M i s s
M a b e l
And Her School
Early in her life Mabel Culter came to believe, like Aristotle, that “ Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.” Although from early childhood she felt called to foreign missionary service Mabel decided, upon gradu ation from school (her education included San Jose State College, San Diego State College, Occidental College and for graduate work the University of California), to become a public school teacher. She taught in and became principal of an elementary
o u r blocks off the Hollywood Freeway at 3rd and Westmoreland in Los Angeles, an assembly of 380 alert, active young people from elementary grades through high school are writing, reading and reciting their homework under the watchful eye of 30 Chris tian teachers. In its rambling, block-long buildings flanked by a large ball field, Culter Academy stands as a tribute to the untiring zeal of its forrader, a quiet, silver-haired Kansan named Mabel Culter. The Academy has grown to be the only accredited inter denominational and junior and senior high school in the Los Angeles area of Southern California.
Mabel Culter is happy because the school she founded— Culter Academy at 231 S. Westmoreland Aye., Los Angeles— has become o f age. In the picture at the right. Miss Culter leads a group of her young people in a study of God's Word. The Bible has al ways been the central textbook of Culter Academy. Also students have been en couraged in the daily reading and memori zation of Scriptures. In the picture below. Miss Culter is shown in conference with the president of Culter Academy, John Blanchard. Current ly Miss Culter teaches the Bible classes and serves on the Board of Directors.
school in Orange County, Calif, and later taught in both the Orange and Garden Grove high schools. A zeal for foreign missions led her to take a leave of absence between 1918 and 1923 to serve as princi pal of a joint grammar school and high school for the children of business people and missionaries in Nanking, China. She traveled extensively throughout Asia and then went to The Bible Institute of Los Angeles in 1929 to become dean of women at the invitation of Evangelist Charles E. Fuller, then a member of BIOLA board. Mabel’s BIOLA girls, returning from practice THE KING'S BUSINESS
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