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Alice Cook Fuller

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Alice Cook Fuller
A middle-aged white woman wearing a jacket with a lace-embellished collar
Alice Cook Fuller, from a 1924 publication
Born
Alice Emma Cook

October 30, 1873
Spencer, Iowa
DiedSeptember 30, 1956 (age 82)
Berkeley, California
Occupation(s)Writer, educator, school superintendent

Alice Emma Cook Fuller (October 30, 1873 – September 30, 1956) was an American writer and educator.

Early life

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Alice Emma Cook was born in Spencer, Iowa and raised in Deadwood, South Dakota,[1] the daughter of Thomas G. Cook and Sarah J. Love Cook.

Career

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Fuller was an educator and writer based in Colorado.[1] She began teaching when she was a teenager, taught again in midlife, and was the elected superintendent of schools in Larimer County from 1923 to 1931.[2][3][4][5] She was president of the Fort Collins Writers Club.[6] Later in her career, she moved to Berkeley, California, and wrote a novel for children, Gold for the Grahams (1946), based on her own childhood in South Dakota.[7]

Publications

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In addition to her novel, Fuller wrote short stories, lesson ideas, and scripts for school and community group theatrical use, including adaptations of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Coppee's Little Jean's Christmas,[8] and Edward Everett Hale's The Man Without a Country.[9] Her works were published in professional and general interest journals including Philippine Education,[8] Journal of Education,[10] Primary Education,[11] Primary Plans,[12] Canadian Teacher,[13] Table Talk,[14][15] Woman's Home Companion,[16] and Pearson's.[17]

  • "Flag Drill" (1898)[18]
  • "Hoop Drill" (1902)[10]
  • "Busy Work for First Grade Pupils" (1903)[11]
  • "A Journalist, Pro Tem" (1909, short story)[17]
  • "A Christmas Star Party" (1909)[16]
  • "Patriotic Drill" (1910)[12]
  • "Sunflower March for Sixteen Boys" (1910)[13]
  • "A Menagerie Party for Boys" (1912)[15]
  • "A Magazine Party" (1912)[14]
  • "A Colonial Tea Party" (1912)[19]
  • "Spring Blossoms" (1913)[20]
  • "Coral" (1914)[21]
  • Joy of the L V (1914)[22]
  • Dramatized Stories, Myths, and Legends (1914, 1940)[23]
  • "The Christmas Program" (1931)[24]
  • Gold for the Grahams (1946, novel for young readers)[7]
  • "But First I've Got to Do This" (1947, short story for young readers)[25]

Personal life

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Alice Cook married George Senter Fuller. He was a rancher and sheriff, and he rode with other cowboys in Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural parade in Washington, D.C. The Fullers had two daughters, Marion and Katheryn, and two sons, Norman and Theodore (who died young).[7] Her husband died in 1924,[26] and she died at a hospital in Berkeley in 1956, aged 82.[27]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Mrs. Fuller Dies on Coast". Fort Collins Coloradoan. 1956-10-05. p. 1. Retrieved 2022-09-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "County Superintendents Elected in November". CEA Colorado School Journal. 42: 33. December 1926.
  3. ^ "Meets Teachers". Fort Collins Coloradoan. 1930-08-31. p. 3. Retrieved 2022-09-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Alice Cook Fuller (advertisement)". Fort Collins Coloradoan. 1928-10-22. p. 5. Retrieved 2022-09-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Alice Cook Fuller (advertisement)". Fort Collins Coloradoan. 1930-10-23. p. 5. Retrieved 2022-09-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Mrs. Fuller Heads Writers". Fort Collins Coloradoan. 1932-05-05. p. 7. Retrieved 2022-09-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ a b c "Alice Cook Fuller Author of New Novel". Fort Collins Coloradoan. 1946-09-30. p. 3. Retrieved 2022-09-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ a b Fuller, Alice Cook (November 1917). "Little Jean's Christmas". Philippine Education. 14 (5): 210, 244.
  9. ^ The First Flag: And Other Patriotic Plays and Exercises, for Children from Eight to Fifteen Years. Educational Publishing Company. 1917. p. 171.
  10. ^ a b Fuller, Alice Cook (April 1902). "Hoop Drill.—(I.)". Journal of Education. 55 (14): 219. doi:10.1177/002205740205501411. ISSN 0022-0574. S2CID 134366813.
  11. ^ a b Fuller, Alice Cook (March 1903). "Busy Work for First Grade Pupils". Primary Education. 11: 131.
  12. ^ a b Fuller, Alice Cook (May 1910). "A Patriotic Drill". Primary Plans. 7: 32.
  13. ^ a b Fuller, Alice Cook (August 1910). "Sunflower March for Sixteen Boys". The Canadian Teacher. 15 (1): 8.
  14. ^ a b Fuller, Alice Cook (February 1912). "A Magazine Party". Table Talk. 27 (97–98).
  15. ^ a b Fuller, Alice Cook (January 1912). "A Menagerie Party for Boys". Table Talk. 27: 53–54.
  16. ^ a b Fuller, Alice Cook (December 1909). "A Christmas Star Party". Woman's Home Companion. 36: 32.
  17. ^ a b Fuller, Alice Cook (January 1909). "A Journalist, Pro Tem". Pearson's Magazine. 21 (1): 44–48.
  18. ^ Fuller, Alice Cook (September 1898). "Flag Drill". Popular Educator. 16: 32.
  19. ^ Faxon, Grace B. (1912). Practical Selections from Twenty Years of Normal Instructor and Primary Plans: A Valuable Book of Ready Reference for the Teachers, Containing Articles of Inspiration and Instruction; Hints, Suggestions, Methods, Illustrations; with Plans and Material for Entertainments, and Many Selections for Recitations. F.A. Owen Publishing Company. p. 286.
  20. ^ Arbor Day. Ohio State Commissioner of Common Schools. 1913.
  21. ^ Fuller, Alice Cook (March 1914). "Coral". American Primary Teacher. 32: 270.
  22. ^ Fuller, Alice Cook (1914). Joy of the L V . The Library of Congress. Lebanon, Ohio.
  23. ^ Fuller, Alice Cook (1940). Dramatized Stories, Myths and Legends. Eldridge Entertainment House.
  24. ^ Fuller, Alice Cook (December 1931). "The Christmas Program". Instructor. 41 (2): 46 – via Internet Archive.
  25. ^ Fuller, Alice Cook (October 1947). "'But First I've Got to Do This'". Wee Wisdom. 56 (3): 10–11, 27 – via Internet Archive.
  26. ^ "Former Black Hills Resident Died in Colo". The Daily Deadwood Pioneer-Times. 1924-02-09. p. 1. Retrieved 2022-09-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  27. ^ "Last Rites Set Tomorrow for Berkeley Author". Oakland Tribune. 1956-10-02. p. 39. Retrieved 2022-09-08 – via Newspapers.com.
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