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Show MARGARET SHERROD Elected 1945 to BEARNSON 1947 was born in Riverton, Alabama to Robert Sherrod. She was the fourth child in a and three boys. Her ancestry on both sides of to the early settlers of Virginia. Margaret Sherrod Bearnson A. Sherrod and Emma family of eight girls faily goes back the Tice It lies at the The town where she was born does not now exist. bottom of Lake Pickwick, a man-made lake on the Tennessee River. interest in writing was kindled early when a teacher sent one her poems called "When Wild Geese Fly Over Alabama" to a local newspaper where it was published. Her of Idaho with her parents when School and Attended Albion State Normal years in Idaho. she She met College of Business February 16, 1921. a professor at the Margaret moved to She Julius B. Bearnson, a professor in the the University of Utah and married him on They had one daughter, Dorothy, who is now University of Utah. at was taught a teenager. for several After her marriage, Margaret attended the University of Utah where she received her B.S. in 1930 and her M.S. degree in 1931. For her master's she wrote,"A History of the Ku Klux Klan in thesis, Connection with the Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War." She did post-graduate studies at the University of Virginia while her husband was there on a sabbatical leave. While at the U, she began writing seriously. Two of her stories I isted in 0' Brien's Best American Stories on the Roll of She has had short stories, articles, singly and in series, Honor. and four books published. One, "Helping Children Grow Guidebook" was published by the U.S. State Department and sent to 11 countries in the middle, near and far east. Much of her work has pertained to she has on children and drawn her of teaching where years were experience She has English as a teacher in public and private schools. a elementary school principal, an instructor in the U U the of and presented a at children's Department been television program on Arts and Crafts on Channel 4 for two years. She was also a member of the Elementary rt Committee, Utah State Department of Education for 6 years. in had material The Grade The published Teacher, Interl ude, Intermountain Review of Story Magazine, The Pen, The Utah Educational Review, McCalls Fabrics The Catholic Junior Animal Lovers Messenger, Plus American, Magazine, Icelandic Canadian, Arts and Activities, Junior Arts and She has Instructor, Literature, Activities, The Charlottesville Times, The Salt Lake Tribune, The 116 |
