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Ihink a Moment—F. F. Hl'TTONNEW YORK - Yearsago a young woman by the name of Clara Converse, graduated from a small New England academy.That was in 1879. She decided to enter the foreignmission service of theBaptist Church.She went to Japan and founded a mission school.The English meaning ol its Jananese name is the “Truth Learning Academy.Clara never married. She gave her entire life to this school, which, by the way. is still going strong, still supported by American Baptists.Along with the Bible, Miss Converse taught English. The first graduate of her school, a Japanese woman, is still living, age 84.This woman bore a son to whom she passed on the ideals, and knowledge of the English language which she had received from this mission school.Because she did so, her boy rose abo\e the peon class in Japan, and became an educated man, an educator.The son, with a group of other Japanese educators, is on a trip to the United States and Europe to learn anything that may improve the teaching of the young Japanese men and women of today.His mother begged her son to visit the birthplace of Clara Converse as an act of piety to the woman who had done so much for her.So the son took time off to visit her birthplace in the Vermont hills.The old farmhouse is gone, and Clara Converse is dead. But she lives in grateful mem-017.
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Amarillo Globe Times
Amarillo, Texas, US
Tue, Nov 10, 1959
Page 16
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