Kansas City Teachers College - Ye Pedagogue Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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1 933 YE PEDAGOGUE 6 l Miss CANNON Miss MCKEMY MRs. DARNELL Miss Cannon, of the music department, is the leader of the chorus and the glee club and is very successful with both organizations. Last year she pro- cured a grand piano which is her pride and joy, She is noted for her grace at entertaining. Miss Cannon has a pleasing way of being sarcastic and admits quite frankly that she likes to be that way. This is a common example: Miss Cannon: lVliss X, will you answer the question? Miss X: l'm sorry, I don't know the answer. Miss Cannon: Oh, I thought you knew, you looked so intelligent for a moment. Perhaps this pleasant sarcasm is a key to her popularity with the students. Music hath powers indeed and Miss McKemy is held within its spell. This quiet lady teaches music to the freshmen and everyone is impressed by her love of the fine arts. Miss McKemy says little about herself but why should she? Her art speaks for her, her music speaks for her, and her work sp-eaks for her! Everything about her has a calmness, gra.ciousness and kindness which is soothing to those whose nerves are not quite so steady and whose emotions are not so stable. A voic-e soft and sweet and low, that is what Mrs. Darnell seeks to produce in the students in her voice class. To learn how to sing well and to be able to teach the children to sing, are standards she maintains in her voice class. Would you believe it, Mrs. Darnell is a domestic minded woman. To cook. to tempt the palate with an attractive dish, to take care of a house, and to make a lovely home is one of her greatest joys. One can pictur-e her jingling her pots and pans, rearranging her furniture, caring for her flowers, singing, happily at her work-and oh, Mrs. Darnell, how we'd like to sample one of your biscuits! E141

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YE PEDAGOGUE 1933 ' Miss WARD MR. GILBERT Miss WILSON 'In Miss Ward, we have another teacher with a variety of interests. She directs her talents and abilities along such lines as parent education, pupil guidance, and school and world fellowship. Because of her sympathetic attitude and ability to smooth over hard places, all of us have found her to be a true friend and helpful confidant. . Through her work in the various school activities, especially in the Fellow- ship Club, we know Miss Ward before we have had her in class. After work- ing with her in such an activity, it is no wonder we look forward to our Junior year when we will have her as a teacher. Because of her deep interest in, and understanding of young people, it is not difficult to see why she is such a popular advisor. All who know her well, speak of her as a keen sport at all times. Psychology and tests and measur-ements, two very difficult courses, are taught by Mr. Gilbert, who is considered by the students of Teachers College the very cream of intelligence. I wish I were as smart as Mr. Gilbert is the remark that is oft repeated in the halls of our alma mater. One can say of Mr. Gilbert that he is truly a man's man, broadminded and logical. He is the advisor of our weekly newspaper and quarterly magazine. This was a red letter year for Mr. Gilbert for a new arrival came to his house, Frances, who will probably grow up to be a famous psychologist like her father. Miss Wilson is one of the newest members of our faculty and she teaches one of the newest courses, Parent Education. She also has classes in child develop- ment. Before coming to T. C., Miss Wilson taught at the University of Minnesota. Although she has been here but one year she has been here long enough to become indispensable to the curricular and social life at T-eachers College. Miss Wilson has the carriage and general appearance of a celebrity and when the students 1-earned that she was a friend of Mrs, Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh, they were even more convinced that their new teacher was a very important woman. Although Miss Wilson is very engrossed in her work she finds time to ride a hobby. She is a philatelist with the enthusiasm of a born collector. l13l f ,,,,,,-,321 1 J

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,ff 1' c it L. y , N up xt c li ix VM YE PEDAGOGUE .Vp 1933 I 'f fig fl U 'jf il.. QV 'fy I 1 A 6 AN, . tx YP Miss JoNEs Miss KIRK Miss KNEEBONE Our own Annette Kellerman! Quite a reputation for one teacher to live up to, but you should see Miss Jones swim! She is not known for her swimming ability alone, but also for the fact that she can instill in others the desire to swim. Many a faint heart has been strengthened and many a timid soul has been encouraged to make the first plunge, merely because of the example Miss Jones has set. Besides this, she possesses capacities and abilities few know about. For in- stance, how many of us know that she takes several extension courses and extra classes? That she is interested in psychology? Or, how many know that she plays the organ and has just bought a new one for her cabin at Lake Tapa- wingo? We assure you that she does all these things as well as she swims and dives. He was just a soft, fuzzy little pup, with no particular markings to denote its breed or kind, but that did not matter to Miss Kirk: he won her heart im- mediately. She confessed that she had been waiting for years for such a gift as this dog which the Quill and Scroll Club gave her at Christmas. Just as readily as she opened her heart to the little pup, she extended her friendship to everyone in the school and became the pal of most of them. When Miss Schafer left last year, we secretly doubted that anyone could replace her, but we found in Miss Kirk a friend who has filled her place and carried on her work admirably. Besides her regular gym classes, both in Wood- land and the College, Miss Kirk has taken over the hygiene work that Miss Bennett previously supervised. Although Miss Kneebone carries on extension work in connection with the Health Department of the Kansas City Schools, she found time to teach a. class in Health Education at Teachers College. It is a familiar joke among her friends that Miss Kneebone is never seen without her needlepoint work. How- ever, her outside interests are not confined to this domestic pursuit, for she also indulges in antique hunting, gardening, and reading. She is known through- out the city for her work with the Girl Scout organization. E151