From
Martha Jane Becker's book on historic Bramwell,
Miss. Ada Blair Whitmore was teaching at Bramwell
in 1933 when the orignal Bramwell High school was
destroyed by fire. It is recorded that her salary
for 1931 was $1080.00. Miss Whitmore received her
B.A. degree from William and Mary College and her
masters degree was received from the University
of Virginia.
It is believed that she may have started teaching at BHS at the beginning of the 1927/1928 school year, however there ar no clear records on this date. She taught English and Social
Studies at Bramwell for about forty years with a
heavy emphasis on "English". She is
known as possibably the best teacher to have
taught at Bramwell High School in the first one
hundred years. Her students remember her as
stressing dicipline in the classroom. She
demanded the most from every student and did a
wonderful job in preparing her students for
college.
Miss Whitmore left Bramwell after the
1966/1977 school year and it is believed that she
taught in Virginia school for several more years
before retiring. Following her retirement in the
early 1970s she resided in Staunton, Virginia
where she died in September 11, 1976. |
