# Lucy Nulton

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{{Short description|American educator (1903–2000)}}
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| name               = Lucy Nulton
| image              = LucyNulton1932.png
| alt                = A smiling white woman in her late 20s, with wavy light hair cut into a bob with a side part
| caption            = Lucy Nulton, from the 1932 yearbook of East Carolina Teachers College
| birth_name         = Lucian M. Nulton
| birth_date         = June 18, 1903
| birth_place        = [Missouri](/source/Missouri), U.S.
| death_date         = November 23, 2000 (aged 97)
| death_place        = [Tallahassee](/source/Tallahassee), [Florida](/source/Florida), U.S.
| other_names        = 
| occupation         = Educator, folklorist
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}}

'''Lucy M. Nulton''' (June 18, 1903 – November 23, 2000) was an American educator. She taught at [East Carolina Teachers College](/source/East_Carolina_University), and worked at the [P. K. Yonge Laboratory School](/source/P._K._Yonge_Developmental_Research_School) at the [University of Florida](/source/University_of_Florida).

==Early life and education==
Nulton was born in Missouri, the daughter of John Nulton and Letha Ellen Jackson Nulton.<ref>{{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}}</ref> She graduated [Peabody College](/source/Vanderbilt_Peabody_College_of_Education_and_Human_Development) in Tennessee in 1928,<ref>{{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}}</ref> and earned a master's degree from [Teachers College, Columbia University](/source/Teachers_College%2C_Columbia_University) in 1933.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
==Career==
Nulton was on the faculty at East Carolina Teachers College in the 1930s<ref>East Carolina Teachers' College, ''[https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/15337 The Tecoan]'' (1932 yearbook): 29.</ref> and 1940s.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> She was second vice-president of the North Carolina Association for Childhood Education.<ref>{{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}}</ref> In the 1950s and 1960s, she was a teacher and researcher at the P. K. Yonge Laboratory School at the University of Florida.<ref>{{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}}</ref> She was first vice-president of the Alachua County Association for Childhood Education.<ref>{{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}}</ref> She was named Gainesville's Teacher of the Year in 1960.<ref name=":10">{{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}}</ref> 

Nulton also played violin, and was a member of the University of Florida Symphony Orchestra.<ref name=":10" /><ref>[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.</ref> She took a particular interest in children's songs and rhymes, especially those used in [jumping rope](/source/Skipping_rope).<ref>{{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}}</ref>
==Publications==
Nulton was a "prolific" academic writer,<ref name=":10" /> and her research appeared in scholarly journals including ''[Peabody Journal of Education](/source/Vanderbilt_Peabody_College_of_Education_and_Human_Development),''<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> ''The North Carolina Teacher,''<ref name=":2">{{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}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{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}}</ref> ''Childhood Education'',<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5">{{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|url-access=subscription }}</ref> ''[The High School Journal](/source/The_High_School_Journal),''<ref name=":6" /> ''Educational Leadership,''<ref name=":11">{{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}}</ref> ''[The Journal of American Folklore](/source/Journal_of_American_Folklore),''<ref name=":7" /> and ''Elementary English.''<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":9" />
* "Analyzing and criticizing student teaching in the early elementary grades" (1928)<ref name=":0">{{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|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* "Elementary Child's Play Educative If It Is Supervised" (1930)<ref name=":2" />
* "'Churn, Butter, Churn': A Project from Live-at-Home Week" (1930)<ref name=":3" />
* "Science interests and questions of a second grade" (1930)<ref>{{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|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* "A comparison of the science interests of two successive second grades" (1930)<ref name=":1">{{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|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* "A Second Grade Experience with Blackboard Drawing" (1930)<ref name=":4">{{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|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* "The Practice of Democracy in Our Public Schools" (1942)<ref name=":6">{{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}}</ref>
* "Jump Rope Rhymes as Folk Literature" (1948)<ref name=":7">{{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|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
* "What should I do about him?: That Silent One" (1952)<ref>{{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|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* "Adult-Made Time: In which the Child Must Learn to Live" (1953)<ref>{{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|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* "Eight-Year-Olds Tangled in ''[Charlotte's Web](/source/Charlotte's_Web)''" (1954)<ref name=":8">{{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}}</ref>
* "A Classroom for Living" (1954)<ref name=":11" />
* "Continuing Curiosity Develops Concepts" (1954)<ref>{{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|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* "From Manuscript to Cursive--How" (1957)<ref name=":9">{{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}}</ref>
* "A Loosened Spirit" (1957)<ref>{{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|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* "Listen! the Children!" (1961, with Lena Rexinger)<ref>{{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|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* "Environments Today that Invite Learning" (1962)<ref name=":5" />
* "'… but the Children Just Love it!'" (1965)<ref>{{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|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
==Personal life==
Nulton died in 2000, at the age of 97, in [Tallahassee, Florida](/source/Tallahassee%2C_Florida).
==References==
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