Entity | Elizabeth T. Girling
Elizabeth "Betty" Thomas Girling was born in 1917 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. She earned her B.A. in 1940, B.S. in 1947 and her M.S. in education in 1948, all from the University of Minnesota. Girling joined the staff of the University of Minnesota's KUOM radio station in 1940 as an administrative fellow. She became program director in 1941 and was appointed as director of the Minnesota School of the Air in 1946. The Minnesota School for the Air broadcasted educational programs to school children in the Minneapolis area. Betty T. Girling died on January 10, 1979.
From the guide to the Betty T. Girling papers, 1945-1978, (University of Minnesota Libraries. University Archives [uarc])Born: 1917
Died: 1979
Alternate Names: Girling, Elizabeth Thomas, 1917-1979
Occupation(s): broadcasting executive
Field(s) of Work: broadcasting
Employer(s): University of Minnesota
Appears in:
University of Minnesota (WLB/KUOM) 147
Getting to Know Yourself 135
- Are Your Feelings Born With You or do You Learn Feelings Like You Learn to Walk and Talk?
- Babies Change So Fast and in So Many Ways
- Can Anything Be Done to Stop a Mother Who Protects You So Much You Feel Suffocated?
- Can Kids Do Anything to help So There Won't be a Divorce?
- Can Someone Fourteen Be An Alcoholic?
- Can Thinking About Death Before it Happens Help You When it Does?
- Can You Have More Than One Best Friend?
- Can You Tell When Somebody Loves You?
- Do Kids Have Different Kinds of "Self Images" and "Appropriate Behavior" Than Grown Ups Do?
- Do Kids Who Go to Church Know More About Death Than We Do?
- Do People Come in Familes for a Reason?
- Do People Ever Learn to Handle Death So it Doesn't Hurt So Bad?
- Do you Have to Go to Church to Learn That Some Things Are Wrong... Nothing Would be Safe. How Can We Make Her Stop?
- Does Anger Do Much Damage Inside a Person?
- Does Anybody Ever Score 100% on Handling Their Feelings?
- Does Everybody Feel Lonely Sometimes Even When Around People You Know?
- Does Everybody Start Out With the Same Feelings or Do We Get New Ones as We Grow Up?
- Does Everybody's Appropriate Behavior Match?
- Does It Hurt to be Dead?
- Doesn't Anyone Think of The Kids When They Think of Divorce?
- Doesn't Everybody Slip Back Into Baby Feelings Sometimes?
- Even If You've Got a Family That Works Pretty Good... What If You're the One That Doesn't Work?
- Every Family Gets Messed Up Sometimes. When That Happens Am I Ever Glad I've Got Friends.
- Every Once In A While I Explode and I Hate It
- Everybody Has So Many Wild and Difference Feelings, How Can You Keep Each of Them Behaving "Appropriately?"
- Everybody Has a Lot of Diferent Feelings That Gallop Off Like Ponies In Different Directions. How Do You Handle Feelings Like That? How About Helping Friends Who Are Working Out Thier Feelings.
- FOr the Last Couple of Years There've Been Months When I Don't Do Anything Right... Am I Just Lazy Like My Family Says?
- Friends Come in All Sizes and Ages and Sexes. Even Relatives Can Be Friends Sometimes
- Get in Trouble in School Two or Three Times and You Get Blames for Everything
- Having One Parent... Or Maybe Two... Who Are Alcoholics is About as Awful a Thing as can Happen to any Kid. You Can't Depend on Anything.
- How Can Three Kids in One Family be so Different?
- How Can You Build a Strong "Self-image" For Yourself and Still Keep Flexible Enough So you Don't Fall Apart When Something Unexpected Smashes You?
- How Can You Tell People When They Hurt You By What They Say?
- How Come They Blame You for What You Inherited
- How Do You Diffuse a Bomb?
- How Do You Make Yourself Into a Real Person
- How Does Knowing You're Loved as a Baby Help You to Grow up to be a Child?
- How Does a Person Keep His Mental Health If His Parents Do Get Divorced?
- How Does a Person Our Age Learn to Behave "Appropriately" Always? Who Decides What's Appropriate?
- I Can't Love My Stepfather as if He Were My Dad!
- I Don't Know if It's A "Happening" or Not...
- I Don't LIke Some Things About My Family. Will I Be Like Them Anyway?
- I Feel Like Nobody Wants Me Around
- I Get So Afraid of People Who Are Angry
- I Get Very Angry When Someone Bad Mouths My Family or My People. Is That Natural?
- I Had a Very Good Friend Who Lied About Me. I Feel Terrible. What Should I Do?
- I Have So Many Moods I Never Seem to Have Time to Sort Them out
- I Know I'm Supposed to Have a "Self-Image," but I Don't Even Know What it is.
- I Never Seem To Have Friends Like The Other Kids Do. What Can I Do About It?
- I Think the Words "Appropriate Behavior" are Tossed at Kids When Grown-ups Want us to Act Differently Than We Feel.
- I Worry About Death Hitting Kids I Know or my Pets
- I Worry About Everything - Like Getting Sick of Hurt of Dying
- I Worry About My Parents Ever Getting Divorced. Is This a Normal Worry?
- I'm Afraid of Pain. Does That Make me a Coward?
- I'm Only Eleven But I've Fallen in Love With the Gym Teacher
- I've Got a Friend in School Who Shows Off All the Time in Class. I Get Embarrassed What Can I Do?
- If I Owned a Car That Special I'd Work on it Every Day
- If It's Such a GReat Ida, Why Do So Many Families Break Up?
- If People Really Love You, They Shouldn't Hurt You.
- If We Have to Be Polite to Adults Why Aren't They Polite Back?
- If You Haven't Got a Grandfather, Can You Adopt One?
- If You Think Maybe You're Mentally Sick... How Do You Know and Who Decides?
- If You Try to Handle Your Feelings in a Health Way, Does That Mean That You're Usually Behaving "Appropriately"?
- If Your Self Image is so Important Why Don't Your Parents and Teachers and Everbody Help You Keep Yours in Shape?
- If a Baby Gets Angry When You're Taking Care of HIm What's the Best Thing to Do?
- In My Neighborhood Only One Guy's Got a Regular Family... He Claims It's a Crazy Neighborhood... Now We All Feel No Good.
- In a Family It's Lousey When It's Never Your Turn
- Is Anger Almost the Commonest Feeling There Is?
- Is Happiness Different for Different People? Like Some People and Other People are Happy When They are Alone. Is There Any Best Way?
- Is Happiness Just an Accident or Can You Really Build Your Life so You Really Are Happy Most of the Time?
- Is It True That People Judge You By the Kind of Friends You Have?
- Is It Wrong For a Girl to Worry About Ever Having a Baby?
- Is It Wrong for a Girl to Never Want to Get Married?
- Is The Worst "Lonely" When Somebody You Love Dies?
- Is it True I'm The Only One LIke Me?
- Isn't Everybody Being Willing and Able to Change the Big Clue in Making a Family Really Work?
- It Kills Me To Wait. Is It Impossible to be Born Without Patience?
- It Won't Be Easy For Dad or Us When He Gets Out of Prison
- It is Lonesome Being the Most Different Kid in Class
- It's Not As Easy to Find Friends As it Used to be... We've Moved Six Times Since I Started School. It Makes a Difference
- It's Not.... Who get Divorced!
- Most People Our Age Who THink at all Know That Someday Somebody We Love is Going to Die. It Happens to Everbody. No Matter When it Happens, It's Awfully Hard on the Person Who's Left
- My Aunt Lives with Us and She Drinks More Than My Parents Think
- My Brother Keeps Putting Me Down. It Makes Me Feel Awful.
- My Brother Who is Just 16 is a Great Guy... Is He Mentally Sick?
- My Family Fights. I Get So Embarrassed
- My Family Moves a lot Because of my Father's Work. I Don't Try to Make Friends Anymore.
- My Father Has Been Transferred. We'll Go to a New School in the Fall, and Already I'm Scared
- My Father is More Particular About My Friends Because I am a Girl Than He is About My Brothers. I Don't Think That's Fair.
- My Folks Have Always Been Tough About Us Never Speaking to Strangers... You'll Never Guess What They Did! They Sat us Down and Talked Straight!
- My Friend's Farther was Killed in a Car Accident. Now I Worry Everytime my Parents Go Anywhere in our Car.
- My Gramma and My Dog Are My Best Friends. Does That Make Me Strange?
- My Mother Lets Everybody Come To My House. But I Can Never Go To Anybody Else's House. What Is the Matter with Her?
- My Mother Worries About Me All the Time. She Doesn't Want me to do Anything the Other Kids my Age Do.
- My Older Brother Slaps the Rest of Us Around. Is This a Phase? Or is He Sick?
- My Parents Secret Weapons are Listening and Praise
- My Sister Gets By With a Lot
- My Uncle Ed, My Dad's Brother is in Jail. Everytime I do Something Wrong, My Mother Says I'm Going to Be Just LIke Him, Don't you Inherit Things Equally?
- Nobody Treats Me Like a Person
- Of All the Feelings There Are, Which are the Ones Which Give a Growing Up Person the Most Trouble?
- One Thing That Happens an Awful Lot is You Get Mad and Say Things you Don't Mean to People you Love and Some of Them Never Forget It. I Don't Know What to Do About That.
- One of My Good Friends Whom I Like Very Much Keeps Stealing Little Stuff from Dug Stores or the Kid's Lockers at School. I Can't Persuade Him it's Wrong.
- One of Our Neighbors Died... Dying
- People Need to Be Told They Are Loved. How Do You Tell Your Parents to Tell You?
- Should I Try and Make the World Happier for the People Around Me? Does This Include Your Family or is That Your Parent's Job?
- Should a Person Have One Best Friend or a Lot of Medium Friends?
- Some Families Hug a Lot; Others Don't. Is Touching a Good Thing in Families?
- Sometimes I'm Able to Handle Some Feelings Okay but I Can't Handle Others. Then My "Self image" Makes Me Feel Like a Little Kid Again
- Sometimes When You Feel Real Happy it Comes out in Giggling. Giggling is Something Big People Are Always Telling you to Stop. Why? Is it Because They Aren't Happy - So They're Jealous?
- Sometimes When You Need Love Badly Is it Okay to Turn to Grandparents, Uncles, Auntts, Grown-Up Friends... Even Pets?
- Sometimes When You're With Friends Somebody Says Somthing That Makes you Feel different... Like You Don't Match Them Anymore, and You Get Lonely
- Sometimes its Hard to Tell When a Person is Really a Friend. A Guy I Liked a Lot Got Me Into a Heap of Trouble Last Year.
- The Idea of a Family is Very Sensible Isn't It?
- The Man Next Door Died in an Automobile Accident Last Year. Just Before he Left the House That Day, One of His Kids Sassed Him. That Kid is my Friends and Now he Feels Terrible Because He'll Never be Able to Say He's Sorry. Is There Any Way I can Help ...
- There Are Lots of "Lonelies"... Like When Nobody Listens, or When You're Too Young or Too Old, or When You Have to Make a Hard Decision By Yourself, or When You're in Pain
- There's One Thing Worse. That's Being Dumb Enough to Start Drinking Yourself.
- They Talk About How Tought it is Being An Only Child. It's Lots Worser Being an Only Parent.
- They're Talking About "Battered Children" in the Newspapers
- We've Been Talking About "Happenings," What Can You Do So You Never Forget the Great Things... Ever?
- What Can I Do So My Kids Will Inherit the Best
- What Do We Get By Heredity
- What Do You Do When Someone in Your Real Close Family Dies?
- What Do You Do When Your Parents Do Something Wrong - Like Lie?
- What If Nobody Loves Me When I Grow Up?
- What Would I Like to Have? Poise! and Courage! And...
- What is the Healthy "Appropriate" Thing to Do When You're So Mad You Feel You'll Burst? There are Some People you Just want to Smash Sometimes
- What parts of our personality grow up fastest?
- When Do Babies Stop and Persons Begin?
- When My Grandmother Died My Mother Cried a Lot
- When You Know Somebody Else is Cheating, Why Shouldn't You?
- When Your Best Friends Moves Away, How Can You Bear It?
- When you Get Mad At Yourself... Is That Harder to Learn How to Handle?
- Who Is Really Responsible for How a Child Feels About Himself?
- Worrying May be a Silly Waste of Time, but Carrying a Rain Coat Can Be Very Wise Sometimes. It's Smart to be Careful, Right?
- Wouldn't it be Better is Some Families Did Break up Instead of Always Fighting?