1st of 3 children of ANTON "TONY" ARBES & LOUISE MARTES
Occupation: Teacher
Never married, no children
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Helen M. Arbes, 94, St. Paul Teacher
When Helen M. Arbes was a teacher in the 1920s, she went to her one-room school extra early to stoke the fire before her students arrived. For three years she taught in that elementary school near Wadena, Minn., where she earned $80 a month for eight months.
Arbes, who later became an advocate for the mentally retarded and students with behavioral problems, died Monday of natural causes at the Highland Chateau Health Care Center in St. Paul. She was 94.
She received her bachelor's degree from what is now Moorhead State University, and her master's degree from the University of Minnesota. Her education career spanned 47 years. Arbes started teaching in 1924 in that country school in Wadena County. She was 19 and lived with a farm family. In 1927 she went back to Moorhead and continued her education. She later taught elementary school and coached football in Dumont, Minn. In 1931 she joined the St. Paul School District and taught seventh grade at Linwood School for 14 years. She later taught at Como Park, Galtier and Groveland Park elementaries and Marshall Junior High. She retired in 1973.
In her autobiography, she wrote: "It was at Marshall that I became interested in the problems of delinquency in the school, because in the first year at Marshall eight of the eighth-grade boys landed at the Red Wing Training School before Oct. 15." Red Wing was a juvenile detention center for boys. It was then that she applied for a Ford fellowship. And in the mid-1950s, under the fellowship, she spent a year traveling to other schools in the United States to see how they dealt with delinquency. When she returned to St. Paul, she coordinated activities in the district that would help alleviate the problem. Arbes also served on the President's Commission on Juvenile Delinquency.
Charles Hagen of Bloomington, former special education director for St. Paul, said Arbes also helped initiate programs for mentally retarded students. "She was widely known and widely respected in the district and throughout the state for being a leader in special education," Hagen said. He said Arbes was a "very practical person" with grass-roots experience. She was a "wonderful resource" for other teachers because she shared a lot of her knowledge, he said. "She was a teacher's teacher," he said.
After Arbes retired from the St. Paul School District she became principal of Christ the Child School for Exceptional Children in St. Paul.
Visitation will be held at 3 p.m. today at the Willwerscheid & Peters Mortuary, 1167 Grand Av., St. Paul. Services will follow.
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Sep 15, 1999: STAR TRIBUNE (excerpts), by Lucy Y. Her
Occupation: Teacher
Never married, no children
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Helen M. Arbes, 94, St. Paul Teacher
When Helen M. Arbes was a teacher in the 1920s, she went to her one-room school extra early to stoke the fire before her students arrived. For three years she taught in that elementary school near Wadena, Minn., where she earned $80 a month for eight months.
Arbes, who later became an advocate for the mentally retarded and students with behavioral problems, died Monday of natural causes at the Highland Chateau Health Care Center in St. Paul. She was 94.
She received her bachelor's degree from what is now Moorhead State University, and her master's degree from the University of Minnesota. Her education career spanned 47 years. Arbes started teaching in 1924 in that country school in Wadena County. She was 19 and lived with a farm family. In 1927 she went back to Moorhead and continued her education. She later taught elementary school and coached football in Dumont, Minn. In 1931 she joined the St. Paul School District and taught seventh grade at Linwood School for 14 years. She later taught at Como Park, Galtier and Groveland Park elementaries and Marshall Junior High. She retired in 1973.
In her autobiography, she wrote: "It was at Marshall that I became interested in the problems of delinquency in the school, because in the first year at Marshall eight of the eighth-grade boys landed at the Red Wing Training School before Oct. 15." Red Wing was a juvenile detention center for boys. It was then that she applied for a Ford fellowship. And in the mid-1950s, under the fellowship, she spent a year traveling to other schools in the United States to see how they dealt with delinquency. When she returned to St. Paul, she coordinated activities in the district that would help alleviate the problem. Arbes also served on the President's Commission on Juvenile Delinquency.
Charles Hagen of Bloomington, former special education director for St. Paul, said Arbes also helped initiate programs for mentally retarded students. "She was widely known and widely respected in the district and throughout the state for being a leader in special education," Hagen said. He said Arbes was a "very practical person" with grass-roots experience. She was a "wonderful resource" for other teachers because she shared a lot of her knowledge, he said. "She was a teacher's teacher," he said.
After Arbes retired from the St. Paul School District she became principal of Christ the Child School for Exceptional Children in St. Paul.
Visitation will be held at 3 p.m. today at the Willwerscheid & Peters Mortuary, 1167 Grand Av., St. Paul. Services will follow.
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Sep 15, 1999: STAR TRIBUNE (excerpts), by Lucy Y. Her
1st of 3 children of ANTON "TONY" ARBES & LOUISE MARTES
Occupation: Teacher
Never married, no children
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Helen M. Arbes, 94, St. Paul Teacher
When Helen M. Arbes was a teacher in the 1920s, she went to her one-room school extra early to stoke the fire before her students arrived. For three years she taught in that elementary school near Wadena, Minn., where she earned $80 a month for eight months.
Arbes, who later became an advocate for the mentally retarded and students with behavioral problems, died Monday of natural causes at the Highland Chateau Health Care Center in St. Paul. She was 94.
She received her bachelor's degree from what is now Moorhead State University, and her master's degree from the University of Minnesota. Her education career spanned 47 years. Arbes started teaching in 1924 in that country school in Wadena County. She was 19 and lived with a farm family. In 1927 she went back to Moorhead and continued her education. She later taught elementary school and coached football in Dumont, Minn. In 1931 she joined the St. Paul School District and taught seventh grade at Linwood School for 14 years. She later taught at Como Park, Galtier and Groveland Park elementaries and Marshall Junior High. She retired in 1973.
In her autobiography, she wrote: "It was at Marshall that I became interested in the problems of delinquency in the school, because in the first year at Marshall eight of the eighth-grade boys landed at the Red Wing Training School before Oct. 15." Red Wing was a juvenile detention center for boys. It was then that she applied for a Ford fellowship. And in the mid-1950s, under the fellowship, she spent a year traveling to other schools in the United States to see how they dealt with delinquency. When she returned to St. Paul, she coordinated activities in the district that would help alleviate the problem. Arbes also served on the President's Commission on Juvenile Delinquency.
Charles Hagen of Bloomington, former special education director for St. Paul, said Arbes also helped initiate programs for mentally retarded students. "She was widely known and widely respected in the district and throughout the state for being a leader in special education," Hagen said. He said Arbes was a "very practical person" with grass-roots experience. She was a "wonderful resource" for other teachers because she shared a lot of her knowledge, he said. "She was a teacher's teacher," he said.
After Arbes retired from the St. Paul School District she became principal of Christ the Child School for Exceptional Children in St. Paul.
Visitation will be held at 3 p.m. today at the Willwerscheid & Peters Mortuary, 1167 Grand Av., St. Paul. Services will follow.
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Sep 15, 1999: STAR TRIBUNE (excerpts), by Lucy Y. Her
Occupation: Teacher
Never married, no children
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Helen M. Arbes, 94, St. Paul Teacher
When Helen M. Arbes was a teacher in the 1920s, she went to her one-room school extra early to stoke the fire before her students arrived. For three years she taught in that elementary school near Wadena, Minn., where she earned $80 a month for eight months.
Arbes, who later became an advocate for the mentally retarded and students with behavioral problems, died Monday of natural causes at the Highland Chateau Health Care Center in St. Paul. She was 94.
She received her bachelor's degree from what is now Moorhead State University, and her master's degree from the University of Minnesota. Her education career spanned 47 years. Arbes started teaching in 1924 in that country school in Wadena County. She was 19 and lived with a farm family. In 1927 she went back to Moorhead and continued her education. She later taught elementary school and coached football in Dumont, Minn. In 1931 she joined the St. Paul School District and taught seventh grade at Linwood School for 14 years. She later taught at Como Park, Galtier and Groveland Park elementaries and Marshall Junior High. She retired in 1973.
In her autobiography, she wrote: "It was at Marshall that I became interested in the problems of delinquency in the school, because in the first year at Marshall eight of the eighth-grade boys landed at the Red Wing Training School before Oct. 15." Red Wing was a juvenile detention center for boys. It was then that she applied for a Ford fellowship. And in the mid-1950s, under the fellowship, she spent a year traveling to other schools in the United States to see how they dealt with delinquency. When she returned to St. Paul, she coordinated activities in the district that would help alleviate the problem. Arbes also served on the President's Commission on Juvenile Delinquency.
Charles Hagen of Bloomington, former special education director for St. Paul, said Arbes also helped initiate programs for mentally retarded students. "She was widely known and widely respected in the district and throughout the state for being a leader in special education," Hagen said. He said Arbes was a "very practical person" with grass-roots experience. She was a "wonderful resource" for other teachers because she shared a lot of her knowledge, he said. "She was a teacher's teacher," he said.
After Arbes retired from the St. Paul School District she became principal of Christ the Child School for Exceptional Children in St. Paul.
Visitation will be held at 3 p.m. today at the Willwerscheid & Peters Mortuary, 1167 Grand Av., St. Paul. Services will follow.
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Sep 15, 1999: STAR TRIBUNE (excerpts), by Lucy Y. Her
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