Northrop Collegiate School - Tatler Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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RUTH REBER PAETZ, A.B., A.M. Pink room, prodigious projects for profit, prosperity, productive improvement, fif not always peacel -these are all in the Paetz plan. Vitally concerned with our growing up bright fand beautifull, Mrs. Paetz is a vigorous teacher of sophomores, and of seniors in English, head of the department, and the proud advisor on The Tazfler. Prepared for college in an eastern prep school, she has the B.A. degree from Manchester College with graduate study at Indiana University and University of Wisconsin and the M.A. from Northwestern University. Mrs. Paetz. whose journalistic and speaking training and ex- periences have convinced her of the need of our excellence in these fields, takes pains to see that we get some. B.A., Manchester College, M.A. Northwestern University, Indiana. HELENE PETERS, A.B., A.M., Ph.D. Petite, power-packed Mme. Peters whose own flawless French sets a standard for her students never quite attained although earnestly sought. At home all over the world, really, she returned to Northrop after some years of travel at home and abroad with her husband in the interests of foreign trade. Un- dergraduate days at University of Toulouse preceded a career of study and teaching at University of Minnesota Where she took her doctorate. PEARL PUFAHL Nobody ever forgets Mrs. Pufahl and she remembers us too. Quietly and studiously persisting in the training of her fifth grade girls, she attains a degree of amazing proficiency with them, even to fight- ing fires. A native of Minnesota whose training to teach was obtained at Saint Cloud Teachers College, Mrs. Pufahl herself never stops studying nor learning. JANE IRWIN NEWMYER RICE, A.B., A.M. First and last a dedicated student herself whose pursuit of learning has taken B.A. and University of Chicago to obtain the M.A. with studies at Oxford in of Minnesota, Mrs. Rice nevertheless approaches the eleventh year level in English every day and makes us lift ourselves by our boot straps. Alas serving as guide to the groping Spectator staff, Mrs. Rice's contribution to Northrop girls is a remarkable one. her to Radcliffe for the England and University ELLEN ROWLEY, A.B., A.M. To many, Vermont means sturdy beauty of mountains. That state has sent Northrop a Latin teacher whose firm resiliency takes equally well to long Walks in Minnesota winters and the rugged task of teaching beginners in Latin. Always smiling and gracious, never hurried, yet always busy, Miss Row- ley teaches us that if we do not learn our conjugations soon, we will do it later. MARY C. SAUNDERS, R.N. Another transplanted New Englander who has now known ffor some yearsl a good Minnesota when she sees it, we welcome our school nurse and teacher of hygiene from Bridgeport, Connecticut. Readily sympathetic but not so easily deceived, Mrs. Saunderis solutions to many achey problems is eagerly sought and obtained. SHIRLEE SCOTT, B.A. Mrs. Scott, young in heart and fact but nevertheless a competent mother of three as Well as director, par excellence, of dramatics at N.C.S., she was graduated from Hamline University, and besides the several interests already mentioned has other concerns which engage the respect of her students. Not only Thes- pians' affairs but world disarmament, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and art activities absorb her attention.

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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.

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LORRAINE SHERMAN, A.B., M.A. lust so long as Lawny Witcher does not blow up the chemistry lab nor Teri McCannel ask too many questions that are unrelated to matters of the moment, there can be no doubt that Mrs. Sherman will teach us chemistry as chemistry was taught at Vassar where she received her B.A., and at University of Minnesota where she obtained her master's dgree. 1 JEANETTE STARR, B.S., M.A. If you see a smile that does not wipe off even when another Senior tries alibiing out of tardiness to gym, that is Mrs. Starr. New to Northrop but not to physical education,-swimming instruction in particular Cwhere IS that Northrop pool?l-Mrs. Starr brings a young daughter to our school when she leaves Lake Nokomis for Northrop. Having two degree from our state university, and a husband on that staff, gives Mrs. Starr a sure allegiance there. 34 CLACIA COLE TEVLIN, B.S., B.S.L. Book-wise and painstaking, Mrs. Tevlin knows Where every book and leaflet is and gets them for us. In an atmosphere suitable for students to read and study or just prowl for books, the Crosby Memorial Library is an oasis in a land that needs one. Mrs. Tis instructing of student-assistants may well bring to light good librarians in the future. Story hours for Lower School, held in their own bright beautiful room are particular pleasures, since both English and public speaking have been interests of Mrs. Tevlinis even during her student days for two degrees at University of Minnesota. 18' ANNA L. TURNGREN, B.S. Out of her room comes the chant of the prologue to Evangeline, and no woman was ever better fitted to teach this and other famous poems and stories, for in her hands these live, are true and believable. A solid foundation is laid most patiently by Mrs. Turngren for what she knows will become a more dif- ficult English with each year. A graduate of University of Minnesota with study at University of South- ern California and teaching experience in public high schools in the West and Minnesota, Mrs. Turn- gren brings also a motherly understanding to her teaching that only twin daughters with an athletic older brother could provide. MYRA L. VALLEY When spelling is popular with eighteen Second Graders, who read with vim and take responsibility with vigor, there you have Mrs. Valley calmly guiding and encouraging. 'aMore like a grandmother than a mother is what one of them said about her. Her good training was obtained at Superior State Teachers' College and University of Minnesota. MAY VINTON, B.S., M.A. Pretty, patient, praiseworthy. These are words that fit Mrs. Vinton who joined us this year after teach- ing in the Minneapolis public schools, having prepared to teach by obtaining two degrees at University of Minnesota. Life in her room that looks like her appears to be lived to the full by Fifth Graders who are bubbling with learning and industry. 'D - 4 SUSAN WHITE, A.B. To become a respected colleague of her own former instructors is a demanding experience which Mrs. White has accomplished. A 1954 graduate of our school, she returned from Bryn Mawr College with B.A. degree and a husband to teach history. Between summer session at University of Minnesota she has also acquired not only a seventh grade homeroom, and the editing of Northrop Notes, our alumnae magazine, but also a Philosophy Club and Modern Problems class, whose intense questioning and argu- ment she referees with calm manner and penetrating retort.