Lyndon State College - Northern Lights Yearbook (Lyndonville, VT)

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the fanners how to make sheep raising a profitable business- We can see that Eleanors life is lull of the same activity which characterized her three years at L. N. S. We had read in the littrlinqtim I'reo l ress that Edna was the most successful rural school teacher in the southern part of the State. Normal school students from all over New England come to observe her work. She said th.it she spent her summers on Eleanors farm helping care lor the sheep as well as trying out all of Olgas recipes helore ( )lga passes them on to her public. We asked Waneta il she knew wh nn wasn I there. She surprised us by saving that Ann had married a farmer and hud settled down in Granby to live and to teach. I here she say n she i' able to carry out her own ideas ol education undisturbed and. Waneta 'ays. has been able to do a great deal for the children there. She was unable to come as the mud had not yet dried up in ( iranby. We asked Waneta what she was doing. She said that while teaching Physical Educa- tion at Sargent, which left her a great deal of leisure time and energy, she was also studying to be a surgeon. We remembered Imw wo had always admired Waneta s strong, steady bands. She spends her summers studying mosquitos to determine new methods of attack. She has found that fleas are more reliable object' lor experiments than guinea pigs. She keeps a large supply ol them on hand. We had often remarked upon aneta ' great love lor dogs. She 'a ' that In feeding her dog' spec ial diets and study- ing the reaction ol tin flea' she thinks she i' getting .1 new slant on the process oi osmosis. Kay said that she spends her summers helping Waneta in the daytime while Waneta assists her at night in her study of the stars. She has made some marvelous discoveries and plans in the near future to devote her entire time to it. I he recent article in the Science . 'ou s f.otter called “A N ew Star in Heaven I onight is the result of the col- laborations of these two distinguished friends. Ray passed lightly over her school year saying only that she believed with Mrs. Barrows that oner should c liange place's often. We congratulated Ruth for her new position as Principal of C helsea High School. We know that sin- lias long been asking to start some reforms in that town, but we ad- vised her to do nothing radical and to confine her activities to the high school as much as possible. I ler numerous essays, not of a professional nature, have been like a breath of fresh air to us these last few years, doing much to inspire quiet hours after days of teaching. I hese essays « over a variety of subjects from table manners to what to do in case of war. In the summer time she runs a combination sport and bookshop in Sun Valley. She spends her extra time skiing and has improved greatly since the «lays she used to ski down the trail through the pines. We returned t« Rachel remarking that it was too bad not to have .« k ’ here. She said lie bad written her a long letter. I ! • is at the present time in France as a guest of Mr. lames Naismith who invented haskelhall. We have every reason to be proud of .«•k« : for In was the star player on the team that won the international league game. PdCfC iron I y

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believes that it is lar more illustrative as a teaching device than Graphs, which we decid- ed in senior I .due ation class were pretty dull and valueless anyhow. I.ileen approached us just as we started talking with luno. She seemed to lie in high spirits and waved to the window saving. Happy is the bride the sun shines on, Of course- we knew that I.ileen was superstitious but were a little- surprised when 'lie- ask eel June il ibis wasn t the- third time she- had been a bridesmaid, and when lime assent ed. shook her head sadly saying. I hree times a bridesmaid but never a bride. I low ever, we doubled very muc h the- truth of that statement as we had noticed that the same faithful escort brouGht her to the- c hurch as had been taking her places since? her senior year. lime told us that she- had a splendid position leac hing arts and c rails In the- c hildren in the rural schools around Burlington I hiring the- summer she- plans to studx at I V. M. When we asked her why she- planned to take her summer course there- she- replied misc hievously that she- had a friend there who was specializing in agricultural work. We didn t need to ask any more. I.ileen lias taken oxer Miss ( orneliu- senior I'.duc ation class because cd her wealth ol experience in rural schools, which has made possible for hei to solve ail the prob- lems so troublesome to seniors. She lias done axvax with Pressev and uses lu-r own notes almost exc lusixc-ly. I hiring the- summer she stays .it home to reco ei from her exhausting year. She does, of course, still attend quite a number ol dances and all of the latest movies. We noticed Margaret ( arter walking around wearing an abstracted, worried c xpre-s sion. and occasionally jotting down something. She- accosted us as we left I'.ilcen and asked if one would describe the brides eyes as two spoonfuls of the- Pacific or as two pools ol loveliness. Slu- informed ns tli.il she li.id become star reporter on the ( alodonian. She also told us that she was cpiile lluilled witli her course in I'.nglish grammar that she- was teaching at St. lohnshury Academy. We stopped to t.ilk with I )ora I yon. Some one li.id told ns that she was the best liked teacher in Orleans County. We bad always prc-dic ted that she- would be. She told us of the- trip tb.it she- planned to take to the Pac ific ( oast. She said that in a year or two slu- planned to go to Columbia to major in history. She- smiled and remarked that it did look .is il she were following in Miss I'ernow s footsteps. s a matter ol la« t she did lirst conceive the- idea of teac hing history the- dux die was asked to take over Miss f'ernoxx s Buropean I listorv ( lass. We had missed Kleanor and asked Kelna xx hy she hadn't c ome. It seems that slu- is [ S. History teacher at Smith. She has w ritten many articles on professional ethics which have been published in the- . If. A. Journal and which have been well liked. She is now verv busy on an educational treatise entitled I be- Bssenc e of I'.duc ation—• School Spirit. She also confided to Belna in her last letter that she- bad become ex- tremely interested in politics and bad written many speeches for public office seekers. She is now engaged in a tour throughout New I ogland. speaking at the- grange s telling Puqe inete ’ii

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Several large moving picture prodtu ing companies have tried to get him to sign a con tract l ut lie prefers to remain in the educational field. Me i collecting data on how t« solve community problems in rural districts. We remember that he started this while practice teaching «it Mosquito. We understand that he does not intend to use graphs as illustrative material, and all test questions will he of the ess.iy type. W e hear that since he has become so cosmopolitan he will tolerate nothing but the old flnglish pronunciation of his name, f lowever. if we remember c orrectly, we believe that Mr. Blam hard may be partly responsible for that. Marion was very busy («thing care of «ill the det.tils ol acting «is hostess but we inan.iged to speak with her before we left. Muring the year she leaches «it Beecher balls where she has special courses in Remedial Reading for adults «is well as children. We were more interested in her summer work. She said that she devoted her whole time then to the very absorbing study ol astrology. We were certainly surprised .it Marion avoca lion .liter all Mr. I lapgood said in science el.iss about such beliefs. She said th.it all the farmers lor miles around came to her to determine when to plant and harvest. Many young ladies and young men came to her to have their horoscopes road and have writ ten many letters expressing their satisfaction with the results ol her prognostications. W e asked her il she herself believed in the reliability of her own work and she re plied that it was a very subtle thing and 1 course there were only a very few who possess the seeing eye. Willi that we readily agreed and had to be content. I lie Bride and ( «room left lor their honeymoon trip through ( anada and laska with our confetti falling over them and our shouts for their happiness ringing in their ears After that the guests departed, all expressing the wish that the next bride would follow Rachel's precedent to provide an opportunity loi us to meet again. Ldna I'.ddv Marion Shaltuck Cecil Robinson Rage Twenty one