Word: turnbach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Fermata obtained a new headmistress to succeed Mary M. Elder, Oxford graduate. Principal Tabor announced that next year's headmistress would be Emma Barber Turnbach, former singing director and headmistress for the last ten years at quiet Dongan Hall on Staten Island, N. Y. Headmistress Turnbach, aged about 45, is short, scholarly, charming. A onetime graduate student at Chicago and Columbia, she is a middling disciplinarian, interested chiefly in music...
...Miss Turnbach will find Fermata School novel in at least one respect. Late at night twice a week, every able-bodied Fermata girl leaps into special "fire clothes," goes shinnying down a pole for fire drill. (The small boys in Aiken Preparatory School do it too, though most of them fall off sleepily.) Rich Fermata girls do not swagger; all wear green tunics by day. Nor may their parents pamper them; only one meal a weekend is allowed outside of grounds; and no candy except just after lunch in the "candy shop" (an old closet). The school is divided into...
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