One of the Nation Builders
As Teacher for Four and Forty Years in the Norwich High School,
Mrs. Blackman Deserves High Tribute for the Influence She has
Exerted on the Characters of Generations of Norwich Men and Women
Utica Saturday Globe, June 1914
Mina Brown Blackman
1850 - 1916
Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]: Mrs. Mina Brown Blackman, for two score years and four a member of the corps of teachers in the Norwich High School, has announced her intention of retiring at the end of the present school year, though her resignation has not been officially acted upon.
Mrs. Blackman has made a remarkable record in her experience as instructor and one that has rarely been equaled. She has taught a total of 106 school terms, having begun the imparting of knowledge at the age of 14.
Forty-four years ago, when the graded school system was adopted in the local schools, Mrs. Blackman was employed in the Birdsall street ward school. She was afterwards transferred to the old academy and has completed a quarter of a century of service in the present High School building. The corner stone of which was laid in 1888.
Mrs. Blackman has helped to lay the corner stone of character for many of the younger business and professional men of Norwich and others who have gone forth to make their mark in the world. Hundreds of young women looking back over their school life are grateful that they passed a period under her instruction. No other Norwich teacher has wielded so long and so strong an influence in moulding the youth. She was rarely absent from her duties and always gave the best that was hers to give.
Her retirement is a distinct loss to the faculty and the school interests, but will bring to her the warmest congratulations upon the consummation of so splendid, if strenuous, career.
Incidentally Mrs. Blackman disposes of the fallacious idea that a teacher loses her efficiency when she marries.
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