A first-grade class photograph, mounted on cardboard, showing 33 young children and their teacher, "Miss Morgan," posing outdoors in front of a tree. One of the girls is identified as Elizabeth Plimpton. Most of the children are named on the back of the photo, which is also inscribed, "First Grade / Elizabeth Wright Plimpton" in a child's handwriting. 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.
