TEACHER STILL DOES AT 80

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300100040-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: April 14, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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Retired, but Aids
~orei~n Born
I3Y JEAN KOTULAK
N(iss Minnie Dunwell as
been a retired teacher for ,15
I years, but Sometimes, she for-
', gets. ;. ,
Altho the sprightly Miss Dun-
e. well will celebrate her: 80th
birthday today, she has' neyef
quite broken her 1}abit of te~ct3
inf;. Miss Dunwell, who 1lv~s
t 811 3udson av., Evanstol[,
a
retired in 1948 after is 43 year
career as an educator.
Now Is A Tutor
Three years were `spent in
ti~alparaiso, Ind., and the other
4!1 in Chicago, where Miss Due=
and
l
Ki
ey
n
well taught at 1Vfe
Senn High schools. Since her re~
tirement, Miss' I?unwell has
been tutoring students, many
of them foreign born; who have
difficulty learning the English
~, language.
Workixlg with. St, Mark Epis-.
h in E y a n s t o n,
h
_ ~ ~$ ~ ~ ?
urc
copal c
which has .a pragraxn far for- ~~ ~ ~ .fix :.
i eign students, Miss Dunwell Evanston, 'reac}s
'has tutpred Mexican and Greek ~ ~(i's~s Minnie, Dunwell, 811 JuBpori av ,
nt who riow as~~sth Central intelligenc~j
t job
d
d
"
e
es
My har
1 ter fro[n,form stu
Youngs}ers.
was trying to teach English to ~, oner~Senn High schoo
in *Washington, D ,
~e~i[ sdtirerl for~I,5 pe~"rs but still tutors;
" Miss Dunwell ~
`h
bo
as
y,
a Korean
c
said.. "I had no Koran die ,, ,. ,. ~: iTRrevN1=',~tnrt Ploro] _ __
' i- ~ Y r believes, and; mkt help the
tionary, and had to .rely on ~y"In World War I anon Chi- t student ta~think'
pictures." ~ ~~ cago neighborhoods had a lariie ; ?
Former students, sale ?..f ,a~ nercenta~e of foreign-born resi-'~ ~ NTissADunwell` wa} cb3e ntiShe
time a half century- ago,. stiq>A youngsters made wonder- i receiv~,u. a ? ?~b? ~- --- -
correspond~ with the educator. ~ ful students-they seemed very ~ Beta ILappa key from the lJni-
Among her farmer p;}t~ils are j responsible in their sfudies, ~ versify of Chicago..
judges, interior decors ors, and and were extremely nnterested! Because she has`f[a immedi-
many professional persons S ~ floe world around them. , '~ ate faLnily,, shi~4 dives alone,:
regularly receives letters f~'o1I% "But during World War II; does her awn housework, and
Wa"1Li"dl~~io is wi~a t~ man of the youngsters came is ~a:ctive in church work. She
Cenir'al` Intelligence agency in from homes where 4loth parohts has been 8n the Board af` tkle
Washington, D. C., and Milton worked: dome of these students . St. Mary's Children's home for
Preves, who resigned from-the held jobs .themselves. They Io Years.
Oak Park symphony in'protest seemed to have too much When she isn't tutoring, the
against segregation. money and too many material gte-year~ld youngster works far
h hil-
c
In aprize-winning 'letter to
I T[iE 'IRI$UNE in a "What I
r.;~a Ahnut Teacht~g'~' ,contest
Faaster. eve ,
birthday fell on Good Friday,"
she said:
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
rents, M[ssRuanltlZed - A I a stu-
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' zest to living, she said.. Teach- , The educator doesn't like
ing methods have changed thru + tests "which ask for a simple
the yedrs, and sa have tdhe stu- j yes ar no answer." The teacher
e
But on
and thought "in the world." ~ om, Yong people are the best
Association with youth- adds ~ the world."
1 f;,,arl 'tPachin~ as''"p~ssi~tg an
things at pan early age.. Nat- her favorite charrty - t e
orally, as interest focused on dren's hgme. "We are- holding-
-different things, school fell a our annual benefit luncheon
little behind in importance in Tuesday in the Drake hotel,"
their lives. she said.
Likes Young People Miss Dunwell is pleased that
whore; I think h.er 80th birthday falls an
th
"
"S ral times my