isa-normaladvance-1909-00409

Description:	THE NORMAL ADVANCE409Items of Especial InterestPROFESSOR ENGLEMAN TO LACROSSE NORMALProfessor James 0. Engleman, who has beenprincipal of Normal High School for the pasttwo years, has severed his connection with I. S.N.j and accepted a position as head of the Department of Education in the new State Normal School at LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Mr. Engleman goes well equipped to take up his newduties. For several years he was principal ofBorden Institute, and later became Superintendent of Schools at Loogootee, which positionhe held until he was called to I. S. N. to takecharge of the training school and the new highschool. He graduated from I. S. N. in 1901,and since then has taken his A. B. degree atIndiana University and has done considerablework on his Masters at Chicago University.While I. S. N. is disappointed in not beingable to retain Mr. Engleman, yet she is gladto send such an able representative to the Wisconsin school. Mr. Engleman goes with thebest wishes for success from our Faculty andhis many student friends, who are proud to seeanother one of our Alumni rise in the educational world.NEW CONSTITUTION FOR THE WOMANS LEAGUEBy adopting a new constitution wiiich greatly enlarges the scope of the organization, theWomans League of the State Normal tookwhat is in the estimation of Miss MartinaErickson, dean of women at the Normal, themost important progressive step in the historyof the League since its foundation.The two main ends gained by the adoptionof the new constitution are a closer union between the girls of the school and the womenof the Faculty and wives of the members of theFaculty, and an enlargement of the scope ofthe Womans League so that it will reach everygirl in school.Up till the present the League had consistedof about 300 of the 1,200 girls of the institution.These young women had organized into smallerchapters of from fifteen to thirty members,which did much to define the tone of affairs atthe Normal. Miss Erickson characterized themas a confederation of chapters.By the present plan the sororities will continue to flourish and do their work along theirparticular lines, and the other 900 or 1,000 girlswill be given an opportunity to become an integral part of the organization. The smallergroups will continue to have votes in the executive committee, the number of members inwhich will be enlarged, however, to includedelegates from those girls not belonging to thechapters. The executive committee will consistof the officers of the League, leaders of thechapters, five representatives of women students not members of any chapter, presidentsof other womens organizations in school andthe dean of women. The girls, making up three-fourths of the school, will be closely organizedto carry on movements for mutual benefit.The advisory board will be equal in numberto one-half the executive committee, and willbe women who are either members of theFaculty or wives of members of the Faculty.It is the intention to establish a close relationbetween the girls and this advisory board. MissErickson was sanguine of the success of thenew movement.The girls do not yet see clearly what powerthis closer organization will give them, shesaid. With only nominal quarterly fees of 25cents our girls can accumulate funds enoughfor great work.
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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