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Ethel Nestell Fortner (11 February 1907 – 16 April 1987) was an accomplished poet, critic and editor. She was born in Aspen, Colorado, the second child of Sam and Ida Nestell. She had five siblings. During her childhood, she lived in or near small coal mining towns.〔 ==Career== At Columbia University in New York, Fortner earned a Master of Arts degree,〔 which qualified her to receive a provisional teacher's certificate. Her first use of it was, at the age of 19, teaching in a log cabin style one-room schoolhouse, a position she held for two years. She then attended Western State College in Gunnison for a year (1927–1928), earning her a lifetime teaching certification for the state of Colorado, which she used to work instructing in a mining camp.〔 However, she was ready for something different. So in 1931 she moved to Oregon, accepting a position in Salem teaching at the historic Oregon School for the Blind. Here she would teach and become principal during her 12-year stay. She would also become married to Laurence Wilbur Fortner (1912–1982),〔 a fellow teacher, and receive a BA in psychology from the University of Oregon, both in 1937.〔 Her next position, lasting until some time after WWII, was as Vision Supervisor in the Oregon State Department of Education. She left this to join her husband (who was then working for the Veteran's Administration) for a year in Seattle.〔 The Fortners moved to a farm close to Estacada, Oregon; Ethel began teaching and administrating again for thirteen more years before retiring.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ethel Fortner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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