teaching: Charlotte Moss

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With another book coming out in the Fall-Charlotte Moss could teach us all a thing or two about getting things done. She is busy-but not so much that she couldn't share a few stories about her days being taught.

Different teachers , different reasons, all together make an education rich and memorable. At the time however, some of them I would not have foreseen as being memorable for any reason other than the aura of terror that announced their presence.

Mrs. Baldwin was my home economics teacher, you know-the one with the piercing look! 

When my biscuits were less than perfection, Mrs. Baldwin graded me down for having "tunnels" in them.

No, Mrs. Baldwin, it was not the end of my life! 

But I could whip a zipper into a skirt and make a dress in an afternoon thanks to Mrs. Baldwin!

Then there are the teachers whose kind faces you remember. 

Mother Juliana , my seventh grade teacher at St. Bridget's, was soft spoken, rosy cheeked and she seemed to glide along. She had a kindness, a gentleness that set her apart. We were relaxed in her class, we laughed there. Everyone loved her. 

When I transferred from private Catholic school to public school Miss Frances Raine was my eighth grade teacher. She had the same gentleness along with the neatest handwriting. I was jittery and self conscious about the change in schools and all that went with it. I had been wearing a uniform my entire school life, now I was in real clothes, at a new school, the new kid on the block. During the first week of her class another teacher walked into our classroom and I jumped out of my seat and curtsied. Literally, in a nanosecond I realized what I had done when everyone else was still seated and now looking at me. Sitting down immediately and feeling  like a fool, Miss Raine said something that made me feel at ease and I was loyal fan thereafter.
I won the Science Fair that year while in her class....maybe a subtle way of saying thanks .

I'm eagerly awaiting the book-Charlotte Moss:A Visual Life.
In the book, Charlotte invites women of style to share their Visual Life.
Along with her own scrapbooks and her collection of scrapbooks kept by women with the same passion, she introduces us to the Art of exploring and learning-a new-age old way to know ourselves .
 
...to my mind- it sure beats "PINing."





portrait of Charlotte Moss from the Century site here.
about Charlotte here
original Art by my mother Betty Cushwa Tapp



here new line of furniture from Century here


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