Posse Nissen School - Possum Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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ln lt is with great respect that we remember the many misfor- tunes she has successfully conquered. The first time was on her re- turn from Sweden, When she encountered much difliculty in getting in touch With former pupils and re-opening the school. The second came ten years later, when the entire school was destroyed by fire and it was necessary for her to rebuild in the location which we are now in. During her last years at the school she made it a corporation and became its President. Several years after the death of the Baron, the Baroness mar- ried Mr. William Strong of Boston, Massachusetts. A widow for the second time, Mrs. Strong now lives in a charm- ing apartment on Gramercy Park, New York. She still feels the same keen interest in all things pertaining to physical education for women, that made her one of the foremost authorities on this sub- ject While she was in active Work. - s i . K,Kg.Q'1jf-ygvr up I ,v, 4. x ! K ' 4 -.1 Ni:-.j. j , K A ig x .X S D: I, if' Sa.-ay.1.:e..A.:w5gk.gWi Y 1 '. V, ' V' V 'W' ' ff, ies 1 I 'K ,ll4,'faf4 7 Am l ff? if ii X' Q -Tj i If ' V ...,g,.-M . -'s ' 'Y ' fi S i r 'r 5 ir e-rf1+ l . 5 1 1..- -3'--45 f- , 'W-. . 'ft 6 ..,. ffQ'?fia...,s r . r -fi 1 . .1 . f . i . - - - .. a- ' Q ' -- - 1 2 , V: ---f i 4-staf f ' . fa Aw. A. --,:- .2-. ix K- ' U. fQ.,,-,g T1 2 ' yr ' 'f- af f' W E' f ,M 2 .. ir lg sv.-43-W A-5 51 J i? 'pa sw' I i ,. 5 'er a H 'r . ' 5 -i F43-' 4 , ' i . :lr 1 is ' : ff .. cliff? '??T', ' ' it is ' S i ma .iii 1' lawn 'S W in y 's a r . rr V 7'li' 1 f'ffQffKyj,yqj55g,'qn555T'SCHOOLf.r?uwo'dKi53: 4 t W- ' M V ,.V. K V A at 5. 1:..iig '1Z'aTfi.JJ57YlIIi1lDTICi5Il?lLR'f?'lflfi-UfYlCT5'!I.lfQDlI!.!5 www mn . 'A 'L ' .wax lg

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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

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