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Rh During the World War the chapter organized first aid classes and was directed to establish a hospital in the State Armory. During the “flu” epidemic it served as a base for the patients.

Miss Beer and her sister Kathryn reside in the Beer homestead in Bucyrus with a brother Thomas Beer.

OPHELIA NESBIT BELL, early teacher, of the Cincinnati public schools, was born in North Carolina on Feb. 12, 1848, and died in Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 22, 1936.

She spent the greater part of her life in Cincinnati and graduated from Oberlin College.

She married Charles W. Bell, teacher of penmanship in Cincinnati Public Schools, and had six children. One of her daughters, Alma, operated a beauty shop in the old Commercial Building, Walnut St. for twenty years. Two others, Erminie and Margaret Eloise taught in Covington, Ky. for a great number of years. There are four grandchildren, two of whom are also teachers. She taught in Gaines High School located on Court Street where the Business Department of the Cincinnati Board of Education building now stands, and was a Dramatic reader and actress, once playing the leading role in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, given at Robinson’s Opera House at Ninth and Plum Streets.

She was the first bride married in Union Baptist Church, Mound St., Cincinnati, and in later years, became a member of St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Mrs. Bell has two nieces who are engaged in education work in Cincinnati, Mrs. Paul Coffey (Alma Hatfield), elementary teacher at Jackson school since 1929, and her sister, Miss Marjorie Hatfield, primary teacher at Woodlawn since 1931. Both Mrs. Coffey and Miss Hatfield were graduates of the University of Cincinnati, the former graduating in 1927 and the latter in 1929. Mrs. Coffey has B.A. and B.E. degrees and Miss Hatfield, a B.S. degree. Both were born in Cincinnati.

HARRIETT E. BANCROFT was graduated from the Central High School of Columbus, Ohio, in 1877, began to teach at the Second Avenue School of that city and after eleven years was appointed Principal of Douglass School. Later Miss Bancroft was made Principal of Fair Avenue School, and filled this position as she did all others with distinction.

For more than 30 years ELECTA P. BRADBURY was one of the most highly regarded teachers, personally and professionally, of the Cleveland