Laura Clarice Knight and her mother Laura Troy Knight were the first mother-daughter duo ever to receive simultaneous Masters' Degrees from the University of Cincinnati. Laura C. Knight became a teacher at the Jackson School. She married pharmacist Darwin R. Turner and was the mother of prominent scholar Darwin T. Turner.
Her obituary, in the Cincinnati Enquirer for 28 Sept. 1996, p. 11, says in part, "Laura Clarice Knight Turner, a retired teacher, died of natural causes Thursday at Jewish hospital. She was 89. "I was proud of my sister. She was a brilliant woman," said her sister, Mamie Faulkner of Price Hill. Mrs. Turner, of Price Hill, was a teacher at the former Harriet Beecher Stowe School."
Here is her biography from "Women of Ohio."
"LAURA CLARICE KNIGHT TURNER, teacher at Jackson School, Cincinnati, oldest child of James and Laura Knight was born in that city April 8, 1907. She entered kindergarten at the age of four and became a member of the rapidly moving class of Lafayette Bloom School on completing the
sixth grade.
"Pupils of the class were given the Binet Simon Intelligence Test to determine their eligibility. This test revealed that Laura possessed the intelligence of a very superior child. She excelled in language and logic, and succeeded in passing a fourth year high school or first year college test in language.
"The English teacher at Bloom School recognized Laura's writing ability and made her assistant editor of the Bloom School Journal.
"Laura graduated from Woodward High School at the age of fifteen, Cincinnati's youngest high school graduate of the year. She completed the course for the A. B. degree in three years and graduated from the University of Cincinnati, at the age of eighteen, again the youngest graduate. The following June, when she was nineteen she received the Master of Arts degree in English, at twenty the Bachelor of Education degree and at twenty-one Masted of Arts in Education.
"Laura Clarice Knight became a teacher in Jackson School, Cincinnati, Ohio, under her mother, at the age of nineteen. The following June she married Dr. Darwin Turner, chemist and druggist, a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, and son of the late Dr. Charles Henry Turner, who received both the A. B. and A. M. degrees from the University of Cincinnati, Doctor of Philosophy from Chicago University, and became an eminent biologist. In 1931 she became the mother of a son, Darwin Theodore Turner.
"Mrs. Turner has traveled extensively in Europe, Asia and northern Africa with her mother and son. She has a collection of moving pictures which she took in the countries visited and which have added to the interest of her lectures. She has studied at Oxford University, Oxford, England and at King's College, London. She won two national prizes for travel articles and in nineteen hundred and thirty five received the first prize of two hundred and fifty dollars from the Current Events Magazines for her essay, "Why I am Teaching Current Events". The judges wrote that they considered the essay "a masterpiece of concise statement and broad viewpoint."
"Mrs. Turner is active in community enterprises and a member of many civic, social and educational organizations. She is a member of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, American Association of University Women, Southwestern Teacher's Association and International Club, London, England.
"Of her son, Darwin, seven years old, in the seventh grade, and possessed of an intelligence quotient of over one hundred and seventy, Dr. Bills, head of the psychology department of the University of Cincinnati wrote, "Intellectually, Darwin ranks one in a million. In all my experience I have never seen so gifted a child." "
Her obituary, in the Cincinnati Enquirer for 28 Sept. 1996, p. 11, says in part, "Laura Clarice Knight Turner, a retired teacher, died of natural causes Thursday at Jewish hospital. She was 89. "I was proud of my sister. She was a brilliant woman," said her sister, Mamie Faulkner of Price Hill. Mrs. Turner, of Price Hill, was a teacher at the former Harriet Beecher Stowe School."
Here is her biography from "Women of Ohio."
"LAURA CLARICE KNIGHT TURNER, teacher at Jackson School, Cincinnati, oldest child of James and Laura Knight was born in that city April 8, 1907. She entered kindergarten at the age of four and became a member of the rapidly moving class of Lafayette Bloom School on completing the
sixth grade.
"Pupils of the class were given the Binet Simon Intelligence Test to determine their eligibility. This test revealed that Laura possessed the intelligence of a very superior child. She excelled in language and logic, and succeeded in passing a fourth year high school or first year college test in language.
"The English teacher at Bloom School recognized Laura's writing ability and made her assistant editor of the Bloom School Journal.
"Laura graduated from Woodward High School at the age of fifteen, Cincinnati's youngest high school graduate of the year. She completed the course for the A. B. degree in three years and graduated from the University of Cincinnati, at the age of eighteen, again the youngest graduate. The following June, when she was nineteen she received the Master of Arts degree in English, at twenty the Bachelor of Education degree and at twenty-one Masted of Arts in Education.
"Laura Clarice Knight became a teacher in Jackson School, Cincinnati, Ohio, under her mother, at the age of nineteen. The following June she married Dr. Darwin Turner, chemist and druggist, a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, and son of the late Dr. Charles Henry Turner, who received both the A. B. and A. M. degrees from the University of Cincinnati, Doctor of Philosophy from Chicago University, and became an eminent biologist. In 1931 she became the mother of a son, Darwin Theodore Turner.
"Mrs. Turner has traveled extensively in Europe, Asia and northern Africa with her mother and son. She has a collection of moving pictures which she took in the countries visited and which have added to the interest of her lectures. She has studied at Oxford University, Oxford, England and at King's College, London. She won two national prizes for travel articles and in nineteen hundred and thirty five received the first prize of two hundred and fifty dollars from the Current Events Magazines for her essay, "Why I am Teaching Current Events". The judges wrote that they considered the essay "a masterpiece of concise statement and broad viewpoint."
"Mrs. Turner is active in community enterprises and a member of many civic, social and educational organizations. She is a member of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, American Association of University Women, Southwestern Teacher's Association and International Club, London, England.
"Of her son, Darwin, seven years old, in the seventh grade, and possessed of an intelligence quotient of over one hundred and seventy, Dr. Bills, head of the psychology department of the University of Cincinnati wrote, "Intellectually, Darwin ranks one in a million. In all my experience I have never seen so gifted a child." "
Laura Clarice Knight and her mother Laura Troy Knight were the first mother-daughter duo ever to receive simultaneous Masters' Degrees from the University of Cincinnati. Laura C. Knight became a teacher at the Jackson School. She married pharmacist Darwin R. Turner and was the mother of prominent scholar Darwin T. Turner.
Her obituary, in the Cincinnati Enquirer for 28 Sept. 1996, p. 11, says in part, "Laura Clarice Knight Turner, a retired teacher, died of natural causes Thursday at Jewish hospital. She was 89. "I was proud of my sister. She was a brilliant woman," said her sister, Mamie Faulkner of Price Hill. Mrs. Turner, of Price Hill, was a teacher at the former Harriet Beecher Stowe School."
Here is her biography from "Women of Ohio."
"LAURA CLARICE KNIGHT TURNER, teacher at Jackson School, Cincinnati, oldest child of James and Laura Knight was born in that city April 8, 1907. She entered kindergarten at the age of four and became a member of the rapidly moving class of Lafayette Bloom School on completing the
sixth grade.
"Pupils of the class were given the Binet Simon Intelligence Test to determine their eligibility. This test revealed that Laura possessed the intelligence of a very superior child. She excelled in language and logic, and succeeded in passing a fourth year high school or first year college test in language.
"The English teacher at Bloom School recognized Laura's writing ability and made her assistant editor of the Bloom School Journal.
"Laura graduated from Woodward High School at the age of fifteen, Cincinnati's youngest high school graduate of the year. She completed the course for the A. B. degree in three years and graduated from the University of Cincinnati, at the age of eighteen, again the youngest graduate. The following June, when she was nineteen she received the Master of Arts degree in English, at twenty the Bachelor of Education degree and at twenty-one Masted of Arts in Education.
"Laura Clarice Knight became a teacher in Jackson School, Cincinnati, Ohio, under her mother, at the age of nineteen. The following June she married Dr. Darwin Turner, chemist and druggist, a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, and son of the late Dr. Charles Henry Turner, who received both the A. B. and A. M. degrees from the University of Cincinnati, Doctor of Philosophy from Chicago University, and became an eminent biologist. In 1931 she became the mother of a son, Darwin Theodore Turner.
"Mrs. Turner has traveled extensively in Europe, Asia and northern Africa with her mother and son. She has a collection of moving pictures which she took in the countries visited and which have added to the interest of her lectures. She has studied at Oxford University, Oxford, England and at King's College, London. She won two national prizes for travel articles and in nineteen hundred and thirty five received the first prize of two hundred and fifty dollars from the Current Events Magazines for her essay, "Why I am Teaching Current Events". The judges wrote that they considered the essay "a masterpiece of concise statement and broad viewpoint."
"Mrs. Turner is active in community enterprises and a member of many civic, social and educational organizations. She is a member of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, American Association of University Women, Southwestern Teacher's Association and International Club, London, England.
"Of her son, Darwin, seven years old, in the seventh grade, and possessed of an intelligence quotient of over one hundred and seventy, Dr. Bills, head of the psychology department of the University of Cincinnati wrote, "Intellectually, Darwin ranks one in a million. In all my experience I have never seen so gifted a child." "
Her obituary, in the Cincinnati Enquirer for 28 Sept. 1996, p. 11, says in part, "Laura Clarice Knight Turner, a retired teacher, died of natural causes Thursday at Jewish hospital. She was 89. "I was proud of my sister. She was a brilliant woman," said her sister, Mamie Faulkner of Price Hill. Mrs. Turner, of Price Hill, was a teacher at the former Harriet Beecher Stowe School."
Here is her biography from "Women of Ohio."
"LAURA CLARICE KNIGHT TURNER, teacher at Jackson School, Cincinnati, oldest child of James and Laura Knight was born in that city April 8, 1907. She entered kindergarten at the age of four and became a member of the rapidly moving class of Lafayette Bloom School on completing the
sixth grade.
"Pupils of the class were given the Binet Simon Intelligence Test to determine their eligibility. This test revealed that Laura possessed the intelligence of a very superior child. She excelled in language and logic, and succeeded in passing a fourth year high school or first year college test in language.
"The English teacher at Bloom School recognized Laura's writing ability and made her assistant editor of the Bloom School Journal.
"Laura graduated from Woodward High School at the age of fifteen, Cincinnati's youngest high school graduate of the year. She completed the course for the A. B. degree in three years and graduated from the University of Cincinnati, at the age of eighteen, again the youngest graduate. The following June, when she was nineteen she received the Master of Arts degree in English, at twenty the Bachelor of Education degree and at twenty-one Masted of Arts in Education.
"Laura Clarice Knight became a teacher in Jackson School, Cincinnati, Ohio, under her mother, at the age of nineteen. The following June she married Dr. Darwin Turner, chemist and druggist, a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, and son of the late Dr. Charles Henry Turner, who received both the A. B. and A. M. degrees from the University of Cincinnati, Doctor of Philosophy from Chicago University, and became an eminent biologist. In 1931 she became the mother of a son, Darwin Theodore Turner.
"Mrs. Turner has traveled extensively in Europe, Asia and northern Africa with her mother and son. She has a collection of moving pictures which she took in the countries visited and which have added to the interest of her lectures. She has studied at Oxford University, Oxford, England and at King's College, London. She won two national prizes for travel articles and in nineteen hundred and thirty five received the first prize of two hundred and fifty dollars from the Current Events Magazines for her essay, "Why I am Teaching Current Events". The judges wrote that they considered the essay "a masterpiece of concise statement and broad viewpoint."
"Mrs. Turner is active in community enterprises and a member of many civic, social and educational organizations. She is a member of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, American Association of University Women, Southwestern Teacher's Association and International Club, London, England.
"Of her son, Darwin, seven years old, in the seventh grade, and possessed of an intelligence quotient of over one hundred and seventy, Dr. Bills, head of the psychology department of the University of Cincinnati wrote, "Intellectually, Darwin ranks one in a million. In all my experience I have never seen so gifted a child." "
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