cepted the position.

“Supt. Patrick left Independence
during the period between that
and the opening of the next fall
term and G. M. Holliday took
his place. I was assigned to teach
in the old Ott School and when
Supt. Holliday noticed that I had
had some success with a few of
what were termed ‘bad boys,’ he
gathered, it seemed to me, all of
the incorrigibles in the system and
brought them to my room for me
to teach.”

And here Miss Janie paused to
philosophize a little. “I have no-
ticed one queer thing,” she said.
“It is usually the so-called bad
boys ere than the good ones
-who (
how - mach they appreciate the
work she tried to do with them.

“Why, only recently I received
a motto bearing a message of
‘Friendship’ from a boy who fail-
ed repeatedly and who came to
my home many evenings to try
to make a passing grade. “Why,”
Miss Janie chuckled, “I almost
passed him just because he was
willing to make the effort.”

Miss Janie refused to venture

 

 

 

‘ When the high school moved to

 

 

its new building, Miss Janie made
the fourth move of her long teach-
ing career, but still remained a
member of the same faculty. In
all of those years and up to the
present time she says that she has
been blessed with exceptienally
good health. Her only illness was
from diphtheria, and she had that
during the Christmas vacation,
therefore missing very few days
of school.

Mrs. Ruby Short McKim was
a member of Miss Janie’s English
class in the year before she took
up her work as a mathematics in-
structor..,,,,.. i

Mayor Ro ex, T. Sermon learned
the principles of mathematics
which have served him so well
in putting the city on a sound fi-
nancial basis from Miss Janie. She
also taught his son, Roger T., Jr.,
and says that both were fine: pu-
pils. She even suggested that the
younger Sermon might have shad-
ed his dad just a little.

Fleming Pendleton, president of |
the Bank of Independence, learned
to figure interest from Miss Janie,
and he also serves as a member
of the district school board. Two
other members, or half of the,
present Board of Education, Dr. |
Floyd Yale and Mrs. Howard,
Hinde, were once members of Miss.
Chiles’ classes, ;

Others of the present school fac- ,
ulty who- used to be her pupils |
are Marshall Miller, principal of
the Junior High School, Miss Nora
Witthar, chemitry teacher, and
Charles Huhn, coach of athletics at
Chrisman.

Intricately woven into the busi-
ness fabric of this, the Queen City
of the Old Trails, are many who

 

 

 

 

 

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has been well worth while.

“Yes,” she said, “if I had the
right of choice and could begin
over again, I am quite sure that
I should choose voluntarily the
life mission into which originally
I fell by chance.”—K, A. M.

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