A kindergarten class photo showing about 50 young children standing in a circle outdoors with four women wearing hats. Back of photo is inscribed, "Elizabeth Plimpton / Kindergarten Rice School / 1912-1913 / Newton Center Playground." One child is identified as "Eliz. P." Elizabeth Plimpton was born in Newton and grew up at 11 Oxford Road, Newton Centre. She was a Girl Scout Golden Eaglet and a state champion bugler in 1924 and 1925. She graduated from Newton High School and Radcliffe College (Class of 1929), earned a master's degree in physical education from Wellesley College (1931), and worked as a physical education teacher at Alice Deal Junior High School in Washington, D.C.1931-1967. During WWII (the summers of 1942-1945), she volunteered in Maine to help farmers tend and harvest their crops. She helped to found, and played for, the Washington, D.C., Field Hockey Association, and she played field hockey until old age.
