Holton Arms School - Scribe Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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MISS MILDRED BROWN

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MISS BROWN came to Holton-Arms with experience acquired at the Roberts- Beach School outside Baltimore, where she taught mathematics, conducted gym classes, and acted as chaperon. At the age ot fifteen she exhibited her inherent teaching ability in tutoring less brilliant students. Today that ability is the basis of her success in the college preparatory work. A Baltimore girl, she attended Goucher College and was graduated from there in 1921. In l933 she received a master's degree in education from George Washington University. You all know Miss Brown--know her for her piercing eyes, her sport clothes, and arresting accent-precise, clipped, cosmopolitan-which is so much a part of her. What you may not know is that she is sensitive, and though now a most fluent and witty talker, she was once tongue-tied in the presence of our principal. Since then she has become an invaluable assistant and companion to Mrs. Holton, one of whose former subjects, physiography, Miss Brown now teaches. We have all been impressed with her brilliance, her charm, and her candor-although the latter sometimes startles us. We cannot too much em- phasize her classroom manner. Perched on a step-ladder, or painstakingly drawing a diagram, or convulsing us with amusing anecdotes-she still inspires us with that awe so necessary to a teacher in disciplining her students. When asked what characteristic she believed most important to develop in girls, her answer was responsibility This idea she develops in her annual talk as Community Chest campaign in the school. Beca as e her courses interesting by her dramatic way of teach ause she gi X selfishly of her time in explaining the mysteries to us and becau er sympathetic understanding of us, we, the ' C 'fl 1. of - . , 1 f 1 f the senior class, o i te our annual to Miss Brown as a symbol of . . iration and esteem. K E D I C A T I O N

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