Grafton High School - Re Echo Yearbook (Grafton, WV)

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1 o Miss Amanda Abbott A teacher in the primary grades of the Grafton City Schools, we the classes of litlti and IfMT most respectfully dedicate this volume. Miss Amanda Abbott graduated from the Fairmont State Normal School in the year 18711. Two years after her graduation she was employed as a teacher in the schools of Newburg and taught there for a peridd of two years. In 1877 she was secured sis a teacher of the primary grade in the schools of this city. Since this time she has served successfully fora period of thirty-eight years in the primary grade of the Central School. Miss Abbott has held three number one county certificates, a state professional certificate good for six years, which has been renewed for two consecutive periods of twelve years each, and she now holds the much coveted life certificate recently legalized by the State Legislature. Miss Abbott has been engaged in the school work for a long time, yet unlike many of our older teachers she has at all times manifested a progressive attitude towards her school work. The truth of this statement has been recognized by the State Board of Education in granting her the life certificate. Again, it is verified by the fact that she has been a frequent visitor to the more recent summer schools at Fairmont and Morgantown, and has attended fifteen State Educational Associations. Miss Abbott has taught thousands of children in Grafton and has won the respect of them all. In many cases she has taught the second generation. In acknowledgment to her sincere interest in the boys and girls of Grafton and to her sterling worth as a moral factor in this community wc dedicate this volume of the VOX IHSCII’l LI.