Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-13
WHEREABOUTS OF
GORHAM NORMAL
GRADUATES OF 1917

Goraam, Me, Jan. L.. The Gorham
recent graduates for information in re
gard to their employment. This in
c!udes items in regard to salary. kind of
school and cost of board. Reports have
recently been received from the class
that was graduated in June, 1917. Tnc
report is at present o2.olete, but re
turns already received indicate that the
members of that class are teaching ir
the following locations:
Helen E Anterior. Bethel; Mary NJ.
! Benson. kencbunkport: Ethel NJ. Ber-
ry. Charlestown, y. H.; Sarah 6. Black.
Bath; Ernestine W. Brac,'. Wells; Mrs.
Rose Bradbury Shaw. Hollis Center;
Esther NJ Bra gdon. Buxton; Anna 4.
Burckhart, Cape Elizabeth; Mrs. Gladys
Burnell Cartret. South Hiram: Hazel NJ.
Burrowes, Portland; MAJ; F. Care',
Biddeford: Grace NJ. Colby. Westpo-t:
Olive G.. Cook. South Eumford; Myra
NJ. Coombs. Bath: Marion Cults. CO.
| nam; Vera l.. Dawson, Gorham; Eliza
beth Dearborn Cape Eliza beth: Gladys
W. Dow, Biddeford; Rc;a Dunnells.
, Deep River. Conn. Esther Eastman,
! Winthrop: Florence Ellis. Gorham
! Helen +'ollett Thomaston; Annie Full
! Ter. Palmyra; Helen l.. Gage. Augusta
/ Mabel Golden, Rolinsford, \. H.; Mar
/ jorie Griffin. Portland; Janet Hanson.
Woodland: Florence Hayes. Saco; Doris
| Hill, kennebunkport: Mildred a. Hol-
! brook Wiscasset; Marie =. Larochelle
Portland: Myrtle NJ. Lowell. Lebanon.
Conn: Grace F. Lyons, Portland; Eliza
beth Marsano, Orono; Floyd E. MaXcy.
/ Rockland: Hazel Mcclellan. North Sea-
! borough Helen Merrill. Bridgton: Edna
b. Meserve, Mexico; Vera G. Millett.
! Waterville Miriam G. Morrill,, Port
land; Myrtle l.. Nixon. Everett. Mass
Gertrude O'Connor. Portland; Eliza Pat
terson, Ninalhaven. Lois Roberts. Lis
! bon Falls; Christina NJ. Ross. South
! Hiram; Gertrude Secondhand. Sanford
! Viola A. Shaw, Falmouth; Ruth L.
Shaw. Portland: Ruby NJ. Smith. Ken
1 nebunk; Hope Sturtevan-. Bath: Edna
Trickey, Sanford: Helena r True. Port
land: Helen Turkey. Lisbon Falls; Lucy
A. Whittier, Sweden Christine Wyman.
Windham.
Industrial Arts Ceurse-Percy A. Al.
I len Gardiner: Granville Edwards. San
| ford: Dwight Parker, Bath.
! Most of these young people reported
! above are teaching in the elementary
schools, some in single grades, some
with two or three grades, and about 1910
of them are teaching in rural schools.
Three are teaching industrial arts. ar
other is teaching a junior high school.
! and one senior high school. Other in
! teres.ing facts gathered from the re-
ports show that seven are married. that
! nine have been serving in the army,
and that five of the young ladies are
employed in positions open TO them be
cause of the war
/ The pay that these teachers are re-
| ceiving is almost three dollars and a
half more per week than the pay the '
received last year for their first year II
teaching. 1t is also noticeable that the
! lowest pay received is by the group
( teaching in the largest city. Practice lily
all these graduates are teaching in the
| State of Maine
The only death in the class is that of
the president. Miss Marjorie Cults. She
| was obliged to leave her teaching early
in the fan on accoun; OF i'll health AMI
| on returning home died in a few days
I from organic heart trouble.