Evening star., 1940-11-10
Varied Interests Recommended
BY Educational Coreerists
Miss Lido Eorhurt
Chooses CopitoI
For Retirement
By JESSIE FAINT EVANS.

so hive your life, II you are q ca
reer woman, that when the time
comes for you to retire you need
not cling to the skirts of your past
with the gray ghosts of your men,
ories as your only lifeline"
This is the advice of Miss Ida B.
Earhart, distinguished educational
careerist and successful author Of
series of textbooks translated into
many languages.
Not the years one lives and
achieves, but how much one piles
into them in the way Of varied in
terests, so as to be credit to them
and not have the last ones dreary,
is what makes a full and complete
life" continues this vital, eager
eyed enthusiast. from the back
ground of some Is years of retire
ment spent here in Washington.
Previous to this voluntary act,
she packed her own career full to
the brim with laurels. The recipient
of an A. B. degree from the Uni
versity of Michigan and of Colum-
bias A. M. and Phi. D., first woman
to hold Teachers College, Column
bia University fellowship; first wom-
an permitted to pursue research
study at Gottingen and Jena, she
became nationally known for her
contributions to the methodology of
teaching at Columbia, Cornell and
Johns Hopkins.
Chose Capital for Retirement.
She occupied distinguished teach
ing and administrative posts, too.
at various educational centers
throughout the United States. Such
research studies as, What Is Study
and How Should 1t Be Dcne7" later
rewritten as the textbooks Teach
ing Children to Study" and Types
of Teaching" became criteria among
American school systems and were
translated for use in many lands.
She has served as an alumna trustee
of Columbia University.
At the high tide of her success
as an educator and author, with
her publishers urging her to write
"one more textbook" she chose
Washington. as the place of resi-
dence where she intended to break
loose from her profession and fol-
low her own advice Neither did
she write the textbook.
From the friendly background of
her home at 2901 Connecticut avenue,
her retirement" might seem to most
Of us to be something of a misnomer,
considering the activities and inter-
ests with which she fills her life.
The result of one pursuit which
has been two years under way to
meet a long felt need upon the part
of the National Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton. she has just presented to it,
as free will offering, upon the
occasion of its Seth anniversary. 1t
is embodied in a series of pamphlets
for its filing and lending bureau.
having to do with the societys
founding, its founders and the
biographies of its presidents general
Pursued Careful Research.
This labor of love for the patri-
otic society of which she is a mem
Der was compiled after careful re-
search and with full access to all
of its records. "It represents" she
says, "in its 50-year sequence, some
thing of the progress of women in
organization work in this country,
as we'll as certain historical aspects
pertaining only to this particular
society"
One of a family of II of early
American stock, she proceeded short
ly after establishing herself in Wash
ington to pursue an hitherto un-
whetted interest in genealogical re-
search. This led her to the Library
of Congress upon the trail of ances-
tors who were of the French HUI
genot group that settled in Pennsyl-
vania and were instrumental forces
In the writing of the famous West
moreland Declaration of ITS. This,
she reminds one, was not one Of the
Colonial declarations Of separation