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

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Cllilig-ahetb V. Gilaern ISS O'Hern was born in North Adams, Where she received her education in St. joseph's Parochial School, graduating in 1910. Our own Normal School next welcomed her, and kept her till June 1912. Still pursuing knowledge, she went to the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and then to Simmons. These institutions prepared her for her position in the North Adams Normal School, where she is a teacher of Domestic Arts. So the school which welcomed her as a student now is honored by having her among its instructors. 20

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I H. , Xxx., LX--f Mrs. mba Emma Graves HE girls who have taken the Kindergarten Course are those who have especially benefited by Mrs. Graves' extensive experienceg they have also been greatly attracted by her charming personality. f Mrs. Graves graduated from a private school and college in southern Kentucky, as well as the Louisville Kindergarten Association. Here also, she was principal of a private kinder- garten for one year. During the next four years, she was principal of the Parent-Kindergarten and supervisor of other kindergartens under the management of the Louisville Association. . During this time, Mrs. Graves was critic of the Froebelian schools of manual work for the normal training classes. After this, she spent a number of years as training teacher in the State Normal School at Willimantic, Connecticut, and as principal of the practice kindergarten, she supervised other kindergartens in that city. Since 1904, she has been Kindergarten training teacher in the Mark Hopkins Training school and kindergarten Primary instructor in our Normal School. The class of 1917 is glad to have been under Mrs. Graves' sympathetic supervision. 19

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. we ff? I I Z iii ix X Qrmie QE. bkeele F ever vigorous agility were personified, it is personified in Miss Skeele, teacher of gym- nastics and hygiene. It seems as though she is indefatigable, for she is ever ready to lead classes of irrepressible girls into activities which require all the energy and vital forces of youth to accomplish. Did anyone ever suggest anything too strenuous or too troublesome for Miss Skeele? She fairly radiates life and progressiveness. She graduated from the State Normal School at Bridgewater, after which she studied at the Posse Gymnasium in Boston. For two years she was director of physical training at the State Normal School at Mansfield, Pa. ' Since her coming to this Nornal school she has succeeded in instilling into our minds that advertisements are valuable materialf' so that We feel that a natural photograph of us would be one in which We held scissors and a magazine in our hands. The magazine, to be realistic, would consist of mere ribbons of margins, framing large round or square holes! 21