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Rev. and Mrs. James had a family of ten children, as follows: Arthur and Melville, both now deceased; Cleveland, who resides in Philadelphia ; Genevieve, living in Springfield, Illinois; Helen; Dan, who makes his home in Williamsport, Pennsylvania and who is connected with the State highway department; Margaret, who is the wife of Eugene Gise, of New York City; Gertrude, the wife of James Connor of Merchantsville, New Jersey, and who has a daughter, Phillippa; Elizabeth, who is the wife of Gordon Sexton, also of Merchantsville, and who has three children, Gordon, Betty and Ellen ; and Dorothy, deceased.
After spending a period as a student in the public schools of Hollidays- burg, Pennsylvania, Helen P. James continued her education at Nashville, Tennessee, then at Titusville, Pennsylvania, and later at Johnstown, Pennsyl- vania, until she was graduated from the high school there. She afterward took training for teaching the deaf and is now connected with the Alexander Graham Bell school of Cleveland, a public day school for the deaf, with which she has been associated as an instructor for about eighteen years, doing a splendid and effective work for the pupils under her guidance. This school is located on Fifty-fifth Street and the methods there followed embrace the most modern and scientific ideas that have to do with teaching this class of unfortunates.
Since 1922 Miss James has been a member of the Business and Profes- sional Women's Club of Cleveland, formerly served as chairman of some of its committees, was also program chairman for many years, has been its vice president and is now president of this progressive organization. She is also active in the Baptist Church of the Master in Cleveland and is on the board of Christian Education. Her life has reached out along constantly broadening lines of usefulness.
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WINIFRED JONES
WINIFRED JONES, former president of the Cincinnati Teachers Asso- ciation, was born at Belpre, Ohio, the daughter of Daniel I. and Mary Frances Burgoyne Jones. Her father was a clergyman, educated at Wesleyan College and at Lane Theological Seminary, whose forebears came to America from Cardiganshire, Wales, in 1839.
Her mother, a graduate of the former Cincinnati Wesleyan Female College, was of English-Irish-Scotch stock and was the daughter of a widely known judge elected to preside over various courts of Cincinnati and Ham- ilton County.
Winifred Jones was graduated from Putnam Seminary, Zanesville, Ohio- attended the University of Cincinnati; the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin, did special work in science at Woods Hole, Mass. and in adult education at New Haven, Conn.
Besides her duties and responsibilities as elementary teacher at Mary Dill School, Cincinnati, Winifred Jones has for more than 20 years done Americanization work in the public schools of this city.
She has served in addition as president of the Cincinnati Teachers Asso- ciation; as board member of the Federated Council of Cincinnati Teachers Associations and as director of the Teachers Credit Union. She is a life member of the National Education Association and of the Ohio Education Association.
Other organizations of which Miss Jones has been an active and highly efficient member include the Saturday Literary Club, American Association of University Women and Zeta Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi.
CLARA JORDAN
CLARA JORDAN, teacher of Latin at Hughes High School, Cincinnati, for nearly 30 years, was one of the public school educators whose work helped to build the present splendid school system.
So widely was this realized and so deeply appreciated that after her death more than 20 years ago, a beautiful stained glass window, made pos- sible by general public contributions, was installed in the beautiful high school building in memory of her fine service and wide spread influence.
LUCY H. KIMBALL
For twenty-three years LUCY H. KIMBALL has been connected with the schools of Cleveland and since 1930 has been dean of girls in the Lake- wood high school and assistant principal there. A native of New England, she was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, December 2, 1887. Her father, Dr. Luther Goodwin Kimball, was born in Hollis, Maine, October 22, 1844 and
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was of English lineage. His father was a representative of the Kimballs of Kennebunk, Maine, one of the first families of shipbuilders of New England and the records show that Nathaniel Kimball was a member of the "Com- mittees of Correspondence" in the early colonies preceeding the American Revolution, while Dr. Luther G. Kimball served from 1861 to 1865 in the Union Army during the Civil War. He married Etta Howard, who was born in Harrison, Maine, June 27, 1848, and she too was descended from early American colonists, including Major Daniel Mabry, who aided in winning American independence in the Revolutionary War, also from the Ephraim Cook family, Quaker traders in England and the Colonies, and the Whitney girl, who was born when her parents were crossing the Atlantic to establish their home among the first settlers of the new world.
Spending her girlhood days in her native city, Miss Kimball attended successively the Corbett elementary school, the Tracy grammar school and the classical high school of Lynn and continued her education in Mount Holyoke College, from which she was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1911. She has always been a wide reader, a clear thinker and an earnest student and at times has attended the summer school at Chautauqua, New York, and the Oregon State College at Corvallis. In 1938 Boston Uni- versity conferred upon her the Master of Arts degree.
Miss Kimball began teaching in the Ripley high school of Ripley, New York, where she remained from 1912 to 1916, when she came to Ohio to accept a position as teacher in the Lakewood high school with which she has since been connected, continuing her teaching service until 1930, when she became dean of girls and assistant principal. Her professional activities have always been of a most constructive character, constituting a broad foundation for char- acter building and for progress in any relation of life. She is identified with a number of the more outstanding educational societies, having membership in the Ohio Education Association, the National Education Association, the State Association of Deans of Women, the National Association of Deans of Women, the Boston University Alumni Association, the Mount Holyoke Alumnae Association, the Classical Association of Middle West and South and the Classical Club of Cleveland. She also belongs to the National Feder- ation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, the Foreign Affairs Council of Cleveland, the American National Red Cross, the Consumers League of Ohio and the Women's City Club of Cleveland. She has membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church and in the Young Women's Christian Asso- ciation of Cleveland, and thus her interests and activities cover an extremely wide scope and are characterized by the spirit of development and uplift. She has largely found her diversion in travel and after enjoying an European trip in 1924 she visited with equally keen pleasure the western parks and the Rockies in 1925 and 1927, going to Mount Ranier, Mount Hood, Crater National Lake, Glacier National Park and the Yellowstone National Park,
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and in 1930 made an extended Mediterranean cruise, while repeatedly in vacation periods she has visited the New England White mountains.
GLADYS J. KLOAK
GLADYS J. KLOAK has been connected with the Cincinnati schools for fourteen years and is well known for her expert work as a mathematics instructor. Moreover she has served on every mathematics textbook com- mittee since she started out upon her professional career in 1925.
Miss Kloak acquired her education in Cincinnati, being a graduate of the Woodward high school and since her graduation serving as class captain. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati and that institution has since conferred upon her the Bachelor of Education degree and her Master's degree in administration. She became a Phi Beta Kappa in 1924 and the following year was made a member of the Kappa Delta Pi, in which organization she served as chaplain for four years.
Miss Kloak has been a member of the faculty of the Hartwell high school for all but one year of her teaching service and that was spent in practice teaching. She is now dividing her time between actual teaching and adminis- tration in the field of student advising. She served as chairman in the prepara- tion of the new outline for the course in general mathematics and has also been a member of committees on teacher rating. Her high standing in her chosen field of educational work is indicated in the fact that she appeared in panel discussion before the National Council of Mathematics in Cleveland in 1939 on the subject "How can we make Junior high school mathematics function?"
She is a member of the National Council of Mathematics, the National Education Association, the Cincinnati Teachers Association, Ohio State Teach- ers Association, Southwestern Teachers Association, the Cincinnati Deans of Women Association and the Greater Cincinnati Mathematics Teachers Club. Her interest outside of teaching largely centers in music and art and she finds particular enjoyment in playing the pipe organ. She is also a member of the Queen City Accordion Orchestra and devotes some of her talent to commercial art. Her activities are thus broad and varied. She is resourceful and her intellectual powers have carried her far along the line of educational progress and have been a factor as well in the cultural development of the city in which her life has been passed.
LAURA TROY KNIGHT
LAURA TROY KNIGHT (Mrs. James Knight) principal of Jackson School, and outstanding Cincinnati educator, was born in that city the daughter of Theodore and Alphia Troy.
Laura Knight was one of thirteen children. She spent the early part of her childhood with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. O. T. B. Nickens, in Mount
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Healthy, Ohio. This grandfather started the first colored school in Cincinnati, and Laura's mother was a teacher until her marriage.
Laura Knight graduated from the Gains High School of Cincinnati and taught in Covington and Newport, Kentucky until her marriage to James Knight. She reared three children, Laura Knight Turner, a teacher in the Cincinnati schools and twins, Mamie Knight, a social worker and James Knight, a worker in the Y. M. C. A.
In 1914 Mrs. Knight began a new career. She entered the Cincinnati Schools under Dr. John Hall, who later appointed her cooperative teacher of the University of Cincinnati. There she trained many of the present teachers. In 1925 she received her B. S. degree from the University of Cincinnati and was appointed to take charge of Jackson School, at Fifth near Mound Street, where she is now located. She has made a success as an administrator. She received her M. A. degree in 1928. The thesis presented by Mrs. Knight in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Master of Arts degree was an experiment in character education. Her findings revealed the advantages of character training and she formulated a program adapted to the needs of her school.
She has nearly eight-hundred children in Jackson School. Even though it is an antiquated building, children flock there because they like the home- like atmosphere and the kindly treatment they receive. Twenty-five regular teachers, eight special and six student teachers comprise Jackson's faculty. Mrs. Knight's teachers appreciate her as a friend, who is always willing to solve their problems. Jackson has been called "The Happy Family".
She spends her vacations in travel. In 1935 she visited in Europe, Asia and Africa, including the "Holy Land". In 1936 she traveled to North Cape and she spent 1938 visiting the unsettled countries of Central Europe. Mrs. Knight was accompanied on most of her trips by her daughter Laura Knight Turner and her grandson, Darwin Turner, who was ranked as a prodigy by Dr. Bills. Mrs. Knight is a member of N. A. A. C. P., The National Society for the Study of Education, National Association of College Women, and National Negro History Association. She belongs to the Ohio Education Association, Southwestern Ohio Teachers Association, Cincinnati Teachers Association, American Red Cross and the West End Branch of the Young Women's Christian Association. She is a member of St. Andrews Episcopal Church, the Women's Auxiliary, the Progressive Club and the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
LAURA CLARICE KNIGHT TURNER
LAURA CLARICE KNIGHT TURNER, teacher at Jackson School, Cin- cinnati, oldest child of James and Laura Knight was born in that city April 8, 1907. She entered kindergarten at the age of four and became a member
LAURA TROY KNIGHT Administrator of Jackson School, Cincinnati
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of the rapidly moving class of Lafayette Bloom School on completing the sixth grade.
Pupils of the class were given the Binet Simon Intelligence Test to deter- mine their eligibility. This test revealed that Laura possessed the intelligence of a very superior child. She excelled in language and logic, and succeeded in passing a fourth year high school or first year college test in language.
The English teacher at Bloom School recognized Laura's writing ability and made her assistant editor of the Bloom School Journal.
Laura graduated from Woodward High School at the age of fifteen, Cin- cinnati's youngest high school graduate of the year. She completed the course for the A. B. degree in three years and graduated from the University of Cincinnati, at the age of eighteen, again the youngest graduate. The following June, when she was nineteen she received the Master of Arts degree in English, at twenty the Bachelor of Education degree and at twenty-one Master of Arts in Education.
Laura Clarice Knight became a teacher in Jackson School, Cincinnati, Ohio, under her mother, at the age of nineteen. The following June she married Dr. Darwin Turner, chemist and druggist, a graduate of the Uni- versity of Cincinnati, and son of the late Dr. Charles Henry Turner, who received both the A. B. and A. M. degrees from the University of Cincinnati, Doctor of Philosophy from Chicago University, and became an eminent biologist. In 1931 she became the mother of a son, Darwin Theodore Turner.
Mrs. Turner has traveled extensively in Europe, Asia and northern Africa with her mother and son. She has a collection of moving pictures which she took in the countries visited and which have added to the interest of her lectures. She has studied at Oxford University, Oxford, England and at King's College, London. She won two national prizes for travel articles and in nine- teen hundred and thirty five received the first prize of two hundred and fifty dollars from the Current Events Magazines for her essay, "Why I am Teach- ing Current Events". The judges wrote that they considered the essay "a masterpiece of concise statement and broad viewpoint."
Mrs. Turner is active in community enterprises and a member of many civic, social and educational organizations. She is a member of the Associa- tion for the Study of Negro Life and History, American Association of Uni- versity Women, Southwestern Teacher's Association and International Club, London, England.
Of her son, Darwin, seven years old, in the seventh grade, and possessed of an intelligence quotient of over one hundred and seventy, Dr. Bills, head of the psychology department of the University of Cincinnati wrote, "Intel- lectually, Darwin ranks one in a million. In all my experience I have never seen so gifted a child."
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FRANCES KOHNKY
FRANCES KOHNKY began her teaching career about fifty years ago, when, as a young graduate of Hughes High School, Cincinnati, Ohio, she be- came an instructor in drawing in all of the high schools in the city. After ten years of this experience, she was appointed a teacher of mathematics in Hughes, and later in the Walnut Hills High School, where she taught steadily for thirty five years, until her retirement in 1937.
During her years as a teacher, Frances Kohnky found time and inspira- tion, in addition to her professional duties, for college courses, leading first to a Bachelor of Arts, then to a Master of Arts degree, and finally to the degree of a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. She did special work, during vacations, at the University of Chicago and Columbia University.
She is one of the most distinguished teachers in the history of the public schools of Cincinnati. She has scholastic accomplishments to her credit. Above all she stands out, among her peers, as a remarkable woman, whose fine spirit has shed a light on all who have come in close contact with her.
HAZEL L. KOPPENHOEFER
HAZEL L. KOPPENHOEFER plays many important parts in the Cin- cinnati public school system, as a teacher of English, as director of publicity, as faculty adviser on all publications. She is at present a valued and extremely active member of the staff of Hughes High School.
She brings to her varied responsibilities a fine mind, a colorful personality and a wealth of excellent training. Herself an "old grad" of Hughes, she has a Masters degree from the University of Cincinnati, a Phi Beta Kappa key, and a number of graduate courses to her credit at the University of Michigan.
She is a former staff member of the Cincinnati Teachers Association Bulletin ; she is past president and vice president of the Journalism Associa- tion of Ohio Schools; past president of the Scholastic Press Guild of Greater Cincinnati; Publications Judge for Columbia University Scholastic Press As- sociation; and past president of Kappa Delta Pi (honorary teaching fra- ternity) ; member of Ohio State Teachers Association; Southwestern Teachers Association; and is also a frequent contributor to journalism magazines. Several poems have also been published in Harrison Anthologies (1939).
MARIAN HARTZEL KOUNTZ
MARIAN HARTZEL KOUNTZ, a native of Cincinnati, and a graduate of Hughes High School, comes from a family with musical background and from childhood studied music as a matter of course.
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She began her career as a teacher quite unexpectedly, when, in 1917, her father, then a supervisor of music in the public schools, resigned to enlist in the army as band leader, leaving at once for Camp Sheridan, Alabama. Marian Hartzel, about to enter the University of Cincinnati, gave up her plan for college when she was offered her father's place in the schools and took over his duties at once.
Upon his return from overseas, and to his former post, Marian entered the Cincinnati College of Music as a student of public school music, receiving a diploma in that subject.
From that time she has taught music in the public schools. Following her marriage to George H. Kountz she continued her work with the ex- ception of one year devoted to the care of a baby son-now seven years old.
Mrs. Kountz has made for herself, through her personality, her talent and her charm, an approved and respected place in the great organization which she serves.
EVANGELINE LINDSLEY
EVANGELINE LINDSLEY, head of the department of U. S. History and Government of Dayton, Ohio, Senior High School, was born at Dayton, the daughter of Walter George and Leola Moeller Lindsley.
Her father is of English and American Revolutionary descent. Captain Jasper Crane, of the War of the Revolution, David Lindsley, who helped to found the first bank of Dayton, Ephraim Lindsley, editor and publisher of the early "Dayton Republican" and Typhrene Crane Lindsley, mistress of several Dayton schools from 1820 to 1850, were among the Lindsley ancestors. Miss Lindsley's mother is of German descent.
Evangeline attended elementary school at Tacoma, Wash., entered the University of Washington at Seattle, then went to Miami University at Ox- ford, O., where she received her B.S. in 1919. She did extensive graduate work at the University of Chicago.
Miss Lindsley began teaching at West Alexandria, O., then taught in Logan County and on joining the Dayton school system was for a time in the elementary and junior high schools.
She has just concluded a two year term as president of the Dayton Classroom Teachers Association, is president of the High School Women's Club, a member of the executive committee of the Ohio Education Associa- tion and is on the policies committee of the National Education Association.
Organizations in which this outstanding Ohio' educator is active include Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Kappa Gamma, the Young Women's League, Dayton Business and Professional Women's Club, of which she is a past president, and the "H. H.," a woman's literary organization.
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HELEN GIBBONS LOTSPEICH
HELEN GIBBONS LOTSPEICH (Mrs. Claude M. Lotspeich), founder and principal of the Lotspeich School, Cincinnati, had the initiative and courage, twenty-two years ago, to take steps in accordance with a growing educational conviction.
This conviction was, in general, that children just entering school were still being subjected to processes more or less stifling, mentally and physically. It was bad for their minds, choking back freedom of expression. It was bad for their bodies-the ventilation of many a school room encouraged lethargy and induced indifference.
So-in an especially constructed building connected with her Clifton, Cincinnati home, this energetic woman educator opened what was termed at the time an "open air school," because of its many sunlit windows which ad- mitted, in so far as weather conditions permitted, a maximum of light and air.
The school curriculum was, figuratively speaking, built on the same lines, providing to the maximum for development of wholesome intellectual cur- iosity, of understanding, of reasoning and of expression.
The experiment was so successful that now the Lotspeich School, an extensive structure on Deerfield Road, has become a model for primary and elementary educators throughout the country.
Paulina Longworth began her school life there. Her mother, Mrs. Alice Longworth, was able to arrange so that Paulina could take up school work during periods of their stay in Cincinnati, integrated with this work her classes elsewhere. Two other grandchildren of former presidents of the United States have been pupils at the Lotspeich School. It was chosen as much for the democratic atmosphere maintained by the school head as for her progressive and efficient methods of teaching.
Meanwhile Mrs. Lotspeich, who was born at Pittsburgh, educated at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Leipzig, the University of Berlin and the University of Cincinnati, became an important factor in the progress of child education and welfare of her adopted city.
Mrs. Lotspeich, who is the daughter of Henry and Mary Gibbons, in 1907 married Dr. Claude M. Lotspeich, professor of comparative philology at the University of Cincinnati. To the rearing of their four children both parents have devoted much of their energy and ability. Even so, Helen Lotspeich has found time for lectures on child psychology, for critical study of ever developing educational processes and for a variety of civic services which no pressure of personal responsibility has ever influenced her to evade. Among these services was the chairmanship for three years of the education committee of the Cincinnati Woman's Club, leadership of important projects sponsored by the Woman's City Club and the University Women's Club
MRS. C. M. LOTSPEICH
Head of Lotspeich School and Chairman of Young People's Concerts Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
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and, very notably, chairmanship of the Young Peoples Concerts Committee of the Symphony Orchestra, through efforts of which group attendance of the children's concerts was increased one hundred per cent.
FRIEDA A. LOTZE
FRIEDA A. LOTZE, instructor in English, speech and dramatics at Walnut Hills High School, one of Cincinnati's most gifted teachers, received her thorough training for her present work at the University of Cincinnati where she graduated from the Liberal Arts College; Cincinnati Academy of Dramatic Arts ; Northwestern University; Columbia University ; the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York City; and at the Central School of Speech, London, England.
Previous to joining the faculty of Walnut Hills High School in 1919, she taught in the Cincinnati Academy of Dramatic Arts, in the Thane Miller School, and in the elementary grades of the public school system.
Her extra curricular activities have been especially varied. She coaches debating teams for various schools, presents radio programs, directs plays for many organizations, including the McDowell Society and the College Club. Her outstanding piece of work, for which Cincinnatians know and love her best, is the annual Shakespeare Play, produced by Walnut Hills High School for the past seventeen years under the sole direction of Frieda Lotze. This event attracts city wide attention, approaching professional excellence, and constituting an important civic event.
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