Central Washington University - Hyakem / Kooltuo Yearbook (Ellensburg, WA)

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DEDICJ One of the most active and enthusiastic professors on Central Washington College ' s cam pus since 1918 has been Miss Mabel T. Anderson. Her brisk step and quick smile are a con¬ tinual inspiration to all of the students with whom she comes in contact, Miss Anderson s teaching career began in a small one-room school in California, where she had to crank the school bus before she could start over the windy mountain roads in any type of weather to pick up the students in her school. When she reached the school, the fire had to be built, and after school she had to do her own maintenance work. In 1918, she joined the staff of the College Elementary School where she taught both third and fourth grades, doing much mental and aptitude testing and a great deal of remedial work and special reading work. In 1943, she was promoted to Associate Professor of Child Development when she began her work in the Division of Education and Psychology. Miss Anderson has an outstanding professional attitude and belongs to such professional organisations as WEA. NEA, American Association of University Professors, American Society for Curriculum Development, Progressive Education Association, and the Supervisors Associa¬ tion. She has worked with the state office in preparing and editing curriculum materials and is a member of the state board of the Administrative Women in Education. She has lectured to over one hundred PTA groups in the state and has been awarded honorary life membership in PTA. She is a member of Kappa Delta Pi. and Delta Kappa Gamma, as well as being ad viser to Central ' s Women Students, an organisation she founded on this campus. Not only does Miss Anderson take an active part in school activities, but she is a mem¬ ber of the local Civil Defense. As an active member of the Lutheran church, she served as church organist for several years and as choir member, and has served on the board for the last nine years. Miss Anderson is a living example of the theories she teaches, is ever ready to help any student on the campus, is active in many capacities, and lives the type of life which is full to the brim, but never is she too busy to speak to a passing student nor too pre occupied to en joy a small boy s delight on the playground or in the classroom. She was an honor student her¬ self and has received her master ' s degree from Columbia University, also doing extra work at the University of Chicago. Because of her continued inspiration to the many students on campus and her outstand¬ ing work for the college, we wish to dedicate the 1958 HYAKEM to Miss Mabel T. Anderson, an understanding friend and a model teacher, in hopes that her continued years on the staff will be the happiest ones of her entire life.