Edward Drummond Libbey High School - Edelian Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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.fi GERTRUDE IRENE PAYNE

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HAROLD E. WILLIAMS PRINCIPAL or LIBBEY HIGH scHooL To our seniors who enter life in the most momentous year of the present century will remain the strengthening influence of the man who during the past four years has taught us honesty and goodness and truth. May our future courage and endeavor express to our loved principal and friend, Mr. Harold E. Williams, the gratitude we owe him for his fine example of living and for the ideals of his teachings, and may Libbey ever prosper under his Wise and efficient guidance. L7 ,MM 5 df -

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lf the way to have a friend is to be one, there is small wonder in the fact that one little lady in our school is loved by everyone who knows her. As enthusiastic about teaching today as she was during her very first year, the place that Miss Gertrude Payne holds in Libbey High School is difficult to define. Born in Adrian, Michigan, and having been educated in the ele- mentary and secondary schools of that town, Miss Payne came to Toledo where she progressively studied at the Toledo Normal School, the University of Toledo, and Columbia University. Her early teaching experience was gained at Roosevelt Grade School, formerly called Waite. She interrupted her teaching career by a period of work with the Research Department of the Chamber of Commerce to resume it again as instructor in Woodward lunior High School for Boys. As part of her professional service to the city, she served as president of the Toledo Teachers' Association and has been active for years in various committees of that organization. Coming to Libbey in its second year, Miss Payne entered the faculty as a teacher of Business English and English, and interested herself immediately in the organization of the Girls' Friendship Club, which she has sponsored so actively and so ardently ever since. Parallelling her work in teaching have been her years of service at St. Paul's Methodist Church, where she has held the position of superintendent of the junior department of the Sunday school for a great many years. Her summers are always divided into periods of traveling-north, east, south, west-of working in vacation-Bible school, and in helping in Y.W.C.A. projects, particularly in girls' camps. ln addition to her fine teaching, Miss Payne has been of immeasurable service to Libbey because for so many years she has taken literally thousands of snap-shots for both the Crystal and the Edelian. Co-operative, kindly, enthusiastic, and exceedingly helpful, Miss Payne has endeared herself to many. lt is, therefore, with the most joyous affection and the very best of wishes, that the Senior Class of Nineteen Forty-two dedicate this Edelian to her, their teacher, and their very good friend. DEDICATION