Mrs. Hodges Resigns as School Head: 1941

HODGES, FINDLAY, NISH

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Date: 2/2/2014 at 09:27:10

**Handwritten: Oct 1941
Mrs. Hodges Resigns as School Head

Former Candidate for State Superintendent; Buys interest in Wisconsin Business College.

From Tuesday's Republican Eagle

Mrs. Cornelia C. Hodges of Keosauqua, who had been superintendent of Van Buren county schools since 1927, submitted her resignation Monday.

Mrs. Hodges will be associated with Miss Verna Findlay and Miss Mae Nish, former Van Buren county teachers, in the ownership and management of the Eau Claire Business college in Eau Claire, Wis.

Before accepting the county superintendent position Mrs. Hodges had been superintendent at Huron. Previously she and her husband, who died in 1923, had taught at Cantril.

Mrs. Hodges is a graduate of the state teachers' college at Warrensburg, Mo., and has taken graduate work at the University of Iowa and the University of Chicago.

Her work with the Van Buren County Citizenship club won renown. She has been regarded as one of the outstanding school administrators of the middle west.

Mrs. Hodges in 1938 was a candidate for state superintendent of schools and lost the nomination in the state convention.

She was the charter president of the Keosauqua Business and Professional Women's club and a member of the P.E.O., O.F.S., D.A.R., American Legion Auxiliary and many other organizations.

Mrs. Hodges was the only county superintendent in Van Buren county to serve longer than eight years.

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