University of Wisconsin Superior - Gitche Gumee Yearbook (Superior, WI)

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To Caroline W. Barbour whose name was placed by the Association for Childhood Education, at their forty-seventh annual convention in April, on their Roll of Honor as one of the nation’s great educators in early elementary education, we dedicate this book in appreciation not only of her scholarly attainments but of her boundless capacity for enjoyment, her varied interests, and her unwavering confidence in truth, beauty, and sincerity wherever they were found. 5

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Miss Barbour's Influence Was Far-reaching. Miss Louis M. Aldsr. Director of tho Kindergarten-Primary Department at the State Teachers Collego in Milwaukee, wrote the following article for the March number of Childhood Education. the official publication of the Association for Childhood Education: With the passing of Caroline W. Barbour on December 11. childhood education lost one of its most devoted and able leaders. Her vital personality and warm human qualities drew children, students, and co-workers to her with deep, sincere affection. They felt her friendly interest in them and in their welfare, and appreciated her inspired teaching. Miss Barbour's initial professional education at the Chicago Kindergarten Institute, from which she was graduated in 1891, was progressive for that day. Throughout her long years of service she kept abreast of the times, modifying hor own teaching in the light of social needs and in keeping with new findings in the fields of psychology and education. During tho oarly years of her professional life she taught in kindergartens in the Chicago city schools and supervised them in Helena. Montana. In 1902 she began her service of thirty-seven years at what is now the State Teachors College at Superior. Wisconsin, teaching children until 1909 wnen she organized and became director of the kindergarten training department. During several summers of this period she taught in the State Normal School at Dillon. Montana. Belioving that if children are to have a unified curriculum ol experience, kindergarten and primary teachers should be educated together. Miss Barbour became, in 1922. director of one ol the early kindergarten-primary departments, thus extending her influence. For nearly four decades Caroline Barbour was an inspiring leader in the educational work of Wisconsin. Through her influence many kindergartens were established in the state and the work done by her graduates in kindorgarton and primary grados is a testimony to her able guidance in the education of teachers. In 1925-27 she served as president of the Wisconsin Kindergarten Association. When the Wisconsin Kindergarten-Primary Association was organized in 1929 and a strong loader was needed to draw into a single organization teachers who had been working in two groups. Miss Barbour was chosen to serve as the first president. Wisconsin teachers had confidence in her; they recognized her breadth of vision, her fairness, and her line, cooperative spirit. A good organizer and a hard worker, she saw that worthwhile work for the education of young children went on during her administration. It was natural that the International Kindergarten Union should look to Miss Barbour for guidance as it made plans to broaden its scope and become the Association for Childhood Education. She served as president from 1927 to 1929. strategic years in the history of our Association. Her executive ability, her line spirit, and her sound judgment had much to do with the successful beginning ol the A C.E. Miss Barbour entered into whatever work she undertook with devotion and a quiet enthusiasm, and sho brought to that work distinction. She will be greatly missed as the convention meets in Milwaukee this spring She would have been a most cordial and gracious hostess and an active worker. We shall still feel her spirit with us. so close was she to childhood education activities in Wisconsin It is impossible to record here all tho messages of condolence and oulogy which Miss Barbour s death has occasioned Perhaps those quoted below express partially but inadequately what we all feel. Her life was a light to all who knew her. Her clear vision, human understanding, strength ol character, and gracious friendly personality will live on in our gratoiul memory. There is no death for such a spirit. —Edna Dean Baker. President of the National Collego of Education. Evanston, lillinois. So long as I live I shall be grateful to Carolino lor what she did lor me and the remembrance ol her is a delight. — Mrs. May Hill ArbuthnoL Professor of Teachor Training in Elementary Education at Western Reserve College. Cleveland. Ohio. Miss Barbour's help in the organization ol tho Kindergarten Club in St. Paul will always be a source of gratitude, and through this association we hope to carry on her ideals and her interest in young people. —Miss Leah C. Stewart. President ol the St. Paul Association For Childhood Education. 'To me Miss Barbour still is the most adventuresome, thoughtful, and unselfish friend in my experience. She was the most inspiring teacher and leader. Hundreds of us are teaching 'in her name’. —Margaret Benson. Flint. Michigan. There are thousands of us privileged to have known her and to have learned from her. who can nover forget the spirit of her life and work. May we be enabled to pass on to others just a wee bit of what she gave to us.”—Maurin Bredeson. National College of Education, Evanston. Illinois. Those ol us who were associated with Caroline Barbour in any of the many professional activities in which she participated always found her to be fairminded, generous in her attitude toward others, willing and eager to do everything in her power toward the realization of the ends set up by the particular group with which she was working. She will, indeed, be greatly missed by all who have had long and intimate association with her in these professional organizations. —Alice Tempi . Professor Emeritus of Education. University of Chicago. The fin human qualities of Caroline Barbour made a deep and effective impression on many of us. Her sound understanding and appreciation, her tolerance ol change and her faith in the dawning leadership of new people in tho organization made hor a wise leader in its varied understakings. Her charm ol appearance and manner, her quiet, inviting friendliness. her live interest in the doings of other folks mado hor an excellent companion in the annual conferences. —Olga Adams, on the faculty at the University ol Chicago and President of the Association lor Childhood Education. Among the expressions gf sympathy and appreciation which came were those from Professor Patty Smith Hill, former diroctor of Kindergarten-Primary Education at Columbia University. Miss Mary E. Leeper, Executive Secretary ol the Association lor Childhood Education. Miss Amy Bronsky. formerly on the faculty at Ohio State. A. D. S. Gillett. Superintendent ol Schools at Eveleth. Minn., and Mr R. F. Koby, General Secretary of Superior Y. M. C. A. In one ol Miss Barbour's note-books were found these words- Be what you love, strive after what you find beautiful and high, and let the rest go. Harmony, sacrifice, devotion: tako these ior key-notes: express them everywhere and in the highest possible way. The beauty of a life like that, the power of it who can measure or set bdunds to.” 4

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 THE CHIEF . . . . . officially, the representative of Superior State Teachers College on the State Board of Normal Schoo Regents—MR. CLARENCE L. ERLANSON, a prominent local businessman. JIM DAN HILL THE “REGENCY