The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-06-11

every once in awhile. when he want
ed to read or had some office work
10 do. You see, our room was the
only office he had!"
Crowded conditions obtained I'm
the Tulsa schools before the boom
started Just as they did during the
boom and after the boom and now
that the boom is n thing of ancient
history and the city Is a city with
out benefit of 1t. one year Mrs. Dodd
and another teacher, Miss Kelley
handled 100 children in that one
room. After three years in the old
Mission building, the new Central
building that was torn down last
year to make room for the new ad-
ministration building was almost
ready for occupancy. But the little
old frame schoolhouse at Fourth
and Boston had overflowed and
spilled out and something had TO
be done Immediately. so Mrs. Dodd
and her pupils were moved into the
basement Of the old Christian
church on Second street until mid
year. when Central was ready for
classes.
She Took Room IS.
Il can't tell you how wonderful
that building seemed to u.s." said
Mrs. Dodd. 1T was the last word
In school equipment and after the
way we had been crowded at the
Mission, there seemed all the room
in the world. Another teacher and
]. l remember, we're the last ones
10 be assigned to rooms in tho new
building. The only rooms that were
left were rooms ~ and 10. This
other teacher said, oh, | simply
.,att 49, n -
mean bad luck for me. ! know So
! took st.
did it bring me bad luck? Not
n bit OF II! But that poor teacher
in room II died before the year was
QUIT"
r. Z. Curran, 9O5 North Main, was
superintendent of the schools at the
time the move into the new build
Ing was made.
Knows the Young People.
Perhaps there is no other woman
In town who has a wider acqua int
ance among the young people than
| Mrs. Dodd. Perhaps II would be
| more truthful to say that there is
no one whom more young people
| know than Mrs Dodd for there are
great many who know her who
| have changed so since their second
| grade days that she does not always
recognize them. OF the pupils she
| had during those pioneer days, there
| are not so many who are still here
/ in Tulsa. She recalls Homer Perry
| man, one Of her first years pupils.
/ Inez Huett Wise who herself taught
/ in the city schools for some time
/ before her marriage, Perry Hey
worth, now OF Kansas CITY, Tina
/ Mills and Archie Mathewson.
The so-called raciness OF the times
| does not apply to the children OF to-
| day. Mrs. Dodd believes. They are
| Just the same now that they were a
| generation ago-just as obedient.
Just as naughty. Just as studious,
| Just as indolent, Just as mischevious,
as they have always been. The chill
dren Of the Tulsa that was an am-
bilious little village dreaming
dreams OF its future were just the
same as are the children OF the
Tulsa that Is the proud oil center OF
the world. the city OF realized am
billion and dreams come true eN-
emplfed In It's skyscrapers and its
pslatlal homes and Its busting city
streets.
Quarter Century Teaching.
Mrs. Dodd has grown out with
the city. From her little home at
1927 East Hodge she watches the
city that she knew first = n precious
infant. stil growing. This summer
she Is going to forget all about
schools for awhile when she leaves
for the east with a group OF half a
dozen or so teachers. They are GO
ing 10 attend the " T. A, conven-
J tion In Boston. visit points OF inter-
est and attend Columbia university
for a slx-weeks' term.
Mrs. Dodd is looking forward 70
her next wear Of teaching For aside
from rounding out hor twentieth
year with the Tulsa schools, Il Will
he her silver Jubilee as a teacher
! She taught five years IN Pierce city,
Mo, before coming here.