Northrop Collegiate School - Tatler Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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ELIZABETH BERNINGHAUSEN, B.S., M.A. Vigorously skating with Lower School girls is a daily joy on cold winter days to Mrs. Berninghausen who came to this land of sky blue waters with B.S. and M.A. degrees from Ohio State University. The test of the young gymnasts' own physical fitness is not to tire but to keep up with their new instructor in physical education. BEATRICE BLODGETT, A.B., M.Ed. Miss Blodgett leaves her mark on every girl that passes through her realm, Room 202, or Ninth Grade homeroom where she gets us partially fit for the fray ahead. To no girl after taking Latin with Miss B. will Virgil or thinking for oneself ever again seem strange. Those who join her annual hegira to Europe appreciate her excellent preparation at Wheaton College, Rhode Island College of Education, and Boston University. LENORE BORDEAU, A.B. To Mrs, Bordeau the accents and dulcet tones of all new recruits to seventh grade French may be only slightly less beautiful than the very natural barking of prize-winning dogs at the Northrop dog show. Both receive the same ardent attention that she showers on her gardening. An avid traveller, Mrs. Bordeau, besides study in France, has graduated from University of Minnesota and studied at University of Chi- cago. w EUNICE BRINGEN, A.B. Quiet until one of her eighth-grade homeroom girls seems too boisterous, Mrs. Bringen has the usual calm, well-organized manner of the excellent math teacher that she is. A graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College and a student at University of Minnesota, Mrs. Bringen is as friendly to x and y as if they de- served it. JEAN G. CHAMBERLAIN, B.S. Ulf you donit know it when you leave Mrs. Chamberlainis sixth grade room, you can't learn it.', Fortu- nately you generally know it because Mrs. Chamberlain has been called Mthe conscience of the sixth gradef' and do-es not readily give up. A dignified part of the Northrop picture, Mrs. Chamberlain at- tended St. Cloud Teachers College and University of Minnesota. MIRIAM P. CHAMBERS, A.D., A.M. When you say Miss Chambers, you think history. In fact many people think Queen Elizabeth. Her regal manner has graced many a successful N.C.S. Annual Bazaar which, with her Public Relations Com- mittee, she so ably and devotedly steers. All seniors know her as a kindly, attentive advisor. The list of schools she has attended looks like a roster. They are:-Maryland State Normal School, George Wash- ington University, Boston University, Columbia University, University of Virginia and Northwestern Uni- versity.

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ELIZABETH C. BRYAN JANET M. GRAY, LOIS NOTTBOHM, SYMBOLS OF OUR TOTLSOME YEARS When we were in Lower School, we saw our teachers as omnipotent rulers of our days. In Junior High they were The Enemy, then for awhile mere fixtures, and finally we came to know them as women of endless patience and un- common humanity. Seniors become tearfully sentimental, and in certain activities. such as faculty-student activities, cap and gown fittings, and yes. writing the Taller their condition frequently becomes grave. But in making these sketches of our teachers, we have tried to avoid the tendency to maudlin sentiment, and attempted to draw them as we have known them, five days of the week, thirty-six weeks of the year. Teachers are to be found in as many varieties as are students. They are tall or tiny, plump or slender, gentle and soft-spoken or cynical and quippy. The range of their interests is wide enough to include the world. They read Camus or Byron, admire Bryan or Bernoulli, advocate the welfare state, Existentialism or Moral Rearmament. Some have families, some have pets, some crusade, some write books, some travel, and all get degrees. Our faculty agrees that we need and deserve to be educated, and unswervingly serve that task. Only such would reread Antigone for the eleventh time because one of us was- writing a term paper on it, stay up all night to chaperone the League Dance, or fill out endless college recommendations for us and get stuck supplying the stamps besides. Only they would expend energy and time explaining something just as carefully the seventieth time as the first, with no thanks but the slow spread of knowledge in a stubbornly mistaken mind. These women offer us knowledge in their class- rooms, tea and cookies in their homes. We envision them chatting charmingly with us in the years to come, quieting our little girls with chocolate creams. Our teachers are not just the symbols of our toilsome years, they are our valued and delightful friends. Our sketches of them are an integral part of the canvas of our year, our sketches of them are like famous paintings to which oneis thoughts return again and again in the quiet hours of life. AB., A.M. Attentive to the least detail af- fecting Lower School girls, Mrs. Bryan retains an interest in us and knowledge of our ways even unto the very end. Educated in Minnesota with both degrees and doctoral studies at the University of Minnesota, Mrs. Bryan has seen great growth at Northrop in her decade here, first, as a read- ing specialist and now as head of Lower School. We like visiting her office on the days her dog, called an ambulatory dust-mop by one wordy senior, becomes a Northrop girl. A.B., A.M. Our headmistress is a person to be proud of, to love and respect. If you are at the riddle-rnaking stage, you might try to trap an unknowing someone with the ques- tion, 'cWho is great, and small, and gray all over?'7 The answer would be Miss Janet Gray, of course. She is the most important person at Northrop and is known, nationally, in private school cir- cles, she is short enough to enable some tall Eights to look over her. fWarning: never try to. overlook herj Born and educated in Michi- gan, she is now studying for the Ph.D. degree at University of Min- nesota, commuting to colleges ev- erywhere in our behalf, yet never losing her guiding touch here. B.S., M.A. We remember Miss Nottbohm in class, in chapel, in council, but most often in giving us exact an- swers to puzzling questions. Never excited, always attentive, Miss Nottbohm, whose interest in math and guidance has led her to test- ing as a large portion of her pro- fessional career, came to Univer- sity of Minnesota for an M.A. de- gree after graduation from Uni- versity of Wisconsin and attend- ance at St. Olaf College, and still later, special work at Carleton.

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DOROTHY F. ELLINWOOD, B.S., M.A. CATHLEEN HARRISON CHEEK, A.B. 4'One of our own and a special one at that. Mrs. Cheek, now a homeroom advisor to Sevens and teach- er of English to Eights and Nines, was not very long ago Cathy Harrison, president of the Northrop League, but between then and now an honors and Phi Beta Kappa graduate from University of Minne- sota, who after a year's teaching at Southwest High School, decided she liked us best. Lucky us! Even faculty members never argue with Miss Ellinwood's figures. A mathematician, who has just re- turned from'a sabbatical spent at Harvard, she had previously taken Northwestern ,University's B.A., University of Southern California's M.A. and further study at University of Minnesota. While never ex- actly stooping to dodge the theoretically extended lines in her classroom, her students are convinced that they are there. HILDA F. ERICKSON, B.S. IDA ENGSTROM, B.A., M.A. ' It is not enough for Mrs. Engstrom to excel at golf with her tall, good-looking sons, and at knitting the luscious cable-knit sweaters she wears, but in addition, she employs her Msparev time taking more language courses at University of Minnesota where she obtained a rare master's degree, one in the Latin language. Her students find that she likes Greek almost as well as Latin because she minored in Greek at Augustana College with additional study at Northwestern University. Her years as a minister's wife give her classes in Bible an understandable tone. ELLEN FALK, DIPLOMA One good Way not to be overcome by life and students at N.C.S. may very well be to speak two African dialects and to have taught in schools in the Belgian Congo first. These are accomplishments of Mrs. Erickson who with her missionary-professor husband travelled from Minnesotais North Shore to Africa's Cold Coast and Hong Kong with and without her five children. All this and her B.S. from University of Minnesota keep Sixth Graders on theirtoes and literally looking up. Believing firmly in learning to do by doing, Mrs. Falk teaches kindergarden students to make useful and ornamental things, to put on plays for parents, and to fit into a world, complex and vast. Herself a grad- uate of the world-renowned Montessori School in Prague, Mrs. Falk and her husband fled Czechoslo- vakia to live in England during World War II, before coming to the United States in 1911-6. After hav- ing taught in England, then in Connecticut, their first American home where both Falk children were as chairman of the departments of Romance languages and Comparative language. JANE FRAZEE, B.A.,M.A. Young, vital Mrs. Frazee graduated, first, from University of Wisconsin, her home state school, and then received her M.A. degree at University of Minnesota. A rugged defender of an intellectual ap- proach to music, Mrs. Frazee's first year at Northrop has been marked with no more than the usual frenzy of the director of our three choirs. Because she generates healthy enthusiasm for music she has conquered Northrop and we find her an admirable leader of our harmony. born, Mrs. Falk came to Northrop in 1955, when Dr. Falk joined the faculty of University of Minnesota