Then she was hired full-time not only as an English teacher, but also as head of the English department - positions she held for the next 42 years. Further training was taken at the University of Washington.įollowing her graduation from Otterbein, she returned to Warsaw where she substituted for one year. She also spent a term at the Julliard School of Music. She earned her master's degree from Columbia University during the summers. "I followed his career," she said.Īfter finishing high school, she went to Otterbein College at Westerville, Ohio. Douglas, then pastor of a church in Ann Arbor, Michigan before he penned "The Robe," was speaker. Speaking of her high School Commencement, she recalled that Lloyd C. If we can be a witness and let people know without bragging, it is good," she admonished.Īlthough teaching has been her first love, chronologically training for her profession came second to her musical training. "I volunteered all the years except those at Trinity," she said, "and I wish I hadn't be paid for those. Next Easter she will celebrate her 45th year as a church organist with a total of 33 years at Warsaw's First Baptist Church and 12 years at Trinity United Methodist Church.
"I practiced every night at the Methodist Church." In the four-month period, she taught herself to play the organ and took the job at the Baptist Church in 1929. "I had from September to January first to learn," she said. Olds asked her if she would like to play the organ at the Baptist Church. Young Mamie Edgington accompanied her students. Fred Olds, a Warsaw osteopath at that time, was choir director at the church his wife Renee, was a soloist at Winona Lake and taught private lessons at a Warsaw Studio. Her first experience was at the First Baptist Church on Center St. She has played the church organ all her life. Next to her teaching with its love of language and literature, music ranks at the top of her list of enjoyments. They began young Mamie's musical training with piano lessons when she was four years old. He was a clarinet player, and her mother, a soloist.
As a matter of fact, both her mother and father were artistic. Who is this woman who still insists on creative living after more than 40 years in the classroom?Ĭertainly her creative ways did not begin the day she retired. The books, printed by Westminster Press in Winona Lake, is dedicated as a memorial to Paul and is also dedicated to all her senior English students throughout her 42 years as a teacher. Braddock's poems, which enhance them by giving an added breath of life, is captured through the combination of "Poetry and Pictures." For example the picture entitled "Oak Leaves" is illustrated with the following poem: A graduate of Westmore College in Iowa and a student at West Michigan University, he was an audio-visual specialist by occupation. Braddock's sister, Margaret Holmes, Paul was an artist with a camera, capturing a slice of nature with the click of the shutter. The photos are the legacy of her 27-year-old nephew who was killed July 27, 1975, as he crossed a street and was struck by a car when a woman ran a stoplight. That cord has been composed by Mamie Edginton Braddock, Warsaw Community High School English teacher for 42 years, in the combination of photographs taken by her nephew Paul Edginton Holmes, with the poems she has written to illustrate the pictures. For some it is a combination of creative beauty that strikes a special cord. Transcribed by Marge Priser.īeauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it comes in many forms. Mamie Braddock Burial site located at Block 3, Lot 26, Space 7įormer Warsaw English Teacher Publishes Bookīy Ann Wharton, Staff Writer.
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