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Mystery Photo
Do you recognize this wintry scene?
Southeast Iowa Union offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced.
Winfield Historical Society and Museum provides photos of Winfield’s past each week for Beacon readers. Do you know the when, where, who or what seen in this week’s photograph?
Last week’s answer:
Do you recognize any faces in this school scene?
Winfield-Mt. Union teacher Elsie Asby sits with students Rebecca Chaplin Bush, Sean Honts, Vince Klopfenstein, Ross Buffington, Nathan Carlson, Nick Jones sitting at desk as they engage with a foreign exchange student.
Asby taught for 41 years, eight years at Mid-Prairie and her final 33 years at Winfield-Mt. Union. Asby graduated from Iowa Wesleyan University in Mt. Pleasant. She was an active member of the Winfield community through church, the Birthday Club, BLB Quilt Club and Winfield Education Association.
Asby was well-known outside of Winfield, as well, thanks to her participation in the Henry County Historical Society, Iowa State Education Association, National Education Association, and Midwest Old Threshers.
Teaching philosophies that looked beyond simply teaching facts attributed to her beloved status as a WMU teacher and her accolades as the Iowa Social Studies Teacher of the Year in 1989. She laid out her belief that children’s sense of curiosity about the unknown should be encouraged through field trips in a short article written in the Iowa Council for the Social Studies Journal, Vol. 3 in the fall of 1990.
“Field trips do not have to be elaborate,” she wrote. “A simple walk around the neighborhood can provide children the opportunity to experience those things which are impossible to present within the confines of the classroom.”
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