Dr. Madeline Lannin, '26
"I'm not going to sit back. If I'm capable beyond 70, why shouldn't I teach? Many children are not ready for Kindergarten and fall quickly behind. I can help them prepare. They're great at that age. Children are my life."
Madeline began as a commuter student in the two-year Kindergarten program at the Lesley School in 1924. Upon graduation, Miss Lannin helped establish a pre-school program for 65 children in Rockland, under a New Deal Program. She received a master's degree in education from Bridgewater State College, a certificate of advanced graduate study from Boston University, and when she was fifty, she began working on a doctorate, which she eventually received from Calvin Coolidge College.
Over the years Dr. Lannin taught first-grade, remedial reading, and special education, for 27 years in Weymouth and 23 years in Rockland. At other points in her varied career, Dr. Lannin was an instructor in an intensive teacher-training program, a teaching supervisor, and a principal of a two-room schoolhouse in Rockland. After her retirement from Rockland, Dr. Lannin opened Work and Play, a pre-Kindergarten day care center, in her own wood-framed black-shuttered home where she was born.
This profile was compiled from previously published sources: The Current, Fall 1976, p. 18.
Dr. Madeline Lannin, '26Madeline Lannin and her young students at Work and Play, a pre-Kindergarten day care center founded by Lannin after her mandatory retirement at age 70 from Rockland Public Schools, The Current, Fall 1976 p. 18.