Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Mrs. Carmelita Hinton founded the Putney School in 1935, she was attempting to utilize in education some of John Dewey's ideas, particularly those concerning the interaction of community and individual life. Putney has always been conscious of itself as a community and has striven to be an ideal community. The values of the individual are instilled, not by personal coercion, but by the example of the community. The values, it is hoped, will last after the individual has left Putney, so that he can be in a position to improve the quality of his new environment...
...Mrs. Hinton had no new philosophy of life which she hoped to indoctrinate into the students. Putney was to be a college preparatory school which was "progressive" only insofar as it was willing to experiment, to try out new techniques and methods of education. Some of these represented a radical departure from the traditional New England Academies, particularly the novelty of co-education in a boarding school (which had actually existed for some time in the Friends' schools the school were those for which "civilized men" had worked "for centuries...
...Mrs. Hinton's Good Life...
Newly-elected members are: Mrs. Marian W. Chaffey, Carmel, Calif.; Nancy B. Curtis, New Haven, Conn.; Margaret Dalton, Cambridge; Deborah Duff, Washington, D.C.; Marion Dusser de Barrenne, Cambridge; Elaine I. Hoffman, Newton Centre; Mrs. Sylvia M. Hubbard, Toronto...
...Also, Mrs. Sarah M. McCoy, New York City; Mrs. Marilyn S. Matthews, Cambridge; Mrs. Ann E. Rose, Washington, D.C.; Rebecca A. Stafford, Topeka, Kan.; Stephanie von Susich, Framingham; Mrs. Sarah M. White, Rensselaerville...