NAWSA GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Wheelock, Lucy Christ is risen! Alleluia! "And ever near us, though unseen, The dear, immortal spirits tread; For all the boundless universe Is life--There are no dead" Tennyson. Your lovely Easter [?petals?] gave me a new hope and courage. Much love my dear Alice, Lucy Wheelock The Season's Greetings and best wishes for the New Year Lucy Wheelock 84 Charles St. Dec. 4. My dear Alice- I hope you are not mad at me, as the children say; it is such a long time that I have not seen or heard from you. I have indirectly heard how very busy and active you are in all good works, and I well understand that you cannot call or visit much, except where duty calls. I want you to know, however that I have moved, and am a little nearer your office, and I shall be very glad to see you at any time, morning, noon or night. Please remember me to your father and mother, if they have returned, and with much love, believe me Sincerely Your friend, Lucy Wheelock Tiverton, Rhode Island, July 11, 1880 My dear Alice,- I am going to take a part of this lovely Sunday morning to write to you, mainly because I want to get some more of your Latin postals to cheer my lonely path this summer, and partly because I want to ask you for some information. I believe I have heard something about "business before pleasure", so I will ask you my question first. I have the unpleasant prospect before me of finding a boarding place where I may shelter and feed myself comfortably, for the next school year in B. I say unpleasant, because I am so ignorant of places, and do not know where to look for a home that will be pleasant and respectable, and at the same time sleep, as the Chinese professor says. Now it occurred to me that you might know where some of the University girls live, and there may be some street or locality where they live that would just suit me. I prefer to be at walking distance from the school. I have an idea that some of the Univ. students used to be on Chandler St., but I don't know about it. I don't wish you to take a bit of trouble about this, only if you happen to know of any thing, I would be very happy to hear of it. You are so very good al- Errand," "Life of Farragut," and the "Leavenworth Case" but last week, in fact I sat up until it was nearly Sunday to finish the last. I could not have it until it was finished; but it is not a lasting book; it has all vanished from my mind now. From one of my windows I have a view of hammaquaket pond, with its circle of white cottages, and from the other, a rocky wooded hillside. No feature of a lovely landscape is lacking here; there are green fields, woods, stone walls, water, every where, ponds, brooks and rivers, and the most exquisitely colored sunset skies. I board at Dr's house. He has two horses, and frequently takes me to drive with him. A brilliant thought strikes me. The Dr. is anxious to take other boarders, and dont you want to come down and gain a few pounds? If you would share my room with me, I know it would be very reasonable. I have a selfish interest in trying to help the Dr. "fill his house," as he expresses it. I find it a trifle dull sometimes. I fancy even Paradise would not be altogether delightful without the other angels. I teach four hours a day now and Saturdays too; but I have a good deal of time left. The most interesting hour of the day is when the stage arrives with our mail, and may I not hope that soon it will bring me one of your cheering epistles? My regards to your father & mother and much love to you from your old friend, L. Wheelock ways, that I am half afraid you will trouble yourself about this; but pray dont for I shall find some place of course. There is the Y.M.C.A., but I dont want to go there. I wish some body would establish a Teachers' Home. I think they need it. I wonder where you are this summer. I don't doubt you are having a jolly time. I wish you could come down here for a few weeks. Riverton is the loveliest, healthiest place I have ever been in. The only drawback is the rattlesnakes. One was found in the road near here last week, and since then I have been afraid to walk anywhere. I am obliged, however, to walk over to Mrs. Thayer's and back every day which is Don't be alarmed about the rattlesnakes; they are really very rarely found. over a mile, and I usually go down to the pond, which is down a very little hill. I have a reasonably good place for bathing, which I enjoy very much, as it is a new experience to me. I have been here four weeks and have gained over six pounds and never felt so well. I have a pleasant, airy room, with a magnificent writing table in it, magnificent as to size, I mean, where I spend most of my time after dinner. It is so quiet here that there is nothing to distract one's attention, so I read and write a great deal. I have Kingsley's "Westward, Ho!" in the bookcase in my room ; but it does not look very inviting. Does it pay for reading? I read "The Fool's Riverton, R. I. Aug. 4, 1880. My dear Alice,-- I have a boil on my face which burns like a furnace and aches like the toothache and no prospect of relief for several days; besides I am hungry and waiting impatiently for supper. I don't begin this letter out of malice to you; but simply to relieve my over-burdened feelings. I fear this letter will not be so acceptable as it would have been in Attleboro; but I have not realized how father Time has been hastening on, and I suppose now you have left your Bear Croft. as I have no habit. It is fun, though and there is nobody to see. Clambakes are the thing here. I have been at two, and was not made ill at either which is a remarkable thing I believe. I don't call this a letter, Alice, but it comes of the boil. I will send it to show I am not unmindful of your kindness in writing me such a splendid letter. I wish I could get another while in Riverton. How did you happen to go there, and why dont you keep it up all through the vacation? I never enjoyed any thing more than your description of it. It must have been jolly. I wanted to write at once and thank you for your mine of information. It is very valuable to me, and please accept all the gratitude my poor nature is capable of feeling. I wish I knew where Dr. S's place is; perhaps I will write her. I expect to leave here about the last of this month and stop over in B. to engage my room before I go on to Vt. I presume I shall know how I am able to bear all the ills of my daily life by thinking of the stage. to sympathize with "house hunters" before I am through. I hope to bring my mother back with me to stay a month and to have Abbie come down and go to school. She thinks she prefers some other place; but I shall set all the attractions before her in a way she cannot resist, especially the honor of being under my supervision. There is a possibility of my going out to Brookline to teach two children for three hours in the afternoon. In that case my time will be well taken up. One of the children is my pupil this summer, and a lovely bright child, not at all like her cousin, who is a kind hearted child and very My regards to your mother. Hoping that you are enjoying yourself very aff'ly your friend, Lucy Wheelock. devoted to me, so much so, that he frequently requests that I may be invited to dine; but perfectly incorrigible in regard to reading. He will not improve. I fear sometimes that it is hopeless. How did you learn? I thought children took it like the measles. My little girl has learned a great many words already. I hope the family will not attribute all the deficiencies of the boy to me. I am having a fine time this summer. I have a very old, worn out and gentle pony which I ride three times a week. My appearance is comical sometimes, when he is animated by his youthful spirit and canters at a rapid rate, while I am busied in keeping my skirts down Cambridge, Vt. Sep. 15 1880. My dear, good Alice,- I received your card last night, and am very much obliged to you for your kind thoughtfulness. I do not know what I could have done for a room without your help. Miss Pierce very kindly asked Mrs. Green to send me a card about her rooms, which came last week, that is the card came, not the room. I fear that sentence would not suit his majesty. I am very sorry that I cannot go to Y. St. for I know I should enjoy having such nice girls in the house; but when I was in B. when you visit us. I expected to have some wonderful jelly of my own making with which to regale my friends; but it did not "jell", and I have no heart to try it again. My mother is coming to Boston with me to stay a few weeks. She has not been well this summer and needs rest and a change. I shall devote any afternoons to going about with her either "to see or hear some new thing." Sister Abbie and George went last week to a school in Underhill a town [in] ten miles from here. They come home Fridays; but it is very dull for me through the week. Abbie is studying Latin etc. and wants to be ready to enter I heard a Professor's wife say this summer, in your account of the Bear Croft party. It is a delightful idea and I should like to try it myself next summer. A good deal must depend on the party however. I think the poisoning experience is a little worse than my boils, and they were bad enough. I am going to secure some elegant cat-tails, clematis, autumn leaves etc. and decorate my room in fine style, Miss Andrew is going out to Brookline every day to instruct the little girl that I had this summer, and she will go home to Boxford every Sat. so you will stay Sundays with me sometimes wont you, when you feel virtuous and like going to church? we have a girl working here, who gives me a free circus at night by talking in her sleep. She has a beau and fancies she is talking to him; by talking for him I get her to carry on quite a conversation. She does not approve of kissing and such "soft soap," so I offer to just put my arm around her, just to hear her "fire up". I suppose it is wrong to excite her so, and I shan't any more. I really must return to my needles. I shall probably be in B. as early as the 25th, and shall hope to see you very soon at 32 Hanson. Remember me to your father & mother. Thank you ever so much for your assistance. With constant love, Lucy Wheelock. the last of Aug., I looked at various rooms and it was quite well pleased with that one you wrote me of at 32 Hanson, and after due deliberation wrote Miss Millen that I would take it. As she promised to keep it for me until the last of the month, four weeks, of course I am bound to take it. I like the situation on many accounts and the room seems to be pleasant. I expect to have a friend of mine, Marion Andrew, for a roommate. She is a "brick," and you must come and see us as soon as you can, for I know you will like her. She rather wants to have breakfast and tea in our room and perhaps we may. We will have some thing nice Mt. Holyoke Seminary next year. I do not know as that is the best place for her; but mother thinks she will send her, as she wants to go. Mary is so busy with the P.O. that I hardly have a chance to look at her, and father does not seem disposed to drive much, so I should be troubled with the disease you had in Gardiner, were it not for that inevitable sewing of which we have mountains to do. In regard to the application of the Chinese proverb to your last letter, I wish to change it to "Blessed is he that expects nothing for he shall receive abundantly." That letter was a source of entertainment and interest for three days. I was "fearfully interested," as [*Lucy Wheelock*] Cambridge Vt. June 8, '81. My dear Alice, I accept your apology about Commencement, although with all the time at your disposal you ought to have consulted the Catalogue of C.H.S. and have seen that I could not have gone so early. I shall always cherish the secret feeling that you did not want me there. I was, nevertheless, and went right up in front when your part came, and drank in every word you said. I liked it, too, and saw some of the wise heads on the platform, nod approvingly when you came out with to the Teacher's Institute you can get a ticket and return at a reduced rate good until the first of August. If you do not know about this Institute, there are circulars with complete information in regard to it at the Cent. Vt. R. R. office on Washington St. I think you must have already noticed the advertisements. I came home the sixteenth, having stayed a few days after my Kindergarten closed to witness the wedding ceremony which united my friend Charlie Foote, whom you saw up here, to a blooming maiden of Salem. I gave them my blessing, then went to Revere Beach and spent the rest of the day with a friend there. So much unusual dissipation some "clincher." Please accept my congratulations on the honorable way in which you finished your college course. I dont think honorable is the word I want there; but I dont think of any other. They ought to put "Cum Laude against your name as they did for the "Law Jills." Now, Alice, you are coming to visit me this summer. I should like especially to have you come the week in July beginning the tenth; but if it is not convenient for you then, any other time will please me. You must come prepared to stay two weeks at least. No shorter time will be accepted. By coming the first week in July and going to St. Albans has had a most happy effect. I feel equal to any thing. It is lovely here now, and we have plenty of driving. I am saving the mountain for you. Hoping to hear favorably, I am Yours in sincere friendship, Lucy Wheelock. Cambridge, Vt. July 22, 1881. Dear Alice, - I was glad to hear that you arrived in Woodstock safely, and hope the rain did not trouble you. The race of man is elevated in my opinion by your account of the domestic virtures of the Rev. Lemon. I did not suppose such an ideal paterfamilias existed. Cambridge has not altered much since you left. I went to a lovely place yesterday with Col. Gates and his dog, and I continually wished you were with me. We drove up a steeper, rockier hill than any you saw, and then left the horse at a farm house, and climbed up a hill, where a view is spread out before one, almost equal to that from Mansfield. We were in an immense natural amphitheater, with tiers of hill encircling us. find it. Mr. Gates is very fond of hunting woodcocks, etc. and in Aug. and Sep, I may roam the woods with his party of small children, not to shoot, myself, but to see things. Father and I took a long drive one day this week to Fairfield and around by a pond where man's foot seldom treads, and a few scattered log houses are seen. The people crowded to the windows to see such a curiosity as a vehicle on the road. It seemed a little more like the forest primeval than the mountain we came over from Bakersfield. The end thereof was unhappy, alas, for we were caught in a tremendous thunderstorm, and I feared the umbrella would attract the lightning. We reached home alive, however, as you will rejoice to know. There was a dense fog over Mansfield and the tops of the farther hills, giving them a dreamy mysterious appearance, as if they were trying to veil themselves from sight. On one side there was a glimpse of the lake, and a cloudy view of the Adirondacks. There are some curious rocks on the hill, which seem to be composed of flint or some hard substance which has been honeycombed by some agency. You can put your finger in a little depression and pull out quite a good sized piece of the rock. The dog treed a partridge and we went through a beautiful open wood lot to find it; but when we reached the spot the game had flown, and the unhappy dog was madly rushing around to re- My object in writing this epistle was to inform you that you left in your closet a useful article of underclothing, which I will send to you by mail, or keep and bring in my trunk when I come to B. as you may direct. I have not made any candy yet; but you will see some, before Thanksgiving. Cinderalla is flourishing now. She ran home that morning she followed us to the station and we had to go for her twice; but she seems to be fixed now. My heart is relenting a little towards her. I have two of Black's novels to read now, "Sunrise" and "The Beautiful Wretch," so you may imagine me lost to every thing else for a few days. Mary supposes you are congratulating yourself on your sagacity in not staying to go to the Notch, as we have not had a good day this week. Hoping that the baby is thriving under your care, and that you are not losing flesh, I am Your venerable gray haired friend Lucy W. 43 Dresser St., Southbridge, Mass. Aug. 14, 1915. My dear Miss Danielson: I hope you haven't completely lost faith in my promise to write you about what I can do for Suffrage here. The friend whom I counted on as quite a possible worker (the most possible) I haven't been able to see. This morning I decided to do my talking with her over the telephone as I felt I mustn't delay no longer in writing you. She is willing to do suffrage work but not canvassing as she feels she doesn't know enough about the arguments to be useful in that branch of the work. Perhaps that excuse could be overcome. Another friend whom I thought a good possibility is too busy, so I can't write you now of anybody willing to do that except myself and perhaps my sister. I won't promise myself absolutely if no one else in town will go into it with me. Father doesn't feel favorably toward my doing it, although 2 that). I think it would be a fine thing to have a meeting for them where the arguments would be presented. That is what was planned by a Suffrage worker from outside for the first of the summer but it didn't materialize. Will you tell me where I can send for literature and information on the Suffrage question? I should like to be well informed on it-- much better than I am now. Hoping something can be accomplished here in some way, I am. Very truly yours, Mildred Wheelock. I got his consent this morning. Will you tell me if this is regular state canvassing that you planned to do-- canvassing under Miss Whitcomb's management? I am told two young girls have already been out here from Worcester canvassing-- doing it rather a bih-or-miss way apparently. I don't know whether they came under Miss Whitcomb. It seems to me that whatever is done in the line of canvassing out to be regular, systematized State work. The voters' list which members of our Woman's Club have been working on isn't yet completed. We tried to have a meeting here of ladies to finish the work this week but were unsuccessful. Perhaps we can have one next Wednesday, but I can't tell yet. That list ought to be complete, or more complete I think, before the canvassing is undertaken. Did you make definite arrangements with the Chief of Police for an Open-air meeting? I understand there was something to that effect in the Worcester Telegram. If the Southbridge women would attend in large enough numbers to make it pay but one can never count on [*Lucy Wheelock *] LOCHOLM WEST DENNIS CAPE COD, MASSACHUSETTS Dear Alice I have told several people of your bungalow and hope we find some one to profit by all the charms you offer & the low price. I have sent the slip to my Miss Gilbert, sister of the famous Parker and hope she may know some one. I will also write to a friend in Washington in Office of Education With constant regard Lucy Wheelock July 8, 1934 The Lucy Wheelock Kindergarten Alumnae Association, Inc. requests the pleasure of your company at an Open House of the Lucy Wheelock Child Centre on Saturday the ninth of December nineteen hundred and thirty-nine from eleven to five o'clock Fourteen Lambert Avenue, Roxbury, Massachusetts Tea three to five o'clock [*1939*] [*1940*] The song of Lilies. "The lilies say on Easter Day, 'we give, we give, we breathe our fragrance on the air, we shed our beauty everywhere! we give, we give.'" The lilies say on Easter Day, 'we live, we live, In darkness buried long we lay; The sun awoke us one spring day! we live, we live.'" The lilies say on Easter Day, 'give, children give! give love and kindness every where; They truly live who truly share! give, children, give.'" Lucy Wheelock. Apr. 10, 1941 Miss Wheelock 162 Riverway Boston Dearest Alice, I am deeply touched by your Easter greeting and the inspiring lines which suggest new courage and faith in thine dark days. I send you one Easter handkerchief which means "wipe away all tears" and rejoice in your record of golden deeds. May you have a good Easter and many happy days! My fond love Lucy Wheelock [*W*] WHEELOCK COLLEGE 162 Riverway. Dec. 3, 1943. Beloved Alice, Your Christmas verses are the finest card I could receive. I have them typed and have read them to some of my "girls." They all are much pleased with your tribute. I send you with this mail a little box of our Lillian's cookies. Lillian knew of your Mother and her work for women and she is glad to join me in this small gift.- Yours with affection Lucy Wheelock 162 Riverway Boston May 22, 1945 Dear Alice, Congratulations on the degree you received last Sunday – you merit the title Doctor of Humanities as you have done much for mankind and humankind. Health and happiness to you for years "to come". My love, Lucy Wheelock [*Opinions*] WHEELOCK SCHOOL 100 RIVERWAY, BOSTON October 6, 1930. [*Lucy Stone*] Dear Alice: I have received the copy of your biography of Lucy Stone and am intensely interested in it. It is a fine and inspiring account of the work of a woman imbued with the spirit of service to her times. I shall pass it on to the girls in our school as an example of what can be accomplished by earnest enthusiasm and devotion to a cause. I am very glad that you have given this book to all of us and especially to the younger generation. I hope we may have you again this year for our Sunday night gatherings so that the new girls may have the opportunity of knowing you. Cordially yours, Lucy Wheelock Lucy Wheelock Four [*Boston Globe - Oct 11 - 1946*] Wheelock Will Gives $30,000 to College Wheelock College, which she founded, is bequeathed $30,000 by the will of Lucy Wheelock, filed yesterday in Suffolk Superior Co[?urt]. She died Oct. 2, at the age of [?]. Bequests of $500 each to each of five Boston settlement houses: Wheelock Child Center, Roxbury; South End House Association, Good Will House Association, Elizabeth Peabody House Association, and the Roxbury Neighborhood Association. More than $50,000 is left to relatives and friends. The total value of the estate was not disclosed. The Old Colony Trust Company was named executor of the will, drawn July 19, 1941. Miss Lucy Wheelock, of the Chauncy Hall School, Boston, edits a department in the Kindergarten News of Buffalo, N.Y., a monthly magazine which lives up to its name. Its pages, crowded with news and reports from all over the country, give a realizing sense of the extent of the blessed kindergarten work. [*W Col*] Jan 28 1893 Lucy Wheelock Funeral Rites Friday for College Founder Funeral services will be held at Harvard Church, Brookline, Friday at 2 p. m. for Miss Lucy Wheelock, 90, founder of Wheelock College, Roxbury, who died yesterday at her home, 162 Riverway, Back Bay. Miss Wheelock, internationally known for her work in the kindergarten field for more than 50 years, retired as head of the Wheelock School in 1940. A year later the institution became Wheelock College and was authorized to grant the bachelor of science degree in education. She was born in Cambridge, Vt., and began her career in education after graduating from Mrs. Hatch's Training School in 1879. She taught first at the Chauncy School and later founded her own kindergarten in 1888. Seven years later Miss Wheelock was elected president of the International Kindergarten Union and served in that capacity for four years. She was the author of several books pertaining to work in her field. She was a director of the House of Good Will, Roxbury Neighborhood House, a member of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union and the Civic League. She was a charter member of the Daughters of Vermont. Dr. Ashley Day Leavitt of Harvard Church paid tribute to Miss Wheelock in addressing Wheelock College students at their opening assembly yesterday afternoon. She was originally scheduled to greet the student body. MISS LUCY WHEELOCK, FOUNDER OF COLLEGE [*N. Y. Times Oct 3rd 46*] BOSTON, Oct. 2 (AP)--Miss Lucy Wheelock, founder of Wheelock College, who was internationally known in the kindergarten field, died at her home today at the age of 87. As a pioneer in training teachers of young children, Miss Wheelock studied under Elizabeth F. Peabody, sister-in-law of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Horace Mann and sponsor in 1860 of the first kindergarten in Boston. Miss Wheelock was elected in 1895 president of the International Kindergarten Union, holding the office for four years. Born in Cambridge, Vt., she organized the Wheelock School in 1888. Its teaching curriculum extended from nursery school through primary school. She retired in 1940 as head of the Wheelock School and a year later the school's name was changed to Wheelock College. Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. BOSTON, OCt. 2--A legislative act of 1941 authorized the trustees of Wheelock School to grant the degree of bachelor of science in education to students completing a four-year course of study for education of teachers of nursery, kindergarten and primary grades. The name of the school was then changed to Wheelock College. Miss Wheelock continued as chairman of the board of trustees and a member of the executive committee. THE BOSTON HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1941 EDUCATOR HONORED--Gov. Saltonstall hands Miss Lucy Wheelock the quill with which he yesterday signed an act authorizing the Wheelock School to grant degrees of Bachelor of Science in Education. Others in the group are, left to right: Miss Laura P. Holmes, associate principal; Brooks Potter, a trustee, and Dr. Winifred E. Bain, principal of Wheelock School. Wheelock School Authorized to Grant Education Degree Gov. Saltonstall yesterday signed an act authorizin gthe Trustees of Wheelock School to grant the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education, and the first such degree will be awarded in 1943 to students completing a four-year course of study for the education of teachers of young children, nursery, kindergarten and primary. The authorizing act is a highlight in the history of the school which was first opened in the year 1888-89 as a training department for kindergarten teachers in Chauncy Hall, Copley square, with Miss Lucy Wheelock in charge. In 1939, on the 50th anniversary, the school was incorporated for non-profit. Miss Wheelock, the founder, is a pioneer in the field of kindergarten education and widely known for her contributions to the establishment of kindergartens in America. She has made her influence felt through her leadership in education organizations, and through the more than 3500 women who are her graduates. Miss Wheelock's training department was moved in 1896 to 294 Dartmouth street under the independent direction of Miss Wheelock. In 1904, the school was moved to Newbury street, but it soon outgrew those quarters and in 1914 a building was erected at 100 Riverway. This building is still part of the plant, consisting now of six residence houses, a library and office building, an assembly hall and a very modern classroom building which will be ready for occupancy next fall. In September, 1914, the board of trustees announced the appointment of Miss Wheelock as principal emeritus, Dr. Winifred E. Bain as principal, and Miss Laura P. Holmes as associate principal. Dr. Bain came to Wheelock from an assistant professorship at Teachers College, Columbia university. She has brought a broad perspective of the whole field of education gained as a student and teacher at leading institutions in the United States, and the four-year course at Wheelock School has been planned under her leadership. Dr. Bain is known to professional and lay groups as a writer and speaker. Most widely read of her publications is her book, "Parents Look at Modern Education," which was a winner of the Parents' Magazine Medal Award. She is chairman of the editorial board of Childhood Education, the official journal of the Association for Childhood Education. Chinese Girl Gets Dental Job Through Skill in Sculpture HELEN YEE with her model of Forsyth Dental The delicate, artistic touch of Helen Yee as a sculptor, coupled with her high standing in the class of 1941, Forsyth Dental Infirmary, School of Dental Hygienists, has won for this brilliant Chinese student an important place with Portland, Me., dentist. Helen will graduate from the Forsyth Dental School on Friday, July 25. She is the first Chinese student to be graduated since 1920 and the second in the history of the school. During the Spring vacation, Helen, who has studied art in her spare time at the Museum of Fine Arts School, carved a model of the Forsyth Dental Infirmary for Children building in the Fenway from a cake of formula soap. Her only tools were toothpicks and a scaling instrument--tools she would use in her dental work. The model was so perfect that is was shown at the convention of New England Dental Association at the Hotel Statler in April. The model attracted attention, as dentists require skilled, delicate hands, in fine porcelain work. Miss Yee received offers of positions but her foster parents would consider none until her course at the infirmary was completed. Dr. Polly Ayers, supervisor of the Forsyth Training School, has taken a keen interest in the work of Miss Yee, and it has been arranged that as soon as she received her diploma she will accept the Portland offer. Dr. Ayers, always concerned over the future activities of her graduates, is interested in the fact that Helen will have plenty of laboratory work. This work where her trueness of perception and delicate touch will be of value. Miss Helen is one of a family of three children, adopted in infancy and early childhood into the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Percey Staples of Allston. Mrs. Staples, prominent Boston clubwoman, has long been interested in foreign missionary work. When the little Yee children were left orphans she took them into her home. Little Baby Brother George is now a 15-year-old student at Brighton High School. Sister Hilda, a student at Boston University, is entering Simmons College in September to complete her studies as a medical technician. George is acting as a caddy at the Bass River Country Club golf course near the Staples Summer home for the Summer. The children enjoy the happy normal life of American children in a good home at 60 Linden st., Allston. They are all musical and have dramatic ability. They have danced at many social functions and Hilda was made a Hollywood offer shortly after she appeared in dramatics for Medical Aid to Chinda as an understudy of a renowned Chinese actress. Mrs. Staples refused the offer, partly on account of the youth of the girl, but also because she was not prepared to accompany her to the West Coast at the time and would not permit her to go otherwise. Both the girls have studied music for nine years with Lila Holmes and dancing with Lucille Perry Hall. They have also studied Chinese and have been taught to appreciate Chinese art, culture and history and the pride of the Chinese people. Helen has had six years at the Museum of Fine Arts School. She was recently elected secretary of the Junior Association of the American Society of Dental Hygienists. KINDERGARTEN SERVICE To the Editor of The Republican: -- I have read with great interest the letter of a mother, "J. M. D.," regarding the kindergarten. Children are fortunate who have such a mother devoted to their upbringing. They are also fortunate to live in a place where walks on spring mornings to learn bird lore and to hear the song of the brook are possible. But, alas, there are hundreds of children in our cities not so fortunate. Country walks are not possible and mothers in crowded tenement houses are not able to conduct a "children's hour." And even with the more favored groups kindergartens are still the most important part of our school system for the social training given at the most plastic period of life. May I restate my belief in the value of the kindergarten as I made it during the great war, when schools were named our second line of defense? "Every kindergarten is a community with its tiny citizens living in community relations. The laws which govern all associations of individuals must hold here. Self activity must always be the guiding principle of the kindergarten One of its chief aims is 'to give men themselves.' But the individual is to be developed as a member of a group as such; he must conform, obey the laws which rule the whole, and subordinate self-gratification to the good of the whole. If this lesson is not learned early in the child's life, we have weaklings, self-seeking individuals and moral failures. Some exercises which call for instant response for concerted action and for conformity to the group desire should be retained as part of kindergarten practice. Organized plays which demand self-subordination and team-work are important in child-training, that we may have obedient, helpful and self-controled children. With all the advance that we are making in methods and in material which allow for initiative and self-activity, let us remember also that ideals are the bread of life. Childhood needs this bread in order that man may live. The great ideals of brotherhood, the membership as a whole, were the ideals which created the kindergarten." (Published in 1918) At a later national crisis in the early days of depression a distinguished statesman made a plea for for maintaining an unimpaired school budget. He saide, "Bridges can wait. Highways can wait. Children cannot wait." LUCY WHEELOCK Boston, January 30, 1936 [*Herald 10/3/46*] Lucy Wheelock, Teacher College Founder, Dies, 89 Miss Lucy Wheelock, 89, of 162 Riverway, founder of Wheelock College and a leader in kindergarten education, died yesterday at her home. Last rites for the noted educator, who remained a chairman of Wheelock's board of trustees and a member of its executive committee until her death, will be held tomorrow at 2 P.M. in Harvard Church, Brookline. She was born in Cambridge, Vt., daughter of Edwin and Laura Pierce Wheelock. She attended Reading High School and Chauncy Hall School, Boston. She taught in the Chauncy Hall kindergarten until 1888, when she founded the Wheelock Kindergarten Training School. First housed in Copley square, it was moved in 1914 to the Riverway, where its curriculum was extended to include nursery school through primary school training. She retired in 1940, to be succeeded by Dr. Winifred E. Bain of New York. The school became Wheelock College in 1941, with authority to grant a bachelor of science degree in education. Miss Wheelock, who studied with Elizabeth Peabody, sister-in-law of Nathaniel Hawthorne, had served on many educational committees. She was president of the International Kindergarten Union from 1895 to 1899. She was chairman of the Committee of 19 from 1905 to 1909, and chairman of the committee on cooperation with the National Education Association in 1916. She served as director of The House of Good Will, the Roxbury Neighborhood House and was a member of many associations. She wrote "Talks to Mothers," published in 1923; and in the same year she edited "Pioneers of Kindergarten in America" and "The Kindergarten." She translated "Autobiography of Froebel" and "Uncle Titus and Short Stories," by Mme. Spyri. A Congregationalist, she was a member of the Women's Republican Club of Massachusetts and the Women's City Club of Boston. Lucy Wheelock Miss Lucy Wheelock, founder of Wheelock College in Boston, who passed on today at her home on the Riverway, was internationally prominent in the kindergarten field for more than half a century. A past president of the International Kindergarten Union, she was a member of the Educational Committee of the League of Nations and of a number of other educational organizations, and the author of various books and articles in this field. Although retiring as head of Wheelock College in 1940, Miss Wheelock remained as Chairman of the Board of Trustees and a member of the Executive Committee. A native of Cambridge, Vt., she became a pioneer in the training of teachers of young children after strudying under Elizabeth P. Peabody, who sponsored America's first recognized kindergarten in Boston in 1860. Miss Peabody, who was related to Nathaniel Hawthorne and Horace Mann, signed Miss Wheelock's diploma when she graduated from Mrs. Hatch's Training School in 1879. Miss Wheelock founded the Wheelock Training School in 1888. Its courses were extended in 1914 to include training of teachers for primary grades as well as nursery instruction. In 1941 the school became a college. Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.