Minneapolis spokesman., 1962-07-20
Minnesota Girl:
Morionne PEBBLES
Bethel Receives
Masters Deoree

Mrs. Marionne PEBBLES Bethel,
daughter of Mrs. Frances PEBBLES
Crews, received the Master Of
Arts Degree in Secondary Educa-
ton at the June Commencement
Exercises Of San Francisco State
Teachers College in San Francis
CO, California.
Mrs. Bethel received her basic
education in the public schools Of
Minneapolis, having graduated
from Bryant Junior High School,
Central High School, and matri-
culated at the University Of Min
nesota during her freshman and
sophomore years.
She received the Bachelor of
Science Degree from the Tenn
essee Agricultural and Industrial
University of Nashville, Tennessee
and did graduate work at Lane
College in Jackson, Tenn, the
University of the Pacific in Stoc-
ton, Calf, and the University Of
California in Berkeley, Calf.
In addition, she attended the
Chicago College of Commerce and
became an accomplished machine
shorthand operator, while working
as the only Negro personal secre-
tary for the Loan Guaranty Di-
vision of the Veterans Admins
tration, and as an adult education
instructor for the Recreation De-
partment of Chicago, Ill.
The San Francisco office Of the
Veterans Administration request
ed a transfer for her while she
was vacationing in the Bay Area
in 1852. She has not been lured
back to the Midwest by either an
offer to serve as assistant to Mrs.
Freda DeKnight Of johnson Pub
,lications, to teach stenography
courses at the Cortez Peters Bus
mess College in Chicago, or to
accept any position as a demon
strator for business concerns such
as General Mills and Crosley &
Bendix.
Since making her home in Berk-
eley, Calf, she has held several
responsible positions in the public
school system of Oakland, Calf; |;
liason home teacher for three ele-
mentary schools, home economics
and English teacher in both junior
and senior high school, P.T.A. ad-
visor and auditor in both the
elementary and secondary schools,
and evening school instructor In
adult education. She possesses two
life diplomas for the State Of
California, an equal number for
the State of Tennessee, and is not
too far removed from the equival-
ency Of a Doctorate Degree. She
plans to pursue a couse toward a
Phd. within the next two years,
but does not plan to reenter the
field Of administration and super
vision, although in 1855 she be-
came the first Negro counselor in
the senior high schools Of the Bay
Area, and probably the State Of
California.
Her main interest lies in class
room instruction, and for this she
gave up counseling last year to ac-
cept the challenge Of teaching
remedial reading at the senior
high school level.
Mrs. Bethel Is a member Of the
National Association of University
Women, the National Education
Association, the National Council
Of Teachers Of English, the In
ternational Council Of Teachers Of
Reading, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sor-
ority, and Beta Pi Sigma Business
and Professional Sorority.
She remains an active member
Of the Methodist Church, serving
both as an usher and a choir men,
Der Just as she did at st. Peters
AME Church as a youth, and re-
tains her membership in the Cred
jafawn Social Club Of the Twin
Cities and Is a member Of the
NAACP.
She also continues her subscrip'
ton to this newspaper, for which
she served as the first society edi'
tor when Just a school girl barely
out Of pigtails.
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