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- The Daily Review, Morgan City, Louisiana, Thursday, 24 March 1960
Mrs. Helen Bass
Mrs. Helen Culp Bass, sixth grade teacher at Wyandotte, is the wife of a United Gas boat captain, and a native of Eldorado, Ark.
She has two sons, Thomas Neal Bass, who is attending a seminary in Austin, Tex., to become a Presbyterian minister, and Robert Oren Bass, who is a petroleum engineer at Olney, Ill., for Pure Oil. She also had a grandson, Kenny, son of Robert.
A teacher in Morgan City for six years, she has been at Wyandotte for four of them.
Mrs. Bass said she was ?supposed? to be a bookkeeper, not a teacher. A graduate of Eldorado High school and Eldorado Junior College, she is having to do summer work at Nicholls to get al of her Louisiana requirements in order.
She did substitute teaching during World War II in Monroe when the school principal there asked her just to help out. Then she lived in Houma and was a credit manager for a packing company, and, here at Morgan City, when her husband was transferred to this area, she worked in Paul Schreier?s insurance office.
?But I?ve returned to teaching on a full time basis and I?m convinced it?s my avocation, at least,? the dark-haired, cheerful woman said, recently.
She also teaches a Sunday school class at her church and is active in all phases of church work. She is a member of a bridge club and the PTA.
At Wyandotte she said she teaches all subjects, from the multiplication tables to kicking a football.
More specifically a math teacher, Mrs. Bass teaches a little of everything, actually, with spelling, language, reading, geography, history, art and music filling out the list.
?If I had the opportunity to make any change in the present system of education, I would stress more academic work and fewer non-academic activities during school hours. I think students would enjoy them more if they were conducted outside of scheduled class time, too,? she said.
Teaching is rewarding in that you find you offer something, you actually accomplish something, Mrs. Bass said. You do work that is never forgotten and you work with children who never forget you.
The bookkeeper?s set of figures may be easier to control, said Mrs. Bass, but the teacher?s reward of bright, scrubbed faces alert to new ideas and knowledge is a runaway first with this friendly bookkeeper-turned-teacher.
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Abt 1913 - 2004 (91 years)