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The place was a large study room at Technical. The time was the beginning of a study period. All of the students had settled down to study, except for a group in the far corner. Miss Hill, singling outa boy whose position was not the orthodox one for study, inquired, John, lust what are you doing? I No-o-thing, muttered John as he sat up and reached for his boolcs. Well, be sure you do it very well, was her quiclc advice. He had been a very ambitious student having finished what was then a four-year course in three years at Technical. Several years later he came baclc to pay his respects to his former teachers. Seeking out Miss Madge Richmond, at that time head of the mathematics department he tried to tell her what she as a teacher had done for him. Ar the end of a very eloquent speech he asserted And there is another teacher here who did a lot for me That teacher is Miss Richmond He had crossed our names but remembered our faces and personalities explained Miss Hill her eyes a twinlcle as she told about this left handed compliment to herself Two teachers were having tea with Miss Hill at her home on St ames Ave not so long ago and much of the tallc was about Technical What l lilce about Technical said one of them is that it is a school in which every pupil can find something he lllfes Yes if It s only tatting replied MISS Hill There was who was such a trial to me She would not conform to any of our rules l never worlced harder with a girl than l did with her but when she left my room at the end of the year l felt l had done nothing for her One day meeting her in the corridor l as e if she was still tattrng Yes and l want to lcnow howto do the double stitch Drop in some afternoon and l II show you She learned the stitch very quiclcly Miss Hill added and to this day sends me a card every Christmas A curtain stirs A hand moves Another person roms the first lt is evident that the ladies inside that substantial white house in the village of Hanover Mass are much interested in some one in the street The cause of this discreet flutter is a slender, young girl whois going to college lust lilce any man Salces alive if she isn t out in the street with all those railroad men loolcing in their glass and waving her arms so unladylilce The Hanover ladies would not understand even rf they were told the facts The girl in question has lust finished a course in surveying in Boston Univeristy where she had talcen all of the mathematics the college offers Now she rs having a first chance to put that lcnowledge to practical use The men have let her place their surveyor s transit and level It Now she s sighting and signaling to them where to place the red markers for the new railroad So unladylil4e ln summing up the qualities of Miss Hill that are outstand ing, you will naturally note her generous worlc with the slow pupil as well as her marlced success with the boy who is going to college You will find also that she is a great favorite with her fellow teachers Not only is she admired by them for her unusual ability as a teacher but She is enloyed because of her kindly wit and ready reloinder lt is Miss Hill who supplies the anecdote or recites the ap proprrate poem or gives an apt quotation or even tells the iolce often on herself that enlivens any group of teachers in which she finds herself Madge E Richmond Mathematics Department 1911 1936 -xxx Qcxngcx qw 1,91 fffi ,fy ,1 0 rd' - if y Ho , ,--f 0 . I . . 4 . ' I . i I I D l I c ' ' , - 9. , .X H7 'V gr, ijt, I , ,
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When l came to Springfield in 1912 and became head of the Mathematics Department of the Technical High School l found an excellent group of teachers in that department One of these teachers was Miss Nellie B Hill My first favorable impression of Miss Hill was confirmed and strengthened through many succeeding years of association with her Miss Hill was not only an exceptional teacher of mathematics she was also a sympathetic teacher of boys and girls Her genuine Interest in pupils extended beyond the classroom into their extra curricular and out of school activities Miss Hill was an untrrrng worlcer She gave unsparmgly of her time and ability to assist pupils to over come their difficulties and to inspire them to realize their best possibilities Hundreds of former Tech boys and girls will always remember her with deep appreciation of all that she meant to them as a teacher and as a friend STILL OURS Who greeted green freshmen by dozen or score? Who never was lcnown to let one feel a bore? Who but Miss Hill? Whose three firm initials adorned all the passes Of each lad and lassie who sat in her classes? Please note: N.B.H. Who thought that mathematics was iust pure adven- ture? Who never permitted a problem to bench her? l refer to Miss Hill. Who expected the best of each girl and each boy? And greeted their progress with plaudits of ioy? Our teacher, Miss Hill. Whose eyes blazed with fire at wilful transgression, But softened with kindness at proper confession7 Whose eyes but Mass Hill s7 Who as midterm came round proved herself a good scout By giving each laggard the benefit of doubt7 Understanding Miss Hill Who stood by her pupils in moments of need7 Who rushed to their rescue at top of her speed7 lspealc of Miss Hill Whose X minus Y equalled patience untold7 Whose square root of friendship gave quotient of gold7 Our loyal Miss H II Who as long as she lives holds a place in our hearts7 Who IS ours now and always our friend in these parts7 Nellie Broolcs H II Who when earth and the stars have all fallen to dust Will still pull for us somewhere beyond the earth s crust7 Our faithful Mass Hill Elizabeth S Whitehouse Freshman in algebra thirty years ago Harry B Marsh Assistant Superintendent of Schools The story of Miss Hill s ancestors reads lilce a chapter from early New England history One Peter Hill the first of the line settled with his son Roger In Biddeford Marne near the mouth of the Saco River Of Rogers eight children a son Captain ohn Hill won fame around 1689 as an lndlan fighter In King Wll llam s Wars Another ancestor ohn Curtis was an ardent Abolitlonlst and Intimate friend of William Lloyd Garrison being with him at the time the mob attempted to talce Garrison s life Another frlend of this ohn Curtis was the orator and reformer Wendell Phillips who wrote of him in the inscription on his tombstone Unlilce most men he ohn Curtis was more enthusiastic in the welcoming of all new truth as he advanced in age Miss Hull s father was a captain in the days of clipper ships She remembers going with him as o child on a voyage from Gloucester to Liverpool Original land proprietors farmers, Assemblymen lndian fighters soldiers in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars a Western Methodist circuit rider a sea captain such were the parts played by Miss Hill S ancestors in early New England history On the flyleaf of a little blaclc noteboolf in which Mlss Hill s mother has traced rn her fine Spencerian handwriting the twenty two lines from which the Htl! family is descended are these words Let us thanlc od for having given us such ancestors Such ancestors indeed nxxx fmt ,fffgi 1,91 . . an C 4, , t D c ' - ' t oc .I I .. I . . I . . . . me-Fysxx 'ksRf'!sXiQufi Va ,fs M
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