STUDY: England, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy, France. ALICE OWENS PRESENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Instructor, Grammar and Composition: Language, Reading, Penmanship Methods. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Trenton, N. J. High and Normal Schools: Quincy, Mass. Training School, Harvard summer session. 14