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

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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

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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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Mrs. Qiuunb I RS. Couch, you seem to be our best friend, remarked a Senior to her one day. That is what I desire most to be, she replied, and that is what she always has been. To Whom do we go with tales of woe concerning lesson plans or tests? Who always gives us wisest counsel? To that dear lady our debt indeed is great. Wherexfer the girls of N. A. N. S. have gone, the reputation of their beloved Mrs. Couch has spread. Students have been influenced to come to our school by stories of her kindness. Who would knowingly hurt her? just her I'll take your Word for it arouses the best in each and every one. Mrs. Couch is a graduate of Butchel College, Akron, Ghio, where the A.M. degree was conferred on her. Also, she took a special course at Edinboro Normal School. In the high schools of Union City and Cambridge Springs, Penn., Mrs. Couch taught German and mathematics. Afterwards, she came to North Adams and became principal of Veazie St. School and, later, of Mark Hopkins School. At the opening of the Normal School and the establishment of Mark Hopkins as a training school, Mrs. Couch was made instructor of the Normal students in penmanship, child study, school organization and manage- ment. On the top Floor of Mark Hopkins she meets the girls, and succeeds in tucking in many useful suggestions and bits of advice between the facts of the lessons. 23