Bio: Mary M. Dingle, Caddo Parish La
Source: From Chronicles of Shreveport and Caddo Parish, Maude Hearn O'Pry,
1928, 
Submitted by: Kay Thompson Brown

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                      MARY M. DINGLE
    ONE of our most conscientious teachers, Mary M. Dingle, was born in
Palmyra, Missouri, the second daughter of Marcus and Eliza Dingle.  She is a
teacher who has continued her education, thereby has progressed with and is
oftimes ahead of the times, but never has fallen into a rut.  She is as alert
in watching after her school as she could have been with her first, which she
taught in 1892. From this time she taught consecutively until 1926, with the
exception of one term, 1907-8, when she taught the night business school for
the Ladies Missionary Society of the First Methodist Church. In this she
taught a large number of aliens to read and spell English, also young men and
boys engaged in business. One session she taught in Grand Cane and then
resumed  teaching in the schools of Shreveport, becoming the principal of
Alexander School in 1914.  At the  present she is Principal Superior. Miss
Dingle has been a wonderful inspiration to her pupils and her teachers. No
cause ever came up that she did not give the matter just attention and
somehow, she seems to have steered clear of having favorites, a fault of so
many teachers. Miss Dingle has seen the system  grow from the first school
cabin at McCleary school on Cane street, then she was found on Texas         
avenue, then in the old demolished building and finally found herself in a
beautiful new building which she has considered a sacred duty to keep as she
found it. It is marvelous how well she has done it

     Miss Dingle gave a series of lectures on Child Development to the Parent
Teachers Circle of Alexander School for two years. She is a member of N. E. A.
and Louisiana Teachers Association and National Association of
Principals' Department Club.

     She is a member of the First Baptist Church.

     Her motto:     "To serve my fellow wan with the best that is
within me-to use such talens as I may have for good of all.  Self has not
counted for much-just service."