Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-01 | Page 13 | At Her Post Fifty Years

r. r tAt At Her Post Fifty Years f MISS I JENNIE LYNCH isn't the best known person in New York City If you went vent to city hall hail and asked who she was the mayor might not even know But s she e has a work as vital as that of the mayor Jennie ennie Lynch has taught in one school in New York City for fifty years She put in several of the early years of her life as a pupil there she decided she would be a teacher and a teacher she was She has carried carried car car- ried ned out her purpose in life She is a success For fifty years Jennie Lynch has not forgotten forgotten forgotten for- for she had of pf an gotten that girlhood glimpse ideal the ideal the ideal of helping the young to learn learns i She has clung to that dream with fine perse perse- verance There must have been times when she he sickened of the whole thing days when children were impudent and unruly days when her nerves quivered and long nights she spent without sleep and with the fear and vision of breakdown haunting her bedside Most young girls who choose the life of teacher soon find out they have Ilave made a hard choice They find out they are not appreciated appreciated for the good they work but bit are blamed aplenty for their errors And blamed not only for their own errors but for many of those those- of the pupils L Parents who should know that their chil children children children chil chil- dren can be very trying at times forget often what hat teacher has to put up with Johnny andary and I M Mary ary ry go home with a story of how they have been abused when they were not at fault There's Theres a row Jennie Lynch has been through many of ot these She knows how good little children can be and how bad She has suffered suffered suffered suf suf- the arrows of parents too tod and knows knows- they can make mistakes as well Through all this she has kept her sense of humor and h her r love for humanity She has felt that these little ittle children learning earning under her were placed in iii 11 her Iler charge by y God and s she e has carried out outher her charge without complaint but with patience patience pa pa- tience Hence kindliness and honor Jennie ennie Lynch is is a success now a a. a grand and glorious success She She- has found one of lifes life's works noble and she has done it