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Elizabeth "Bess" Cowperthwaite
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| Miss Cowperthwaite started out working as a teacher for 25 years. She continued to teach after she became Principal of Filbert Street School. She became the First Principal of Allen until her retirement in 1939. | |
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A special thanks to Mrs. Lois Kirby for providing this information. "She was tall , slender, rangy, and a stern disciplinarian." Justus Brick This poem was handed down through the years (and a good many years at that): "Old Bess Cowperthwaite six feet tall sitting in the parlor with her feet in the hall."
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