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Both of her parents are of the eighth generation of their family in America, both are of English decent, both of forebears who came to the New England States in the sixteen thirties and both of stock that has steadily contributed to education, to civie and social service through generations of builders, teachers, lawyers, public servants and sterling citizens.
Her father was a distinguished clergyman, editor and author, a graduate of Harvard, of Newton Theological Institute who received his doctor's degree from Denison University in 1904.
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Miss Fernald's mother traces back in a steady line of Barkers to James Barker who came from England in 1639 and helped to establish Rowley, Mass. Nettie Barker Fernald, who died in 1935, was keenly interested in develop- ment of effective plans for the training of mothers and was a delegate to the first national congress of Mothers held at Washington, D. C. She was the granddaughter of Luther Dana Barker, pioneer merchant of McConnels- ville, O. and the grand niece of the famous "Aunt Fanny" (Fanny Barker Gage) who was so valiant a leader of the temperance and the suffrage move- ment in Ohio.
Mabel Fernald attended elementary and high schools at Plainfield, N. J. and Staten Island, N. Y., received her B.A. at Mt. Holyoke College and her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Her childhood home was for a time at Garretsville, O.
Her professional career began with the position of instructor in high school subjects at Doane Academy, Granville, O. and continued as follows- Instructor in Psychology, Chicago Normal College, 1910-1914; Director, Lab- oratory of Social Hygiene, Bedford Hills, N. Y., 1914-1918; Psychologist, Office of the Surgeon General, Washington, D. C., 1918-1919; Assistant Prof. of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., 1919-1921; Di- rector, Psychological Laboratory, Cincinnati Public Schools, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1921-present. Summers-Lecturer in Psychology ; Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry, '22 and '23; University of Wisconsin, '24 and '25; University of Cincinnati, '38.
In her chosen field. clinical and educational psychology, she is recognized as an expert throughout the country.
During the World War Dr. Fernald served as psychologist in the office of the Surgeon General. She is a Phi Beta Kappa and a Sigma Xi.
BESSIE F. GABBARD
BESSIE F. GABBARD, kindergarten teacher at Clifton School, Cinein- nati, is ranked as one of the outstanding kindergartners in the system, with especially marked ability in the field of story telling.
For nine years she was known as the "Story Lady" of the Ohio School of the Air to thousands of children and adults as well, in all parts of the country.
Miss Gabbard is regarded as especially significant among educational pioneers who have done spade work in radio. Her methods are analyzed and commended in a recent study of this educational aid by B. H. Darrow.
Recently elected to Delta Kappa Gamma, national honor society for women recognized as educational leaders. Miss Gabbard is a member also of Kappa Delta Pi and Pi Theta, both honorary organizations. She has served as vice president of the Cincinnati Kindergarten Alumnae Association, vice
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president and program chairman of the Cincinnati Council for Childhood Education, and is active in other professional and in many non-professional groups, local, state and national.
EVA GARDNER
EVA GARDNER, retired teacher, was born in Mt. Gilead, O., was graduated from Mt. Gilead High School and, in 1894, from Denison University and did graduate work at summer sessions of the University of Chicago and Columbia University.
Miss Gardner taught Latin and history for 31 years and in four states -Ohio, Florida, Arkansas and Tennessee. She founded and for 11 years edited an all Latin paper, "The Signum," of Mt. Gilead High School. She directed annually for 10 years in the same school a Roman banquet, following as early as possible the Roman dress customs, food and service.
In addition to her professional work, Miss Gardner catalogued the school library and acted as librarian for 10 years. She served as chairman of the women's division of the Morrow County organization for sale of war savings stamps in 1917-1918; as librarian of the Public Library since 1917; she helped to organize and was the first president of the Progress Club.
Miss Gardner was a charter member of the Mt. Gilead Chapter of the D. A. R. in 1925. She is a charter member of the Morrow County unit, American Association of University Woman and is active in the Mt. Gilead Sorosis.
CARLOTTA C. GREER
The name of CARLOTTA C. GREER is allied closely with the work of development in the Cleveland schools and she is now head of the department of home economics in the John Hay high school. Actuated by a laudable ambition, she has advanced steadily since entering this professional field and has introduced many plans and methods which have been of decided benefit in the improvement of her department.
Born in Akron, Ohio, she is a daughter of John Fennel and Louisa (Cherryhomes) Greer, the former a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the latter of Millersburg, Holmes county, Ohio. The father was an inventor of mechanical devices, especially in the farm machinery line and devoted all of his life to that task.
Miss Greer attended the grade schools of Akron and was graduated from the high school there, after which she entered Buchtel College, now Akron University, from which she was graduated with the class of 1903. During her junior and senior years she was chosen as assistant in chemistry and taught a class in the preparatory school. During her high school days in Akron there had been introduced a class in cooking and it was her work in
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that class that was largely responsible for her taking up the study of home economics and also perhaps the reason for her taking up chemistry when in college. While pursuing her course in chemistry she became very much in- terested in science in the home, a line that has since claimed her attention. Following her graduation from college she taught for a year in the public school at Barberton, Ohio and was planning to teach chemistry, but decided that she would study home economics and entered Drexel Institute. All during her student days there she took every subject that she thought would have any bearing on household science. In 1905 she was graduated from Drexel Institute and immediately after began to teach in the Kansas State College, at Pittsburg, Kansas, where she remained for three years. In 1908 when plans were being made for the East Technical high school at Cleveland, Professor Orth remembered that Miss Greer had been in one of his classes in Buchtel College and wrote, asking that she come to Cleveland, which she did and was made head of the department of home economics in that school. When she first took up the work in Cleveland, she headed the food department and when the food and clothing departments were combined, she became head of the department of home economics, in which position she continued from 1908 to 1929. Then the character of the technical schools of Cleveland changed and she was made head of the department of home economics in the John Hay high school, in which capacity she is still serving.
Miss Greer is the author of a work on Home Making, which was written in 1932 and revised in 1937. In January, 1938, there was organized over the country an honorary society of teachers, the Delta Kappa Gamma, composed of women who have done outstanding things and Miss Greer became one of the charter members. Her hobby is interior decorating and nearly all of the work she has done in the laboratory she has applied in her home and school work. She has at all times been actuated by a most progressive spirit and has advanced steadily step by step since taking up educational work.
ELIZABETH GUILFOILE
ELIZABETH GUILFOILE, principal of Twelfth District School, Cincin- nati, is the author of children's stories that have appeared in magazines for juveniles, the writer of educational articles that have enjoyed publication and collaborator of a text book, "English Activities," a series of language text books for elementary and high schools. The series were written by Miss Guilfoile in collaboration with Wilbur H. Hatfield, editor of the English Journal and president of the National Council Teachers of English, and Dr. E. E. Lewis of Ohio State University.
She compiled the Primary Reading Curriculum Bulletin and is now at work on "The Teaching of English in the Elementary Grades," a work for teachers. She is chairman of the committee on language expression in kinder- garten and primary grades.
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Her teaching experience was gained in Avondale school, Cincinnati and she was in charge of the North Avondale Colony before being assistant prin- cipal at Heberle four years, after which time she was made head of the Twelfth District School.
She was graduated from the University of Cincinnati and obtained her Master's Degree from Teachers College, Columbia, where she is a member of the Columbia University Alumni Club. She also attended the University of Wisconsin.
Miss Guilfoile is president of XI chapter, Delta Kappa Gamma, honorary fraternity, of which she is a charter member. She is also a member of Theta Sigma Phi, women's journalistic fraternity, belonging to Beta Chapter of Wisconsin University.
Among her affiliations are the National Education Association, Ohio Education Association, Cincinnati Principals Club, Upper Grade Study Coun- cil, Association for Childhood Education through the Cincinnati Council.
MARJORIE THORNTON HALTEMAN
MARJORIE THORNTON HALTEMAN, who is doing a distinctive and valuable piece of work as supervising director of the Canton public school for the deaf, took up this line of work after careful preparation and has made steady progress in her chosen field. Mrs. Halteman is a native of Scranton, Pennsylvania and a daughter of W. B. and Ida (Sanders) Thornton, who are now residents of Clarks Green, Pennsylvania. The father has devoted prac- tically his entire life to the coal business. Mrs. Halteman has a brother, William Penn Thornton, who is now engaged in the insurance business in Scranton.
Mrs. Halteman began her education in the School of the Lackawanna, a private school and after pursuing the usual course of study which constitutes the foundation of all education she took a training course in the methods of teaching the deaf at the Scranton Oral school. On completing the course she went to New York city to teach in an oral school, there remaining for three years, after which she spent five years in teaching in Colorado Springs, Colo- rado. On the expiration of that period she came to Canton and has since taught in the Canton public day school for the deaf, covering a period of more than thirteen years, and she is now supervising director. She is constantly studying along lines to increase her efficiency and usefulness and has rendered a most worthwhile service to the city.
In 1930 Marjorie Thornton became the wife of Ira S. Halteman, who is engaged in the shoe business in Canton. Mrs. Halteman belongs to the Pres- byterian church and to the Business & Professional Woman's Club, of which she has been both vice president and president and one of the board of directors. In her school work she has been much interested in the study of
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rhythm and teaches it in her classes. She belongs to the Ohio Public Day School Teachers of the Deaf and also to the State and National Associations and keeps in close touch with the advancement that is being continuously made in the educational field where she is working most resultantly.
RUTH ANN HARGITT
RUTH ANN HARGITT, Acting Director of Kindergarten and Primary Grades, Cincinnati Public Schools, born in Moores Hill, Ind., received her Bachelor of Science in Education from the University of Cincinnati in 1930, and later a degree of Master of Arts from Columbia University.
Her teaching experience in Cincinnati, following ten years work in Lex- ington and Cleveland public schools, began about eight years ago with her appointment as cooperating teacher in one of the elementary schools, which position was held until 1938, when she was made acting director. Her execu- tive ability as head of a department of such fundamental importance as the kindergarten and primary division is a definite contribution to the especially high standard maintained by the public elementary school system of the city of Cincinnati.
MABEL HARTZELL
MABEL HARTZELL, head of the history department and teacher of civics at Alliance High School, was born at Saginaw, Mich., attended the University of Washington and given her M. A. by Ohio State University.
She is a past state councilor of the Daughters of America and served for 12 years as member of the Alliance Board of Education.
KATHERINE WRIGHT HASKELL
As long as human histories endure, the name of KATHERINE WRIGHT (Mrs. Henry J. Haskell) may well serve as co-efficient of high co-operation, as symbol of selfless service contributed by one individual to advance the aim and purpose of others.
The aim and purpose thus advanced by Katherine Wright was the con- quest of the air. It marked an epoch in human progress, a new record in the achievements of mankind. This achievement is justly credited in large meas- ure, to Wilbur and Orville Wright-Katherine's brothers. But that the sister's devotion, energy, efficiency and hopefulness were significant factors in her brothers success is a definite part of the record, often stressed and never disputed.
Katherine Wright was born at Dayton, Ohio, August 19, 1874. Her father, Milton Wright, was a bishop in the United Brethren Church. Her home life with her parents and brothers was ideal and to it she always referred with pride and love. She enrolled in Oberlin Academy, September 1893, and entered
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Oberlin College September 1894, being graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1898. She was either secretary or president of that class from her graduation until her death, and was largely responsible for its interest, loyalty and enthusiasm.
After graduation she taught Latin in Steele High School in Dayton for ten years but then her brothers' activities consequent on their airplane inven- tions required her more constant presence with them. So Katherine became homekeeper. Hundreds of her friends remember the beauty, the friendliness, the graciousness, the radiancy of that home. She traveled with her brothers when they traveled, accompanying them on their triumphal European tour following their first successful flight in 1903. In 1909 Miss Wright gave up her teaching to devote her entire time to furthering her brothers interests. Wilbur Wright died in 1912, their father in 1917. Katherine and Orville lived on in their old home.
She was president of the Young Women's League of Dayton (1913-1916). She was decorated an officer of Public Instruction by the French Republic on February 21, 1924.
On November 20, 1926, Miss Wright was married to Henry J. Haskell (Editor, Kansas City Star) of the Oberlin College Class of 1896, and her home thenceforth was in Kansas City, Missouri. Her sudden illness and death from pneumonia, March 3, 1929, removed from the service of Oberlin and of her world a devoted friend, a cheerful, kindly, energetic and radiant personality.
So fully was this realized that the Board of Trustees of Oberlin expressed their sense of loss at a meeting June 17, 1929, in a deeply impressive memorial.
It said in part: "Katherine Wright was elected to the Oberlin Board of Trustees by vote of the Alumni in 1923. She was the second woman trustee and began her term of service January 1, 1924. Service was a word of real meaning to her. She never slighted a task. Her suggestions and choices, as a member of the committee on nomination of trustees, have greatly strengthened this board. She carefully canvassed the names proposed for honorary degrees, and helped to shape the policy of that committee. In order to meet with the committee on location, plans, and construction of college buildings, she made long journeys, and between its meetings she studied its problems, corresponded with its members, and gave valuable service.
"Her greatest committee service, however, was on the committee that nominated President Ernest H. Wilkins. Here her high ideal as to the char- acter, learning and ability required for the office, set a standard which com- pelled an exhaustive search for the best and by which she tested the lives of those proposed. Her investigations were thorough. She was not content with hearsay or reputation, or even her personal impressions. Oberlin was to her a sacred ideal, to which she sacrificed her time and talents, that it should be worthily led and served.
The Late KATHERINE WRIGHT HASKELL
Former teacher, sister of the famous Wright brothers
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"Her service was intelligent, devoted, unselfish, courageous, inspiring to her fellow Trustees. Her sincerity, her sense of responsibility, her strength of character gave weight to her opinions, which were always expressed with humility, without ostentation, with poise, and with humor.
"The traits of her character, however, that dwell most strongly in the minds of those who knew her were her kindness, her thoughtfulness, her gracious womanliness, and her eager zestful, cheerful joy in life. Her interests were wide and high and deep. She was a world figure who emerged from and still dwelt in a model American home."
PHYLLIS HAUCK
PHYLLIS HAUCK, faculty member of the Norwood High School, attended Mt. Holyoke College, took her B. S. at the University of Cincinnati and her M. S. at Columbia University.
In addition to her work as a teacher, she is a lecturer on psychology, an associate of the staff of the Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati and a dietitian in the Red Cross teaching service.
Miss Hauck is a member of the National Education Association; of the Ohio Education Association; the Norwood Teachers Association; Norwood Women Teachers Association; Y. W. C. A .; Red Cross; Community Chest and Anti-Saloon League.
She is an active worker in the Presbyterian Church; the College Club; Columbia Alumni Association; Mt. Holyoke Alumni and Girl Reserves and a sponsor for the high school group of Girl Reserves.
ELSIE HERZOG
ELSIE HERZOG established the Girls Opportunity Farm in Cincinnati in 1915 and was superintendent until the school closed for lack of funds in Jan. 1937. The farm, which was later named Hillcrest School, was one of the few institutions for girls in the United States built on the cottage plan and it attracted the attention of similar systems both in this country and abroad.
Delinquent girls were enrolled at the home and through Miss Herzog's guidance many of them found a useful place in society. The school was the outgrowth of the old Cincinnati House of Refuge and was usually filled to its capacity of 70. When it closed Miss Herzog found places in private homes for a large number.
Born and raised in Cincinnati, Miss Herzog engaged in volunteer social work before the school opened. She is continuing her service by heading a class of 50 girls who meet at Christ Church once a week for guidance and counsel.
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Her father was George Herzog, Civil War veteran who came to Cincinnati from the east after the war. Her mother, Helen Bruns, came to Cincinnati from Germany when a child.
Miss Herzog was graduated from the College of Music in Cincinnati and attended private schools and also the University of Cincinnati. She continued her studies abroad.
EDITH A. HILL
EDITH A. HILL, teacher and principal in the public schools of Cincinnati for a total of 28 years was born in that city, graduated from high school there and later graduated from Columbia University.
She began her work at the Sixth District School, became assistant prin- cipal at Whittier and at Horace Mann schools and then taught for two years at Miami University.
On her return she became principal of Clifton School and served in this capacity nine years.
Miss Hill was a charter member of the Cincinnati Woman's City Club, a member of the Principals Club and of the Clifton Music Club. She died in 1933.
ALLIE M. HINES
ALLIE M. HINES, director of primary grades of Cincinnati Public Schools at the time of her death, Aug. 11, 1938, was an educator whose great ability, fine training and extraordinary energy, it is a concensus of opinion among her former colleagues throughout the country, have definitely fur- thered educational progress of younger children.
Her death was due to a fall from which she was believed to be recovering. She was in fact, carrying on her work from her hospital bedside. Suddenly her heart failed and her strenuous life was over.
Allie Hines was born at Sharonville, O., in 1877, the daughter of Clinton and Eva Hines. She attended Sharonville School, was graduated from Uni- versity of Cincinnati, and received her M.A. degree at Teachers College Columbia University.
She taught at Garfield and Columbian Schools and established an activ- ities program at Windsor School in 1907.
Miss Hines at various times served as training teacher at Ohio Uni- versity, Youngstown Teachers Training School, Teachers College, University of Cincinnati, and Ohio State University. She returned to Cincinnati from Youngstown where she had been director of kindergartens, and assumed the difficult and responsible task of Director of Primary Grades of the Cincinnati public schools in 1927.
Her coming marked the beginning of the reorganization of the primary work. Fixed furniture gradually gave way to more homelike tables and
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chairs. The more formal work was succeeded by the informal type. She saw each child from the viewpoint of his health, his habits, his emotional life, his home environment, his abilities, his likes and dislikes as well as in his immediate relationship of pupil.
In addition to her supervisory duties, Miss Hines served on numerous committees and was the chairman of several. She was in the process of finish- ing a course of study in primary reading when the end came. It was her great desire to finish this during the summer and her last concern was over this piece of work.
Miss Hines was alive to the handicap of the under-nourished child and when she knew that certain children did not get enough to eat she would find a way to take care of them. During the summer of 1938, under the direc- tion of MISS CHARLOTTE ULLRICH, Director of Household Arts, a plan to can vegetables in the schools was carried out to provide food this fall for these needy children.
Miss Hines realized, as most pioneers must, that progress in extending the frontiers of education is slow and sometimes not with difficulty. Her vision, however, always seemed to be clear-she seemed to be able to see through the maze of difficulty to a definite outcome.
Tribute to this outstanding educator was paid through many resolutions and memorials, notably in a resume of her services by James D. Stover, assist- ant superintendent of Cincinnati Public Schools, whose conclusion was "The Cincinnati public schools have suffered a great loss in her death, but through her life and work have been greatly enriched. Children, parents and teachers are all happier today because she lived among them for a season".
LEONORE HOLLIDAY
LEONORE HOLLIDAY, auditorium teacher at Washington Junior High School, Cincinnati, since 1926, has cooperated with more than ordinary in- terest in movements for real educational progress as well as in social service and activities of a civic nature.
Peace League Fellow at Geneva School of International Relations, Miss Holliday is much in demand as a lecturer on this important topic.
She obtained her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Cincin- nati and has studied at Wisconsin University, also Columbia University.
She has served the University of Cincinnati Teachers College Alumnal Association as president and was a trustee of the Cincinnati Teachers Asso- ciation, 1932-1937. She was a representative of the latter association in the Federated Council of Teachers Associations.
Miss Holliday is a member of the membership committee of the National League of Teachers Associations and of the legislative commission of the National Education Association, to which she was Cincinnati's official dele- gate. She is identified with Phi Mu sorority. Her affiliations include the
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Peace League and Foreign Policy Association. She has also been associate editor of the National League of Teachers Bulletin. She was a member of the Mayor's Committee for the Sesqui-Centennial Celebration.
Miss Holliday was born in Berea, Ky., in 1905. Her parents, G. D. and Lucinda Boggs Holliday, were of English descent.
HELEN PERRY JAMES
HELEN PERRY JAMES, president of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Cleveland, where she has also been well known in educa- tional circles for a number of years, is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of Owen and Elizabeth (Evans) James, the former a native of Wales, while the mother was born in Pennsylvania. They spent prac- tically their entire lives in the Keystone state and the father was a Baptist minister.
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