Teacher of the Year
1952: Geraldone Wheldon Jones — First Grade Hope Public School, Santa Barbara, California
1953: Dorthy Hamilton — Social Studies Milford High School, Milford, Connecticut
1954: Willard Wideberg — Seventh Grade Dekalb Junior High School, Dekalb, Illinois
1955: Margaret Perry — Fourth Grade Monmouth Elementary, Monmouth, Oregon
1956: Richard Nelson — Science Flathead Country High School, Kalispell, Montana
1957: Eugene G. Bizzell— Speech, English and Debate A. N. McCallum High School, Austin, Texas, and Mary F. Schwartz — Third Grade Bristol Elementary, Kansas City, Missouri
1958: Jean Listebarger Humphrey — Second Grade Edwards Elementary, Ames, Iowa
1959: Edna Donley — Mathematics and Speech Alva High School, Alva, Oklahoma
Deaths
Harold Allen, member of the National Education Association staff for twenty-six years, instrumental in rural and agricultural education, 3 November 1958.
Mary Ritter Beard, 82, U.S. historian who worked to include women in the predominantly male-centered history works, 14.....
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