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Helen Cutler
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Tina Johnson Daughenbaugh
I'm wondering about number 4.... what the heck went on in the Ice Cream parlors back then? lol
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Cece Zerbst
What goes on in the ice cream parlor stays in the ice cream parlor, Tina!
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Cece Zerbst
I decline in Roman Numeral 13!
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Julia Sturdevant
Young teachers back in that age were single young women. they weren't allowed to go anywhere in public without proper escort. and they were definitely not allowed to fraternize near young men. their virtue and innocence had to be kept intact in order for them to stay a teacher.
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Kaye Swift Baxter
We started school at 9:00 and out at 4:00.
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Cece Zerbst
Good old days, my grade school friend!
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Martha Knight
We had to do morning chores (including milking) before school and get home in time for evening chores. Some of the kids walked up to two miles, and when there was lots of snow they had to wade through it, and would often be late.
A diller, a dollar
A 12 o'clock scholar.
What brings you here so soon?
You used to come at 10 o'clock
But now you come at noon.
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RonVictoria Willoughby I quit, lol
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Christine A. Holley
That makes me sad! Unbelievably sad that women were treated this way!
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Candy Welsh-Payne
Me too Christine A. Holley. It's an odd world we've lived in.
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Kaye Swift Baxter They sure were!
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Carol Byrd
My grandmother had the same contract. She was an excellent teacher but had to quit when she got married. She did go back to teach a few years during WW II. I guess when they needed them, they slackened up on the rules.
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John Christy Wetzel
I love the "Miss ____ Teacher" part. There WERE male teachers back then, although clearly in the minority. I wonder what THEIR contract looked like.
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Martha Knight
High school teachers were predominantly male, and paid more. Some grade school teachers went back for more training, earned a degree, and became high school teachers. Grade school was grades 1 through 8, high school was 9 through 12. In McKean County until the 1950s there was one county superintendent; local school systems had supervising principals for their high schools, and building principals for larger grade schools like Brooklynside and Liberty Consolidated.
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Martha Knight
Armina Knight came to the area in the late 1930s or early 1940s, when she and her husband bought a farm on Baker Hollow Rd., off Fishing Creek. She taught in Bradford, taking their little boy with her, and boarded there through the school week, coming home to the farm on weekends. Her husband was recuperating from lung damage from work in a steel mill (as a metallurgist). She also worked at the Martha Lloyd School, then at Turtlepoint, then Liberty Consolidated. In her early teaching years she was a young married woman, with a child.
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Peggy J Maynard
Armina Knight was my teacher 3rd through 5th grade, at the Turtlepoint school. When we didn't have playground equipment, she personaly had it built for us. I treasure those years with her. And also treasure the life-long friends I made there, in that little school.
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Martha Knight
Armina was one of those teachers in small rural schools who made it her business to visit every family whose child she taught in a given school term. She worked with individual students as much as possible. She was the first teacher in our area who became certified in special ed., after PDE established that certification. It was a "fifth year" (bachelor plus one) program. Many years after her Turtlepoint service, she encountered one of her former pupils, recently paroled. No job, no car. She gave him a bicycle and helped him find some odd jobs. When she was in long-term care in Cole Memorial, she got many, many cards from former students, and many also came to visit her. She remembered each individual, it seemed, and could tell anecdotes about their school days. She was also good at teaching adults-- quilting, for instance. A dependable guide, for hunters in Canada and Alaska, and in other ways as well. A splendid cook, a crack shot, and when she visited people in Texas and went out on a charter boat, she fished everyone else under the deck. She threw many of them back, in small streams or on a lake or ocean. "We need to educate them," she would say, with a chuckle and a wink.
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Peggy J Maynard
Thank you, Martha, for those stories. I hope you are well.
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John Christy Wetzel
My great aunt Eva Snyder Swift, Kaye Swift Baxter's mother, also taught special ed in the area. From her obituary: "By 1956, Mrs. Swift earned a master's degree in special education from Mansfield University. She started the first special education classroom in the Oswayo Valley School District in Shinglehouse, where she retired from in 1970."
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- Martha Knight
Armina Knight came to the area in the late 1930s or early 1940s, when she and her husband bought a farm on Baker Hollow Rd., off Fishing Creek. She taught in Bradford, taking their little boy with her, and boarded there through the school week, coming home to the farm on weekends. Her husband was recuperating from lung damage from work in a steel mill (as a metallurgist). She also worked at the Martha Lloyd School, then at Turtlepoint, then Liberty Consolidated. In her early teaching years she was a young married woman, with a child.
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Peggy J Maynard
Armina Knight was my teacher 3rd through 5th grade, at the Turtlepoint school. When we didn't have playground equipment, she personaly had it built for us. I treasure those years with her. And also treasure the life-long friends I made there, in that little school.
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Martha Knight
Armina was one of those teachers in small rural schools who made it her business to visit every family whose child she taught in a given school term. She worked with individual students as much as possible. She was the first teacher in our area who became certified in special ed., after PDE established that certification. It was a "fifth year" (bachelor plus one) program. Many years after her Turtlepoint service, she encountered one of her former pupils, recently paroled. No job, no car. She gave him a bicycle and helped him find some odd jobs. When she was in long-term care in Cole Memorial, she got many, many cards from former students, and many also came to visit her. She remembered each individual, it seemed, and could tell anecdotes about their school days. She was also good at teaching adults-- quilting, for instance. A dependable guide, for hunters in Canada and Alaska, and in other ways as well. A splendid cook, a crack shot, and when she visited people in Texas and went out on a charter boat, she fished everyone else under the deck. She threw many of them back, in small streams or on a lake or ocean. "We need to educate them," she would say, with a chuckle and a wink.
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