brated her 80th birthday, She hada fea party in the afternoon and many her old. friends and. "children" falled to offer their congratulations find best wishes. Although partly paralyzed she sat up fo welcome them het home at 510 Avenue Haig while her sister, Miss F, © Jewell, assisted.
Many of those who dropped. Into drin'a cup of tea with this old time Shanghai resident remember. her "feacher® as do. hundreds "of prominent. men. and women now Eeaiiered all over the worl.
'Misg Jewell who Was bor" on Jan= uty Bi in. Brentwood, (New Hamp-hive, and ehrstened Maria Washing-{on 'Jewell, come to" Shanghai September 1005 and with the exception of few trips to her homeland fant! brief holidays. in' Japan she has been in China ever since, lag Jewell came out to live with her sion, Mrs, Edward 'Evans, and {o' teach the small children of the community Unt "the Shanghai 'American' School was established hers was the iist_American school here. "Hor fest pls were the sons find" daughters of Dr, Boone of St. Loke's, and her sister's 3008, J. ud Edward Evans, sur. She. opened liber frst school In 1800 in a small house in Minghong Road, "Het School roster numbered eight small pupils, 'Then she moved to Miller Road "and then to Quinsan Road where her school grew to 140 pupils, She' stayed there until after the trouble when she was forced to evacuate and move into the western section. About 1925 she handed over hor school to her niece, the late Miss Helen F. Dearborn, who continued until the' time of her death in 1995, Miss Jewell, on leaving the school, joined the. Committee of the Door of Hope and on the death of her sister, Mrs. Edward Evans, succeeded her as chairman, which post she still holds. She is still active and alert mentally although for the past we years, she fered from a. gradual paralysis Which has confined her to bed.
Among Mer Puplts The frst rudiments of reading, yiting and rithmetie were instilled into the heads of many young children who have grown into men and women now prominent in Shanghai, Among those who "went to school" to Miss Jewell were little "AIC" A, C, Davis, now a well-known Shanghai business man, Shanghat's municipal Advocate, Mr. Robert. Bryan, jur. was at tone time one of Miss Joweil's young pupils, His sister, Miss Catherine Bryan, now in' charge of the the kindergarten work of Shanghai College, attended the schoo! at the same time, Pearl Buck, the now World famous novelist is another ex-pupil of Miss Jewell's school Shanghai, Norris Caldwell, now a doctor in Pueblo, Colorado; Edward Caldwell, now a minister in New York, James Law, now in the Indian Army, Hosmer Johnson, now Dr. Johnson of Tsinanfu, Sidney Moss, the son of the lalo Mr. Barnes Moss: Cary Sweet, now the Dr, Sweet of the Rockefeller Foundation in. Hangchow: Dr. R. J, Turnbull, of Laun-weston, Tasmania, all these were her pupils, Mr. A. J, Grant of the APE, Mr. Erle Turnbull, Mr. R, D, Abraham, Mrs. W. J, Hawkings, Mrs, Eric Clarke, Mrs, H, G, Huckstep, Mr W. C. "Bond, Mrs, G, F, Dumbarton, Mr, B, N. Trueman of the Shanghai Waterworks are only a few of the many-old pupils of Miss Jewel's who fare in Shanghai at the present time. Me. J, J, Evans, her nephew and one of her first pupils is still in. Shang-hal, Edward now resides In Toronto, Canada,
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