Annabelle Evelyn Ferguson

Background

Annabelle Evelyn Ferguson was born on the 17th of July, 1923 in Duquesne, Pennsylvania, United States.

Education

Annabelle Ferguson graduated from high school in Duquesne. She studied at the University of Pittsburgh, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in education in 1944 and earned a Master of Arts degree in education in 1948. In 1970, she obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in education from the University of Maryland.

Career

During World War II, Annabelle Evelyn served in the Navy's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service in the Philadelphia Navy Yard from 1943 to 1946, and was discharged with the rank of ensign.

Ferguson began her teaching career in 1946 in Titusville and, in 1950, joined the faculty of Ellicott City Junior-Senior High School (now Ellicott Mills Middle School), where she was a teacher and counselor. From 1952 to 1958, she was a counselor at Howard County Senior High School.

In 1958, Annabelle Evelyn moved to Anne Arundel County as a counselor and supervisor of instruction at Severna Park High School. She was supervisor of guidance testing from 1962 to 1965 for the Anne Arundel County Board of Education. She was supervisor of guidance services for the Maryland State Department of Education from 1965 to 1969 and lectured at Towson State College and Western Maryland College in the late 1960s.

Ferguson joined the Prince George's County Board of Education in 1969 as director of pupil services, a post she held until 1973 in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. From 1973 until she retired in 1982, she was the assistant superintendent of schools for the Central Area Administrative Office.

With Robert J. Shockley, Annabelle Evelyn Ferguson was the author of The Teenager and Homework, a book for young readers published in 1975.

Achievements

• Annabelle Evelyn Ferguson is particularly known as an educator, as well as the author of the book The Teenager and Homework. In recognition of her leadership and long career as an educator, the Prince George's County Board of Education named the Suitland High School auditorium in her honor in 1982.

Works

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• book

  • The Teenager and Homework 1975

Membership

Annabelle Evelyn Ferguson was a member of the American School Guidance Association, the Maryland Personnel and Guidance Association, the Prince George's Retired Teachers Association and the Anne Arundel County Retired Teachers Association.

Interests

• theater, reading, listening to music, swimming and playing tennis

Connections

nephew:

John H. Ferguson