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Introduction and ContentPersonal Growth Leaflets first appeared in the Journal of the National Education Association as commencement messages for
young people. Demand increased and the leaflets became widely disbursed. Hugh Taylor, who had know Horace Mann as a child,
was so impressed with the leaflets that he gave a revolving fund in 1936 to allow for mass production and distribution of
the leaflets.
The leaflets fit well with the self-education and self-growth mentality of the early 20th century. The titles covered a wide
variety of subject from health to religion in the classroom to the role of teachers and instruction.
The Personal Growth Leaflet Collection in the Browne Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University has only 77
titles, but there were over 200 originally published. The Personal Growth Leaflet Collection is organized by leaflet number,
with both the title and author listed.
Personal Growth Leaflets
| Number |
Title |
Author |
| 1 |
Your Life in the Making |
Morgan, Joy E. |
| 2 |
Your Mind in the Making |
Morgan, Joy E. |
| 3 |
Your Health in the Making |
Morgan, Joy E. |
| 4 |
Your Home in the Making |
Morgan, Joy E. |
| 6 |
Your Citizenship in the Making |
Morgan, Joy E. |
| 7 |
Your Personality in the Making |
Morgan, Joy E. |
| 9 |
The Planning of Your Life |
Morgan, Joy E. |
| 11 |
The Tenth Generation |
Stillwell Edwards, Harry |
| 20 |
The Growing Teacher |
Sandison Fenner, Mildred |
| 21 |
A Golden Treasury of Beauty and Wisdom |
Morgan, Joy E. |
| 23 |
A Golden Treasury on the Art of Living |
Morgan, Joy E. |
| 25 |
Selections from George Washington |
Hart, Laurance H. |
| 26 |
Selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Morgan, Joy E. |
| 27 |
Selections from Abraham Lincoln |
Morgan, Joy E. |
| 28 |
Selections from Horace Mann |
Morgan, Joy E. |
| 30 |
The Significance of Friendship |
Farris, J.D. |
| 31 |
Shall I go to College? |
Morgan, Joy E. |
| 32 |
Shall I Attend a Junior College? |
Mason, Edward F. |
| 35 |
How to Study |
Clifford, Charles W. |
| 36 |
How to Use Personal Growth Leaflets |
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| 41 |
Learning to be a Leader |
Morgan, Joy E. |
| 42 |
Franklin’s Plan of Self-Improvement |
Morgan, Joy E. |
| 43 |
Franklin’s Personal Growth Record Book |
Morgan, Joy E. |
| 44 |
Tyranny of Bad Habits |
Morgan, Joy E. |
| 45 |
A Parliamentary Primer |
Gregg, F.M. |
| 58 |
Strengthening the Foundations of Freedom |
Samuelson, Agnes |
| 60 |
Our Faith in Education |
Ashby, Lyle W. |
| 61 |
Horace Mann’s Letter to Young Americans |
Morgan, Joy E. |
| 62 |
The Code of the Good American |
Morgan, Joy E. |
| 63 |
The United States Flag Code |
Hughes, Charles, Evan |
| 68 |
Education-the Mainstay of Business |
Sutton, Willis |
| 80 |
The Community |
Morgan, Arthur |
| 85 |
Frances E. Willard Educator |
Sandison Fenner, Mildred and Fishburn, Eleanor |
| 86 |
Booker T. Washington and Tuskegee Institute |
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| 90 |
Horace Mann-Father of the American System of Free Public Schools |
Sandison Fenner, Mildred and Fishburn, Eleanor |
| 91 |
Seven Adventures in Pioneering |
Overstreet, Harry |
| 92 |
True Americanism |
Brandeis, Louis |
| 99 |
Student Self-Government |
Welling, Richard |
| 101 |
Have You had your Vitamins? |
Holmes, Harry |
| 102 |
Our Common Diseases |
Parran, Thomas |
| 103 |
Shall I Become a Smoker |
Steinhaus, Arthur |
| 104 |
Shall I Become a Drinker |
David, Bert |
| 105 |
Nicotine Knockout |
Tunney, Gene |
| 106 |
Colds Aren’t Trivial |
Armstrong, Donald |
| 108 |
Legal Liability of Teacher and School |
Chambers, M.M. |
| 109 |
Essentials of Mental Health |
Burnham, William |
| 110 |
Tuberculosis |
Lyght, Charles |
| 112 |
Teaching Economics to Children |
Morgan, Joy E. |
| 115 |
What the High Schools ought to Teach |
Special Committee for the Secondary School Curriculum |
| 119 |
The Teaching of Reading |
Little, Ruth Coyner |
| 123 |
The Man Who Taught Me Most |
Carrothers, George |
| 126 |
A Message to Garcia |
Hubbard, Elbert |
| 129 |
Do You Want to be Happy and Free |
Johnson, Willard |
| 130 |
Prejudice-How do we recognize it? |
Johnson, Willard |
| 145 |
In Praise of Teaching |
Ten Hoor, Marten |
| 150 |
The Place of Religon in Education |
Marsh, Daniel |
| 151 |
The World We Fought For |
Chase, Stuart |
| 152 |
Paths to Tomorrow |
Chase, Stuart |
| 153 |
An American Program of Plenty |
Chase, Stuart |
| 154 |
Financing Post War Prosperity |
Chase, Stuart |
| 157 |
Pressure Groups in Our Democracy |
Chase, Stuart |
| 158 |
Foreign Trade Means You |
Chase, Stuart |
| 159 |
World Citizenship |
Davenport, Russell, and Tchou, M. Thomas |
| 160 |
A Century of Consumer Cooperation |
McLanahan, C.J. |
| 161 |
Our Profession Glorious |
Morgan, Joy E. |
| 170 |
Future Teachers: Ideals and Purpose |
Morgan, Joy E. |
| 171 |
Motive-Centered Education |
Saxe Tuttle, Harold |
| 178 |
The Parent’s Part in Education |
Bruntz, George |
| 181 |
The First Five Tears of Life |
Gesell, Arnold |
| 190 |
Religion and the Public School |
Edmonson, J.B. |
| 202 |
One Hundred Significant Books |
Good Reading |
| 205 |
American Life in Biography |
Horn, Gunnar |
| 206 |
American History in Fiction |
Horn, Gunnar |
| 233 |
Fiction for Junior High School Students |
National Council for Teachers of English |
| 237 |
Fiction for High School Students |
National Council for Teachers of English |
Contents by Deirdre Rogers and Bob Hamburger
June 2003
Revised S. Jennings March 2005
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