Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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votums TEN NORMAL OFFERING PAGE SEVENTEEN 1ln fllbemoriam. BY ALBERT GARDNER BOYDEN. is HIRTY YEARS of genial, self forgetting, helpful service in - charge of the department of Vocal Culture and Reading in i U . this school is the inspiring record of ISABELLA SARA HORNE, , as we knew her in the beauty and grace of her strength. This L A service was the rich fruitage of her mature life, and we ask with interest whence and how it came. Her father, james H. Horne, was born in Shapleigh, Maine, and moved to Dover, N. H. in his early youth, where he was in the employ of the Cotton Manufacturing Com- pany. Her mother, Mary Warren, was a relative of General Warren who fell in the battle of Bunker Hill. Her parents were persons of sterling worth. Miss Horne was born in Dover, N, H., December I4, 1836. She was reared in a christian home, the third child in a family of six children, and became a member of the Congregational church at the age of sixteen. When fifteen years of age, she left the high school of Dover and began teaching in the public schools of that place. She showed great aptitude for teaching and governing. After seven years of teaching in Dover, she was elected master's assistant in the grammar school of East Somerville, Mass. She held this position fifteen years and taught with marked success. She then entered the Boston University School of Oratory, under the charge of Prof. Lewis B. Monroe, from which she graduated at the end of twoyears and came to Bridgewater. Miss Horne had not the advantages of extended school education in her youth, but she was a diligent student in all the years of her teaching, availing herself of various courses of study under private tuition. Her life was one of earnest service throughout the fifty-two years of her teach- ing, in which she was constantly ministering to the needs of some mem- ber of her family. A genial, diligent, christian, self-forgetting spirit, and devotion to the good of others was the controlling principle of her life, and the reason why she was beloved by all who knew her, and so eminent- ly helpful to pupils. NVho can measure the extent of the good influence starting from her life, as multiplied by the thousands of pupils who came under her teaching in Bridgewater? How rich the reward of such living !