The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-23
3. I. 5. NOTES By IDA CLARE
MISS AGNES E. COLLINS.

Another native Bridgeport teacher is Miss Agnes Collins. Probably one of the reasons why she is such good teacher is because she is a graduate of our own High. In 1907 she finish ed her academic course and the next year returned to take a post graduate course in commercial subjects. The way Miss Collins happened into business life is very unique. Between her second and third years here she was employed, during the summer, in an office. She became greatly at tached to business and came back to her Senior year with I determination to become commercial teacher. She is a graduate of the City Normal school and of the Columbia school of business. Special courses were taken in the Rochester Institute under the direction of the well-known, D. c. Mills, in methods of penmanshfp and Professor Beygraude of Columbia University in methods of typewriting and shorthand.
 '"The business field today has many opportunities. The commercial course of the Bridgeport High School at present enters a girl into higher schools Of learning. If girl can possibly go to college, I would advIse
 
 Private secretaries and commercial teachers are now at a premium. l would advise any girl who has ever thought of taking up Commercial teaching, to enter the profession for wonderful opportunities await her."
 Another subject in which Miss Col lins is greatly interested is Com munity Service Work. In several diff ferent departments of the work she is now helping. Standardization work is my hobby. You cannot begin to imagine how interesting it is to help in educating the foreigner. For in stance, if you teach something to the pupil, he in turn gives out the same knowledge to his friends and family. Consequently one reaches quite a circle-'
 "Other phases of the Community Service work are forever calling to young men and young women to jo1n in the big movement. At present in this city there are several community service organiza tions which are call ing strongly for workers in this truly worth while work. I am overjoyed that a section of the community ser vice work has invaded the B. H. S. Many of the rooms are now support ing foreign orphans and are provid- ing for visits to the needy families ''
 Miss Collins conducts American ization classes at the Jefferson school and classes in shorthand and type writing at the Saint Vincent Com munity House on Barnum avenue Probably the secret of the great pop ularity which Miss Collins enjoys at school is that she is ''one of the girls
 Miss Alma Rosen, Miss Anna Siegal and Irving Goldstein were among the speakers at the Park Avenue Temple club meeting, recently.
 Miss Emma Flames of the faculty has returned to school after an illness of several days.
 A number of pupils attended the John Drinkwater lecture last even ing.
 Miss Louise McPherson '21 who has been confined to her home for | several days with a severe cold has I recovered sufficiently to return to 1 school.
 1 A dramanization of "Penrod and Sam," by Booth Tarkington will be given in Miss Weyland's 9th Period . English Class, soon. The play is under the direction of Miss Frances O'Neii
 The characters are:
 i MT. Williams, the father-Blanche Feinstein.
 Mrs. Williams, the mother-Grace i Noonan.
 Sam Williams, a terrible bad boy 1 Madelyn Farley.
 l Fanny, the maid - Mildred Far re1l.