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

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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

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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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,.-'Zi'-'A -xx 5 I X- x guna fd. lamphiet F we were only as clever in basketry and handicraft of so many kinds as is Miss Lamphier! Surely, her fingers were never all thumbsn, and her muscles and brain always must have coordinated perfectly. How smoothly, calmly, nay unconcernedly, cane and knitting- needles or raffia slip in and out under her deft handling! After the first few lessons, with her we, too, began to feel that the once refractory in- struments of handicraft were really quite friendly after all. Miss Lamphier studied not only in the Salem Normal School from which she graduated, but in the Sloyd Normal. She took summer courses in Boston, then in the Agricultural Col- lege at Amherst, Mass., next she went to Chautauqua School of Arts and Crafts. Wide and various was the range of her study till next we find her teaching the primary grades in Lynn, Newton, and then in North Adams at the Mark Hopkins School. After taking her position in our normal school, she again went to the Chautauqua School of Arts and Crafts. Now, aside from her regular duties, she has private pupils, and basketry classes at Chau- tauqua inthe summer. 22