Arnold College - Fall In Yearbook (Milford, CT)

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Suzan llnifman Gilman Into my hectrt's treasury I slipped on coin That time cannot take Nor 0, thief ymrZotn,- Oh better than the mtnting Of a golct-erownerl Icing Is the safe-kept memory Of ct lovely friend. SARA TEASDALE.

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CONTENT DEDICATION FACULTY CLASSES CAMP AND CAMPUS ORGANIZATIONS ATHLETICS HUMOR ADVERTISEMENTS MAN er-lun

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Susan Hoffman Gilman was born in Milford, Delaware. She received her early education in local schools and went later to the Jenny Hunter Training School for Kindergarteners in New York City. She graduated and taught several years in the New York Free Kindergarten Association. She soon realized, however, that her chief interest lay in Physical Train- ing, and by work in special courses and in summer schools, she prepared herself for the profession. She became Director of Physical Work in the Misses Masters School for Girls at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., and remained there a number of years, in the beginning, a resident teacher, later, giving only part time to the school as she had opened a studio in New York for classes and private pupils in dancing. During the summers of these years, she worked in the Harvard Summer School under Dr. Sargent, first as pupil, then as instructressg then in the Gilbert Normal School of Dancing in Bos- ton, first as pupil, then as Assistant Principal. Miss Gilman soon dis- covered that dancing was the department of physical work which she pre- ferred and she has continued in it. She has been several times abroad to study with French and German masters of the art. She taught in the Gilbert Normal School of Dancing until the death of Mr. Gilbert, and afterward, continued the school for two years in Boston, then removed it to New York and carried it on four more years. A zero registration, the year of our entrance into the World War, compelled the closing of the school. Miss Gilman edited and published three volumes of Melvin Ballou Gil- bert's Dance Composition which have long been useful to teachers. She is herself the author of many dance compositions, not yet formally collected, but constantly in use by her pupils all over the country. During the yisit to this country in 1915 of Cecil Sharp, the Collector of English Folk Songs and Dances, Miss Gilman became deeply interested in his work. He taught his first class in America in her school. During his subsequent visits, she became a close friend of Mr. Sharp's and an enthusiastic student and teacher of folk dancing. In 1919, Miss Gilman began her work in Arnold College and has found there a wide and ready field for her thorough methods and well-tried sub- ject matter. In her profession, she has two dominant characteristics: first, she is an amazingly hard worker,-she has taught many years, winter and summer and has never been more than four consecutive months away from her work, second, she is a pioneer, and is continually seeking more scien- tilic methods of teaching and a deeper knowledge of the art of dancing. l9l