Northrop Collegiate School - Tatler Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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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.

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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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IRENE KOHL CLINTON KNUDSON, B.S. For students in biology and general science, a man for a teacher is novel and stimulating. Besides mak- ing Northrop obviously less feminine, Mr. K. fto us,-even Special K, reallyl has made science breath- takingly absorbing. He calls us Ladies,,' and teaches his classes with a dignified air as we glean facts from his year in Texas as a member of the National Foundation for Teachers of Science, as well as froen his life-time of study which includes a bachelor's degree from Gustavus Adolphus and other study at ar eton. Mrs. Kohl is proof to her beloved students and to all the rest of us that adults do have fun. What a gay and seemingly carefree extrovert this very practical and sensible teacher of third graders is! A former student at Butler University and Indiana State Teachers College, her special projects as well as daily teaching make grade lll a very special year. JUDITH MORGAN KULLER, B.A. sota and graduation from Wellesley College. EVELYN B. KRAMER, B.F.A. Disproving the statement that uthose who can, do,-and those who cannot, teachf' Mrs. Kramer com- bines energetic and meticulous teaching of art to girls of the Lower School with her own painting, both in her Saint Paul studio and in the summer camping sojourns with her biologist husband as he collects material for his Ph.D. dissertation. A graduate of Minneapolis School of Art, she has held one-man shows of her painting in the Twin Cities. Another Hold girli' who has returned to her former haunts but now in guise of teacher instead of student Mrs. Kuller teaches French in the Lower School, having prepared with study at University of Minne HELEN RITCHIE NELSON, PH.B., A.M. FRANCES C. MAGOFFIN, A.B. How can nerves of steel combine so beautifully with pleasant and stimulating teaching of art when iron-lunged Sevens and Eights grow creative in a too-small art room! But in f'Mag this is taken for granted. The older girls find that her own prep school days in Hawaii, travels and stays in European cities during and following her college days at Radcliffe all combine to give Fine Arts a solid, rich background unusual to any except Mrs. Magoffin7s classes. If you can be a first-grader at Northrop, you are lucky, because Mrs. Nelson has no peer in leading little people through the maze of learning to read and to adjust to school. While pursuing her study for the M.A. at Columbia University, following her graduation from Carleton, Mrs. Nelson taught in a private school in New York, and then, later in Milwaukee. Unhurried, knowing, firm-voiced, and not too tall to be companionable to Firsts, Mrs. Nelson is concerned about her students even when they have become Seniors.