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Miss Berry wins annual achievement award for mountain schools
The article profiles Miss Martha Berry of Berry College near Rome Georgia who has built a network of mountain schools since 1900 teaching reading and practical life skills. It notes 7000 graduates and a junior college, her 5000 dollar prize, and the judging panel including notable figures like Clark Howell and Mary Roberts Rhinehart.
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Martha
Berry ‘of Georgia
Popular
Berry Schools
Rome
Berry
Nual
Pictorial
Miss Berry
Georgia
Blue Ridge Mountains
Appalachians
Rand
Berty
Mt. Berty
Roosevelt Memorial Association
White"House
Gool' ‘Idge
Hall of Fame
Arthur Capper
Kansas
Walter L. Clark
The
Painters’ and Sculptor’ Association
John Farrar
Charlotte Perkins — Gilman
Louise Homer
Clark Howell
Atlanta Constitution
Otto H. Kahn
Henry Goddard Leach
Forum
Edwin Markham
Henry W. Peabody
Federation of Women's Boards of Foreign Missions
James I, Phelan
San Francisco
Mary Roberts Rhinehart
Phigwright
Edith Nourse Rogers
Congress
Carl Sandburg
John Dickinson Sherman
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Ida Tarbell
Augustus C. Thomas
Department of Education
Augusta
Mary Wooley
Mt. Halyo Hege
Edward Macdowell
Peterboro
No HS
Cora Wilssin Stewart
Sarah Graham-Mulhall
United States
Eva Lv Gallienne
Civic Repertory Theater
New York