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- The Oshkosh Northwestern
20 Apr 1903
Miss Alfaretta R. Haskell, for many years a teacher and critic in the training department of the Oshkosh Normal school, died Saturday night about 11:30 o'clock at the home of her sister, Mrs. George B. Adams, New York avenue. Heart disease was the cause of her death. She had not been well for about two years past, but continued as critic teacher in the second primary department of the Normal training school until about six months ago when she was compelled to retire and went to the home of her sister, where she was confined ever since with the disease that proved fatal. At times Miss Haskell was so low that her life was despaired of, but it was only during the past two weeks that all hope was abandoned.
Deceased was fifty-two years of age, having been born in Oshkosh, December 9, 1850. A greater part of her life was spent In this city, Her father, one of the first settlers of Winnebago county, died last June at the age of ninety-six years.
Miss Haskell is survived by her mother, Mrs. Bama Haskell, who is an invalid, two sisters, Mrs. George R. Adams, of this clty and Mrs. F. P. Gary, of Portland, Ore., and one brother, Alvln Haskell, of Milwaukee.
This is the second time within a period of three months that the Oshkosh Normal school has been called upon to mourn the death of. a member of its faculty.
Miss Haskel had been Identified with the normal school for the greater part of the time since Its organization. Her name appears as a student in the first catalogue Issued by the school, and she completed the elementary course in 1875. She served upon different occasions both while a student and afterwards as a substitute teacher in the school. After finishing her course in the normal school she took a course for the training of kindergarteners In the famous St. Louis school. She taught for several years in the public schools of Menominee and Sheboygan, and then was called to the position of critic teacher in the largest normal school in Minnesota, the well known Winona Normal school. Here she remained until 1883, when her own school claimed her services as critic teacher of the primary department. With an Intermission of four years she served In this department until last October.
During this long period of most faithful and efficient service In the Oshkosh school she received many offers of more lucrative position, but her home attachment and her devotion to the school were such that she refused to leave Oshkosh. She was one of the most indefatigable workers that the teaching profession has ever known. While rendering faithful and most efficient service in the normal school a number of years ago she devoted herself to the study of drawing outside of school hours, and with such success that she was offered a scholarship in Pratt Institute an offer that was held open for her for two years with the hope that she might accept it. She was one of the most artistic teachers that the state of Wisconsin has ever known. Her skill has been shown not only In the normal school training department but frequently in teaching groups of children in teachers' institutes. A visit to. her room has stimulated many a young teacher to renewed devotion to the work of teaching.
That she knew how to appeal to the highest motives of the pupils Is evidenced by the close attachment that sprang up between her and them and the high regard with which they regarded her not only while they remained in the higher departments of the school but after they had severed their connection with the school. She was associated so Intimately with the earliest days of the normal school and with its later development, and has been responsible for so large a share of the success of Its training department that her loss will seem well nigh, irreparable.
There will be no session of school in either the normal or the training department tomorrow afternoon. The funeral takes place at the residence of her sister, Mrs. G. B. Adams, 94 New York avenue, at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
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1850 - 1903 (52 years)
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