Notes for Pamela Howell




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Notes for Pamela Howell

As of 1920 - alien status, not naturalized citizen. Immigrated from England to New Jersey in 1872.

"Grandfather Howell's sisters were Jane, Celia and Pamela. Pamela never married and moved to Lynchburg, I suspect when her Mother came to live with my grandparents. See articles on Miss Pamela Howell - a great teacher. She made the oak furniture that burned at Athlone."
From a letter written by Margaret Howell Perry, October, 1996

Letter to newspaper in memory of Pamela Howell -
Miss Pamela Howell, A 'Great Teacher'
To the Editor of The News:
Sir: The real teachers perform a truly great service to mankind. The most inspiring teacher I've ever known was Miss Pamela Howell who taught in the Lynchburg High School.
Miss Howell lived next door to my sister and me on Vista Lane, then named Wall Street. We were about four when she started teaching us, but we only thought of the joy of learning.
There was the walk after supper one summer evening when we saw the stars, the simple-to-see constellation, the Big Dipper, and the night sky in a new, wonderful way. How jubilantly we recited later to our parents, Starlight, Starbright!
In our discarded baby bathtub she built first the land of the Eskimo, then a tropic scene, telling us about these lands.
The great children's classics such as The Water Babies, she read to us as we lay on her spotless kitchen floor. The waist-high panneling was edged with cards of famous sites in England which she had left as a young girl to come to our country. In summer often we'd listen to her reading in the living room where was a handsome chest whose surface was covered with her excellent hand carving.
All this she gave us before kindergarten and until we were nine when we left your city.
She was truly one of the great teachers and a very fine addition to any town. It is good to think that thousands came in contact with her and if we ever pause to think about teachers we, each of us, will say, "Thank you, Miss Howell, thank you for the jewels you gave me."
Margaret Henkel White
(Mrs. L. G. White)
Culpepper

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