Robina arrived in the United States on Sep. 21, 1896, abourd the ship Furnessia, which docked in New York, NY. She lived with her mother in Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa, where she became a naturalized US citizen on June 4, 1924.
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Traer Star Clipper, Friday, March 1st, 1963 – page 7
The body of Robina Wilson, 94, one of the oldest members of the Wilson clan, who died at Hallmar Home in Cedar Rapids Thursday evening, February 21, was returned to Traer for burial in Buckingham cemetery last Saturday. Dr. John P. Woods, who conducted funeral services in the Turner chapel in Cedar Rapids Saturday morning, accompanied the body to Traer. Also driving here for the interment were Mary and Belle Campbell, former teachers, and Mr. and Mrs. Clifford C. Lyon, all of Cedar Rapids.
Miss Wilson was a half-sister of the late Mrs. John (Grace) McCosh of Traer. Their mother was the late Mrs. Grace Wilson, a sister of the late John Wilson, the Tama county pioneer from whom the family here was descended. Mrs. Grace Wilson's husband was from a different Wilson family. The only remaining member of this family now, since the death of Robina Wilson, is her nephew, James McCracken, who lives at the Traer Hotel. Robina Wilson was born June 23, 1868, at Ayr, Scotland. She had lived in Cedar Rapids for 80 years, teaching school there for 50 years. She never married. She was a member of the Westminster Presbyterian church and the Retired Teachers club. Her death prompted the following editorial in Monday's edition of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, entitled "Can Future Teachers Serve As Long.?"
"It would be interesting to know how many people still living in Cedar Rapids owe something directly to the character and devoted work of Robina Wilson who died last week at 94. Prior to her retirement she taught school in Cedar Rapids for half a century — at old Jefferson, at Polk, and at Franklin junior high — and hundreds of former students cherish memories of her.
"One wonders, too, how many of the young men and women who are beginning teaching careers these days will find it possible to remain active in the profession for as long as 50 years. If the recent rate of acceleration in the accumulation of knowledge continues, surely we shall reach a point before long when people in the professions — teachers, doctors and the like — will be unable to keep up with the new and different. Maybe we've reached that point already.
"At any rate, the long and useful service of a teacher like Robina Wilson serves to high light another looming challenge of the future — how to equip minds to give adequate service throughout a long life time in the face of a mounting volume of knowledge and rapidly increasing obsolescence of working theories. Perhaps the new electronic data processing tools that so amaze us with their performance have come along none to soon."
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Traer Star Clipper, Friday, March 1st, 1963 – page 7
The body of Robina Wilson, 94, one of the oldest members of the Wilson clan, who died at Hallmar Home in Cedar Rapids Thursday evening, February 21, was returned to Traer for burial in Buckingham cemetery last Saturday. Dr. John P. Woods, who conducted funeral services in the Turner chapel in Cedar Rapids Saturday morning, accompanied the body to Traer. Also driving here for the interment were Mary and Belle Campbell, former teachers, and Mr. and Mrs. Clifford C. Lyon, all of Cedar Rapids.
Miss Wilson was a half-sister of the late Mrs. John (Grace) McCosh of Traer. Their mother was the late Mrs. Grace Wilson, a sister of the late John Wilson, the Tama county pioneer from whom the family here was descended. Mrs. Grace Wilson's husband was from a different Wilson family. The only remaining member of this family now, since the death of Robina Wilson, is her nephew, James McCracken, who lives at the Traer Hotel. Robina Wilson was born June 23, 1868, at Ayr, Scotland. She had lived in Cedar Rapids for 80 years, teaching school there for 50 years. She never married. She was a member of the Westminster Presbyterian church and the Retired Teachers club. Her death prompted the following editorial in Monday's edition of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, entitled "Can Future Teachers Serve As Long.?"
"It would be interesting to know how many people still living in Cedar Rapids owe something directly to the character and devoted work of Robina Wilson who died last week at 94. Prior to her retirement she taught school in Cedar Rapids for half a century — at old Jefferson, at Polk, and at Franklin junior high — and hundreds of former students cherish memories of her.
"One wonders, too, how many of the young men and women who are beginning teaching careers these days will find it possible to remain active in the profession for as long as 50 years. If the recent rate of acceleration in the accumulation of knowledge continues, surely we shall reach a point before long when people in the professions — teachers, doctors and the like — will be unable to keep up with the new and different. Maybe we've reached that point already.
"At any rate, the long and useful service of a teacher like Robina Wilson serves to high light another looming challenge of the future — how to equip minds to give adequate service throughout a long life time in the face of a mounting volume of knowledge and rapidly increasing obsolescence of working theories. Perhaps the new electronic data processing tools that so amaze us with their performance have come along none to soon."
Robina arrived in the United States on Sep. 21, 1896, abourd the ship Furnessia, which docked in New York, NY. She lived with her mother in Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa, where she became a naturalized US citizen on June 4, 1924.
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Traer Star Clipper, Friday, March 1st, 1963 – page 7
The body of Robina Wilson, 94, one of the oldest members of the Wilson clan, who died at Hallmar Home in Cedar Rapids Thursday evening, February 21, was returned to Traer for burial in Buckingham cemetery last Saturday. Dr. John P. Woods, who conducted funeral services in the Turner chapel in Cedar Rapids Saturday morning, accompanied the body to Traer. Also driving here for the interment were Mary and Belle Campbell, former teachers, and Mr. and Mrs. Clifford C. Lyon, all of Cedar Rapids.
Miss Wilson was a half-sister of the late Mrs. John (Grace) McCosh of Traer. Their mother was the late Mrs. Grace Wilson, a sister of the late John Wilson, the Tama county pioneer from whom the family here was descended. Mrs. Grace Wilson's husband was from a different Wilson family. The only remaining member of this family now, since the death of Robina Wilson, is her nephew, James McCracken, who lives at the Traer Hotel. Robina Wilson was born June 23, 1868, at Ayr, Scotland. She had lived in Cedar Rapids for 80 years, teaching school there for 50 years. She never married. She was a member of the Westminster Presbyterian church and the Retired Teachers club. Her death prompted the following editorial in Monday's edition of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, entitled "Can Future Teachers Serve As Long.?"
"It would be interesting to know how many people still living in Cedar Rapids owe something directly to the character and devoted work of Robina Wilson who died last week at 94. Prior to her retirement she taught school in Cedar Rapids for half a century — at old Jefferson, at Polk, and at Franklin junior high — and hundreds of former students cherish memories of her.
"One wonders, too, how many of the young men and women who are beginning teaching careers these days will find it possible to remain active in the profession for as long as 50 years. If the recent rate of acceleration in the accumulation of knowledge continues, surely we shall reach a point before long when people in the professions — teachers, doctors and the like — will be unable to keep up with the new and different. Maybe we've reached that point already.
"At any rate, the long and useful service of a teacher like Robina Wilson serves to high light another looming challenge of the future — how to equip minds to give adequate service throughout a long life time in the face of a mounting volume of knowledge and rapidly increasing obsolescence of working theories. Perhaps the new electronic data processing tools that so amaze us with their performance have come along none to soon."
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Traer Star Clipper, Friday, March 1st, 1963 – page 7
The body of Robina Wilson, 94, one of the oldest members of the Wilson clan, who died at Hallmar Home in Cedar Rapids Thursday evening, February 21, was returned to Traer for burial in Buckingham cemetery last Saturday. Dr. John P. Woods, who conducted funeral services in the Turner chapel in Cedar Rapids Saturday morning, accompanied the body to Traer. Also driving here for the interment were Mary and Belle Campbell, former teachers, and Mr. and Mrs. Clifford C. Lyon, all of Cedar Rapids.
Miss Wilson was a half-sister of the late Mrs. John (Grace) McCosh of Traer. Their mother was the late Mrs. Grace Wilson, a sister of the late John Wilson, the Tama county pioneer from whom the family here was descended. Mrs. Grace Wilson's husband was from a different Wilson family. The only remaining member of this family now, since the death of Robina Wilson, is her nephew, James McCracken, who lives at the Traer Hotel. Robina Wilson was born June 23, 1868, at Ayr, Scotland. She had lived in Cedar Rapids for 80 years, teaching school there for 50 years. She never married. She was a member of the Westminster Presbyterian church and the Retired Teachers club. Her death prompted the following editorial in Monday's edition of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, entitled "Can Future Teachers Serve As Long.?"
"It would be interesting to know how many people still living in Cedar Rapids owe something directly to the character and devoted work of Robina Wilson who died last week at 94. Prior to her retirement she taught school in Cedar Rapids for half a century — at old Jefferson, at Polk, and at Franklin junior high — and hundreds of former students cherish memories of her.
"One wonders, too, how many of the young men and women who are beginning teaching careers these days will find it possible to remain active in the profession for as long as 50 years. If the recent rate of acceleration in the accumulation of knowledge continues, surely we shall reach a point before long when people in the professions — teachers, doctors and the like — will be unable to keep up with the new and different. Maybe we've reached that point already.
"At any rate, the long and useful service of a teacher like Robina Wilson serves to high light another looming challenge of the future — how to equip minds to give adequate service throughout a long life time in the face of a mounting volume of knowledge and rapidly increasing obsolescence of working theories. Perhaps the new electronic data processing tools that so amaze us with their performance have come along none to soon."
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