Blasdell High School - Champion Yearbook (Blasdell, NY)

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,., W 4 .5 , ,..A,.5,,,,,,.' ,-... ....,.A ........-........ .',. 056 WCZQIP AMMO Q3 Miss Lydia L. Peck, who is retiringXfrom teaching at the close of this school year, was born in the town of Pembroke, Genesee County. After finishing the grammar grades in the district school near her home, she took her teacher training at Genesee state Normal School, graduating from that institution in January 1900. Her first teaching position was in a district school in the town of Benning- tnn, Wyoming County where she taught two years of thirty-two weeks each at the munificent salary of 36.00 per week the first year and 36.50 per week the second year. For the two years following, having proved her ability as a teacher, she secured a school in the neighboring town of Darien, where there were more pupils and a bit higher salary. In the spring of the second year to take charge of a souvenir booth at for St. Louis, she carried with her a grades in the Biasaeii High School at Early in her thirty-fourth years the St. Louis Exposition. When signed contract to teach Fourth at Darien, Miss Peck resigned her position she left and Fifth the opening of school in September l904. of service in Blasdell High School, Miss Peck was advanced through Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Grades to her present position as vice-principal and registrar. To keep pace with these promotions and modern trends in education, Miss Peck has taken summer extension courses at Albany State Teachers' College. Succeeding members of the Board of Education, principals, fellow parents, students and alumni members have always paid tribute to Miss high professional spirit, her ability to inspire to fine endeavor and votion to the boys and girls of Blasdell High School. Miss Peck attenden the first summer session held at Albany State college. teachers, Peck's her de- Teachers' we, the Seniors, as a class and individually wish to express our apprecia tiyn to Miss Stedman for her assistance in making our year book. She has helped us not only financially but also by her unlimited patience in super- vising our work. She has cooperated with Miss Peck in this, and the countless hours that she and Miss Peck have spent with us in rehearsing the senior play were the cause of its great success. Raising our taste for difficulties in our mother helping us to develop some choice of reading material we owe to Misa Stedman's tireless efforts. literature to a higher plane, smoothing out our tongue, broadening our understanding of it and facility in the use of it,--guiding us in our in the library,--these make up just a part of what