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

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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

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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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Bertha M. bhules WO years ago Miss Sholes took up her duties at our school. During that short period she has fully proved her Worth in fitting the students to take their places in various schools, and ofttimes in the home. The many hours spent in her classes in cooking and sew- ing will always be associated with the words happy and pleasant. She is a graduate of Vermont Academy and has taken additional courses at Simmons College. Her very earnest desire to have us take up rural school work must be the result of her three years' teaching in the rural schools of central New York. 17