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

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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

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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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iiaannah iBercihaI Waterman LTHOUGH the class of 1917 as a whole has never come in contact with Miss Waterman in her professional capacity, nevertheless, we will always remember her graciousness. Miss Watennan is a graduate of Bridgewater Normal School, and took special courses at Hyannis Normal School, Massachusetts Agricultural College, and Butler College, In- dianapolis. She taught in the elementary gardes in Taunton and Chelsea, Mass., and Mark Hopkins School, North Adams, Mass., and for two years was principal of a public training school in Indianapolis. Miss Waterman's teaching experience also includes her work in the summer normal schools at Johnson and Castleton, Vermont. Now she supervises our rural training schools, and since 1912 has directed our Extension Department. Miss Watennan is a member of the North Adams Woman's Club, North Adams Equal Franchise League, Massachusetts Audubon Society, Massachusetts Child Labor Commission, National Geographic Society, National Education Association, and the Education Committee of the State Federation of Women's Clubs. V , 18