Tifton High School - Talisman Yearbook (Tifton, GA)

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MISS PULLEN The Talisman staff wishes to praise Miss Pullen for her excellent account of our money We carry her our nickels, dimes, quarters fifty cents, and dollars which accumulate to over 33,000 each year It is a great deal of trouble to keep this Chicken Change ' straight under the different categories cir culation ads, clubs, pictures, etc She always knows where every penny is and what it is there for When she starts paying our bills her checks go out in the denominations of tens, thirties, hundreds, five hun dreds thousands and the like She has been helping us ln this capacity smce the year 1948 49 We can not say enough concerning her value and worth to us Miss Pullen not only works with the Talisman, stresses to the members their responsibility in vari ous kinds of leadership She encourages them to see that the scholastic rating is only one type of leader ship They learn that they are expected to be leaders in service and integrity as Well When it comes to teaching mathematics, we think there is no better teacher Our school has rated well in mathematics since she has been here In one of our testing programs, the mathematics grades were higher than any of the other scores The following are remarks from some of her students She is interested in her students' pr b lems whether they pertain to her classes or not and is always avallable with a helping hand and good suggestions for solving these troubles She is fair h her homework requirements and group studies She is generous with her smiles and makes her sub 1 ts as pleasant and interesting as humanly possible She is one of the most brilliant persons I have ever met She loves her work and this makes it more enjoyable to her and the students. Miss Pullen is to me, the most ideal teacher of higher mathematics that any school could possibly have. She takes great pride in helping the student think for himself. Miss Pullen is the kind of person you would be very proud to call your best friend You cann t fmd a more sincere and efficient person anywhere She inspires in her students the highest of Christian morals and stresses their responsibilities to their God their fellow man, and themselves Miss Pull dresses neatly and is never over dressed She IS f end and teacher, loved and admired by all DEGREES Second Honor Graduate in High School Gradu ated at Andrew Junior College, Cuthbert, Ga , A B Degree from University of Georgia, Athens, Ga M Ed Degree from University of Georgia, Athens, Ga , Attended Summer School at Mercer Emory and Valdosta State College CLUBS Clubs have not been of special interest to Miss Pullen personally, but she has done her share of sponsoring them for the students She has done quite a bit of orchestra work in high school and college playing the violin She also likes to paint and draw She is a member of Delta Kappa Gamma a National Society for women teachers ACTIVITIES President of Second District Georgia Mathematics Council, Served on Evaluative Criteria Committees in Ocilla and Moultrie, Treasurer of Talisman six years, Sponsor of Beta Club 13 years, Treasurer Member of Executive Committee T E A , Chairman School Enrollment Committee Survey Under Dr Viles, Co Chairman Population and Population Trends Survey for State Board of Education, Co Chairman Division Mathematics 12 Year Program, Chairman Committee on Personnel for the Tifton High School Evaluation, Chairman Committee on Mathematics for Tifton High School Evaluation junior Senior Sponsor five years PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Tift County Education Association Georgia Edu cation Association, National Education Association, Georgia Mathematics Council, Association of Child hood Education National Council of Teachers of Mathematics TRAVEL East and Middle East States, Canada and Key West HOBBIES Art, Reading, Music U . . . ' . o . . . . ,, -fp. ' . ' en I ' ,, if ' A ri ' J' 3 - -5 Q. , C I u Q 1 . l ' , u s 0 u - . . I , n u u n u . , l . l O . I . . . . , , . . . . . . but she also sponsors the Beta Club. In this she T-E-A-5 Member of Pl'0g1'8l'l1 Committee T-E-A-5 . . . 5 Q . . . . 3 . - : N I I . 0 - . . . I . . . . . Q 1 u n . 5 ' - . . ,, N . . ' . Wit ' ' .H 3 ,, . . . - m nec n s u .,, . ,, . . . , QQ ' ' . . l

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MISS MCKNEELY The Talusman staff us very grateful to Muss Mc Kneely for her unturung work from year to year on the T H S Yearbook, for whuch she has supervused the club pages sunce 1947 It takes a great deal of dulugence to accumulate the money and unformatuon for the club sectuon Even more than that ut requures the patuence of Job to supervuse the puttung together of these pages Many tumes a staff member has to make fuve or sux trups to Muss McKneely before hus work can pass her unspectuon, as she sees every luttle thung and us sure the unformatuon and puctures are rught before they are OK 'ed by her for the press Muss McKneely never gets angry or umpatuent wuth us, and she has a smule for us even though ut us the umpteenth ' tume we go back to her for our work to be checked Not only does she help us wuth the Talusman, but he also sponors two other clubs The Allued Youth and The Future Busuness Leaders of Ameruca Her work un the Busuness Educatuon Department has been outstandung She us consudered one of the best teach ers un the state and has been chosen one of the super vusors of the busuness educatuon practuce teachers from Mulledgevulle Her students have won natuonal honors Feluste Turk won furst place un the Natuonal Typung Contest un 1952, and Josephune Carr won fourth place un the Natuonal Shorthand Contest un 1954 Many other students have also won hugh places un typung The students have made a good showung un other types of commercual work The followung are a few remarks from some of her students 'She has a wonderful personaluty, a good sense of humor, and a real unterest un her stu dents ' She us not only unterested un theur classroom achuevement, but also theur personal welfare 'S e us a teacher we students can go to wuth our personal worrues 'She trues to umprove our personalutues 'She treats everyone the same, regardless of the grade he makes She belueves un faurness and rather have tudent make a 'C faurly than to make an A by cheating. Miss McKneely is also a teacher who prepares her students for later life. She knows her commercial subjects thoroughly and is very capable of teaching them to willing students. She has her students ready for college or for whatever they mught undertake un the future When an employer asks Muss McKneely for a recommendatuon on one of her former pupuls, she remembers the ones that were wullung to Work and wull not hesutate to guve a satusfyung reply She us very concerned about her students' gettung good jobs or gettung a good start un college She us so sweet and neat Patuence' Oh, there us no end to what she shows She never rauses her vouce to her pupuls, therefore, none of the pupuls ever leave the typung room wuth a nervous spell No sweeter woman ever touched the keys o a typewruter DEGREES Honor Graduate un Hugh School, A B Degree, Bes sue Tuft College, Forsyth, Georgua, M A Degree, Unu versuty of Georgua, Athens, Georgua, Graduate Work on M S Degree, Unuversuty of Tennessee, Knoxvulle, Tennessee, Specual Work un Busuness Educatuon, Geor gua State College for Women, Mulledgevulle, Georgua, Massey s Busuness College, Jacksonvulle, Floruda CLUBS Home Economucs Club Classucal Club, Shakespeare Club, Internatuonal Relatuons Club, Choral Readers, The Student League, Baptust Student Unuon, Beta Sugma Phu, Young Women's Auxuluary, Delta Pu Epsu lon fNatuonal Scholastuc Honorary Graduate Fra ternuty un Busuness Educatuon She receuved thus honor March 4, 1954, from Unuversuty of Tennessee ACTIVITIES Senuor Class Advusor Q7 yearsj, Dustruct Durector of Georgua Busuness Educatuon Assocuatuon, Dustruct Vuce Durector of Georgua Busuness Educaton Assocu atuon 2 years , Dustruct Durector of Future Busu ness Leaders of Ameruca, Member of Executuve Com muttee T E A , Member of Publucuty Commuttee T E A Sponsor Allued Youth, Sponsor Future Busu ness Leaders of Ameruca, Talusman Club Supervusor Q7 yearsj, Served on Evaluatuve Cruterua Commuttee un Adel, Judge of Dustruct Typung and Shorthand Contest un Sylvester, one year, Sponsor of Mulner Hugh Yearbook, Co Sponsor of Mulner School Paper, Sponsor Mulner Hugh Commercual Club Sponsor unuor Senuor 5 years PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Tuft County Educatuon Assocuatuon, Natuonal Busu ness Educatuon Assocuatuon, Southern Busmess Edu catuon Georgua Busuness Educatuon Assocuatuon, Na tuonal Educatuon Assocuatnon, Georgua Educatuon As socuatuon TRAVEL New York, Pennsylvanua Floruda, Louusuana, Washungton, D C , Pecan Island Tennessee HOBBIES Stamp Collectung, Old Coun Collectmg, Wood Carvung, Pauntung, Makung Rag Dolls, Readung . . ' ,I Q! ' ' . Y, QC . . f ' P, . . . . . 0 - . . ' . . ' . - . . . . - , . . . a J 0 I : . I . u .. . . , ' u u . . . . . ,y H , I . . . . . . . . . - . Q V . . . .- . . . . . - s z ' . . .' ' ' ' . . ,, . . . . I I l I, ' . - . n . . . , - ' 1 J - - . . , . , . . . . . - 9 . Q u ' u , . . . . ' 0 . . , . . lu I . ,, , . . .. ,, . . . . . , . Y . ,, ,, . . . . . . . . ,, . . . . . a s ' .

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