Lucy Nulton

Nulton was born in Missouri, the daughter of John Nulton and Letha Ellen Jackson Nulton.{{Cite news |date=1963-03-09 |title=Mrs. Letha J. Nulton |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune-mrs-letha-j-nulton/143448042/ |access-date=2024-03-16 |work=The Tampa Tribune |pages=17 |via=Newspapers.com}} She graduated Peabody College in Tennessee in 1928,{{Cite news |date=1925-09-19 |title=News of Palmetto |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-bradenton-herald-news-of-palmetto/143448900/ |access-date=2024-03-16 |work=The Bradenton Herald |pages=13 |via=Newspapers.com}} and earned a master's degree from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1933.{{Cite news |date=1932-09-24 |title=Brooksville |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-times-brooksville/143449448/ |access-date=2024-03-16 |work=The Tampa Times |pages=6 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1933-06-24 |title=Brooksville |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-times-brooksville/143450051/ |access-date=2024-03-16 |work=The Tampa Times |pages=10 |via=Newspapers.com}}

Nulton was on the faculty at East Carolina Teachers College in the 1930sEast Carolina Teachers' College, [https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/15337 The Tecoan] (1932 yearbook): 29. and 1940s.{{Cite news |date=1935-10-26 |title=Teachers in Craven County Are Taking Special Course |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/news-and-record-teachers-in-craven-count/143443785/ |access-date=2024-03-16 |work=News and Record |pages=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1949-12-18 |title=E.C.T.C. Faculty Has Yule Party |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/news-and-record-ectc-faculty-has-yul/143444552/ |access-date=2024-03-16 |work=News and Record |pages=65 |via=Newspapers.com}} She was second vice-president of the North Carolina Association for Childhood Education.{{Cite news |date=1947-04-27 |title=Named President |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/news-and-record-named-president/143444911/ |access-date=2024-03-16 |work=News and Record |pages=24 |via=Newspapers.com}} In the 1950s and 1960s, she was a teacher and researcher at the P. K. Yonge Laboratory School at the University of Florida.{{Cite news |date=1955-08-17 |title=They Teach Teachers |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-orlando-sentinel-they-teach-teachers/143449741/ |access-date=2024-03-16 |work=The Orlando Sentinel |pages=23 |via=Newspapers.com}} She was first vice-president of the Alachua County Association for Childhood Education.{{Cite news |date=1954-05-04 |title=Education Group is Reorganized |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune-education-group-is-reo/143449898/ |access-date=2024-03-16 |work=The Tampa Tribune |pages=12 |via=Newspapers.com}} She was named Gainesville's Teacher of the Year in 1960.{{Cite news |date=1960-02-16 |title=Miss Nulton is Gainesville's Teacher of the Year |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune-miss-nulton-is-gainesv/143449164/ |access-date=2024-03-16 |work=The Tampa Tribune |pages=4 |via=Newspapers.com}}

Nulton also played violin, and was a member of the University of Florida Symphony Orchestra.[https://original-ufdc.uflib.ufl.edu/UF00006077/00001/28j "Interview with Edward C. Troupin, April 9, 1987"] George A. Smathers Library, University of Florida; page 27 in transcript. She took a particular interest in children's songs and rhymes, especially those used in jumping rope.{{Cite news |date=1948-05-16 |title=Children Create Own Folklore in Jump Rope Rhymes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-and-observer-children-create-ow/143447446/ |access-date=2024-03-16 |work=The News and Observer |pages=43 |via=Newspapers.com}}

Nulton was a "prolific" academic writer, and her research appeared in scholarly journals including Peabody Journal of Education, The North Carolina Teacher,{{Cite journal |last=Nulton |first=Lucy |date=January 1930 |title=Elementary Child's Play Educative If It Is Supervised |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ne4AH8um9J0C&dq=Lucy+Nulton&pg=RA1-PA172 |journal=The North Carolina Teacher |volume=6 |issue=5 |pages=172, 200}}{{Cite journal |last=Nulton |first=Lucy |author-link=Lucy Nulton |date=May 1930 |title=Churn, Butter, Churn: A Project from Live-at-Home Week |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ne4AH8um9J0C&dq=Lucy+Nulton&pg=RA1-PA362 |journal=The North Carolina Teacher |volume=6 |issue=9 |pages=362–363}} Childhood Education,{{Cite journal |last=Nulton |first=Lucy |author-link=Lucy Nulton |date=October 1962 |title=Environments Today That Invite Learning |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00094056.1962.10726983 |journal=Childhood Education |language=en |volume=39 |issue=2 |pages=57–60 |doi=10.1080/00094056.1962.10726983 |issn=0009-4056}} The High School Journal, Educational Leadership,{{Cite journal |last=Nulton |first=Lucy |author-link=Lucy Nulton |date=February 1954 |title=A Classroom for Living |url=https://files.ascd.org/staticfiles/ascd/pdf/journals/ed_lead/el_195402_nulton.pdf |journal=Educational Leadership |pages=291–295}} The Journal of American Folklore, and Elementary English.

• "Analyzing and criticizing student teaching in the early elementary grades" (1928){{Cite journal |last=Nulton |first=Lucy |date=July 1928 |title=Analyzing and criticizing student teaching in the early elementary grades |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01619562809534848 |journal=Peabody Journal of Education |language=en |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=15–23 |doi=10.1080/01619562809534848 |issn=0161-956X}}
• "Elementary Child's Play Educative If It Is Supervised" (1930)
• "'Churn, Butter, Churn': A Project from Live-at-Home Week" (1930)
• "Science interests and questions of a second grade" (1930){{Cite journal |last=Nulton |first=Lucy |author-link=Lucy Nulton |date=January 1930 |title=Science interests and questions of a second grade |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01619563009534929 |journal=Peabody Journal of Education |language=en |volume=7 |issue=4 |pages=224–230 |doi=10.1080/01619563009534929 |issn=0161-956X}}
• "A comparison of the science interests of two successive second grades" (1930){{Cite journal |last=Nulton |first=Lucy |author-link=Lucy Nulton |date=November 1930 |title=A comparison of the science interests of two successive second grades |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01619563009534994 |journal=Peabody Journal of Education |language=en |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=140–143 |doi=10.1080/01619563009534994 |issn=0161-956X}}
• "A Second Grade Experience with Blackboard Drawing" (1930){{Cite journal |last=Nulton |first=Lucy |author-link=Lucy Nulton |date=December 1930 |title=A Second Grade Experience with Blackboard Drawing |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00094056.1930.10723611 |journal=Childhood Education |language=en |volume=7 |issue=4 |pages=206–213 |doi=10.1080/00094056.1930.10723611 |issn=0009-4056}}
• "The Practice of Democracy in Our Public Schools" (1942){{Cite journal |last=Nulton |first=Lucy |author-link=Lucy Nulton |date=1942 |title=The Practice of Democracy in Our Public Schools |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40367585 |journal=The High School Journal |volume=25 |issue=7 |pages=291–296 |jstor=40367585 |issn=0018-1498}}
• "Jump Rope Rhymes as Folk Literature" (1948){{Cite journal |last=Nulton |first=Lucy |author-link=Lucy Nulton |date=1948 |title=Jump Rope Rhymes as Folk Literature |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/536973 |journal=The Journal of American Folklore |volume=61 |issue=239 |pages=53–67 |doi=10.2307/536973 |jstor=536973 |issn=0021-8715}}{{Cite news |date=1948-05-16 |title=College Teacher Gets Article in Magazine |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/news-and-record-college-teacher-gets-art/143443698/ |access-date=2024-03-16 |work=News and Record |pages=48 |via=Newspapers.com}}
• "What should I do about him?: That Silent One" (1952){{Cite journal |last=Nulton |first=Lucy |author-link=Lucy Nulton |date=December 1952 |title=What should I do about him?: That Silent One |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00094056.1952.10724972 |journal=Childhood Education |language=en |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=168–170 |doi=10.1080/00094056.1952.10724972 |issn=0009-4056}}
• "Adult-Made Time: In which the Child Must Learn to Live" (1953){{Cite journal |last=Nulton |first=Lucy |author-link=Lucy Nulton |date=December 1953 |title=Adult-Made Time: In which the Child Must Learn to Live |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00094056.1953.10726435 |journal=Childhood Education |language=en |volume=30 |issue=4 |pages=160–163 |doi=10.1080/00094056.1953.10726435 |issn=0009-4056}}
• "Eight-Year-Olds Tangled in Charlotte's Web" (1954){{Cite journal |last=Nulton |first=Lucy |author-link=Lucy Nulton |date=1954 |title=Eight-Year-Olds Tangled in "Charlotte's Web" |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41384150 |journal=Elementary English |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=11–16 |jstor=41384150 |issn=0013-5968}}
• "A Classroom for Living" (1954)
• "Continuing Curiosity Develops Concepts" (1954){{Cite journal |last=Nulton |first=Lucy |author-link=Lucy Nulton |date=December 1954 |title=Continuing Curiosity Develops Concepts |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00094056.1954.10726568 |journal=Childhood Education |language=en |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=179–182 |doi=10.1080/00094056.1954.10726568 |issn=0009-4056}}
• "From Manuscript to Cursive--How" (1957){{Cite journal |last=Nulton |first=Lucy |date=1957 |title=From Manuscript to Cursive--How |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41384672 |journal=Elementary English |volume=34 |issue=8 |pages=553–556 |jstor=41384672 |issn=0013-5968}}
• "A Loosened Spirit" (1957){{Cite journal |last=Nulton |first=Lucy |date=October 1957 |title=A Loosened Spirit |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00094056.1957.10728755 |journal=Childhood Education |language=en |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=63–68 |doi=10.1080/00094056.1957.10728755 |issn=0009-4056}}
• "Listen! the Children!" (1961, with Lena Rexinger){{Cite journal |last1=Nulton |first1=Lucy |last2=Rexinger |first2=Lena |date=January 1961 |title=Listen! the Children! |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00094056.1961.10727882 |journal=Childhood Education |language=en |volume=37 |issue=5 |pages=216–220 |doi=10.1080/00094056.1961.10727882 |issn=0009-4056}}
• "Environments Today that Invite Learning" (1962)
• "'… but the Children Just Love it!'" (1965){{Cite journal |last=Nulton |first=Lucy |date=May 1965 |title="… but the Children Just Love it!" |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00094056.1965.10729017 |journal=Childhood Education |language=en |volume=41 |issue=9 |pages=469–471 |doi=10.1080/00094056.1965.10729017 |issn=0009-4056}}

Nulton died in 2000, at the age of 97, in Tallahassee, Florida.

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