Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts - Mohawk Yearbook (North Adams, MA)

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warp Qngelina Pearson ORN in Lawrence, Mass., January 19, after the Civil War, of parents possessing neither poverty nor riches. Next to the youngest of five children, having an even number of brothers and sisters. Graduated from the Reading High Schoolg Abbot Academy, Andoverg the State Normal Art School, Bostong and the Glens Fall, N. Y., Summer School of Methods. Supplementary Art courses taken with Dr. Ross, Harvard University, Henry Hunt Clark, Providence School of Designg Alfonse Mucha, Colarossi Academie, Paris, and Frank Alvah Parsons, New York School of Fine and Applied Arts. Taught as a grade teacher three years in Reading and Southbridge, Mass. Supervised drawing five years in groups of towns about Boston. Member of The Eastern Art Teachers' Association, The American Federation of Arts, The International Congress for the Development of Drawing and Art Teaching. Favorite avocation:-Equal Suffrage. N ote:-Came to North Adams when the Normal School was opened on the hill known as Sugar Loaf, Feb. 1, 1897. In winter the hill was a favorite toboggan slide and in summer a post for the discharge of Fourth of July fireworks. It is Miss Pearson's earnest wish that her pupils in the N. A. N. S. see to it that her pedagogic efforts in their behalf do not go up flame and come down stick, after the manner of the sky rocket. 15

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f Mary louise Barigbt Announced by all the clamor of the gong Arrives the fire-drill, and, tumbling out of bed, The inmates don their coats and shoes and things, And tread the corridors with hurrying feet, To reach the hall below. And then, Like France's great army in the days of old, They all march back to bed again. AN you not see how interesting a life the author of these lines must have led? And is it surprising that her writings are so charming when she spent so much of her time amid such thrilling experiences? i A little less than a hundred years ago, Mary Louise Baright was born in the old Dutch town of Poughkeepsie-on-the-Hudson. She was the youngest of a family of six, and her parents were poor but respectable Quaker farmers who knew how to read and Write. Their daughter, as is shown by the above quotation, must have inherited much of their ability in this line. Her education was well planned out, but the vicissitudes of life caused some of the well laid schemes to gang a-gley, but she did manage to go to the public schools of her home town, Boston University, Curry's School of Expression and Chicago University. She began her teaching in a little country school not far from her home, but has since Wan- dered far afield and done her work in such places as: a private school, Nashville, Tennesseeg The State Normal School, Westcliester, Pennsylvania, The University of Oregon, The State Normal School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On April l, 1902 Cwas there anything signifi- cant in that date?J she came to N. A. N. S. And here she is. She loves her work, she loves her friends, and she loves her country, her message to her pupils is: Let us then be up and doing, Never mind how hard we're smoteg Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to vote. 1-L

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P l P v xg, a W ' ,. VA ,- Bossa QE. Searle N thinking of Miss Searle, we shall always remember her unfailing enthusiasm as leader of our music. In assembly hall, in music class, in Glee Club, never does she cease to inspire us with her appreciation of music. Miss Searle graduated from the Westfield Normal School, and afterwards studied music with William Tomlins in Boston. At Evanston, Ill., she took a summer course. Before teaching in our own training school, she taught in Easthampton and in Newton, her work covering the whole nine grades. Now she is head of the mathematics department, as well as that of music, in our Normal School. ' We have often heard the girls say, What did you get on that lesson plan in Arithmetic? And a doleful voice replies, Oh, 'D-e-e-e', with the words, 'See me' beneath it. But one and all we like her, and we know that she is fair and square with everyone. We hope, too, that we have caught something of her spirit, with all of its vigor, to carry to our unmusical, non-mathematical pupils. 16