Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-10-28

When Carbon County high
school at Red Lodge opened for
the fall term this year, for the
first time in % years its faculty
did not include Miss Gertrude
Drake. Miss Drake retired last
spring after a half century of
teaching. She has gone to Man
kato, Mimi, her old home, where
she will live with her sisters, Miss
Amanda Drake and Mrs. Rose Tuttle
Mrs Tuttle, also a teacher, plans to
retire soon, after which the three sis
ters will move to California.
Miss brakes parents were among the
first pioneers to settle in Minnesota,
long before the Civil war.
She is a first cousin of the late
James Harvey Robinson, who was the
author of Mind in the Making" a
distinguished contribution to American
literature, and Ben Robinson, Harvard
curator, who assembled the Drake
geneology which traces the family back
to Sir Francis Drake She is member
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution.
She came to Red Lodge % years ago
and had been on the staff of the
high school there since, teaching
mathematics. She saw 1887 students
graduate from Carbon high and taught
at least one subject to each.
Miss Drake attended Mankato Nor
NAL school, University of Minnesota.
University of Chicago and Columbia
North Dakota and Minnesota before
she came to Montana.
The Carbon Copy Carbon high
school paper in its first issue, pub
lished last week, says of Miss Drake:
Her interests are wide and varied
She is a constant reader and keeps
up with literary trends and all new
currents of thought, and Is always
informed on the important questions
of the day.
"As was said of Mark Hopkins that
Were he on one end of log and 8
student on the other there would be
a college, so with Miss Drake. In a
Schoolroom and a class before her,
there would be found the finest type
of American public school"
An editorial In the publication says: /
Loving tribute we pay to Miss |
Drake, retired Carbon county mathe- /
MATES teacher. Memory of her careful |
guidance and kindness will linger In |
the hearts of all those who were In
her classes. We all know how well she |
taught the subjects that to some we're
such a trial and to others pleasure.
It was truly wonderful to be under
Miss brakes guidance.
Examples Of Miss brakes influence
may be seen in many of this town
and in her other widely scattered stu
1ents. When they entered high school,
! great many Of them had a genuine
loathing for mathematics. Through
Miss Drake they saw dry. uninter-
Dortant. The seemingly insignificant
subjects of algebra and plane geom-
stry provided the foundations for the
success of many of these students.
Therefore, we cannot dismiss her
20 oblivion. What we admired and
orized in her personality cannot be
sasily forgotten. All of us are aware
# the thoroughness with which she
discharged her duties. Breathing her
,entle and kind spirit in this institu-
ion, she has left the stamp of her
Inc character upon all those who
now her.
with truthfulneSS and sincerity we
i've this message of regret with which
We must accept Miss brakes resigna-
ion"
Supervisor Lou Boedecker Of the
tate highway patrol has urged all
motorists driving new cars with
raffic beam (dimmer) when meeting
airs on the highway because the new
IghtS are brighter and show farther
han old types. He said the new lights
re as important to driving as four
heel brakes, and that they probably
ill greatly reduce night highway
rash fatalities