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When she married a Columbia medical school pediatrics professor in 1932. Millicent Carey Mclrrrosh considered resigning as headmistress of Manhattan's top-notch Brearley School, changed her mind after her aunt, Bryn Mawr's late President M. Carey Thomas, coldly reminded her: "You can have your babies in August." Last week, after five babies, 17 years at Brearley and 14 more as head of New York's Barnard College, Educator Mclntosh, 62, announced that she would finally retire come next commencement. Future plans: to squander a year on "a real holiday," then move off to rural Massachusetts...
...Headmistress Rambusch was so successful that last fall her neighbors began raising $260,000 to build a full-scale school on 37 acres. Opened in January, it now has 150 children aged three to twelve (many of them non-Catholic) and 13 teachers, including recruits from Montessori schools in France, England and Ireland. Whitby is headquarters of the newly formed American Montessori Association, and as such is training a dozen Americans to launch new Montessori schools across...
Whitby's main problem is adapting Montessori self-discipline to U.S. children. "These are American kids," says Headmistress Rambusch. "They check their guns at the door, and we can't escape the fact that they need activity." From the intent look of her kids, who confine their whoops and hollers entirely to the playground, she seems to have the problem in hand. Whitby is well launched in a pursuit not always found in U.S. schools: "introducing the joy of learning to children at an early...
Died. Lucy Madeira Wing. 87, founder in 1906 and headmistress for 51 years of suburban Washington's prim and academically rigorous Madeira School for girls, a New Dealer who hoped that well-supported public schools (maximum size of classes: 15) would eventually supersede her own "economic royalist" Madeira-type institution; after a stroke; in Washington...
...ends his formal schooling at 15, when compulsory attendance stops. But so many more are staying on that university enrollment has doubled since 1939, with a 19% rise since 1954 alone. "At least 20% of my students have some real ambition for a profession," says a London primary school headmistress. "Before the war, hardly a single one would have presumed to think so far above his station." Says a London milkman: "If I'd 'ad chances wot my son 'as, I wouldn't be just a milkman, not bleedin' likely...