{"id":9255,"date":"2014-05-16T08:28:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T15:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=9255"},"modified":"2014-05-16T09:21:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T16:21:40","slug":"grandmas-story-longing-for-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2014\/05\/16\/grandmas-story-longing-for-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandma’s Story, Longing for Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across a clipping from\u00a0a Rawlins newspaper. The date was missing\u00a0but by context all the children were grown.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I knew nothing of this. I knew she was\u00a0hearty, raising seven children almost single-handedly, including on that desolate Wyoming homestead and those Washington scrub farms. I’d understood there was a God-respect about her that passed into the family. But this craving for learning is for me a new realization. And an inspiration for us all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Hyatt-i-and-family\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The photo was taken quite a few years before the article was written. There’s no date, but all seven children are in (even if Orrelle only barely at the bottom). By the looks of the “craftsman style” house, it must be Washington. Is that my dad in glasses? He was a reader through his 97th year, but never with glasses.<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Busy Housewife puts Spare Time to Good Use, by Bobbie Johnson<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A mother of seven children and a grandmother seven times, who in spite of all her household duties has finished four correspondence courses and is starting on the fifth, who has a keen desire to learn and the ambition to follow her desire, is Mrs. H. E. Moore, 345 Daley Street, a woman who has literally educated herself.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Mrs. Moore completed only two and a half years of high school work, but she \u201calways wanted to finish high school.\u201d Her burning desire for knowledge caused her to spend several hours daily studying and reading.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Her first correspondence course was in dressmaking, tailoring and handwork. This she followed with a cooking course. From these courses she has learned to do almost anything with her hands. She sews beautifully, crochets, knits and tats. She can display hundreds of her handmade articles, all finely made down to the last detail She is a proficient cook.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Being a lover of music, Mrs. Moore bought an electric guitar. For two years she studied, practiced and taught herself to play through her mail order lessons. Today she plays the guitar with a near professional touch.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

After finishing her guitar lessons and receiving her diploma, Mrs. Moore subscribed to a correspondence course in Spanish. This she studied by books and recordings.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Because of her ardent interest in the Spanish language, Mrs. Moore is organizing a class of interested neighbors for weekly study this winter.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Her present course of study is the piano. She recently received her first lesson from the US School of Music, New York City, and is now teaching herself to play the piano. Although she has studied only a short while, Mrs. Moore has a large repertoire for the piano.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The ambitious person who has lived in Rawlins for the last 23 years, has always impressed upon her children the importance of education. \u201cMy main ambition was to see my children have good educations. You can’t make a child acquire an education, you have to talk them into it,\u201d Mrs. Moore said.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

And \u201ctalk them into it\u201d she did. For all seven of her children have been graduated from Rawlins high school and all but one have gone on with their education. Four of her sons attended college. One of them was graduated, and one of them will be graduated next spring. Both of her daughters attended nurses training, one of them finishing.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWomen are foolish if they do not do something with their spare time. A woman with a family is confined to her home and idleness can make a person old,\u201d Mrs. Moore stated.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

One look at Mrs. Moore with her trim figure, dark hair and smooth complexion will defy her . . .<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

At this point, the article trails off. But this picture of Margarite Didami (Comer) Moore\u00a0(b. 1889) at her marriage describes it all. What a beauty. What an attitude! (And there’s my chin cleft!)
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\"Madge-at-marriage-650\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Next: Mom’s Story, and Homesteads Again.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Never before had I recognized the heritage for life-long learning until I came across this Rawlins newspaper article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9255"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9293,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255\/revisions\/9293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}