Northrop Collegiate School - Tatler Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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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

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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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MARY F. HALE, A.B., A.M. Miss Hale is the conscientious head of French at Northrop, Determined, cheerful, and efficient, her pur- suit of excellence is evident in all she does. Her extra projects, and her pictures of France, which she has visited often, enliven her classes. Advisor to French Club and the entire Sophomore class, vitally concerned with Moral Rearmamentj a bird-lover extraordinary, Miss Hale has many interests. Gradu- ated from Wells College and New York University, she has also studied at Rutgers University, University of Minnesota, and Lycee Victor Duruy in Paris. SARA A. HILL, AB., M.A. Even physics class seems less difficult when taught by a gentle lady whose speech has never quite lost the evidence of her Georgia birth and undergraduate days at Agnes Scott College. Now quite at home in Minnesota, she lives near Macalester College with her professor-author-philosopher husband and whichever child may be home from college or Europe. A recently acquired M.A. degree from University of Minnesota assures her struggling students that the latest in scientific matters comes their way. DOROTHY HOWELL, A.B., A.M. Since 1943 when Mrs, Howell became a transplanted Hawkeye into Gopher by coming to Northrop, she has made a special niche for herself in our French and Spanish lives. A fluent, vivacious teacher, a writer and translator whose publications bring her honors, Mrs. Howell earned the B.A. and M.A. de- grees at University of Iowa where she also was a faculty member. Her time spent in travels abroad and at Le Camp Francais on Vancouver 'Island only broaden an already dynamic teacher and advisor to Publicity-Entertainment Committee. ANNE HUTCHINS, A.B. Smith College has meant many things to Northrop girls, but now one thing Smith means to Nines is Mrs. Hutchins and ancient history taught with thoroughness and charm,-but thoroughness. Whether she ar- rives at school by means of collegiate bicycle or more matronly compact car, Mrs. Hutchins is sufficiently welcome to be invited with her husband, to chaperone frequent dances and those unforgettable ski-week- EVELYN JOHNSON ends. QA.. DOROTHEA JOHNSON, B.S. As if furnishing the '61 Tatler with an excellent business manager were not enough to do, Mrs. Johnson comes to Northrop three days each week to lead along-or lasso-those eager Junior High School girls who bake up a cloud of buzz-buzz at the sewing machines with an ardor that can lead them only to happy home-making. Native to Minneapolis and a graduate of our university, Mrs. Johnson brightens our lives just by being. Whether the success with which fourth grade members compose themes, and institute and conclude special projects is due to the training Mrs. Johnson received at Saint Cloud Teachers College or is just because of her own brand of inspirational teaching and creative imagination, the results are outstand- ing. A special aura of calm, harmonious industry and vitally concerned co-operation pervades the room with the red-checked cafe curtains at the end of the corridor where you find Mrs. Johnson.