Burt Community School - Bears / Roundup Yearbook (Burt, IA)

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Miss Frances Vaughn Miss Vaughn arrived In Burt in 1934 to teach Elementary grades. She has had two years of college at Mornlngslde, Sioux City,Iowa and one summer at the Iowa State Teachers'. College. She has a Second Grade Iowa State Certificate. Besides teaching the fifth and sixth grades,she has supervision of penmanship throughout the school. Her home address Is Rolfe, Iowa. Miss Vaughn Is good-natured, orderly, and as neat as a pin. She works when she works and plays when she plays. Miss Helen Wade Miss Wade came to Burt in the fall of 1936. She attended Coe College for two years where she earned her Standard Elementary Certificate. She teaches the third and fourth grades and has charge of Elementarv art In all of the grades. This is her first year of teaching and her efforts have met with overwhelming sucress. Her home town is Marion, Iowa. Miss Wade is short, sweet, and dainty. She is the kind that all pupils adore and she in turn enjoys her pupils. Miss Eva Whitney Miss Eva Whitney was elected to the position as first and second grade teacher in the Burt lohool In the year '1898. She had completed n Special Primary Course at the Iowa State Teachers' College and received a Special Primary Certificate. Miss Whitney has com- pleted fifty years of faithful service as a teacher—a duplicate of her father's work. She is unselflsh,loyal, and courageous. She takes a whole-hearted. Interest in her school, church, and community, and has a cheerful word for everyo e. The Burt School will suffer the loss of Miss Whitney's deft instructions hereafter,aa she is retiring this year. However, she will continue to make her home in Burt and will retain her amiable attitude toward her many friends and acquaintances.