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

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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

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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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1933 PANORAMA GRADUATE STUDY: Chautauqua work, five years, Harvard, Lowell, Uni- versity Extension Lecture courses. EXPERIENCE: All grades, West Hanover, Raynhamg Whitman: Supervis- ing Principal, Chelsea, Mass. primary and grammar building. Assisted in restoring system after great fire. Mark Hopkins training school: organ- izor and director, department of seven classes for retards, Binet tests giv- en. Teacher of History of Education in addition to present subjects at Teachers College: substitute librarian, summer school. PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS OR RECOGNITIONS: Contributions to educational papers: demonstration courses, talks to groups of teachers and to other organizations. MARY ANGELINA PEARSON PRESENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Instructor in Art and Handicraft. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Reading High School, Abbot Academy, Mass. School of Art. GRADUATE STUDY: Summer courses--Round Lake and Saratoga, N. Y.: Glens Falls, N. Y.: Martha's Vineyard, Mass: Harvard University, Sal- em Normal School, State College at Amherst, Rhode Island School of De- sign, N. Y. School of Fine and Applied Arts, North Adams Normal. EXPERIENCE: Rural school, Reading, two years: grade schools, South- bridge, one year. Supervised Drawing, in groups of towns about Boston, including Cohasset, North Easton, Easton, Foxboro, Walpole, Rockland, Whitman, Bradford, Merrimac, five years. PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS OR RECOGNITION: Articles for School Arts Magazine, Nature Drawing From Various Points of View , Pro- ceedings of Eastern Arts Association, Bulletin, Mass. School of Art, Axis. Numerous talks on travel and various art themes to such groups as Wom- en's Clubs, Parent-Teachers Association, Teachers' Conventions, Summer Schools, and The Business Men's Art League. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: Member, American Federation of Arts, Eastern Arts Association, International Art Congress, Mass. State Teach- ers College Association, Berkshire Teachers Association. EUROPEAN TRAVEL AND STUDY: Summer of 1898, visited historic liter- ary and art shrines, 1901-1902, year's leave of absence for travel and study at the Colorossi Academie-Course Mucha-Paris: 1908, attend- ed International Art Congress in London, 1928, attended meetings and exhibitions, Prague and in Bruno, Moravia, 1932, visited International Art Exhibit at Venice and Prof. Cezek's School in Vienna. EXHIBITIONS AND PRIZES: Exhibited, Mass. School of Art: World's Fairs, Toronto and Chicago: Eastern Arts Association, Springfield, State Teach- ers College, North Adams, Public Library, North Adams. 15