isa-normaladvance-1909-00356

Description:	356THE NORMAL ADVANCEHistory of the Past YearTO BE APPENDED TO LAST YEARS HISTORYWithout a doubt the past year has been oneof the most prosperous in the history of ourschool. While there have been several disappointing occurrences, yet, all in all, the generaltone of the past year can be best summed upin onward and upward. In order to appreciate our growth properly, it is well to go backto the opening of spring term of 1908, and include it as a part of the year, since muchauthentic, definite data of the present springterm is-difficult to obtain.i The .total attendance of different studentsfor the year, ending September 30, 1908, in theNormal school proper, was 3,048, and in thetraining school, 243, making a total of 3,291,showing a gain over the year ending September30, 1907, of 739 different students, of whom allbut 29 were regular Normal students. Thegreatest attendance in the history, of the schoolwas enrolled in the spring term of 1908, when1851 students were doing work. This greatnumber was partly due to the establishment ofa.mid-spring term course for the benefit of highschool graduates. The purpose of the courseasto give high school students joist graduatingan opportunity to meet the State educationalrequirements in order to teach the followingfall. These students are required to do-fivehours work for twelve weeks, three hours ofwhich must be in subjects of pedagogical nature. The enrollment in this course last springwas over 500. The attendance in the other ter,msup to the present time has been as follows:summer, 1908—1,353, the largest summer termenrollment in our history fall, 1908—488 winter, 1909—523, and this spring term, to June10—1,587.Quite a few changes have been made in theFaculty. Miss Leila Parr resigned at the closeof the summer term, 1908, as head of the Department of Music, and was succeeded by MissLaura Minturn. Professor W. O. Lynch, 96,was called by his Alma Mater to take a position as assistant professor of history at theopening of the last fall term. Professor Rettger, head of the Department of Physiology,has been away on a years leave of absence, attending Johns Hopkins University, and MissKate Moran, of the Training School Faculty,withdrew last June and took up her studies atColumbia University. She was succeeded byMiss Jessie P>. Montgomery, 95. The greatdevelopment in Latin and German Departments necessitated a change whereby ProfessorWeng became assistant professor in the .LatinDepartment only, and Miss Rose Cox was madeassistant professor in the German Department.Three newT members have been added to theFaculty of Normal High School. Mr. WalterWoodrow, 06, and one of our first graduatesfrom the College course,was appointed instructor of Mathematics and Science, but in January,1909, Miss Mabel Bonsell, 95, was given chargeof the mathematics so that Mr. Woodrow mightdevote the most of his time to the science work.With the appointment of Miss Rose Cox to theGerman Department in.the Normal proper, theDepartment of German in the high school wasplaced under the supervision of Miss CarolineSchoch at the opening of this spring term.The grim reaper removed one of the members of our Training School Faculty. MissAlma Beste, who for several years had chargeof the primary work,- passed away August 4,1908, at her home in Mt. Vernon, after a shortillness. The position made vacant by her deathwas tendered Miss Alice O. Woody, 05.
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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