"She never struck anyone that I can recall; she just made you feel very small. That was enough for discipline. We feared but loved her."
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Holbrook's former student Alan D. Whitney, quoted in James J. Kilpatrick, "Florence Holbrook, Prin.; Feared and Loved", The Baltimore Sun (July 5, 1983): 9; via Newspapers.com.
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Florence Holbrook
Florence Holbrook (May 30, 1860 – September 28, 1932) was an American educator, writer, and peace activist. She worked in the Chicago public schools for over fifty years, as a teacher and principal. She was an American delegate to the International Congress of Women in The Hague in 1915, and in Zürich in 1919. She wrote several books for school use, mainly on mythology and folklore topics.
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