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

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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

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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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PANORAMA 193g ELIZABETH AMES WESTON PRESENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Director, Physical Education, Instructor, Hygiene, Child Health, Sanitation. and Theory of Physical Education. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Medford High School, Medford, Mass., Sargent School for Physical Education, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard Sum- mer School for Physical Education, Boston University, School of Educa- tion, B. S. in Ed. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N. J. GRADUATE STUDY: Summer schools-Boston University, Harvard Uni- versity. EXPERIENCE: Physical Education-New Brunswick, N. J., Atlantic City, N. J., Brookline, Mass., 2 years. Rural, Canton, Mass., 1 Assistant Har- vard Summer School, QCorrective Worklg 2 Hyannis Summer School, 4 years Playgrounds, 4 summers, Swimming Director, Girls' Camps. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: National Physical Education Associa- tion, Mass. Physical Education Association, Berkshire County Physical Education Association, State Teachers College Association, Sargent School Alumnae Association, Boston University Alumnae Association, Sig- ma Kappa Sorority, CNationalJ. EUROPEAN TRAVEL AND STUDY: 1930-England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland. WALLACE H. VENABLE PRESENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Instructor in Science, Economics, Arith- metic. Advisor, Student Council. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Bennington, Vt. High School, Univer- sity of Vermont, B. S. GRADUATE STUDY: 5 summer sessions, Teachers College, Columbia, De- gree A. M. in Education, T. C. Columbia, Professional certificate for teachers of Science, T. C. Columbia. EXPERIENCE: Rural grade school, Shaftsbury, Vt., Bennington, Vt., Principal, 2 years High School, Waitsfield, Vt., also of Junior High School and Junior-Senior High School, Vfaitsfield, Principal Junior-Senior High School, Jeffersonville-Cambridge, Vt., Supervising Principal J.-S. H. S., Jeffersonville, Cambridge, Instructor, North Adams Summer School, Instructor, English, Mass. Extension Course, Greenfield and Pittsfield, Instructor, Biology, Extension Course, North Adams, Assistant County Agricultural Agent, Lamoille County, Vt., Field Artillery, U. S. A. PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS OR RECOGNITIONS: Speaker at spe- cial groups at teachers' conventions, Collaborator, in construction, Mass. Elementary Grade Science Course and in construction of Mass. State Teachers College's Science Curriculum. 16