Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bishop Misbehaves was the play given last month by the high-school dramatic club at Saugus, Mass, (pop.: 15,000). What the townspeople of Saugus have been talking about ever since, however, is the behavior of the club's 25-year-old coach, honey-haired English Teacher Isabelle Hallin. An experienced summer trouper who spent three seasons with the Garrick Players at Kennebunkport, Me., Saugus-bred Miss Hallin wears attractive, form-fitting dresses, makes adroit use of cosmetics. Moreover, six Bishop rehearsals had been held in the cellar of her home. Were cigarets served? Cocktails? What happened...
...ever said, exactly. But questions beat fretfully on the mind of one citizen, Spinster Maria Smith, 74, a retired teacher and the only woman on Saugus' School Board. Last week Miss Smith could stand it no longer. At a School Board meeting she persuaded two of her four male colleagues to vote with her that Teacher Hallin's contract should not be renewed next year...
Invited to resign, Teacher Hallin asked what the charges against her were. Tight-lipped Miss Smith would not say. Cried Miss Hallin: "I know it is those silly rumors about the drinking. And they're not true. Those children are only 17. There never was any liquor served." Teacher Hallin asked for a public hearing, which the Board refused. Pouted she: "Everything is going wrong at once. My parents are sick, and now my job has been unjustly taken away from, me. I'm blue...
When School Superintendent Vernon Evans and Principal Carl A. W. Pierce sprang to Teacher Hallin's side, her father, C. Fred Hallin, recovered sufficiently from his illness to begin circulating a petition demanding her reinstatement. Snorted Father Hallin: "Isabelle had rehearsals here in the house because the school hall was too cold. But there were no drinks. I do all the drinking in this family." Also eager to support Teacher Hallin were the parents of students who had attended the rehearsals. Snapped Charles M. O'Connor: "Why didn't the school committee come to the parents? Instead...
...much older when Mother Gershwin bought a worn old upright, chiefly to keep up with a relative who owned one. Brother Ira was her first choice to play it. George showed more musical zeal, soon became the family pianist. In those days you could get a teacher for 50?. George had two years of such instruction, never a good teacher until he met Charles Hambitzer. Hambitzer was a composer, ambitious to teach the boy all about Chopin, Liszt and DeBussy. Had he succeeded in sending young Gershwin abroad to study, the history of U. S. jazz might have been different...