Posse Nissen School - Possum Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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QQS SUAM Baroness Rose Posse In appreciation for all she has done to assist in making this school one of the foremost in the field of Physical Education, we respectfully dedicate this page of the Possum to Baroness Rose Posse, 'U Fl zzi M 'faa l14l

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Q65 Nfl DEDICATION Cro I Marg Cfhornton The Class of 1932 dedicates this publication of the Possum to Marg Thornton that they may show their admiration and friendship for an ideal Posse t alumna. i131

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Tatum, Q65 SUAMW Historu of PosseHNisseng Baroness Posse, formerly Miss Rose Moore Smith, is a New Eng- land woman. She was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts. She met Baron Nils Posse on the steamer returning from a European- trip. After her marriage to the Baron she attended classestiat the Normal School of Gymnastics which he started. From this school she graduated a member of its very first graduating class. The Baron and Baroness worked together, she attending to the social duties and he to the scholastic curriculum of the institution. Five years later at the Baron's death, she assumed the whole work of the gymnasium assisted by some of the graduates of the school. At the end of the school year she returned to Sweden with the Baron's body. Her plans of the school were very much changed due to the chaotic state of affairs which she discovered on her return to the States. This was due to the disloyalty of former graduates who felt themselves capable of carrying on without the leadership of the Baroness. After strenuous work she re-collected the members of the old classes, received new pupils and re-opened the school in October with a very large number of students. The old teachers, who had re- mained faithful to her remained, and the vacancies were filled by others, largely old graduates. She also engaged a large corps of lecturers from neftirby colleges and institutions. The Baroness car- ried on the school from 1895 until she sold the Gymnasium to Mr. Hartvig Nissen in 1915. 'U Cl if 11937K