Central High School - Snips and Cuts Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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Mies Sallie Bethune H Biographical Sketch ISS SALLIE BETHUNE, to whom this volume is dedicated, is a native of Charlotte. She was edu- cated in the female colleges of Spartanburg and Columbia, S. C., and the Presbyterian College of Charlotte. Her career as a teacher began in the Charlotte City Schools with a first grade under the supervision of Mr. Boone. She has always been remarkably successful in teaching large classes. It is interesting to note that she had eighty-seven pupils in this, her first, class. In 1881 Miss Bethune took part in the organization of the present system of the Charlotte Graded Schools, and has been a teacher in these schools since that time, out- ranking every other teacher, or officer, now in the city schools, in length of service. In 1909 she was made Prin- cipal of the Graham Street School and is still serving in that capacity. Miss Bethune is recognized as one of the most success- ful primary teachers in North Carolina. She keeps abreast the times in all that is modern in primary work. She is a frequent attendant upon summer schools and educational meetings. She has attended summer sessions of the Uni- versity of North Carolina, the University of Virginia, the University of Tennessee, the Chautauqua Normal, the Wentworth College Normal, and of a number of other institutions. She has that keen insight into the real merits of a subject that enables her to distinguish easily between what is a mere fad and what is of true worth. She has the ability, too, to adapt to the needs of her own classes the best of these methods, and resourcefulness enough to work them out to the greatest advantage. Her classes are being visited constantly by primary teachers in search of new methods and plans. It is very 6

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MISS SALLIE A. BETHUNE