Volume 32 October - 1 9 2 7 J^um ler 1 T eachers C ollege H erald The R U R A L NUM BER STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE SHIPPENSBURG, PENNA. J . R. K E R R 6c B R O . P r i n t e r s , C ham bersburg. Pa . INDEX . Principal’s Letter itejihe Alumni............................... ..................... Page 1 It Waifs Forty Years Agoib.A ■ ......................................... ........... Curnherland County A lu m n |-A illlla tio n . . . . .. 3 ' 5 Huntingdon County Aliunui Association..................................... 6 Meeting of Teachers and Alumni 'at State College July 29, 1927... Alumni Personals ............................................................ 6 7 ............................................... 12 Engagement Announcement! sVA.,. . . . . . . . .................. ^upid?§|p,Column ............................. .........., ........... ThjY Class'.of lg jg Stork Column . .. .. .. .. . 1....................... ............. ^.Obituary . .. . ’........................................................ Scho|| Discipline .................. 19 2fl -21 Rural Training School Center, 1927-1928. ....... ......................... ...... 23 Rural Group Alumni Survey» A... . A . V . . . . . . . . A ................. j I\.ur,'i] Group Alumni Questionnaire................................................. 24 24 Drill Suggestions from the 1927-1928 Rural Group Seniors.......... 25 Handwriting- in Rural Schools,. ,v- •.......... .................................. 29 Among the Book Shelves With Two Seniors.. , , ........................ 31 Providing- Silent Reading in the Rural Schools.............................. 34 Picturd iSj'udy ............................................ . 37 Country Life Club Proceedings Summer, 1927. . ............................ 41 Country Life Club 1927-1928. ........................................................ 41 Library Pa;sjte Recipe.......... ............................................. 42 PageanfsSand Musical Plays in a One-Room Rural School............ 43 The Teachers College Herald PUBLISHED OCTOBER, JANUARY, APRIL AND JULY Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office, Shippensburg, Pa. MARION H. BLOOD . ADA V. HORTON, ’88 J. S. HEIGES, ’91 .................... Editor ....Personal Editor .Business Manager Subscription Price, 25 cents per year strictly in^advance Vol. 32 OCTOBER, 1927 Single No. 1 PRINCIPAL’S LETTER TO THE ALUMNI Dear Alumnus; The new school year is now fully under way and we are able to take stock of our equipment for the session. The prospect is most encouraging. Our faculty has returned to us almost intact We regret the absence of Miss Lane due to lllnes^ but Miss Leutsker is filling the position in a manner that Ippeals alike to students and faculty. Miss Willoughby, _who has taken Miss Seco||s place in the Training School, is doing a fine piece of teaching anditgtipervision. ,, M ■« Misses Snively and Irene Huber, and Messrs. Burkholder and Bentz have returned to us after a year’sHeave of absence spent^ in study. Professor and Mrs. Stewart devoted the summer to study and Professor Bye was a member of the Summer School Faculty of Clark University and Miss Henderson taught at -the Sfclarion State Normal School. , ■ Our attendance | | almost fifty in advance of last years and it ¡Icespecially gratifying to note that three-fourtlgj of the increall a r i men. The four year B. S. course is appealing stronglylo them, but we must not fail to note that the number of women in the four year Freshman class? is twice the number in the Sophomore class. The ^¿student body is becoming more efficient every year since the four year course ha§£||een added to P ur curriculum. 2 T he T eachers C ollege H erald l a“ 1 inclined to believe that many of you,are not--fully familiar with the opportunities/open to Students here. • For this reason outline them’ .very'briefly. W eB ffer the choice o í ’ the two-Or tho/four yearffiourse to every student.. -Students in the two year course may prepare for teghing in the PrimaryKindergarten or Intermediate Grades, or Rural Schools. The certificate is valid for two years after which, on evidence of two year|| succegful .teaching, it will be validated S a ‘ perma­ nent diploma. We offer an advanced two year course leading to the degree of B. S. inMjucation, This is open to all of you who completed the two year course. ' Therd^re two four year coursesjone fitting the student for a supervisor’s or, a principal’s pésitioh, in elementary-school^ The other qualifies for Junior (or Senior! „High School position!Both carry with them the regular collegiate degree of. B. |adn Education, - In the latter -courlgMstudentp elect two fieldsfechoosing from English, -Science, Social Studies (History), Geography, Mathematic^ Latin, and Modern LanguageJB Students in either the •two or the four year course's receive a Statg. Scholarship (free tuition) and .the entire necessary, ex­ penses* including registration and term fees, board, lodging laundry^Oolcs* :etc., will range from $330.00 to $340.00 a year! Gan a finerfer better opportunity for a:high grade education be found anywhere? Qur requirements. for admission to all courses are “gradu­ ation from an approved four- year high „school or equivalent teaming m an approved private secondary school.” Graduates any hlSh # ;o o l -course-:: classical, general, commercial, voca­ tional,, technical); etc.*/ will be admitted to|fhe two- year course, jfh e y may also, enter the. four year course, but the selection of fields will depend upon the branches/studied in high -,school. I We firitl that the belief is widely prevalent that. students must boj seventeen or more years of age in order '-to’ receive free tuition. This is incorrect: Any.;/'student who meets the admission requirements, will be. granted free, tuition. Home Coming Day-falls on. Saturday,, October 29, and will probably be an event .of the past when the Herald- reaches you. Everything points to,, a large attendance, o-f . Alumni, the largest ever, as this celebration is one of the. most .popular on H i calendar, I hope that very many of you will be. here, to note •die newly renovated Main BuildingyGnioderized and beautified. :/jaon’t forget your .County or C ity Alumni m eeting! Thesel. mean very much to the-growth-and, prosperity of the old school. I-hose who take; part in these gatherings tell-us how much-they enjoy them. PI ./Finally, we ask., you to be pn the alert to/line up the-promising senior or seniors in your local high school. Now that we: are T hé T eachers C oï.i .eOe H era'lb 3 a college in name as well as in reality, we need a strong: efficient studeff body to carry on the traditions of your Alma Mater and advance Still' farther and higher; itgs& ndards^ It is the personal word that counts and we feel sure that you will interest yourself in having the young people from your nqf|hborhood come to us. Send uSjtheir names and we' will be glad to write' to them and to furnish them with the school publications; Fraternally E zra L eh m a n , ’89. IT WAS FORTY YEARS AGO There were, stirring, if not to say exciting, times|in à farm­ house near Chatnbersburg, on Saturday evening, September 1, 1887. For early on the', following Monday morning U | son now sixteen' and a half years old, would be taken, bag and baggage to the Cumberland Valley Railroad station, Where he would hoard — — for Shippensburg, there to begin .his career as a student at the Normal School. This was really a venturing forth into the unkhowrt" for the boy had never had any other' schooling than that given in the country school near hiS home. He had never. been away .from home oyer night except in the company' of » h e r members of the family. In fact his whole life had. been spent on the farm. He had really just’ arrived a t “manbSbd’S S ature” for lie “had bound H s t a t iiS S lft e r t h lflr a k e .pS form reaper|# He could plough, pitch hay, and do the other farm jobs ashdisfinguished from the chores that settled the question whether the individual were man or boy. He hack caught a glimpsè of the ‘Town” world by at­ tending market every Saturday 'pnd . Wednesday where he sola farm and garden products over the » a l b ” He PFf °F .r1^ ; best “bib and tucker*! 0n Saturday even in gs» , go to ChamberSburg. to 'Stroll around with others of his kind to see the gghts. He never could understand, just how it was that the town boys—and, alasy the girls also-'-spotted .him at once as a country yokel and' greeted hini witlffHafV-Pumpkin Roller— How re the cows? or “ Hello, Hay ifeed!§| It seems; like a .l^hi^dy»] I.9P7 ,.Dut ,ln 1887 it w a V n S r tragedy. He did know something^ about the outside world, - however, for the New York Weekly Tribune— though licking Greely’s master mimF-was still a power in rural districts!! H e'read that, journal evèrÿ'week and its: news^and editorial coiumns'furnished mental pabulum of no mean quality. The country debating club, even if it did discuss such questions asVlS'Resblved, that there iSm ore pleasure in the pursuit of an object than in itS po'fc§sion|f: at times discussed problems like this : “Resolved, that the southern state's had a constitu- 4 T he T eachers C ollege H erald tional right to secede.” Doubtless even a second rate attorney would be amused at the argument^ advanced in these debating societies, but they had taught this boy and others of his ilk to think for himself, to speak when standing on his feet and to read and study textbooks and encyclopedias. It has been said that Saturday was the day of preparation for the departure. All clothing had to be packed into the small leather bound trunk, for in that household Sunday was a day of church going and rest from “worldly labors and vain pursuits.” Sunday came and with it the church attendance, with the sermon — at least an hour in length, with the fifteen minute prayer— and the hard, uncushioned, uncomfortable pews didn’t become softer as the service progressed. Relief came after the service with the opportunity for discussion of crops and gossip under the trees in the .'church yard. Worldly people sometimes in­ sinuated that the good deacons and even the ministers fixed the wages to be paid farm laborers at these after church con­ ferences. The boy was possibly just a little gratified that he was the center of interest after church, but he might have been ■ inclined to agree with the old farmer, owner of three fine farms, who approached him and said— “Waal, I ain’t certain but what your pap ain’t makin’ a mistake by sendin’ you to school jest when you’re gettin’ to be a hefty farm hand— I seen many a good farmer spiled by this here edication.” But the boy boarded the train on Monday morning, making the good-byes with father and mother as brief as possble for it wouldn’t do to show any tears on this occasion. The train passed through Shippensburg and the conductor called “ Normal School-BAll out for the Normal School,”— and another proud moment was vouchsafed to the boy as he went the length of the train, wondering whether all the passengers saw him. All pas­ senger trains in those obliging times stopped at the “stile” at the foot, of the Normal School campus to let off passengers. No one was in sight-git was 7:18 and the boy was the only one to get off. A feeling of loneliness swept over him, but he noticed a tall, mustached man coming down the campus. The man hastened to greet the new arrival, saying “You’re e-e-early. We a-a-are just at— breakfast. Have you h-had your breakfast? My name’s B-Bugbee.” Thus began an acquaintance with Pro­ fessor Bugbee that lasted many years. His stammer was good naturedly mimicked by many a student— but few there were who were not benefitted by his mathematical ability and helped by his interest in all his students. The boy discovered that the work didn’t start at nine o’clock on the first.- day and that it would not have been necessary for him to have come so early. He met the faculty: Principal T iik -Teachers COLLEGE H kRALU 5' Tohn F McCreary, who had distinguished a gallant soldier H the Civil War— a man -who as- teacher of literature was I open the gates of song, drama and romance to the boy and determine that he should devote years of his later life to teaching and studying the great masterpieces of English, He met i i M. D. Eckels who had just finished two terms of service in the State Legislature and who a little later was to be Prin­ cipal of the Normal School for eighteen years;: and who became the closest, most intimate %unsellpr that the boy ever had. He came to know Joseph F. Barton then a young man; Hart Gilbert, Milly Adams, Susie Jones, Bessie Hope and Mr|v,. Kellog, ■ Prin cipal of the Model School, m p e , will find them places in a later article. He met the student body— one of them a red haired country hoy--LAI” Cook who was later to win honor at Princeton and then to fill-a s he does now -the position of Superintendent of Public Instruction in Maryland. He met also a fair lassie universally popular known by, every one as Ady Horton, who has entered into the life of the institution as has no other Alumnus. He met a I& of others who will appear m other articles. I < I H I I „ XT B H The boy remembers the first “ Chapel S e S c e . e, H otheriVsat on the long hard bencbes-v-a few of which still survive in the grand stand on the athletic field. The group was small, about forty boarders and less than J?}xty day students. There they sat in the old, grimy, stained Chapel— not even sug­ gestive of the present Auditorium. Along of the sides of the rostrum were painted in stucco effect figmefeupposed, to represent Stinerva, Diana and other classical ee ebritiesg As the boy sat there he was^very homesick, but he thought to himself, “If I live to finish the course here and « s i t on that platform as a graduate, it will be the proud|| moment of my life,.— and he his never had occasion to alter that judgment. (Iri coming numbers of the Herald, the writer will speak of his student experiences, the faculty, tlih student body, social regula­ tions, e tS of forty years ago.p$ CUMBERLAND COUNTY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION S trh e / Cumberland County Alumni Association and former studentS of the Teachers College met at the Molly Pitcher Hotel in Carlisle on Wednesday, The hour was moon till fwo and eighty-four p e r s o n s ^ » down to pfrtake of an ap ^The^President of the Association, Professor W. M. Rife, after •a few: introductory remarks, Turned the meeting over to Ira D. Cope who acted as toastmaster. • The following ¿gave short talks. 6 T he p.EACHÉM'i.CoLLEGÈ;. H erald Dr. H, H. Shenk k>t,;:of. Harrisburg, .C. S. Printon, Esq.,fl8s, of Carlisle, Dr. Ezra Lehman *89, Prof. P. R. Morey,. Supervising Principal of the Camp Hill Schools and Dr. J. S. Heiges Iqi . The. addresses dealt with the former days of the school,, its present growth and future prospects. At the business meeting, Robert S. Peffer moved the reelection of the officers® President' W. M. Rife ’c;r; Vice-President, jr a D. Cope ’16'; and Secretary' Mis.s;. Mary Yeager T6. They were unanimously reelected and the. Association voted, to" holJja .|anquet next year under . similar conditions. S h e meeting adjourned with the singing of Alma Mater. HUNTINGDON COUNTY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Due to the splendid work of Miss Elizabeth McMath, Secretary of the Association, and' the othCg officers, the meeting o f the Huntingdon County Alumni ' Association held Thursday evening, October 13, was “.(me of the most successful m its' history. About sixty persons sat down to a, banquet in the beautiful dining hall of the .Mount Union Country Club. The room was tastefully decorated with autumn leaves and dowers. After the guests had been welcomed by the Reception Com­ mittee and the banquet" Satisfactorily disposed of, Mr. Swirles Himes, acting as Master of Ceremones, introduced Miss McMath. She spoke of the desire of the Asf||iation to have a. ltill larger and more successful banquet next year. Mr. Himes then intro­ duced Prof.- S. S. Shearer, who spoke of the work of the school and of itjs growth and development. Dr. Lehman yvrâs then called upon and explained atj^some length just what the new course of study meant and the opportunity afforded two. year graduates to complete the four year course. He also asked; for the continued cooperation of the Alumni in making the work of the institution still more effective.. A dance in the large reception room followed. MEETING OF TEACHERS AND ALUMNI AT STATE COLLEGE JULY 29, 1927 The former students pf Shippensburg NormalAvhgare attending the. .summer session at State: College held ,a banquet at the Country Club, Friday .evening, July 29. Everyone present relished the excellent chicken dinner. During, the dinner hour everybody, joined in singing, old familiar songs, closing with the Alma Mater and Auld Lang. Syne. . ■ Mr. andpl^S. J. K. Stewart, the, guests? of honor, expressed T he ' T eachers C ollege H erald 7 their appreciation of the old timeBpfrit amohg thó'fse present and reminded everyone about the various events at Shippensburg' during theftcoming year, emphasizing “Home Coming” ' Day, October. 29. . . . . During the latter part . of the ‘ e v e n i n g 1- everyone visited and talked with his neighbor now and then joining in the dance. A good time was echoed as they parted. Thdse prdiSent were® E r o lp o r and M r|| J. K. Stéwart, MargaréiÍRSiar, Pauline Stiles, Katharine Main, Lydigg McCul­ loch, Dorothy Hosfield, Arlene Spessard, Kathryn Heefner, Marga|®-Skinner, Katharine'’ Witmer, Jane Seipf|Margaret McDowell, Margaretta Snow, Mab'ert Spangler, Evelyn Ickg|| Mary Fortna, Rogé McCann, Roger Jones,Bjohn Neil and :gues1| Hurn Diller, Ha,rry Smith, and guest, and Mr. BafsiUgton. “ TfyalcYN M. ICKES;, 1'ySecretary. ALUMNI PERSONALS .’¡77 'At a .meeting H the Perry County HiStorica»|ociety held at Alfaratta Park, near MillerstoWn, August 18, 1927, the project to have the state convert the lands at the Western end Perry County into a great;'park, was forcefully presented in an addrefi by Mr. John L. McCaskey;now. of Pittsburgh, formerly of Perry Count® The addrcS is; ’ very much w'orthff|vh.ile and the Her.M$i&LiA like to print it in, fUllBut wevshall pnnt one paragraph in Which we. know tM/ Herald readers - will be interested. . , ., '"'•-’“ W hat we have to offer is. in thim caf&'real hpp£st, yard-wide .stuff; all of it f^dd-made and carrying His g u a r a n t ^ lg of it e f j g y o v e r a nearby i.oooj^ ^ K ’ennglvanians within t h M compasSf d l Beliefonte, pSunbury, Millgtsburg, Lebafibn, Lancaster, York, Gettysburg,. Waynesboro, McConnellsburg. and Huntingdon. ’ i t | them we oft'er-'the best in Penn'^ H oodl; any: where f o r fl r e if playground,' and in sis, wild a part^of the S ta tg as may be found. HH ’89 % r f f Mary ’M ' Long Fairley hal| rfflently moved from 7027 E. W arren' Ave.. Detroit, M iJL. W an apartment block. Her address is now Apt. 302, 4847 Baldwin ,Av#| Detroit, Mich., where she w ifflb e ® d for any pi her friends to loMr. and Mrs. G. B. Goodfellow (Florence Hocker) have: moved into, their beautiful new home ea|t; of Highspire. It , is. situated on an elevation ¡overlooking the Susquehanna River w Mr and Mrs. Frank KonhausKRuth Bl.essley) B q p k: an automobile tour Through the New England Stages during the month of August. Mr. Konhaus graduated in the class of 1902. I H Mr. Paul A.- Schwartz is living about three miles east ot York along the Lincoln Highway. His address isr.York, . 7, Pa. He is a representative of the York Has and Electric Com­ pany at 127 Market- ftreet. . I M B ’oe MisSiGrace Eshenower has recently moved into her newly home at 1416 Verbeke :St.|Harrisburg, from 240 | x4th :St: Miss Eshenower is Head Teacher m the Shimmel Building 17th and Berryhill Sts. , , '' ■ ¡ I We know our readet|Swill be interested in a letter iro.n Mrs:. R. W. Pearson (Helen Wise) wife of Majog|R. W. Pearson also of the class of ’08. _ “We sail from Ilf:- Y . at ||p§n on October 7th on the^ Army Transport ‘St. Mihiel’ arriving at Panama October 13th. We will go through the canal by daylight:- and leave th^:Pacific side October 14, arriving in San Francis^ October 24th. There w.e will have an interval of. ten days; i^w hieh to* ¡ | ¡ H | | ¡ g ¡ | a| », possible of California.. W e.transfer to a larger boat the H H Transport ‘Thomas? and sail ‘November 3rd, for our next stop which H Honolulu, Hawaii. 1 believe we have two days there . 'before we take the long Simp acroslthe Pacific to Manila where we will land .November 28th. We will b # » fhe way fifty-two days from the time we l§|ve :1§| Y . till we land in Manila. » ‘Qur boys' Billy aged nine and Jack aged|f|even 1-are good travelers and We should have a nice voyage. ‘‘One thing Worries us—-we will not be able to attend1?..,o.ur. twentieth class reunion next : June. Wé always., said _we would ...let nothing stand in the way.'of that reunion but this cant be helped algw e w i l l be stationed ‘oyer there?,; two .yearsgi We ■ MW U 10 T he T eachers C ollege H erald expect to go to China and Japan before returning to the U. S.” The personal Editor would like to say that she knows without askng that letters to Major and Mrs. Pearson from classmates and normal graduates would be very much appreciated by them. M is j Edith M. Lichtenwalner of Steelton, Pa., writesLus that she . will register this fall at Temple College ’ for B. S. degree. She will major in kindergarten primary course. io Mrs.#,:Laura Daugherty Higgens. who has been teaching in - Twm Buttes||Arizpna, fo r^ y e ra l |:ears is now living; .in Iron Springs, Pa. We have not learned whether she is teaching this winter or not. T i We think the .following article taken from the School paper “The Red and Black” of Washington and Jefferson College will be of interest td<|our readers, The Herald extends congratu­ lations, to Dr. Walte'rsdorf. An article'by Dr. M. G, W altersdoJ head of the department of economics, entitled “ Going Value in Utility Valuation” which appeared in.the March Review, has been selected by the Presi- dent’s Coil Terence Committee on .'Federal Valuation of Railroads m the United States as meriting the attention of railroad execup || |a n d . valuation ?|xpert|| Mr. Hale, Vicfc||hairman of the eastern group of roads and|a member of this committee, is taking V®I£PS in behalf of the railEpadsj|ÿjhaye this publication repro­ duced for distribution among the various railroad valuation and executive officers for their use and reference: The Pres.ident’gji Conference Committee which is desirous, of making practical use of Dr. Waltersdorf’s contribution cooperates, with the Bureaii^of Valuation created by the .çommiiion in fixing the final value of the railroads. . In addition to the above work which has received the recogni­ tion indicated a number of his publications, during the past year, hawe appeared in the leading social and economic journals of Jimglandpnd the United States;'; Recently he was made a Fellow o^ the Royal Economic Society of Great Britain.,. Helen Love,.of Oakville, Pa., who has; been in charge of the ^ tin g h p u | | Lupch Room, Pittsburgh, Pa., for several yeavShas accepted a position as dietician in the York Y. W. C. A. for this year. | l M j j Liberty McClelland;,v^The Terrace” "Sixth and Ferry bt.reetT Ü K ton’ Pa-> is,-teaching College Hill, SchopSa private school ^ Miss| McClelland received her M. A. degree from Columbia in June of this. year. • Walter E. Shank 2114 Penn Street,. Harrisburg Pa. is taking a course at Beckley College. ■ i l Mr- D - Bruce Lytle of WaverLy; Pa., w hoS'hlpeen M B W cipal of Abmgtm Township H. S. is attending Susquehanna Uni­ versity this year. I T iif. -.Teachers C ollege H eealb ii T6 Rev. George T. EitzKis pastor o£ the Bethany Reformed Church: at Ephrata, Pa. ' • r‘ :. ■ \ ,5 ^ Miss; Helena Charlton is ¿-teaching eighth grade in the Chester-schools. Her addres^S Y . C%T. U." Chester, Pa. ’17 Mr. Levi Gilbert who has been teacher of science -and Dean of' Men- at the Xormal for several years is now principal of the high school at LansdoWne, Pa. T8 Mis!! Helen M. Woffenden:. i:sE teaching arithmetic and spelling inteSeventh grades at Atlantic City, N. J. Her address is 132 Statjl "Ave. * I nr Ji8 Rev. Lawrence Warren,>son of Mrs. Chas. E. Warren 01 North Priiice Street, Shippensburg, Pa., who has been the pastor of the Methodist Church at Madison, N. J., for Several years, has resigned his pastorate and accepted a call to the M. E. Church, Selma, tpal. He and his wife, who before her marriage was Mi’ssbClara Hocker.smith, left for their new- ||st of duty in August. , Rev. Warren has recently been granted a degree of Doctor ot Theology .from Drew Seminary«' ■> ’ * '* ’ & '' T8 Mrs Nellie Boyce Erxleben who has been living m Denver, ¿Colorado, for the past year or two moved last year to 419 S .'F ifth Street,: Jjbuquerque, N6w Mexico. Nellie writes that she|fikeS: it very much better than Denver, in fact she S^es it so well that she would not want to live in the East again. ’19 M ill Reba. Charlton wbfse home is ' in- Hancock,. Md., is teaching English in. the High School at Hornell, N. Y. ’20 Mr. Harvey S. Bolan who taught last year in Mountaindale, Pa., is teaching at South River, N. j., this. year. ’2® Mr. C. Russell Eurich who has been teacher and coach in the'Shippensburg High School for Several years goes to New Cumberland, Pa., as coach and teacher in the high school there. ’21 Mr. W .' Gordon Charlton, 196 Continental Ave., Detroit, Mich., is manager of the Chrysler Factory at that place. ’21 Miss Arline Spessard 560 Euclid Ave., Greensburg, Pa., has recently been elected to the Primary grade a|rHaydenville, S. Greensburg at an increase in salary. . ' . . . . ’22 Mr. -Frank D. Workman who has been Supervising Prin­ cipal at Remaster, Pa., goes' this year 4s "Supervising Principal to Waldwick, N..‘;|wv' ’22 Miss Mary A. Funk of Shippensburg, Pa., has accepted the position of Assistant Librarian a f The Kutztown Normal School. ’23 Mr. Theodore Charlton of Hancock, Md., i| teacher and coach in the'high -school at Patton|jjPa. - : ’23 Mr. Ralph E, Heiges who taught at Royersford for the past two years M d o in g post graduate work in the field of Political Science at Columbia this year. 12 T he T eachers C ollege H erald 24 Miss F. Elizabeth iGantt is teaching,in ITaddonfield, N. J. 24 Mr. W. Walker Nelson is teaching Geography in the Leonardo school -Atlantic Highlands, N, J. His addrfe^fj'is 46 becond Ave. ’24 Miss Mae Parfet ||f teaching in Fanwood, N. J. 24 Miss- Verna Waybright is teachingüecond grade in the Meade Building, Gettysburg, Pa., where she has been teaching since her graduation. ’24 Miss Blanche Straley. is 'teaching at Belvidere, N. J. . ’25 Miss Nellie Keller, Cashtown, Pa., is teaching’ third grade in the Meade Building, Gettysburg, Pa. ’25 Miss-Myrtle Eshelman of Shippensburg, Pa., who is with the firm of Mawson and DeMany^Furriers at 1215 Chestnut ..Philadelphia,- Pa., has recently been made assistant advertising manager. This firm is spending one and a half million dollars this year in advertising. ’25 Miss. Esther Straley is teaching a t' Belvidere, N. J. , -25 Miss Ruth Keadle is teaching departmental work-'fin English at Upper Darby, Pa. ’25 Mr. Sherrick Gilbert is attending Temple University. . ’25 Miss Whrelda J. W rye who taught at Greensburg, last year is doing missionary work in the Edith McCurdy U. B. Church School at Santa Cruz, New Mexico, this year. ’25 We are sorry to learn that M rsijulia Hargleroad of ShipRe0if^urSj had started her school work in Newark, N. H was °perated|jon for appendicitis-,:recently. We are glad to report that she is recuperating nicely at her home in Shippensburg. 26 Mr. Robert L. Wasson is teaching in the high school at Irvington, N. Y. . ¿v’|6 Mrs. Pearl Meredith*$3 teachingfiat Hampton, N. I. Her address is R. D. 1, care E. Gerard. ’26 M i|| Grace Huntzberger of Harrisburg, Pa., is teaching at Paulsboro, N. J. Her addresses 309 W. Broad Street. THE CLASS OF 1927 Where some of the class of ’27 will be located the coming year MisS Evelyn Angle of Mason and Dixon, Pa., will teach a rural school in Montgomery Township, Franklin County. Miss: Kathryn M. Ankeney of Stoyestown, Pa., will teach fourth grade at Jenners, Pa. ^ Miss Florence Arnold, of Allen, Pa., will teach ä rural school in Monroe Township, Cumberland County, Mis|:_ M argaret. Arnold, o f..& e x ico ;-F a ,,i will teach a rural school in Walker-Township, Juniata County:. ;^ T he T eachers C ollege H erald 13 M isi Helen Barbour, Chambersburg, Pa., will teach in Chambersburg. u _ , Miss Mary Beasley is teaching in CamdengN. J. Her address is 1744 N. Lambert St., Philadelphia, Pa. Miss Helen Bland, Bellwood, Pa., will teach a primary school in Bellwood, Pa. Miss Martha: P. Blasser, Millersburg, Pa., will teach primary grade at Hershey. . Miss Phyllis Blackburn, Hummelstown, Pa.; will do primary work in West Fairview, Pa. Mr. Kenneth Bothwell, Highspire, Pa., will have charge of seventh and eighth grades in Swatara Township, Dauphin County. Miss Margaret Botterbusch will teach intermediate grade in York, Pa. . ,. M ill Caroline Boltz, of Altoona, Pa., will teach intermediate grades in Altoona. M i|f Ruth Bingman, New Kingston, P a g will teach second grade at Hershey. ' . „ , , MiSs Helen Briner, Green Park, P aflw ill teach fourth grade at Loysville. . Miss Helen Bucher, Carlisle, Pa.§gdes?4o Morrisville, Pa., to teach English in the High School. Miss Evelyn Buck, Tyrone, .Pa., will be at her home during the year. Mr. Jesse ■ Burkhart® Shippensburg, Pa., will teach a rural school near Middle Spring. Miss Mildred Burkholder, Newville, Pa., will return to normal next year and take work toward the B. S. Degree. Miss Wilma Burnshire, Altoona, Pa., will teach a rural school near Warrior’s Mark, Huntingdon County. Mr. Glenn Bushey, York Springs, Pa., will return to normal to take the B. S. Course. Miss Mildred Bushey, Biglerville, Pa., will teach sixth grade at LittleStown, Pa, Miss Mary Byer, Hagerstown, Md., will teach elementary grade in Hagerstown, Md. v Miss Ruth Clymans, Willow Hill, will have third, fourth and fifth grades at Fannettsburg. Mr. John L. Coover,-: Shippensburg, Pa., will teach a rural school near Oakville. Miss Margaret Coover, Chambersburg, Pa., will teach a rural school in Guilford Township, Franklin County. Miss Helet||Crouse, Fayetteville, Pa., will teach fourth grade at Vintondale, Pa. Miss Mildred Crouse> Harrisburg, Pa., will teach primary grades at Progress, Pa. 14 T he T eachers C ollegeS herald Miss Naomi Conley, New Cumberland, Pa., will -teach Doylestown Intermdiate. J Misii: Thelma Crusey, Walnut Bottom, Pa., goejlto Halifax Intermediate. T 'M i # Dorothy Deardorff, JBiglerville, will teach a ruraflschool in Franklin Township||Adams County. M if| Martha Dice Mill: teach primary at her home, Marysville „ Miss; Evelyn Dively,. Bedford, Pa., will teach primary grades at Cross Roads School, Bedford County. Mi^ss Charlotte Soli, Lebanon, Pa., will teach Art and Music in Independent Borough School, Lebanon. M iff Ruth Eisenhart, York, Pa., will- teach'-. G arilld Rural School, Southampton Township, Franklin County. Miss;. Elizabeth Eisenhower, Shippensburg, Pa., will teach a rural school in Southampton Township, Franklin: County. M i^ V irg in ia Elwell, Cape May, N. J., will-iiteach first grade at Highspire, Pa. Miss Elizabeth Essick, Shippensburg, Pa., will teach intermediate at Newtown, Pa. .. ML: 1Toward Etter, Shippensburg, Pa., will-teach in the gram­ mar gralde at Oakville, Pa. Mr.jjohng&ter, St. Thomas, Pa., will return to normal to take the B.- S. Course! • Miss Nell Filler, Bedford, Pa., will teach in the Junior High School at Altoona, Pa. Mr. Ray Fisher, Clearville, Pa., goes to the Senior High School at Saxton. Mis^iEva Fitzgerald, Carlisle) Pa., will teach primary grade at home. Miss .Helen Fodder, Bedford, Pa., goes, to the Junior High School at Shady: Grove, N. J. Mi|| Marjf' L. Fortney, York, Pa., will teach primary grade at home. M^8|lFiolet freeman, Reading, Pa., will teach In an elementary School at home. L-. . Miss^Iuth Garner, James Creek, Pa., will do primary work at ' -Miss1Pearl GardnergYork S p r in g Pa-., . will teach: a rural Isbhqol in Huntingdon Township, Adams County. Miss Dorothy Geringer., Fayetteville, Pa., will teach in Mont­ gomery Township, Somerset County, N. J. M issCaroline Gentzel. Harrisburg, .»Pa., will teach a rural schgg^in'Upper Allen Township, Cumberland':County. Miss-Helen Goodhart, Lees-'-X Roads, Pa., will teach Mercers-' burg: Intermediate. Mr. Harold Gdttshall, Harrisbhrg, Pa., will return-to normal to take the B. S. Course. T he T eachers C ollege H erald 15 Mièli Heien Grissinger, Broad Top, Pa., will teach fifth grade at Woodvale, Pa. , .. , MisS'ü§Ethei H ainlef; Hollidaysburg, Pa., will teach fifth and sixth'g r a d i at home. ' Mils' Ruth Hale, i ShippenshurgiC.-Pa., will teach Stony Point School, Southampton' Township, Prapklin County. Miss Alice Hall, Huntingdon, Pa., will teach a rural schocil nea§ÌMarkleburg Station, Penn Townfhip, Huntingdon fk>up|g|g Mi|| Ruth Harmony, Chambersburg, Pa.||will teach m Lower Merion D istrict hear Ardmore. Mils Mary A. Hays, Chambersburg/ Pa., will teach at Wayne Heights, near-Waynesboro. ... MiSs. Catherine Helfrich, Shippensburg, Pa., willReach music in the MorrisvilleÿtPa,, s'chooli||Wa;;*>T£^ Miss Kathleen Helman, Chambers.burg, Pa., will teach a rural; school in Guilford Township, Franklin County. . . ; Miss Katherine Hershey,. Lancaster, Pa., will teaci| primary grade’s: at home. ' . A Miss Josephine Hill, Altoona, Pa., will:teach ihlermediate^grade at home. Miss- Vada Hoch, Newburg, Pa., will teach a ruraltechool at Westfield, Cumberland County. Mr. Ralph Hoffman, Middletown, Pa., will teach intermediate grade at home. . Miséjplorence Horton, Wells Tannery, Pa., will teach a rural school atfim ei. . Mr. Ralph Hovis, Chambersburg, Pa., will teach eighth, grade at Hamburg, Pa. Miss GraceMohnstoh, Harrisburg, Pa., will return to normal. Miss Helen Tones, Waynesboro, Pa., will teach llcond grade in Fairview Schb^l near Waynesboro. _ ■ Miss Herthal Kauffman,’ Chambersburg, Pa., will teach a rural ;,schohi nearEhambersburg^'" MisgiKathryii K a i l Marysville, Pa., will tea|| primary grade at home. Miss Helen Kelly, Carlisle, Pa., will teach primary grade at home. Miss Ruth K in sigB u rn h am , Pa., will teach the intermediate grades at Burnham. Miss Dorol||fea Kirk, Harrisburg, B aB will teach a primary school in Swatara Township, Da||hih gounty. rural . M iss’.Mary Kimmel, Boiling. Springs^ Pa., wilffltgachpchool in S. MiddlfS’on Township, Cumberland County; Miss--Goldie Kirkpatrick, Scotland, Pa., will teach? ' rural Ilchopl in Franklin pounty. Mr. Harold Kline, Mason and Dixon, Pa., will teach a grammerffthHHat Ardmorif|Pa. His i^ d r e ^ is 131 Cricket Ave. 16 Tpes; T eachers C ollege H erald Mis|| Pauline Kump, Chambersburg, Pa,, goes :to Quakertown, ’ Pa^ first grade. Miss; Mary Lehman, Newville, Pa., will teach third and fourth grades at Newville. Miss Mary Lindsey, Shippensburg, P a^ goes to the primary pbchopl at Hogestown. Miss Katherine Lukens, Altoona, Pa., will teach in the Junior High School at home. Miss* Catherine McAlicher, Elliottsburg, Pa., goes to a rural school near home. Miss;; Ruth McCall, Hummelstown, sjJja., goes to a primary grade at Hershey. Miss Martha McCloskey, Juniata, Pa., will teach intermediate grade at home. Miss Helen IVfcCune of Shippensburg, will do departmental work in grades four, five and six at Hummelstown, Pa. Miss Anna Meglathery, Bethlehem, Pa., will have charge of a primary grade at home. Miss Mary L. Mellott, McConnellsburg, P a ll has the inter­ mediate grade at Marion. Miss Alma Miller, Hampton, Pa., goes to Leraysville Consoli­ dated School,; fi fth and sixth grades. Miss Gladys Miller, St. Thomas, Pa., teaches the primary grade at home. Miss Elizabeth Myers,ijiCarlisle, Pa., has a primary school in Carlisle. Mr. Charles Mower, goes to Vintondale, Pa. Miss Venus Mort, goes to Metal Township, Franklin County. • Miss Mary Monihen, Port Royal, Pa., will teach primary at Mt. Union. Miss . Helen Morrow, Tyrone, Pa., goes to Lower Merion District in the Junior High. Miss Adelle Nelson, Carlisle, Pa., will supervise penmanship and teach fourth grade near Norristown, Pa. Airs. Sara Nehf, Shippensburg,- Pa., will have charge of a rural school in Southampton Township. Miss .Mary Nye, -.Shippensburg, Pa., will have a rural school near home. Miss Louise Orr, Progress, Pa., will have intermediate grade at home. Miss Katherine Pecht, Milroy, Pa., will teach a rural school near home. M is| Olive Peters, Flora Dale, Pa., will teach rural in Allen Township, Adams County. Miss’ Miriam Piper, Quentin, Pa., will go to a rural school near-. Lebanon. T he T eachers C ollege H erald 17 Mr. Trafford Plasterer, :$hippen#>r|| Pa., will have;, a rural school in Monroe Township. . . , , „ Mr. iu g e n e PlOssinger,'Amaranth, Pa., will be principal of two room school at Sautertown. The post office ■ Miss Margaret Pogueä Pitcairn, Pa., will teach at Milroy, Pa. Miss I.oretta R aff# perger, Biglerville, Pa., goes t0 the Junior High School in Lower Merion D i s t r i c t B Miss Mary Reed, Milroy, will teach primary grade at;-home. Mr. Harold Reber, Shippensburg, Pa., B 9 B Q E B H H R Miss Mary Rentier,. Bunkertown, Pa., will have fifth and sixt p-rades at McAllisterville. , , , S M iss‘Evelyn Rex, Slatedale, Pa., will teach a rural^school near h°Miss Mildred Roth, Biglerville, Pa,, will teach,; primary at A M i # G lS y s Sheaffer, Harrisburg, Pa., will have .second grade at Rutherford Heights, near Harrisburg. . , aI ^ Miss Grace Sheerer’ Dry Run, Pa., will teach Music and Art atS S ° ^ ! f f iS h e n k , Huntsdale, Pa., will teach in the-.Centerville C' T i i s l927>Mr. Hobart G. Clippinger to Miss, Vivian H. Eschenmann ’24. They reside at M/orriSville, N, J. i he T eachers C ollege I.Iera S ! 19 . S exeert-D odd. I A t p e a l | M ? Long Island, by Rev. Richard Hill Mr. William Seibert, 1808 Walnut St., Harrisburg. ;to Mi||J; E. Irene Dodd ’25, 166 N. 15th St., Harrisburg, Pa.-' They reside at ¿#07 BridgeSSt., New Cumbfefiland, Pa., B aeth -W arren , At Shippensburg, Pa., by Rev« W. H. Galbreath, September 10, .1927, Mr. Carl Barth of Reading) to MiiiÍM- Kathryn Warren ’26, of Shippensburg, Pa.: They reside in Harrisburg, Pa. ‘ W heeler-H assler . A S York;: :PÍ¡ August 3; 1927, by Rev.Dr: .(leorge S. .Sober, Mr. Russell H. Wheeler to Miss L. Barbara liaSsler' ’24., They reside near Shippensburg, Pa. W illis -H oke. A t Shippensburg, Pa.:, Augusi|..23, 1927, Mr. Philip A. Willis of New Bern, North Carolina, t|| Muss Anna M. Hoke ’20. They reside at 4017 Xorihminster St.,: Pittsburgh, PaB urkhart -S h am baugh . At the Little Church Around the Corner, New York. City, A u g u slig , 1927, Mir. J. Paul Burkhart ’23 to Miss. Mildred A. Shambaugh ’23. They reside at Lemaster, Pa!, where Mr. Burkhart is :Principal of the I ligh , School and Mrs. Burkhár^is a teacher. 'TA C arter-W arfield . A t Shippensburg, Pa., October 4, I9^7> Mr. William Carter to Miss Mary Warfield. They reside m Ship­ pensburg, Pa. ' , H ighlands -K endig . At Cumberland, Md., September 24, 1927, Mr. Edward! TA Highlands, of Leesburg, to M || Edith R. Kendig ’26, of Xewburg. ¡f They reside; at Lees. X Roads, h ’a. • M cK ee -P lessinger . At Shippensburg, Pa,, June 6, 1927, by R e v ij| S . Glenn, Mr. James K. McKee to Mis:s Mary Plessinger ’25. Mr. McKee is at present a senior in ij. T. C. and Mrs. McKee is -teaching at Amaranth, Pa. K yeE-Allen . At Lebanon, Pa., October 5, 1927, Mr. Richard C. Kyle to Miss Anna V. Allen ’27. They reside near Marion, Pa. STORK COLUMN S quires , At Shippensburg, Pa., A ugust'10, 1927, born to Mr. and Mrs. Pf-ed,'.Squifes a daughter, Marion Fay. Mr. Squires was graduated inifhe classjbf 19.14.D u n la p . A t Oakville, Pa.,sS|hptember 7, 1927, born to Mr. and Mrsffjjames Dunlap a daughter. Mr. Dunlap was graduated in the cla&fv.of ’04. F iG K E S f A t , Shippensburg, Pa,,»September 15, 1927, born to Mr. a n d ' Mrs. Dewey Fickcs a son, Gene Walker. Mrs. Fiekes was Martha Kope ’ 17, : , M eans .. At Shippensburg, August, 26, 1927, born to Mr. and Mrs. Chalmers MeatisAa daughter, Marjorie Winifred. Mrs. Means was Elizabeth McCune ’15.. 20 T he T eachers C ollege H erald L ightner . A t Chambersburg, Pa., May 23, 1927, born to Mr. and Mrs. Monroe C. Lightner a daughter Ida Ann. Mrs. Lightner was Maeda K. Weicht ’22. R ice . At the Hanover General Hospital, August 4, 1927, born to Mr. and Mrs. Dennis A. Rice a son. Mrs. Rice was M. Florence Rife ’18. OBITUARY T h o m as. Dr. S. B. Thomas '05, died August jg 1927. The friends of Dr. Thomas will appreciate the article printed below taken from the Waynesboro Press of August 8, 1927: Waynesboro has suffered a great loss. Death has claimed one of its leading physicians, the late Dr. S. B. Thomas, No' man in the community could be more generally missed than the kind and loving doctor. He was at all times everybody’s friend. He served in the late World War but he was not an exservice man. His services did not cease with the ''signing of the Armistice and the laying down of arms. Scarcely a day had passed since then that he had not helped some veteran “Buddy” in distress, «the disabled boys at Mont Alto had no truer friend than Dr. Thomas. He was always doing something to make their lives a little brighter. They will miss him greatly. He was. ever willing to serve on the various committees of the American Legion in its program of welfare work. The good he did in providing the comforts of life for widows and orphans of ex-service men will never be fully known. His generosity knew no bounds. He gave abundantly of all he had in such a quiet unassuming way that the public knew little of his benevolences. Truly a benefactor of mankind has gone to his reward,. H untzberger Dr. I. W. Huntzberger ’95, died September 13. We take the following from the Middletown Press:Dr. I. W. Huntzberger, of 215 Montgomery Street, Friendship Heights, Maryland, died, at his residence at 4 ¡30 Tuesday after­ noon. He had just returned from his vacation spent at Mont Alto, on September 13, when he suddenly succombed to a heart attack dying within a half hour. Dr. Huntzberger was born in Elizabethtown, on March 26, 1873. About twenty-five years ago he went to Washington and taught mathematics successively in the Eastern and Western High Schools. His most recent service was with the Central High School. He was also for a period on the faculty of the Young Men’s Christian Association School. T he T eachers C ollege H erald 21 He was graduated from the State Normal School of Shippensburg, Pa., and from the Lebanon Valley College at Annville, Pa. Three years ago he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at American University in Washington, D. C. He was a member of the Federal Schoolmen’s Club. Dr. Huntzberger was for several years a member of the official Board of the Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church and president of the adult Bible •Class, a worker in the Sunday School andSdsely identified with the many activities of that church. He is survived by his widow and two children, a son, Lee, fourteen years of age and a High school student and a daughter, May, a senior at George Washing­ ton University. M iller Kathleen B. Miller died July, 1927. We learn that Miss Miller died at her home in Chambersburg, after several monthjgiliness from tuberculosis. We are sorry not to have any further p a rtic u la r^ E tter . Cora Miller ’93, (Etter) died September 10, 1927. We learn that Mrs. Etter died at her home in Hummelstown, Pa., on the above date but have no further particulars. SCHOOL DISCIPLINE Since America no longer follows the methods of travel, living, work, etc., employed during the earlier period of our national history, we may reasonably expect and desire corresponding changes in school^procedure. The individual who wishes^/and does travel in an up-to-date tiigh power automobile frequently is not as up-to-date in his interpretation of the meaning of school discipline. The* school of today represents a group of girls and boys busily engaged in purposeful activities of various types. The quiet, suppressed atmosphere of the pioneer period has been supplanted by' an atmosphere which indicates real interest in the work, specific aims set and attained, wholesome American rivalry of various typegi the use of materials of all types in ad­ dition to numerous textbooks, and the spirit: of helpfulness, co­ operation and happiness in constant evidence. In fact each child is living Chappy and normal life with many opportunities for creative work. By actually practicing being a good citizen and an earnest and efficient worker at each age level desirable habits and attitudes are developed in addition to subject matter learned. Specific objectives for, each unit of work are clearly formulated with the help and guidance of the teacher. T h isarou seslin - 22 T he T eachers' C ollege ;H erald terestfand also makes; .-SUccesp possible. The assignments for in­ dependent -and unsupervised work are carefully planned f So that each child can successfully and honestly complete the: tasks.: Instead of saying “Pay attention” the teacher specifically, directs and aidis in setting goals and in findingiséfficient ways of reaching those goals.. The goals ¡must always be,-within the interests and capacities ■ of the children engaged in the activity. High standards and ideals of both workmanship- and conduct are grad­ ually developed and definite goals attained. The members of an interested-¡group who know definitely what the task is and how to perform it Usually offer no serious problems/-of discipline. Children are human beings; and when interested and happy and working with success,: they wish to achieve until the ultimate goals have been successfully reached, They are .too busy to cause difficult problems of discipline. Some' one has‘¿said “Nature is often véfy kind to the ¡.Medical Profession.” Nature is equally a§|kind to the Teaching Profes­ sion if ’teacherlgwill study each child and will- us® native in­ terests and capacitiesain developing the acquired habits, abilities, skills and attitudes. The discipline of the school as- pictured by those who sat in straight jackets at the command of the birch rod does not exist in this modern . school group. There Jg,¡ ¡the noiscjwhich is common to busy life in any human group. There is freedom under organized control and natural physical activity is recognized. This setting is characteristic of modern American life and teachers^ everywhere should encourage patrons, and friends to visit the schof§B'‘ in order to acquaint them with the various. types;, of aSvitiqá and to demonstrate results obtained. Patrons who visit the schools and cooperate with the teachers soon learn that freedom of activity with constant growth as the chief aim requires , a fine, type of conduct. Children who mis­ interpret and. misuse these opportunities for growth need ..the individual at|§ntion of both parents and teachers.. By beginning this program the first year of school and through immediate action when difficulties arise, undesirable habits of conduct do not become established. Drill projects are a vital part of this program because habits of all types must be formed; and basic facts- ••and principles learned for purpo'fskg of retention. But the|feubj§et matter to be practiced, is meaningful and - the learning ¿pis, properly motivated -§ó that the children want to learn it. fftheir successes make them happy, efficient, honest and earnest workers. At the' end of each- year they have added to their - achievements more 'habitsp-greater skills and abilities^and greatest o;f all, a. desirable attitude toward work, fellow workers.;, :schobl|§§subjects to be studied and life as a whole. The leaders of the “gang” who in the past So frequently held: ¡secretive meetings in obscure places T he T eachers C ollege H erald 23 have learned the joy of good citizenship by leading the school groups. In other words, the native capacities for leadership and group activity have been stimulated, encouraged and directed by competent teachers. Modern methods of classroom procedure should unhesitatingly be used and demonstrated. The school discipline of today will then be more thoroughly understood and supported by the community and greater success for the boys and girls of tomorrow will result. N ora A. K ieffer . RURAL TRAINING SCHOOL CENTRE 1927-1928. Pleasant Hill School, Shippensburg Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Prof. Ralph Jacoby.............................. . • •County Superintendent Prof. Wm. M. R ife.....................Assistant County Superintendent Prof' O. Lee Shulenberger..........Assistant County Superintendent Mr. Harold Park.......................................... ..Vocational Director Miss Grace Seyfret, R. N ........................................... County Nurse Board of Directors Mr. C. E. Hollinger............................................................ President Mr. H. B. C ra ig ............................................ .................Secretary Shippensburg First National Bank---- ............................Treasurer Prof. J. K. Stewart Mr. Charles Funk Mr. J. M. Smith W. P. Harley, A. M......... .............. .Director of Training Schools Pleasant Hill School Pupil Enrollment, 1st to 8th grade inclusive................................ 38 Edna Stamy Fox, B. S . . . . . . . . ............. .................. Room Teacher Assistant to Rural Director Hannah A. Kieffer, A. M...................... Director Student Training Director Rural Education College Faculty Advisers Marion A. Blood, A. M.......... H. L. Burkholder, M. A .................. . Grace E. Kyle, R. N.......................... Nora A. Kieffer, A. M.................... M. Irene Huber, B. S . . .. ................. Claudia Rd|b, B. S-.............. ......... Mrs. J. K. Stewart, A. B .................. Harriet Tooke, Music B . . . . ........... Mary A. York, AL; A . . ------- ------ Hannah A. Kieffer, A. M . . . . . . . . . .................................... English ..................................W riting ........... Professional Services .......... Arithmetic . . . . . . . . . . . : . . . . . . . . . . . -Art ................. Health Education ................. Social Studies ........ . ......... .................Music ...................................Reading . . . . . . . . ...Geography 24 T he T eachers C ollege H erald RURAL GROUP ALUMNI SURVEY Greetings'To all Rural Alumni: You will notice that this number of the Rural Herald has puriposefuHy been arranged so that the various articles have been contributed by different ^faculty members 'associated with the Rural Department. :; It is my plan that you shall be given an opportunity to partici­ pate in presenting the October Herald 1928. Will you answer the questionnaire before December 15th? Those who desire to contribute additional material by March 15, 1928, please indicate this oh the questionnaire. In the cause of rural education, Faithfully yours, H a n n a h A, K ieffer . RURAL GROUP ALUMNI QUESTIONNAIRE ’Name ................. . Address . . . . , ; . . . . . . . . Home Address: iV;.".' Date ............................ Types of Positions held since graduation: Type School - k / County!. Years ............... — H .............No. Children Growth in Service : 1 Married ................. Extension Courses.. .................Place ................ Date 1 . . . . . . 1 . , . Summer Sessions .. l \ ¿Place...................J Date ......................... Organized Teachers’ Meetings................. Type W ork.......... Have you decided to study for a d e g re e ? ........... When ? ..................... Have you enrolled with the Pennsylvania Research Bureau?.......... Get in touch at once with your County Superintendent. , List the four best books which you have read since graduation. You are invited to assist assemble the 1928-1929 Rural Herald. Send outlines of the four best seatwork devices. Suggest; four best drill devices. Commercial educational Games, Name ............... .................... Publisher ...................................... . . . Cost . , « i List of.topics you desire discussed in the Herald. Dues: Have you kept faith with the Country Life Club since graduation by remitting yearly dues of fifty cents ? The Seniors have a field service plan. Do you care to know more about their plan? T UK T eachers C ollege H erald 25 DRILL SUGGESTIONS FROM THE 1927-1928 RURAL GROUP SENIORS The following rural Seniors : Ruthanna Bair, Mildred Bashore, Beulah Beam, Ploranna F ox|;fM:ary V . Ç arvSpA tm a Maé Gipe, C. Ethel Hoffeditz, Ida Krone, Martha Lininger, Beulah M. Merz, Zora Murray, Gladys McLaughlin, Mary J. L. Preston, Maude A. Stamey, Joseph H. Knisely||James McKee, Willard Preston, Linn Shatzer, -Clifford H. jfnyder, and Bruce Stouffer submit the flo w in g suggestions for use in the rural elementary schools : The project idèa can he used in the One-teacher school as well as in the graded elementary; school; The former has the eight grades classified into four groups, the periods are short, the classes are smallj the subject matter is alternated and the groups may work individually or as a unit in developing the subject matter in keeping with the besif. educative activities and directed studjpj:'; L'Lvrv The graded Schools are larger and are usually organized into three groups. The types ' ofj. class and seatwork activities are very similar to those in the one-teâcher school. Both situations call for drill. Drill which includefïilearning to séÉ„a goal and then more drill to maintain that goal and form habits, • This calls for a program which recognizes group drill activities under pupil leadership taking- place while the teacher instructs and drills other groupSk ThafiTs the teacher’s time with each group is limited. The class periods arefshort and the time each pupil has for oral expression is limited. The drill period under pupil leadership and indirectly through the guidance of the teacher has a definite place in the modern school. This drill may be- given around -a tabic, in a corner of the -classroom, at the blackboard and sometimes“ at their desks. The drill may pome through well planned seatwork as sug­ gested in the October, ‘ 1924, Herald (copies available at ten cents) and through the following : R eading : List new words and phrases allthey occur on ilaish cards or charts and motivate; drill through gameSJ and contèÉ's. Repetfg tion should vari- from ten to about thirty-five times. Most teachers fail to provide for repetition. Groups, of children under pupil leaders may read orally units of subject matter until errorless goals are established. Definite aims should be formulated for each practice period. Primary children may cut pictures of animals, flowers, furni­ ture, etc., from magazines and papers. The same may be mounted separately or in groups and the name placed below in 26 T he H éàchers C ollege H erald script or print. Duplicate names- are made and the matching exercise is a step in drill for learning. Practically !||I reading systems'have well planned drill and review devices listed in their manuals,- -. Teachers organized in township and district groups would find it profitable to review these manuals and exchange -ideas on devices.. Turn to the article on silent reading ;by Miss- York for further suggestions. A r it h m e tic : It has been proven through experimentation that the secret of high speed and accuracy in arithmetic lies in adequate drill. Also, that drill in arithmetic is more effective when it is applied at' the point off error, .This-calls for individual records of pupil difficulties. One of the best games for drill on addition and subtraction or multiplication and division may be conducted as follows: The class selects a captain and two leaders.fffche entire class is grouped equally with the two leaders. .The captain arranges at random cards numbered in the centre from o to 9. The entire group think the same number. One group decides to add a number to the numbers on the cards as exposed. The other group subtracts the number from the sum as given by the first group. The captain; sees that.scores are kept as well as individual records of difficulties for individual-drill. Multiplication and division may be drilled in a similar manner. Series of charts.; made off kraft paper or cardboard with the proper distribution of drills may be made by the older pupils with the help of the teacher. ¡.¡¿The opposite side may have the same exercises with the answers and in case of doubt, always permit the child to visualize the correct answer. Require himjgtq fist that question for individual drill at home an® in school. Aim to usg the side with answers as few times as possible. Teachers ishduld plan systematically, time distributions';; for review. Psychologists seem to agree that a new operation should be. introduced- with a»ong” drill period, which many of us term our instruction period. The pupils then need practice to form habitsif; A fter a period of a week or more another drill'.Should be” given and from this time on, drill may be shortened and intervals between drill increased. The "¡drills devised by specialists; are to be preferred to those improvised by the teacher. The Compass Diagnostic Tests in Arithmetic by Ruch, Knight, 'Greene and Studebaker published by Scott, Foresman and Company, New York illustrate the modern trend in ' drill devices. Ask your superintendent to recommend Others for your classes. The modern textbook is rich T he T eachers C ollege ¡’H erald 27 in drift ;exercises'i and the resourceful teacher usqss- these in a variety of ways. W riting : See article by Mrs. Edna «St'amey Fcg§ in this numt^r ';c>| the Herald. At all’ times place a premium on .; s# 3od writing in connection with all school work. gfrhisjjsubjectR g|ld, be ‘corr^ ted with all the others. S pelling : Since the psychologist recommends that oral study rather than silent, study be used, it ijgladvisable. that study guides in spelling such aS^listed in the revised edition1 of the Lippincott Speller by Horn and Ashbaugh, Lippincott M Sfshing Company,. Philadel­ phia, Pa., and ffhe Psychology of' -Elementary' Sfe'h^'.Subjecta |fiy Reed, Ginn Company, N. Y.,' be used by the pupils at 'Home. Spelling is a Su||ect that lendsK |elf welWto''home "assign­ ments. If prepared in school, the pupils may work in groups| under pupil leadership, Anagrams a ré 'suggested for thj|: primary grades and short blackboard practice at different periods f° r ad the grades. G eography : The pupils.are taught hpw to get ideas from all types of maps: political, physical^transportation, population, climate, race; vege­ tation, product, manufacturing ■ Vareas; etc, The pupils likewise should clinch their work in geography by1 expressing different ideas on outline maps. The slated wall outline map may be used by many groups and many times in a school year. Every elementary school • should begin assembling a complete set of slated outline maps. ■ , » T h e desk and wall outline maps of paper are of equal ^im­ portance; these mayÉfJ bought, traced or drawn by the gifted children. They provide onev'of the best- devices for drill in learning. It is essential that map’s used to express .ideas should beSgtandard: have a meaningful title, latitude and longitude in­ dicated, directions marked, Jffoundary lines extendedgboundaries marked, a scale, a key, referencC and date of reference. Pupils : may make a geography game by using the Twelve Hundred Selected Place Names by Dr. D .| | | Ridgely listed in the Journal Of Geography, September, 1926, and associating with each-name as many facts, a s ' possible. The name of the place being written On one side of the card and as. many facts as 'pos­ sible on the other side. ' Pageants, debates,. dramatization, booklets, charts, sandtable and other projects may all be used as clinching devices inpgeography. 28 T he T eachers C ollege#H erald Review questions asi listed in different editions of the' rural Herald and in various texts-should receive consideration in well planned drill activities in geography. A rt and M u sic: ■ Children enjoy assembling on cards the names of artists and on the opposite side interesting facts about the artist; these facts are evaluated to aid in scoring a game. Cards with the name of the artist is drawn and if the facts can be given by the player, the scoring is done in proportion. The assembling of school and individual files in art and music are worthy and interesting projects;:.’: H istory : The State Director of History gave us a minimum list of dates for drill in history.; Through the use of the law of asso­ ciation a picture or drawing may be associated with each event and through a well organized game the law of repetition will become effective. History calls for a wide range of supplementary reading. A list of review questions;; will be listed in the next number of the Herald. The file, the booklet, charts, maps, debates;' dramatization, etc., as well as the project idea in teaching all aid in comprehension in history. b C lV IG S ; A N D A Ji seems -, that this work can be clinched best through club activities applied to the immediate school, home and community environments^ the pupils. L anguage : Reed tefa us that the most effective way of improving ability in language is to discover the errors of children :and then give corrective drill. To that end every teacher should build a file of corrective devices: and games adapted to the different ages and: difficulties of children. Space will not permit detailed suggestions. The January number of the Herald--is- to be an English number. It will be rich with suggestions. At your next teachers’ meeting exchange drill devices with your coworkersfg; do the same in your ¡¡English classes, next summer. N ature S t u d y : Excellent bird, flower and tree games;’ are now available at most book stores. Read nature stories and nature poems to the children with appreciation as your objective. T he T eachers C ollege H erald 29 HANDWRITING IN RURAL SCHOOLS l'tEpÎLA Sta .u y F ox, B. S., Supervisor of Handwriting, Pleasant Hill Training School. What' are the possibilities; for improving ■ handwriting ih rural schools? . How can we achieve the greatest results in the limited amount of time? What are the big objectives to be realized ? And how can we best; attain them? These are gome of the problems upon which we are at work. No longer can we excuse: ourselves because of lack of time. The surveys of Thorndike and Freeman fail to show any consistent relationship between the amount of time a week' ■ given to hand­ writing and the quality of the results obtained. The variation in results are due largely to the efficiency of the instructor and the ability of the pupils to learn. The system of penmanship also has an influence. _ _■ It is our concern then to keep clearly in mind certain wellselected objectives to be reached. The primary aim of hand-' writing is to develop in the child sufficient skill to record his idéais and accounts, and to keep his correspondence. In other words, the primary aim is the attainment of certain, very definite objectives, among which are the following: 1. Legibility. a. Uniform slant. b. Spacing. c. Good, accurate forms. d. Uniform ¡sizes and relative heights, e. Even alignment. 2. Speed. . • 3. H'jSndeavor, the desire td write well in all writing Situations. 4. Arrangement,«the abilityLjtoyiarrrange .¡written ||rofk; ef"ectively. S„ Interpretation, the ability to interpret script. 6. / Critical knowledge of|basal elements of effective writing as outlined under legibility. 7. Ease. 8. System, the habitual use of care and system in handling of writing materials'.v^ij With the prevalent use of the typewriter in modern lifeSlpeed is far less'significant than legibility. We seem to attain speed at the expense of form. What we need is more attention, to form. We need also to minimize mere movement drills and em­ phasize application to concrete achievements,- There is a big waste of time in abstract drills thaffead to no immediate goal We .need to have a definite blocking of our work by units. This means that letter^ should be taught not i$tr, alphabetical, order, not’ necessarily in the order in which they occur in the 30 T he T’f.ac ii krs C ox. legl H erald Manual of the System used, l>ut should be grouped into units for teaching .according to basic movements and ^Similar forms. Examples to illustrate are the group beginning with the “capital j? stem” aS^M, N, H, K, X, W and'ithe group having the up under curve, as e, i, u,. t, w... Numerous needs arise in connection with the general classroom activities which offer a natural rather than an artificial incentive for improving a particular difficulty. ’Tests are necepafy to show progreess. -3 §he pupil should be ; CnsouragsM to''’compete with himself.., If he compareSwith his own work of an earlier date .he can. see his progress and .gain confidence, and inspiration. For this testing any standardized scale may be utilized as the Ayres Handwriting Scale, Gettys­ burg Edition, Thorndike’s, Breed and Downs’, freemans’, Johnson and Stones. A much worthwhile;;project.; motivating this analytic process is the construction of a handwriting scale made by the class with the aid o f ' the .¡^standardized test used in the school.. ' For details of procedure read “The Attainment of ObjectiveSfjjn Hand­ writing” in the Elementary Scho<5:k|j!ournal, September 1927. The measurement of ability to . write reveals Situations which demand; that the teacher be resourceful in finding psychologically sound remedies and devices to overcome the existing short comings. Should we teachers be able to motivate tipis work for all ptjpils through true-to-life situations, or therapy of achieve­ ment, we are fortunate indeed. But we are forced to use tem­ porary devices' to entice children to practice drills which are in themselves, like dishwashing, uninteresting. We employ in­ direct rather than direct interest. Some interests appealed to in mpjiyation are: J. Competition, with self, individuals,, or teams,. ;g,v: I.ove of mastery. 3. Rivalry. 4. ppoye ofpilitauty, 5. Desire for approval. The following devices are effective: 1. Honor rolls. 2. Badgef*s awards, pins. 3. Certificates of merit. 4. K xcu se from special drills asflsoon as he has achieved a grade standardly- Record book J- B. Lippencott Company, Philadelphia. SternsC-Challenge of Youth. 1023, W. A. Wilde Company, Boston. Thomas, The. Unadjusted Girl. 1927, Little, Brown and Company. Rodgel^Ientative Habits for Primary Children. Teachers College Publication Bureau, 525 West 120 St., New Yo|k City. Writing, The A. N. Palmer Co., 55 Fifth Ave., New York City. Penmanship Stories by Frank Arnold and H. B. McLean, 35c. Teachers ! Handb;pok of Methods by Pearl Mallory, 35 cents. Unit Poems at one cent each., ® The Unit Press, Fitchburg^Mass, Waples, Problems in Classroom Method. 1927, MacMillan Company, New York City. Young'. and. Memmott, Methods in Elementary E§iglish. D. Appleton and Company, New York City. S uperintendent of D ocuments, W ashington , D. C. Write for latest price list ofJfiFarmer’s Bulletins;' Department bulletins, Circulars, Agriciiltural Yearbooks, Statistical BulletingBureau of Education Bulletin N o ^ 'l,i927; Bibliography of Certain Aspects of Rural Education, Bulletin 1927 No. 27, Bureau of Education, Rural School Supervision. List of Publications available September, I92^u!;; Textbooks found on the Training School Library Shelves, Rural Training School Reference shelf and elsewhere. Textbooks which we believe rural alumni may want to examine. T he T eachers C ollege H erald 33 Geography: Dodge Lackey, Elementary Geography, Rand McNally Company;' New York City. Barrows and Parker, Journeys to Distant Lands Eurasia United States World Problems Silver Burdett Company, New York. Smith, J. Russell, Home Folksf|For third grade« Winston and Company, Philadelphia. Hygiene: D. C; Heath and Company, New York. Turner and Collins Series, Cleanliness and Health Health Biglow and Broadhurst Series,:,Health in Home and Neighbor­ hood Health for Everyday Silver Burdett and Company, Chicago. History and Civics : Tyron and Lingley, The American People and Nation. Ginn and Company, New York City. Beard and Bagley, Revised Edition, Book I. First History. Book II. History , of American People. King and Barnard, Our Community Life. J. C. Winston Company, Philadelphia. Readers: Child Library Readers (Klson extension Series). Scott-Foresman and Company. Nida-Nida Series; Science Readers- for Silent Reading. D. C. Heath and Company. McCall and Crabbs, Standard Test Lessons In Reading. Teachers College Bureau of Publications, Columbia; U n k versity, New York City, N. Y. Lewis and Rowland, Silent Readers for Grades I to 8, Revised Editions. J. C. Winston Company, Philadelphia. Arithmetic: Buckington-Osburn, Search Light Arithmetics:'1, f Ginn and > ^ - V > f ' J- ; 3. Giving answers in his own words to questions which required the child to rekd printed material silently. Ex.— T. Read t||find what happened to the dog/ P . : fA fter read­ ing) He found a boy to care for him. 4. Silent reading of a short, unit in preparation for reading it orally, (For additional suggestions, see Watkins— How To Teach Silent Reading To B eginn ers^ . II. Silent Reading Activities in the IntermediatJIgjid Upper Grades:^; — .■ ■ A. During Study Periods Without Supervision. ¿«These;; : should be “checked -up” by the teacher afterwards.) < Reading of Library BookHand Periodicalpffor recrea­ tion. 2. Reading in preparation for oral presentation to an a u d i e n c e " : , 41•, A 1 3. Reading,- of ;an easy selection in. a;.limited amount of time to develop rate. Reading of fact material in order to finf^-answerntO' questions. 5. Reading ,of a selection/ preferably oij; fact material, in order tolaetermine the main points. 36 T he T eachers C ollege H erald 6. Reading a selection in order to make a topical outline. 7- Individual reading of a selection, in order to make a report to the Class > Vt 8. Rereading of a selection in planning for a dramatiza­ tion. 9. Rereading of a selection to determine gain in speed over the first reading. 10. Rereading to gather data to answer thought questions. Ex.— Do you think the hero was- justified in his action? Give proof to support your opinion. Silent Reading Activities. B. Silent Reading Activities for the Recitation Period. ■ ,,.1,.. The reading of short selections under a time limit. 2. Nfl'lie reading of short selections for developing skill in comprehending details. Ex.— Drill with Crabbe-McCall Practice Lessons in Silent Reading. 3. Finding answers to particular questions in a supervised studjLlessom 4. Reading to help build a blackboard outline under the teacher’s .supervision. 5. Responding to flash cards such as No. 2, under B— Primary Grades. Excellent suggestions for silent reading activities may be ob­ tained from the following sources: Gist and King, Teaching and Supervision of Reading. 1927, Chas Scribner’s Sons,.; New York. Watkins, How to Teach Silent Reading to Beginners. 1922, J. B. Lippincot and Co., Philadelphia. Smith, One Hundred Ways to Teach Silent Reading. 1925, World Book Co., Yonkers, N. Y. Stone, Silent and Oral Reading. Houghton, Mifflin Co., New York. ■ Pennell and Cusack, How to Teach Reading. I924, Houghton and Mifflin Co,, N. Y. *Silent Reading Seat Work Materials. Harter School Supply Ho., Cleveland, Ohio. *Study Period Projects. Merton Laidlaw Bros,,' Publishing Co., New York. Collins and Anderson, Silent Reading Seatwork Pad. Scott, Foresman and Co., New York City. *Work and Play With Words. HajJ|and McCreary Co.gsChicago. (* The last three are materials to be used by the children.) M ary K. Y ork. T he T eachers C ollege H erald 37 PICTURE STUDY A t least one worth-while picture .should be studied in every school room every month. If funds are available for' ihlipurchase, of inexpensive small pictures^ we suggest the following plan: Mount thd picture in a folder and on the opposite page write a description of the picture and something about the artist who painted it. At the end of the school year these folders may be fastened together into book form. By the time the children have gone through the grades. a valuable collection of pictures will be then The Perry -Pictures Company, Molden, Mass?, print wb.ht are probably the most inexpensive pictures for public school use. These are in carbon and sepia, about three inches by four inches in size and cost One-half cent- apiece. ^ Color adds greatly to the charm of pictures.for children and there are several firms who print 'colored mittiatures$f about three inches'by four inches); at reasonable price's. .The following firms offer these-prints with leaflets containing information and ma­ terial for the teacher’s use: The Art Extension Society, New York. F. A. Owen Publishing Compony, Philadelphia, Pa. The Colonial Art Company, Oklahoma City, Okla. The Brown Robertson Company: The Elson Art Publishing Co., Inc., Belmont, Mass,, also supply material for the use of teachers and also miniature prints but these are not in color. A helpful series of graded Picture Study Readers has been published by Miss Flora Carpenter, Rand McNally Chicago, Quite recently the Mentzer, Bush and Com­ pany, Chicago, has offered a graded series of picture material in color called Great Pictures and Their Storie|lby Katharine M. Lester. They have been arranged in the following manner for the B ook O ne—-First |8rade Baby Stuart, Van Dyck, Flemish. Nurse and Child, Ilals^Dutch. The Calmady Children, JLawrence, English. Madonna of the Chair, Raphael, Italian. With Grandma, MacEwen, American. Children of the Shell, Murillo, Spanish. Children of the Sea, Israels, Dutch. Feeding Her BirdgMillet,,,French. Infanta Margarita Theresia,. Velasquez, Spanish. The Holy Night, Correggio, Italian. B ook Two — S econd G rade The Holiday, Potthast, American. Artist and Daughter, Vigee-Lebrun, French. 38 T he T eachers C ollege H erald Boy with Rabbit, Raeburn, English. ' Don Baltasar. ijârlos on Horseback, Velasquez, Spanish. The Storage Room, Hooch, Dutch. : The Pastry Eaters','"Murillo, Spanish., Age of Innocence, Reynolds, English. Home Work, Carrière, French. ■ Children Q K ^ arïJfc., Van Dyck,, Flemish. Sistine Madonna (D etài|| Raphael, Italian, B ook T hree— T hird G rade--- , Angel with Lute (Detail), Carpaccio, Italian. Dancing in a Ring, Thoma, German. An Aris|icraHLand||er, English. Return to the Fold, Mauve, Dutch. Hearing, Jesse Wilcox Smith, American. , Miss Bowles,- Gainsborough, English. Carnation Lily, Lily Rose, Sargent, American. ^Pilgrims: Going- pR Church, Boughton, English. Going To Church, Moravia, Uprka, Chezko-Slovakian. :T.he Primitive Sculptor;-Couse, American. B ook Eotr— F ourth Grade Aurorq) Guido Reni, Italian. B fte ,11orse Fair, Bonheur, French. Behind the Plow, Kemp-Welch, English. Venetian Waters, Tito, Italian. The Sheep Fold, Jacque, French. The Gleaners, Millet, French. The Solemn Pledge, Ufer, American. Preparing forigfchurch, Blommers/ Dutch. Going to Market, Trovon, ¡French. The Blue Boy, Gainsborough, English. B ook F ive— F ifth Grade Spring Dance, Von Stuck, German. After a Summer Shower, Inness; American. Russian Winter, Grabar, Russian. The (Sewing School, Artz, Dutch. Return of the Fishermen, Sorolla, Spanish. Song of the Lark, Breton, French. Appeal to the Great Spirit, Dollin, American. Lady With Lute, Vermeer, Dutch. Gallahad the Deliverer, Abbey, American. Thé Santa Fe Trail, Young-Hunter, English. B ook S ix — S ixth G rade The Jester, HalsBDutch. The Mill, Ruisdael, Dutch. A Flower Girl in Holland, Hitchcock, American. Dutch Interior, Hooch, Dutch. T h e T each ers- C ollege H erald 39 View oi Ghent, Baertsoen, Belgian.;, ,: The’ Fog Warning, Homer, American. Joan of Arc, Lepage, French. Joan of Arc, Chapu-, French. The Boy-Christ in the Temple, Hofmann, German. The Angelus, Millet,, French. ■ BpiOK S even—-S eventh G radeJ|| Moonlight, Wood’s Island Light, Homer, American. Dance of the Nymphs, Corot, French. Sir Galahad, Watts,|pnglish. The Vigil, Peihil;fSnglish. Icebound, Metcalf, American. B^he. Concert, Terboch, Dutch. Frieze of the Prophets (Detail), SargenaAmerican. Bartolommeo Colleoni, Verocchio, Italian. King Cophetua and Beggar Maid, Burne-Jones, English., Avenue of Trees, Hobbema, Dutch. B ook E ighJ^AEighth Grade - George. WashingtonSStUart, American; On the Stairs;. Torn, Swedish. ;'The Artist’s Mother, Whistler, American. : 'Cotopaxi, Church, American. The Syndics, Rembrandt, Dutch. • The Church at Old (Lyme) ITassam, American. The Last Supper, Da Vinci,' Italian. St. Genevieve,(fhlvis De Ghavann||| French. The Fighting Temerairf, Turner, English. The Victory of Samothrace,' Sculptor Unknown, Greek. llp'herif'Are many other helpful and interesting lists available for the Bifferent grades. -;The Practical Drawing Company of Dallas and Chicago offer very helpful series- in packet form. These are inexpensiv® There is- a packet for each grade (f|ut 'the pictures are' not in color. The State Course of Study' suggests as one plan, that important pictures related to a single subject be studied by grades somewhat aW follows)!'"1;* First Grade— Mother aftd||fifild or Children Pictures. Second Grade—-Farn-i Life. Third Grade— Children of Other Lands. Fourth GradeSLandscape and 'Frees. Fifth Grade— In d u stry."( Sixth Grade— Famous Buildings. Seventh Grade— Famous (Sculpture. (Eighth Grade— Ageyof Bhivalry. Ninth Grade-rf-American Pictures*^ The following lesson is merely a suggestion, for a pictureptudy lesson' in grade four. 40 T he§ T eachers C ollege H erald The Horse Fair by Rosa Bonheur. This picture is sixteen and a. half feet wide by seven feet nine inches high, and is said to be the largest canvas ever produced by an animal painter. It hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, having been purchased fqrt $55,qoôfand pre­ sented to the Museumi!ifiT887. The scene does not seem so much like a horse fair but more . like a horse market. The splendid animals pass before us at a trot, kicking up the dust as they pass. They appear to have just arrived at thé market and are being taken to a field or perhaps a running track beyond the trees at the right of the picture. ‘The horses are neither saddled nor briddled but are controlled by halters with rope bits. There are fine trees at thé. right, under which dealers and,. spectator||are taking their places. Far at the left and in the distance is the dome of a church. As;.'-you look at the, painting,, or even a copy, one feelssquite certain that the scene is taken from real life. Notice the different positions and movements of the horses, There are no two alike either in color or action, but this variety and contrast are so well arranged that they prove restful to the eye. When the painting was exhibited in . Parisian 1853, people wondered that a woman should possess the skill and power to accomplish such a vigorous picture, iÿ|j; was thought few men could have done; it, It was awarded all the honors of the exhibi­ tion.;;' Later Mr. Landseer, the famous English animal painter made an engraving of it about one quarter ,the size. ’T his en­ graving now hangs in the National Gallery in London. Another .smaller copy was sold in England for $20,000. This gives. ¡some idea of the popularity of the. picture. Many engravings, photo­ graphs and painted copies have been made and are still being made of it. The iSfirst, Rosa Bonheur, was born in Bordeaux, France» in 1822. Hep| father was: a painter and taught her all he could. When she was eleven her mother died and she was .sent to. school for several years with her two sisters. Her father was a poor man and while Rosa was at boarding school •could not dress her as well as her wealthy schoolmates. At times this made Rosa unhappy but she decided she would rather be something than have ¡something. Her father finally saw how unhappyjsshe was and decided to take her home and allow her to work in his studio and help him. She worked and studied and improved so rapidly that her ¡»father decided to send her to Paris to copy paintings in the Louvre. These copies were so good as to attract the at­ tention of many people who saw them and naturally pleased Rosa sq that her love for art and ambition to succeed was stronger than ever. When she planned her great picture “The Horse Fair” she T he T eachers C ollege H erald 41 knew she would hive to make her sketches in and about the horse markets and on step ladders so she decided to wear men’s clothes for convenience and; not merely to be peculiar or different as some unkind people said of her. Her paintings made her famous and wealthy. She purchased a fine estate and' surrounded herself by animals of many kinds. She had Newfoundland^; Spaniel^ St. Bernards, sheep, goats, cowshlipns, boats, rare birds, deer, gazelles, elk, indeed a men­ agerie of animals for models;. Here|§he led a happy life rich in honors and died at the age of seventy-seven. M. I rene H uber. COUNTRY LIFE CLUB PROCEEDINGS SUMMER, 1927 jslp'hisi; summer fifty "students banded t:Ogether®and formed a Summer Session Country Life’ Club. One meeting was held weekly with the exception of July 4th. T h e. following members headed the club. President, Edgar J. Dillon; Vice President, J. Walter Barefoot; Secretary, Miss Charlotte Kauffman; Treasurer, Mervin Baker. The. aim of the club was to find and suggest ways of bettering Rural Life. The club had two projects, during the summer: One was placing playground equipment at Pleasant Hill School, the other an exhibition of minimum equipment of a one-teacher rural school. The club had at its meetings for speakers during the session. Miss Helena. McCray, Health Department, Harrisburg; Dr. Ezra Lehman, Miss Hannah A. Kieffer. The club attended a Parent Teachers’ meeting in the Training .School. E dgar J. D ilt.a n , Pres.: . -.»Cjiarlottk K au ffm an ;, Secy. COUNTRY LIFE CLUB 1927-1928 At thepppening of schop thiff! fall, the twenty rural seniors along with a - few juniors, who have already electe<^|the rural course, got together and organized the Country Life Club. The members chose for their officers% Presidentl| Joseph Knisely, BcdforolCounty; Vice President, Bowers Peters, Adams County; Treasurer, Floranna Fox, Adams County, and Secretary, Ruthanna Bair, York. (||>unty. The Club has set very p igh ideals for itself and hopesgo live up to; them very -faithfully. The big aim of the organizatio||| is to find suggestions and really decide on ways to better conditions in the rural School and rural community. 42 T he T eachers C ollege H erald Meetings' are to be held regularly every! itwo weeks, at which times interesting programs., are to be presented. The programs; are planned by a very capable committee. During the course of the year many Speakers will be present at the meetings and will give valuable information. Social meetings' are also, to play a very important part in the career of the club. At the first regular meeting the club discussed various phases of work that would be a benefit to its members and decided for itgSmain ’dpffectiyes .'throughout the school year the- -following: 1. To finffifactSfemd report on the trend that the. Farm Youth of today" have taken. 2. To collect materia] of interest and benefit to teachers in the field, which will be published in the 1928 Rural Herald, 3. To study the current rural life problems, ggggl To study the rural life pf^preign countries, mainly Euro­ pean and African. 5. To be of any-sgervice to any teacher ;ih the fieldKespecially the rural. 6. f i f l complete playground equipment in the! rural school. With these objects in mind the Club hopes to have a very suc­ cessful term. JdsF.i’ H K nisely , Pres. R uth an n a B air , Secy. LIBRARY PASTE RECIPE Materials : 3 cups cold water, 3 cups, flour, 3 cups boiling water, 1 teaspoon salicylic acid, 1 tablespoon carbolic acid or lyson, 1 tablespoon alum and a few drops of wintergreen. Mix ¡together the: flour and salicylic acid; add cold water and mix until smooth; add this mixture to boiling water, which is in the upper part of a double boiler. Cook until the mixture is clear and ofylhe consistency of cream-j(adding boiling water as ;needed)iij Take fromKhe'. fire, strain through a wire strainer; add carbolic acid or lysoalartd oil of wintergreen and pour into glass; containers. This gives. 1 quart, ipf paste which will keep indefinitely.. . . Used and redsmmendedS|by the Rural Department. T he T eachers C ollege,: H erald 43 PAGEANTS AND MUSICAL PLAYS IN A ONE-ROOM RURAL SCHOOL The purpose of this: 'article ijito giy| aS ew suggestion to the teacher ofi the one-room rural school who is desirous- of giving a small pageant, or a musical play. In many cases the number of pupils in one school will noSae enough to give an entire program. In such a case itB s. suggested that they unite with one or two other schools, each being ¡assigned a definite part on the program. There are many musical’; plays and pagMntsfjthat ||ap be’£;so divided that one main rehearsal before the final performance will be. sufficient. In such instancefjeveryone must know his or her part thoroughly. , , . . In giving a program on this order , the teacl|<|r shpuld select material suitable for her group. Then the. work is carried on during the regular school hours. The ysonglpare learned,, in the music periods and the speaking parts are rehearsed during the English periods. In order to carry- this -out* successfully the musical iffay or pageant must be ^elected early in the year and the work made a part of the daily program. At first it is not necessary to state for what purpose the songs are being learned. If the children plan on an entertainment for tod long a period, they are apt to become tired of it. Enthusiasm, must be saved for the rehearsalliand final performance. Where two or more schools are participating in the same enter­ tainment all plans in regard to staging should be carefully made. If it is possible to give the entertaiiiment out-S-doors it would beBjo an advantage providing thepietting wasKuitable for the type qf entertainment to be given. . Should weather conditions prove unfavorable, it is not advisable to postpone -the final per- • formance more than once. On the second date set, give it either outside or in the school. In regard toilgostuming, many mothers would be g-lad to help. It will create interest among them. The teacher mu.stjfe sure that alldireetlqns as. tq. costumes are clear and definite. Tms^will save a great dead of time and energy. .Helpful points may be obtained not only from costume books bu^from standard histories, well illustrated*- and 'pattern magazines1||such fi§|the Butterick. Also i| the back of large dictionarieSare pictures, that will be o f service. If lidpCsSary, patterns,. may ffie obtained -from the leading,pattern companies,■ ■ Qfe-J o Advertise the ente^iinment it is;; p ||» le for the older children to make posters during their art periods. They will enjoy the work and it will add greatly to the enthusiasm. Also ad­ vertise through thelScal papers. H arriet A. T ooke. AMATEUR THEATRICALS Costumes for any play,— sixty-five years experience in costuming theatricals, as weelel as minstrels, masked balls and parties— at your disposal. 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