Teaches 35 Years, She’ll Keep House
Miss Taylor’s Fondest Wish to Come True After Retirement Today
Miss Carolina W. Taylor bids goodbye today to the second grade class room at the Broadway School where she has taught for 35 years.
In that time this quiet little teacher has seen the surrounding neighborhood change from a languid residential area to a business center and methods of teaching and even the attitude of the school children transformed.
Now comes the biggest change of all for Miss Taylor. She is going to retire and keep house. And believe it or not, all the time she has been earning the title of a most efficient teacher, Miss Taylor confesses she has longed to do but one thing, keep house!
The scene of Miss Taylor’s homemaking activities will be the residence at 104 Powelton Avenue, Woodlynne, where she makes her home with a sister, Miss Harriet Taylor, formerly a teacher at Central School, and a brother, Thomas A. Taylor.
Attended School Here
Miss Taylor’s experience with Camden schools dates back even further than her teaching career for she was born and educated in this city.
Discussing her education in the old high school at Second and Federal Streets, Miss Taylor laughed as she recalled lapses in class work while the teachers hastened to tend the coal stoves.
She graduated from high school in 1901 and finished the normal school course, then included in the high school, in 1902. Her first assignment was substitute work at Broadway School and with the exception of a couple of months spent at Liberty School, she has instructed second grade there ever since.
Miss Taylor thoroughly approves of the newer methods of education in which more freedom is allowed the pupil. She declares much more can be accomplished with a class and the children do not dread school. “We have no bashful pupils any more,” she declared. “If I can remember how I suffered from shyness when I was the age of these little tots.”
Recalls Many Pupils
Despite her many years in the classroom and her long procession of pupils, Miss Taylor can rapidly recall their names to mind. There was Judge Clifford A. Baldwin, who she remembers as a quiet, lovable little boy; Dr. Alexander Ellis, who she terms her “cutest” pupil; Clarence Fuhrman, Dr. Byron Tuttle, the late Dr. Russell Atkinson, Anna Snow, of Temple University; E. Howard Broome, Dr. Everett Hemphill, Dr. Paul Ironside, and Warren Mainak.
Many of her boys, she declares, seem to have become professional men, while few of her girls, so far as she has been able to ascertain, have followed the teaching profession. Miss Taylor’s niece, Miss Ella Ellis, also is a teacher at Broadway School.