BLOOMSBURG
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL

QUARTERLY

SUMMER SCHOOL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
APRIL-1921
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

BLOOMSBURG
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL

QUARTERLY
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post

VOLUME 26

Office,

Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.

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boajRD of Ei>rroRS
J. C.

O. H. Bakeless,

W.

The Board

Foote, Chairman.

Roxana

B. Sutlilf

Steele, Elizabeth

of Editors will be pleased to receive iitems of interest

Gill

from

former members of the school.

EDITORIALS
This issue of

ANNOUNCEMENTS.
the QUARTERLY offers

considerable var-

and we hope they will all find interested readers;
but we desire to emphasize the Summer School announcements
and the changes made in the calendar of events for the commence-

iety in articles,

ment

season.

It will

be noticed that the

Summer

School

is to

be

nine weeks in length instead of six as heretofore, and that com-

mencement day

is

Tuesday instead of

Wednesday.

Following

the very successful sessions of the past two summers, we look
forward to a term of even greater opportunities and accomplish-

ments under a larger faculty

this

coming summer.

THE CATALOG ONLY ON REQUEST.
The Board

of Editors will issue regularly four

QUARTERLY. One number

numbers of

be the annual catalog. The
other three numbers will be devoted to news about the work and

the

will

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personnel of the school, and contributed articles by members of
the faculty on current educational topics will be included. These
three numbers will be mailed to all the Alumni and we believe will
keep the Alumni in touch with the school.

pose.

The annual catalog is published to serve a different purThe catalog contains chiefly a statement of the purpose of

the school and a detailed outline of the courses offered. This information is intended primarily to interest prospective students.
The Board of Editors believe that the catalog will more nearly
serve its purpose if it is sent out only on request
Hereafter the

number of the QUARTERLY will be mailed to the Alumni
only on request. Merely a postal card mailed to the Bloomsburg

catalog

State Normal School will bring the catalog to those who request it.
This position regarding the catalog is taken in accordance

with the practice in most schools, and we believe will meet with
the approval of the Alumni. Remember you can get a catalog
whenever yoq request it. If the Alumni will mail us the names
and addresses of prospective students we shall see that a copy of
the catalog is mailed to each person as requested.

OPPORTUNITIES AND NEEDS.
The Bloomsburg State Normal School has

for

many

years

been a decided factor in the educational progress of the state.
Hampered as she has been by the indifference of the legislators
her financial needs, the struggle has been an up-hill fight. In
thousands of men and women of Pennsylvania can testify to the conscientious work done and to the inspiration gained within her walls.
Like every other organism, growth and development must
within her being or atrophy and death are inevitable.
forward
go
The evidences of growth and evolution are manifest thruout
the school today. A more liberal policy of the state toward the
school, which is purely a state institution, is placing within the life
of the present student body much that was denied to former gento

spite of this dire need,

erations.

not the material regeneration of the school of which
It is rather of the unusual opportunities which
lie before those hundreds of young people who are finishing a high
school course and should now be seriously considering the next

But

we wish

it is

to speak.

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step in their preparation for useful citizenship.
There has never been so great a need 'for well trained teachers of high professional spirit

as that of today.

Pennsylvania

needs trained teachers, devoted teachers teachers capable of making Americans safe for the perpetuation of all that is best in
;

America.

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Here

is

our great opportunity.

The present administration

Every avenue
of the school has vigorously attacked the problem
of approach is being opened to the ultimate goal of producing the
Children are in evidence everywhere. Real
Rural schools are now practice

well trained teacher.

school situations are being set up.

State inspectors, state experts, and
noted lecturers are much in evidence. The firm policy of making
the school a purely Teacher Training School is bearing fruit.
We have two very definite needs which if provided will
surely repay the state for every possible sacrifice. We look to
two different sources to supply these needs; to the state for the
first, to our loyal alumni for the second.
The first need is money. The second is a larger body of
well qualified students to prepare for teaching.
This school
should be crowded to its doors with students. We have a fine
group of young people here but we cannot begin to supply the
crying need for the trained teacher. We should double the size of
our junior class next fall.
Are you doing what you can to help?
schools for the rural group.

A MORAL OBLIGATION.
It has been the policy of this school for years to impress
apon students the fact that there is a deep moral obligation resting upon them when they give their signatures for the purpose of
receiving the financial aid which Pennsylvania offers to those
promising to teach at least two years in this state. Nevertheless,
for several reasons,
which we shall neither name nor discuss
here,
our graduates have in considerable numbers gone to other
states to teach and have never returned to render service to Pennsylvania as promised. We are hopeful that if there have been
good reasons for their doing this heretofore, these reasons will

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In a recent discussion of this matter in a meeting of our
it was decide’d to ask for an expression from the State

faculty,

Department of Education that might guide us in any further policy we might shape
We desire especially to call attention to the
letter received by Dr. Fisher from State Superintendent Finegan
which deals with this matter emphatically. It is our belief that
the stand taken by Dr. Finegan will be heartily supported by all

who

give

it

conscientious consideration.

We

quote the letter in

full:

Commonwealth

of Pennsylvania

Department of Public Instruction
Harrisburg
Office of

Superintendent

March
To Normal School
All students

22, 1921.

Principals:

who

enter the state normal schools of Penn-

sylvania to become fitted for the teaching service subscribe to an
obligation that they will teach at least two years in the schools
of the State.
The State is in need of a large number of trained
teachers, and the supply of the normal schools is not equal to the
present demand. A measure is now before the Legislature which
we hope will be enacted into law and which provides minimum sal-

and increments for teachers who are graduates of state normal schools. In view of these facts, it is my judgment that the
State shall insist that each student who graduates from a state
normal school in June next shall accept the responsibility incurred on enteri):g school, namely, to teach in the public schools of
Pennsylvania foK at least two years.
aries

I shall be unwilling to graduate any student from a state
normal school who contracts to teach outside of the State for the
ensuing school year. You should take this matter up with the
members of your graduating class and advise them as to what the

policy of the State will be in this matter.

Very

sincerely yours.

THOS.

E.

FINEGAN.

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A LETTER TO THE ALUMNA
To the Members of the Alumni Association:

ing of the

past, the attendance at the Annual MeetAlumni Association on Wednesday, after the Com-

mencement

exercises, has not been as large as

For some years

it

should have been,

nor were the proceedings as interesting as they ought to be on

such an occasion.

For some time after organization of the Association it was
the custom to have a program consisting of an oration, a poem
and other literary exercises, the participants being elected an-

But after

nually for the next meeting.

so

entertainment on the preceding days and at

much

of this kind of

commencement,

this

custom was abandoned, for the reason above mentioned, and
so for the reason that

sometimes
to put in

all

not infrequently happened that one, and

of the appointees failed,

from one cause or another,

an appearance, and so the program was abbreviated, and

sometimes failed
It is

the

it

al-

entirely.

desired

members

now

that

new

interest

of the Association, so that

it

may be aroused in all
may become an import-

ant adjunct to the school. In order to attain this end, the time
for holding the annual meeting has been changed from Wednesday to Monday of Commencement week, and by reference to the
program for the week, printed elsewhere in the Quarterly, it will
be seen that there will be something doing every minute to add
to the entertainment and enjoyment of the members.

Many come here to be present at their class reunions,
which heretofore have been held on Tuesday, who could not remain for Commencement, and so were unable to attend the Alumni meeting.
This change will enable them to do so.
I

trust that this year

attendance, and

I

we

shall

have a large and enthusiastic

who are in town at that time to
has done much for us. Aside from the

earnestly urge

all

be present. This school
pleasure afforded in meeting our old friends and in renewing the
ties of our early days, we should be willing to spend at least one

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day a year in showing our appreciation of the
from our Alma Mater.

benefits received

Respectfully,

GEORGE

E.

ELWELL,

President of the General Alumni Association.

Bloomsburg, Pa.

ALUMNI DAY
C.

H. Fisher, Principal.

Monday, June 13 has been set aside as Alumni Day. Alumchange from Tuesday to Monday. Commencement Day is changed from Wednesday to Tuesday.
A committee of the faculty have conferred with Mr. Geo. E. Elwell,
President of the Alumni Association and they agree that it is betni will note the

ter to concentrate events
for the Commencement rather than
spread these events over sev^eral days. On Monday there is to be
a succession of interesting events for the Alumni.
At 10 o’clock reunions will be held of the classes of ’10, ’16,
’ll, ’06, ’01, ’96, ’91, ’85, ’81, ’76 and any oth:r classes that are
Classrooms will be set aside for
interested in having reunions.
these reunions. Officers of the different classes can get the names
and addresses of the members of their classes by writing to Mr.
It is not too early to begin planning for
F. H. Jenkins, Registrar.
a class reunion.
At 11:30 there will be an Assembly of the Alumni in the
Chapel. Some Alumnus of musical ability and reputation will be
V/e want to have
invited to lead in community and school songs.
community singing that will help us to get together and make us
feel a common bond of loyalty to the school, just as thru songs
we felt a common bond of loyalty to our country during the war
daj’s.

Some

representative of the State Department of Public Instruction will be invited to speak about the plans for the future de-

At the close of this Assembly
velopment of the Normal School.
there will be a brief business meeting of the Alumni Association.
At 1 o’clock there will be an Alumni banquet in the dining
Alumni will be asked to sit together as classes. A nominhall.

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charge will be made to cover the cost of the banquet. Several
prominent Alumni will be asked to respond to toasts.
At 4 P. M. there will be a baseball game between the AlumEvery effort will be made to have
ni team and the regular team.
Dr. A K. Aldinger return to lead the Alumni team. With Dr.
Aldinger we expect to have a number of the old stars return. If
our plans work out this will be a great event for the Alumni.
Other events of the day will be the Ivy Day Exercises by
the Seniors at 2:30 P. M. and the Class Day Exercises at 8 P. M.
This day is purposely set aside for Alumni and is to be
known as Alumni Day. We want to rally the strength and support of the Alumni for the new undertaking of the school.
We
have entered upon a new era in the life of the school and want the
Alumni to catch the spirit of promise for the future. The biggest asset to any school is a loyal body of Alumni. The Bloomsburg Normal School has well earned the loyalty of all the Alumni
It needs the loyalty of all the
for its splendid work of the past.
Alumni to fulfill its lofty hopes for the future. We appeal to all
the Alumni, who possibly can, to return to Bloomsburg to enjoy
this day at your Alma Mater.
al

NOTED SPEAKERS FOR COMMENCEMENT.
Geo.

The Baccalureate sermon this year will be delivered by Dr.
W. Richards of the Theological Seminary of the Reformed

Church

in the United States, located at Lancaster, Pa.
Dr. Richards is in great demand as a speaker. He is a scholar of high
rank, a man of strong convictions, an earnest and convincing

speaker, a preacher with a strong message.

The Commencement address will be delivered by Dr. J.
Duncan Spaeth, Professor of English, Princeton University. Dr.
Spaeth will speak on the subject “The Education of Henry Adams
and the Education of Abraham Lincoln.” Year after year Dr.
Spaeth has been a most successful lecturer on literature, history,
and national and international problems. He has lectured from
coast to coast to university extension centers, teachers’ Associations,

men’s and women’s clubs, summer schools, and colleges and

universities.

He

is

a

man

sence, exact scholarship,

of sincere convictions, striking pre-

and exceptional platform

ability.

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School Announcements

AN IDEAL PLACE FOR A SUMMER SCHOOL.
Bloomsburg is an attractive town with about eight thousand population located in one of the most beautiful regions in
Pennsylvania. It is easily accessible by three large railroad systems: The Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia and Reading, and the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western. It is known as one of the
thriftiest and healthiest towns in the state. .

The Normal School is located at the east end of the town
on an elevation 150 feet above the Susquehanna- From the dormitories one can view the beautiful scenery presented by the Susquehanna and the hills beyond. The seven buildings that constitute the school plant occupy what is known as Normal hill.

A

large

campus

affords ample space for lawns and athletic

grounds and includes a large and beautiful oak grove.
cent country affords

many

The adja-

interesting places for hikes and ex-

cursions which students enjoy under the direction of their instructors.

It

would be

difficult to find

attractive place- for a

summer

anywhere

in the state a

more

school than the location of the

Bloomsburg State Normal School.

EXPENSES
The tuition is free to all persons seventeen years of age
and over and who are teaching or are planning to teach in the
state of Pennsylvania.

The registration fee is $10.00 for the Summer School and
must be paid on the day of enrollment- This fee is the same in all
normal schools of the state. The charge for board, room, and
laundry is $6.00 per week or $54.00 for nine weeks. The charge
for board, room, and laundry must be paid within a week after the
opening of the Summer School. The total expense for living and
registration fee

is

$64.00.

In addition to the above expenses there are small laboratory
fees to cover the cost of materials used.

Other expenses would

include charges for books and incidental expenses.

Not including
The ex-

car fare, $75.00 will about cover necessary expenses.

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penses are kept as low as possible so as to make attendance at
School within the reach of all who desire to attend.

Summer

ARTICLES FOR PERSONAL USE.
The school furnishes all bed linen. Each student is expected to furnish for personal use the following articles: towels,
table napkins, a bed comforter or a blanket, a pair of gymnasium
slippers, a gymnasium costume consisting of dark bloomers and
white middies, and a pair of strong high shoes suitable for climbing and walking.
The gymnasium outfit will be required and should be purchased by students before entering the school. No provision will
be made for purchasing the gymnasium outfit at the school.

LAUNDRY REGULATIONS
Each student

is

their equivalent in the

gulations

:

1.
it

allowed 12 articles of plain clothing or
Note the following re-

weekly washing.

plainly,

Have your name on every article of clothing. Write
and use nothing but indelible ink. Most missing arti-

cles are lost

because of defective marking.

Have a large clothes bag, so that ironed clothes need
net be folded much when put into it for delivery. Be sure to have
your name on the clothes bag.
3.
The personal wash must be ready for collection by 6
o’clock on Monday morning.
4.
On Saturday morning, after breakfast, the personal
wash will be delivered.
Exchange soiled bed linen (one sheet and two pillow
5.
2-

morning after breakfast.
For all clothing in the wash in excess of the 12 articles
allowed, an extra charge will be made.
cases) for clean linen on each Friday
6.

EXAMINATIONS FOR STATE CERTIFICATES.
Examinations for

all

forms of state teachers’ certificates
Summer School on Friday and Sat-

will be held at the close of the

urday, August 19 and 20 at the Normal School. Candidates must
application for admission to the examination not later than
July 1, altho any qualified candidate will be admitted to the exam-

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ination without such application.

Dr. Albert Rowland,

Department

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Application should be made to
of Public Instruction, Harris-

burg, Pa.

LECTURES AND ENTERTAINMENTS
An

intersting feature of the

Summer

School will be the

and entertainments provided for the students thruout
the nine weeks. Prominent lecturers and high grade entertainment companies are being engaged for the Summer School.
lectures

Some of the lecturers will discuss important political and
problems of current interest- Other lecturers will discuss
current educational topics. Music and dramatic programs will be
provided by well-known artists. Occasional band concerts will
be conducted on the campus.
social

SUMxMER SCHOOL FOR NINE WEEKS.
The Summer School

begin on Monday, June 20 and
continue for nine weeks, closing on Saturday, August 20. Students will be expected to enroll on the opening day, Monday,

June

will

20.

Nine weeks provides ample time for students to complete
many are interested in having to their credit for

Ihe courses that

various certificates.

Hereafter the school year in the normal schools will be
The school year is divided into two semesters,
each of eighteen weeks. One of the main reasons for having a
Summer School for nine weeks is that one-half of a semester’s
work or one-fourth of a year’s work can be accomplished. In
four summers one can complete a year’s work. By combining
two summers with the regular school year, students can finish a
normal school course within a year and half after they enter.
thirty-six weeks.

SUMMER SCHOOL FACULTY
For the most part the regular members of the faculty will
teach in the summer school. In a few departments new teachers will be engaged for the summer school to take the places of
regular members of the faculty who will not teach in the summer
school.
The faculty will consist of teachers well qualified 'by

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training and experience to do the same high standard of work that
Since the faculty list is
is done during the regular school year

not complete

it

seems best not to publish a partial

list.

CREDIT BY COUNTY AND DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS.
Dr. Albert L. Rowland, Director of the Teacher Bureau,
Department of Public Instruction, sent the following letter to all
County and District Superintendents regarding credit for courses
in the Summer School.
In most cases superintendents will accept the credit from the Normal School in place of an examination.
The letter follows:

“Many county and district superintendents last year accepted evidence of the satisfactory completion of approved courses
in accredited institutions in lieu of their examinations for the provisional and professional certificates.
I believe this represented
a step in the right direction and was a distinct stimulus to professional training on the part of both prospective teachers and
teachers in service.
The summer session of 1921 will be uniform for all of the
Pennsylvania state normal schools and will be increased from six
to nine weeks in length.
Every effort is being made to provide
adequate faculties and facilities for this session and the character
of the instruction should be in every instance an improvement
over the work of last year and entirely worthy of the consideration
which is asked for it.
In this connection I sincerely hope that as many of the
county and district superintendents as possible will arrange to
grant the provisional and professional certificate on the examination of adequate credentials in lieu of a v/ritten examination in
subject matter. I believe that the professional standing of the applicants will be materially improved by such a course.”

NORMAL SCHOOL CREDIT FOR SUMMER SCHOOL COURSES
A distinct step in advance will be made this year in not
only offering courses that are required for the different types of
teachers’ certificates but in making it possible for students to
rrceive credit for these courses toward a Normal School Certificate.

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Those who have completed fifteen units of high school
work as required for admission to the two year normal school
course

may

receive normal school credit for almost

all

of the

courses that must be taken for other certificates. Those who
have completed the fifteen units of high school work may receive credit toward a Normal School Certificate as soon as they
present evidence of having completed the required high school

work.

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GRADED OBSERVATION AND DEMONSTRATION SCHOOL
One

of the best

teachers at work.

ways

to learn to teach is to see successful

In a teacher training school the courses in

methods of teaching the various school subjects must be closely
Demonstrations should
related to the actual work of the school.
be given of methods of teaching. This idea wdll be carried out
in

the

Summer SchoolAn observation and

demonstration school will be organized
A skillful teacher will be in charge of
each grade. Observation will be required in the methods courses
and in some cases arrangements may be made for practice teach-

for grades I-VI inclusive.

ing.

This school will be in session only in the morning and will
be discontinued after the first six weeks.
The school will be in charge of Roxana A. Steele, Director
of the Training School.

RURAL OBSERVATION AND DEMONSTRATION SCHOOL.
An

be made to have on the campus a group of
will be organized into a one-room
All grades will be represented as in a typical one-room
school.
The school will be in charge of a skillful teacher who will
school.
demonstrate problems in management and methods of teaching
The school will be under the supervision of
in a one-room school.
Hetty S. Browne, Director of Rural Education.
children

effort will

from the country who

THE SCOPE OF THE COURSES OFFERED
Courses will be offered to meet the needs of teachers and
students who intend working for various certificates and credits,
including the Provisional, Professional, Permanent State, and

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and High School

Credit.

For those who are graduates of normal schools and for
hold the Permanent State Certificate, courses will be
for
advanced credit in the following subjects: Cookery,
offered
Sewing, Nutrition, Art, Music, Industrial Arts, Physical Education, Playground
Work, Children’s Literature, Observation of
Teachirg, Primary Methods, Intermediate Grade Methods, and
Grammar Grade Methods.
For those who desire credit toward the Normal School Certificate regardless of working for any other certificate, courses will
be offered similar to those given during the regular year. For
those

who

these courses a catalog will be sent on request.

PRACTICAL SCHOOL PROBLEMS BY SUPERINTENDENTS
This course will deal with practical school room problems,
management, discipline, and relations to the community. The course is intended especially for those who will prepare for the provisional certificate, and who will teach for the first
The course will be given by the
time during the coming year
county superintendents or their assistants from the counties adjacent to the Normal school. Each superintendent will meet the
class for three sessions and the course will continue for half of the
summer term.
especially in

INDUSTRIAL ARTS
The industrial Arts department will offer the following
courses which will be of value to teachers of graded classes, teachThe number
ers in rural schools, and teachers of industrial arts.
of hours which will be given to these courses will be adjusted to
the needs of the students.
Industrial Arts for the Rural Schools.
Work in wood, sheet metal and cement. The making of
“Tin Can Toys” will be an important feature of the course. Projects will be worked out in the various materials, and demonstrations will be made of how such work can vitalize the teaching of
the other schools subjects. It will be shown how this work can
be handled with limited equipment and supplies.
Industrial Arts for Grades 1-6.

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In this course a study will be made of the various processes
involved in transforming raw material into finished products, in

how

it work.
Work in paper, wool,
about the activities of the home. It
will be shown how this work can be handled in an ordinary class
room with limited equipment and supplies.
Prevocational Education.
This course will deal with work to be carried out in the 7th
and 8th grades, in wood, sheet metal, cement, and electricity.
There will be a discussion of the care and use of tools, how to use
materials, and how the work may be organized under ordinary

other words,
clay,

and wood

the world does

will centre

conditions.

industrial Arts for Junior

The purpose

High School,

of this course will be to give industrial informa-

tion concerning various industries in the vicinity of the school

communities from which
sheet metal, electricity, and clay
mation in the course.
in the

and

students come. Wood, cement,
will be used as mediums of infor-

HYGIENE AND HOME CARE OF THE SICK
AS
OUTLINED BY THE AMERICAN RED CROSS.
This course deals with the prevention and care of illness
the home. Such topics are discussed as the early symptoms of
diseases, food for the sick, administration of medicine, baths, bedin

making, prevention and care of common ailments, such as colds,
sore throats, etc., care of sick children and the aged, including
simple nursing procedures and first aid treatment for common
household emergencies. This course will be required as a part of
the work in Health Education. The course will be given by means
The course will
of lectures, demonstrations, and laboratory work.
be in charge of Mrs. Theresa H. Holmes, R. N., who is an author-

American Red Cross.

ized instructor for the

THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT.
Special attention will be given to the teaching of music in
the public schools.
thoroly competent instructor will be in

A

charge of this work.

The chapel exercises each morning

will afford considerable

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opportunity for chorus and community singing. These exercises
will be in charge of the instructor in public school music.
Private lessons will be given in Voice, Piano, Violin and
Harmony The charge t\dll be $1.00 per lesson. The charge for
the use of the piano for practice (one period daily) will be $2.00
for the summer session. The charge for the use of piano for
practice (one period daily) for those not taking special lessons
will be $3.00 for the summer session.
If there are enough students to warrant it, class instruction will be given in Harmony and Orchestration.
The charge
will not be less than $5.00.
The charge will be made according
to the number of lessons in the course.
Mrs. John Ketner Miller and Mrs. Wm. B. Sutliff will be in
charge of the private instruction.

COURSES IN COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS.
There is a big demand for teachers for commercial work in
high schools, and the Summer School will give teachers an opportunity to prepare for this line of work. Courses will be offered in Stenography, Typewriting, and Bookkeeping. Commercial students have the opportunity to take courses that are adapted to their needs in the departments of English and Mathematics.
Special attention is called to the opportunity to develop
The aim will be to qualify students for the
skill in penmanshipPalmer Teacher’s Certificate. Courses in Business Writing and
Professor A. B. Black, a remarkably
in Lettering will be offered.
successful teacher of penmanship, will be in charge of this work.

COURSES OFFERED FOR THE PROVISIONAL, PROFESSIONAL, AND PERMANENT STATE CERTIFICATES
Group A.
The Teaching of Arithmetic
1.
(Normal school credit).

3

9

V/2

3

9

IV2

This course will include primary number, arithmetic, and composite mathematics, differentiated
by groups where there are sufficient students.
2.

The Teaching of English
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This course will include reading, English grammar, spelling, oral and written composition.

The Teaching of Social Studies
(Normal school credit).

3

9

IV^

3

9

IV2

Elementary Public School Music
2
(No normal school credit).
Elementary course for those students who
have not had the theory of music in grades

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2

9

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Art
2
(No normal school credit)
Elementary course for those students who have
not had a good course in elementary art in grades

9

1/2

2

9

1/2

2

9

2

9

3.

This course will include United States history,
history of Pennsylvania, civics, and patriotism.
1.
4.

The Teaching of Science
(Normal school credit)This course will include geography,

physiology,

hygiene, and general science.

Group

B.

Public School Music
a.

or high school.
b.

Adyanced Public School Music
Part of the regular Arts 4 course.
Presupposes a knowledge of music.

(Credit)

2 Art.
1.

or high school.
2.

Art

(Credit)

Part of regular Art 1 course.
Presupposes a previous elementary course.
3.

Health Education
This course to include school
ground, etc.
(No normal school credit).

Group C.
Handwriting (Credit)
1.

gymnastics,

play-

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course.

II.

Observation, Management and
Methods (including Practice Teaching)

6

9

3

Elective in Education

6

9

3

(Credit)

See Group

C’.

All candidates for Provisional

and Professional Certificates
A unless they have pre-

are required to take all courses in Group
vious satisfactory credit for same.
In

Group B

all

candidates for Provisional and Professional

Certificates will be required to take one course in Public School
sic,

Mu-

one course in Art, and Health Education.

One
Group

C’.

per week, or two
be required of all students.

elective six hours

hours per week,

will

Recommended courses

in

electives three

Education (Credit)

1.

Kindergarten-Primary Methods

6

9

3

2.

Kindergarten Theory (E 12)

4

9

2

Citizenship (SS 4)

4

9

2

10.3.

(El)

4.

Introduction to Teaching

5.

Introduction to Psychology (V2

6.

Child Study (V2

7.

School Efficiency

8.

History of Education

9.

E

E

2)

2)

(E 13)

E

4)

Principles of Education (V^

E

((,4

4)

Standard Measurements (Elective)

6

9

3

3

9

IV2

3

9

U/o

6

9

3

4

9

2

4

9

2

6

9

3

11.

Rural School Problems (E 44)

6

9

3

12.

Rural Sociology- (SS 44)

4

9

2

13.

Sociology (Elective)

6

9

3

14.

Current Educational Problems

5

9

21/2

Group D.

Cultural

group for

Professional

and

Permanent

Certificates.
1

English Literature

2.

General History (Credit)

3.

Biology (Science 1)

(Credit)

(Credit)

12

9

12

9

6

6

9

2

6

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This course to include elementary botany and
zoology.
4.

5.

Physical Science (No credit)
12
This course to include Physical Geography and
Elementary Physics.

Composite Mathematics (No credit)
This course to include algebra and plane geometry.

12

9

6

9

6

Students who complete satisfactorily any subjects in Group
a certificate that will be accepted in lieu of examination for the Permanent Certificate.

D

will receive

EXTENSION AND CORRESPONDENCE COURSES.
The state salary schedule for teachers and the new law on
the certification of teachers are going to attach greater value to
the Normal School Certificate. Never was it worth so much to be a
Normal School graduate. The Normal Schools must do all they can
to help teachers secure a Normal School Certificate. To those who
cannot take a regular year’s work in residence at a Normal School,
opportunity must be given through Summer School, Extension
Courses, and Correspondence Courses.
The Bloomsburg State Normal School will offer in September 1921, in Extension Courses, any subject included in the reguOrdinarily each course will be given
lar Normal School Courses.
two hours at a time each week for fifteen weeks. The same
amount of credit will be given as similar work receives at the
Normal School. The members of the faculty stand ready to serve
the teachers, if the teachers will bnly make their wants known.
We feel that instructors would not be warranted in going out to
teach a course unless at least fifteen teachers wanted the same
A minimum fee of five dollars will ordinarily be charged
course.
for each course.
Miss Frances V. Mason will be the Director of Extension
Courses. Miss Mason is teaching psychology at present. She is
a graduate of the Geneseo New York State Normal School and received both her B. S. and M. A. degrees from Teachers College,
Columbia University. Miss Mason has had a wide experience
teaching in high schools, graded schools, and rural schools. She
has been a critic teacher in a New York State Normal School, and

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has served as

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in a

neighboring

state.

the purpose of the State Department of Public InNormal Schools to conduct correspondence courses for teachers who for various reasons are unable
Detailed notice of these courses will
to meet in extension courses.
It

is

struction through the State

be given later

AUDITORIUM EXERCISES.

A large
a place where we live together.
spent there, and the interests of both teacher and children center about it quite as strongly as about the
home. We are one family and it is essential to our unity, harmony, and success, that we have a time and place for coming together.
In the school each class is isolated by the necessities of
the case; each is about its own work. The morning exercises is
n common meeting-ground; it is the family altar of the school to
which each brings his offerings the fruits of his observations
and studies, or the music, literature, and art, that delight him; a
place where all co-operate for the pleasure and well-being of the
whole where all contribute to and share the intellectual and spiritual life of the whole where all bring their best and choicest experiences in the most attractive form at their command.”
“The school

portion of every day

is

is

—

;

;

The Normal School Assembly.

Some interesting changes have been inaugurated this year
our auditorium exercises. In the first place, they are different
as suggested in the very term “auditorium exercises” as distinguished from the term “chapel exercises.” Whereas heretofore
the assembling of the students has been for only a brief period
given over essentially to devotional services, we have this year
lengthened the assembly period to a half hour, during the first part
of which simple devotional exercises are conducted, followed by
varied programs of exercises intended to be of wide appeal, and of
.social and cultural value to the whole body of students.
While the
devotional purpose has not been lost sight of, the lengthening of
the period has made it possible to bring before the assembled students each day an additional element of high cultural value, or of
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such a nature as to tend to unify the student body into a social
Ri’oup conscious of the great educ^'ional purposes in

The time when these auditorium

life.

exercises are held

is

a

matter of importance to note. Placed as they are, from 9:55 to
10:25, they offer relief from what would otherwise be a long forenoon program of solid work. Attendance is compulsory, the same
as it is to class recitations, and the same rules govern cases of
tardiness and absence; but the aim is to make these exercises so
valuable that no serious-minded student will wish to absent himself.

Early

in the

year Principal Fisher planned a weekly sched

vie of exercises as follows:

MONDAY,

given over to musical appreciation, in charge of
Mrs. John Ketner Miller, head of the music department.

TUESDAY,

exercises
Senior morning,
participated in by selected groups from the Senior class, under faculty supervision.

M"EDNESDAY,

given over
matters by the Principal.

THURSDAY, community

to the

singing, in

discussion

charge of

of educational

Ruth

Miss

Mj'ers, teacher of public school music.

FRIDAY,
selected

Junior morning, exercises participated in by the groups

from the Junior

SATURDAY,

discussions

class,

under faculty supervision.

by members

of the faculty, or

by

out-

side speakers.

While this schedule has not been invariably followed in a
slavish manner, it has nevertheless provided a practical scheme
effort.
A committee on auditorium
for organized, purposeful
exercises, appointed by Dr. Fisher, from members of the faculty,
has had general supervision of these exercises.

Lack of space makes

impossible to explain the variety
Of those prepared by Juniors or Seniors several for special occasions might be mentioned,
such as. Armistice Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Lincoln’s
it

of program.s that have been given.

birthday.

On

several occasions, dramatizations have been given

children of the Training School after presentation in their

by

own

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assembly exercises for the illustrative and educational benefits to
be gained.

The Training School Assembly.
It has seemed impracticable for the pupils of entire Training School to meet together regularly, because of the wide range
in age and interests.
Consequently the Elementary Grades and
the Junior High School have assembled at different times.

The Junior High School has had two regular periods each
One of these has been devoted to chorus work and music
appreciation under the leadership of Miss Ruth Myers. The

week.

other period has been given over to exercises in which the pupils
of the Junior High School participated.
Probably their most effective program was the presentation of two scenes from John Drinkwater’s “Abraham Lincoln.”
The Scenes chosen were the informal reception at the White House
and the cabinet meeting.

Other programs of almost equal interest were the political
debate given just preceding election day and one held recently on
the question of the adoption of compulsory military training by
the United States.
A profitable period was spent one day in reporting on the
various activities in connection with the celebration of “Better
Speech Week” and exhibiting and criticizing the Better Speech

Week

posters.

Among

the plans for the near future are a

test in music, a lantern lecture on

memory

Egyptian and Greek

art,

con-

a court

of naturalization, and a discussion of plans for a practical civic
project.

In the Elementary School
there have been two distinct
types of assembly, the general Elementary Assembly and the
smaller group of two or three classes. The Kindergarten and First
Grade have frequently shared their work and play. Since the
Kindergarten has a piano and the Hill Building Blocks, it has been

a more favorable room in which to stage certain events.
Grades Five and Seven met on one occasion when Grade
Seven invited Grade Five to demonstrate their Project of Candle

Making

since

Grade Five

Grade Seven was

also

later presented a “schpol

interested in colonial

made” candle

to

life.

Grade Seven

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in turn presented

in the industrial arts class

Grade Five with a candle holdfrom a tin can.

Another example of this type of social intercourse was the
Hallowe’en party for pupils of Grades Four, Five and Six. No
class room was large enough to accommodate this group so the annex dining room was used.

The assembly program when the

entire

Elementary School

meets has been varied in its treatment. Among the outstanding exercises was the Christmas program in charge of Grade Six,
when the pupils of that class arranged and pr^ented a dramatization of Raymond Alden’s story “Why the Chimes Rang.” The
audience became the congregation in the church scene, thus participating in the Christmas carols as a part of the play.

The Elementary Assembly which

most unwas probably the Song Contest Vv’hen the first six grades rendei'ed two
songs each in competition. The points considered in judging were
tone quality ,interpretation, and ability to follow the leader. The
contest was so close between Grades Three, Five, and Six with
many of the audience strongly in favor of Grade One, that there
was much sympathy for the judges who could bestow the banner
called forth the

divided attention an denthusiasm from the audience

upon but one

class.

Grade Three gave an amusing program not long ago which
was somewhat patterned after a minstrel show with end-men. It
was a sharing of riddles and jokes with the children seated in a
No minstrel company ever enjoyed
scmi-circle on small chairs.
their

own
It is

zations

jokes more.

a great temptation to

tell

by the primary grades when a

forest, a cape

made a

of the

charming dramatiformed a dense

few' chairs

prince, or a pair of long ears a rabbit.

There w'ere also times w^hen growm-ups had charge of the
program. Mrs. Browne told some Uncle Remus stories in true
southern style, and Prof. Hartline spent a period in helping the
members of the school to appreciate some of our choice possessions on the campus.

Our assembly periods have been very fruitful but there is
week adds to our experience and
;

]'oom for improvement, and each

our modification of plans for the future.

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“The value and scope of such exercises must be determined
the end not by theories but by the effect upon the life and character of the children and upon the spirit and work of the school.
A common' objection to such exercises is that they hinder
raid interfere with the work of the school, disorganizing it, and
dissipating the children’s time and energy, and furthermore are
the cause of undue excitement and consequent nervous strain, and
in

of that love of “showing off” which leads to self-consciousness and

But the few schools in which the exerhave
cises
been made an integral part of the work of the children
and of the daily program can bear witness to the theory set forth
here; namely, that the exercises act as an intellectual stimulus,
intensifying thought, concentrating energy, and, by co-ordinating
and controlling the impulses to express, become a reconstructing
force, a process of further control and organization also that they
make for order and courtesy and are a large factor in unifying
the school and teaching the child the individual’s place and duty
as a citizen of the school community, and thus are a wholesome
training in altruistic thinking and living.”
Persons interested in a more complete report of the assembly period will find many helpful suggestions in a pamphlet enegotistic selfish action.

;

titled

“The Morning Exercise as a Socializing
Francis Parker School Year Book
Chicago June 1915.

Influence.”

—

Price 35c.

SCHOOL DIETITIAN.

We have recently added another member to the faculty.
Miss Mabel C. Rogers, of Lansing, Michigan. Miss Rogers will
fill a newly created position as school dietitian and instructor in
nutrition.
She will be responsible for the management of the
kitchen and dining room, for the preparation of menus, and for
the purchasing of food. Later she will do some teaching in nutrition.
This new position is made necessary by the health work
that is to be conducted in the state by the Department of Public
Instruction.
The teaching of nutrition in the Normal School
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must be closely identified with the practical work of the kitchen
and dining room.
Miss Rogers, by training and experience, is well qualified to
undertake this important work. She is a graduate of the Michigan Agricultural College where she received a B. S. degree and
later received an A. M. degree from Teachers College, Columbia
University. She has taught in the Household Arts Department
of two high schools in Michigan, organizing one of the departShe organized boys' and girls’ club work with the Extenments
sion Department of Michigan Agricultural College.
During the
war. Miss Rogers did extension work with the State Agricultural
Colleges of Massachusetts and Michigan. Her work which was
state wide, was largely of canning of foods and dietic work. Mora
i’ecently she has been in public health work as Director of the
Modern Health Crusade for the Michigan Anti-Tuberculosis Association.

NEWFOUNDLAND STUDENTS AT BLOOMSBURG.
Newfoundland

turning to the United States for help in
Hitherto her system of education has been modelled on that of England, but her leading educators believe that the United States has more to offer in this respect than has England. For this reason thirteen young women
teachers, who have shown special promise, have been selected by
the Government to be sent to normal schools in this country at
government expense. The Kalamazoo State Normal School, the
Osv/ego State Normal School, and the Bloomsburg State Normal
School were chosen for the advantages they offered.
is

solving her educational problems.

The students assigned

to the

Bloomshurg State Normal

School are Miss Gladys Parsons of Havre de Grace, Newfoundland, sent by the Methodist Board of Education, and Miss Margaret Murphy of St. Johns, Newfoundland, sent by the Catholic
Board of Education. Both of these young women are earnest students and keenly alive to the advantages offered by the American system of education. They will take back to the schools of
Newfoundland, American educational ideals and methods. Before
returning to their native land, Miss Parsons and Miss Murphy ex-

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pect to attend the

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session at Teachers College, Columbia

University.

FACULTY NOTES.
be of interst to our readers to know of the part
taken by various members of the faculty in the numerous educaThe reaction
tional conferences and meetings during the year.
from the attendance upon such gatherings is always of benefit
It

to

may

the school.

During the

latter part of

February Dr Fisher attended

Normal School Presidents
He then spent a few days at

the sessions of the National Council of

and Principals, in Washington, D. C.
the meeting of the Department of Superintendence, held February
25 to March 3, in Atlantic City.

On March

18 he presented a paper in the Normal School

and Rural Education section of the Annual Conference at TeachThe subject of the paper was
ers College, Columbia University.
“The Reorganization of Normal Schools.” Dr. Fisher has also
spent several weeks assisting the Department of Public Instruction in making a survey of the Philadelphia Normal School.
He
also attended the session of Schoolmen’s

Week

at the University

cf Pennsylvania, April 7-9.

Miss Steele has had an active part as an instructor in the
following institutes for teachers: Allentown City, Mifflin County,

Columbia County and at Millersburg, Doylestown, Harrisburg, and
Berwick. She attended the State Teachers’ Association meeting
at Harrisburg, the Department of Superintendence at Atlantic
City, Teachers College Alumni
Conference, March 19, and the
Schoolmen’s Week at the University of Pennsylvania. At the latter meeting she gave a demonstration lesson with a class of children in “The Teaching of Silent Reading.”
Mrs. Goodwin and Miss Cruttenden attended the Eastern
Arts Convention held at Baltimore, March 24-26. The convention was one great value to arts teachers.
Mrs. Goodwin also
attended the annual meeting of the Anthracite Arts Association
at Hazleton,

March

19.

During the Easter vacation Prof. Goodwin attended the

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annual convention of the Eastern Commercial Teachers’ Association in

New York
Prof.

Brill

City.

attended the State Teachers’ Association at
especially interested in the session of the

He was

Harrisburg.

Department of Civics and History.
Prof. Sutliff and Prof. Hartline attended the sessions of
Schoolmen’s Week at the University of Pennsylvania, April 7-9.
Miss Kingman attended the Eighth Annual Conference of

Women

the Deans of

in the

Normal Schools held

at Atlantic City,

Miss Kingman had the honor of being elected
Secretary of this association which is national in its scope.
Mrs. Browne attended the meeting of the Department of
Superintendence of the N. E. A. at Atlantic City. She read a
paper before the Rural Department of this body on February 28.
She also read a paper before the Rural Section of the State Teachers Association at Harrisburg, December 28.
Mrs Browne has
been an instructor at the following institutes and meetings:
Mauch Chunk, Carbon Co.; Mifflintown, Juniata Co.; Danville,
Montour Co. Bloomsburg, Columbia Co. and at Hazleton City
Teachers’ Meeting.
Prof. Albert has recently attended and taken part in the
educational conferences at Vandergrift, Berwick, Hazleton, Harrisburg, and in Washington County, Maryland. He spent five days
of the Easter vacation period in the Normal and Industrial Institute at Tuskegee, Alabama.

February 25-26.

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;

ALUMNI ITEMS
Xote:

The next number

of

THE QUARTERLY

will

be the catalog

ni'mber; but alumni Items for the October issue will be welcomed.

ATTENTION CLASS OF

1911.

“1911” is ten years old, and June 14, 1921 is the day set for
our tenth year reunion. Let us forget the ten years which have
passed and begin now to plan for that reunion just as we planned
Those memories alone ought to
for the triumphs of school days.
this
coming June. Let “1911” ralpresent
desire
to
be
awaken the
ly as of old.

D. D.

WRIGHT,

Pres.

THE
1886

B. S. N. S.

Koser, Josephine R.

er died January

9,

1921.

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After a brief

She was educated

illness

Miss Kos-

in the public schools

of Harrisburg and at B. S. N. S.

After graduation she began
teaching in Harrisburg and continued in service there to the time
of her death.
She had a host of friends who paid tribute to her

memory.
1907.

Announcement comes
Frank Parks Landis, on February 20, 1921,

Landis, William B.

birth of a son,

of the
to Mr.

and Mrs. Landis.
Morris, Charles. The prefix “Hon.” is now due, for
our plucky baseball catcher of days gone by has risen from being
president of his class to the distinction of being representative
from his district, in the State Legislature in 1921. We confidently
expect him to be an ardent advocate of the proposed legislation
which is aimed to advance the cause of education in Pennsylvania.
1910.

1911.

Sharadin, A.

J. is

now

director of athletics at De-

where he is being unusually successful. Last
fall his football team won the Northwest Ohio Conference title.
Mrs. Sharadin, who was Georgena McHenry, 1911, is teaching in
the First Grade in one of the schools of Altoona, where they own
a home which they did not like to relinquish until they were certain they would like the work at Defiance.

fiance College, Ohio,

Writing from 9 Atlantic Street,
he informs us that he now has “two little Cools”,
the oldest two and one half years, and the youngest nine months
1912.

Cool, Harold N.

Jersey City, N.

J.,

old.

1914.

Edwards, Idwal, who was

in the

Air Service during

the war, and has since been an instructor in the Flying School
near Dallas, Texas, is now Captain Edwards. He was married
last November to Miss Katherine Bierman, daughter of Dr. and

Mrs. Henry Bierman, of Bloomsburg, in a very pretty church wedCaptain and Mrs. Edwards are to sail about May 5 for the
ding.
Philippines, touching at various interesting places en route for
Manila. Captain Edwards will continue in the Air Service Department for the Government there indefinitely.

Percy W. In a recent issue of The Philadelphia North American we found the following:
“Percy W.
1916-

Griffiths,

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(Red) Griffiths, former Penn State star, who is to be athletic director at Marietta College next fall, was recommended by Hugo
Bezdek, under whom he played at State. Griffiths comes from
Scranton,”

Mary Agnes.

In a very pretty church wedand Rev. S. A. Marker officiating. Miss
Smith was married February 8, 1921, to Claire Monroe. They are
residing in Bloomsburg.

1919.

Smith,

ding, with Dr. D. J. Waller

1910.
Kresge, Olive and J. D, Montanye, in a very pretty
Christmas wedding, were united in marriage. They are residing
at 23 West Hollenback Ave-, Wilkes-Barre.

CALENDAR— 1921
Friday, June 10

Second Semester ends

Friday, 8 P. M., June 10

Music Recital
Junior Reception to Seniors
Junior

.

Saturday, 2 P. M., June 11

.

Drama

Baccalaureate Sermon

.

Class Reunions

Alumni Assembly

.

.

.

Monday, 11 :30 A. M., June 13

Alumni Banquet
Ivy

Day

Baseball

Exercises

Game

Senior Class

Day

Exercises

.

.

.

Monday, 8 P. M., June 13

Faculty Reception to Seniors and Parents

After Class

Day

Exercises

Commencement

Summer

School Begins

Summer

School ends

First Semester begins

Monday, June 20
Saturday, August 20

.

.

Monday, September 19

BLOOMSBURG
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL
Ideally located

na

in a

town that

accessibility

among

is

the

it

along the Susquehan-

not surpassed in attractiveness and

among towns

of its size in Pennsylvania.

Because a Normal School
controlled

hills

is

state supported and state

can offer a high grade education at less ex-

pense than any other school in the country.

The country needs capable young people who

will de-

vote their services to teaching, the biggest and best profession because

it

prepares the citizens of the future.

This school under the

Pennsylvania

is

New

Educational Program of

being greatly strengthened and enlarged

for better service to teachers and the public schools.

First Semester begins Monday, September 19-

For information write to
C. H.

FISHER,

Principal.

|

BLOOMSBURG
STATE

NORMAL

SCHOOL

QUARTERLY
NOVEMBER, 1921
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

CAPABLE, well-trained teacher
in hearty accord with

Amer-

ican ideals in every teaching position in Pennsylvania, so that there

may
all

be an equal opportunity for

children of the state.

Alum Assn
9 S p 1976

Archives (College)

Horvey A, Andruss Librory
Bloomsburg Stote College
Bloomsburgj PA 17815

Bloomsburg
State Normal School
Quarterly
Volume

Number

27.

Entered as Second-class Matter, July 1, 1909, at the Post
Bloomsburg, Pa., under the Act of July 16, 1894.

Office

1.

at

Published November, January, April, and July.

BOARD OF EDITORS
Foote, Chairman

J. C.

Roxana A.

Steele

F. A.

Irwin

Beatrice Dunlevj'
W. B. Sutliff

O. H. Bakeless

LET US HEAR FROM YOU
How many graduates of the Bloomsburg State Normal
School are teaching in Pennsylvania? Just what are they
doing? Do they all receive the Quarterly? These questions
and many others are

of interest to all of us.

Bloomsburg Normal can make
than now if the alumni work as a

its

even more
The Normal wishes

power

unit.

felt

every graduate to receive messages at regular intervals. The
Quarterly is the medium for these communications. In order
to have the Quarterly reach you promptly, it is necessary that
we have a complete and accurate mailing list. On another
page of this issue you will find a prepared sheet which we request you to fill out and mail immediately to the address given
there.

dress

Unless you act promptly you may forget, or your adarrive too late for the next issue of the Quarterly.

may

There

be much interesting news in a near issue of the
every alumnus sends a message. LET US

will

Quarterly

if

HEAR

FROM YOU!

COMMENCEMENT— 1921
As there has been no issue of the Quarterly since the commencement season, a word regarding it may not be inappropriate.

A

committee was

set to

work

early in the spring to

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plan the events of the week.

make

The

concerted effort was to

first

the affair short, snappy, and to have something planned

for every hour.

Saturday afternoon began with a reception and dance given
by the Junior Class to the Senior Class. This was a delightful
event held in the Casino, and was very largely attended by
both students and alumni.

Saturday evening the class of 1922 presented the annual

commencement drama, rounding out

Day”

a perfect “Junior

with “Green Stockings” as the attraction.

The

baccalaureate sermon

was preached by Dr. George N.

Richards, President of the Reformed Theological Seminar}^
of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Monday opened with

the early part of the day given over to

the usual class reunions.

They were

well attended and most

enthusiastic.

At eleven

o’clock the

Alumni meeting was held

in the

Audi-

torium, the main feature being the address of Mr. Francis B.

Haas

of the

Department

of Public Instruction.

Dr. Fisher

This was followed by the annual
banquet to which all graduates of the school, as well as the
graduating class, were invited. The large dining-room was
filled by a happy, enthusiastic crowd.
also addressed the meeting.

Judge John M. Garman of Wilkes-Barre acted as toastmashappy manner. A number of toasts were responded to. Everyone was pleased with the hearty response
given by Dr. Waller, who told of the achievements of the new
administration, of the energy with which Dr. Fisher had attacked the difficult problems confronting him, and of his own
continued interest in and hopes for the best things for the
Bloomsburg State Normal School.
ter in his usual

Three-thirty saw the planting of the Ivy with

program.
event,

Four-thirty

which we hope

baseball game.

The

was marked by

will

now

a

its

interesting

new commencement

be an annual

affair,

old boys put up a snappy

the alumni

game and

held

the school team to a tie score, the supper bell putting an end
to a

most interesting game with the score

2-2.

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The Seniors claimed the evening with their Class Day program, which was given in excellent form. This was followed
by a reception given by the members of the faculty to the
Seniors and their parents. The reception proved to be one of
the finest events of

Commencement.

Tuesday morning at ten o’clock saw the beginning of the
end of a most delightful Commencement season. The address
by Dr. J. Duncan Spaeth, of Princeton University, was a fitting close to one of the most enthusiastic and well attended
events of the kind ever held here. Evidence of the cordial
support of the Alumni to the new administration was everywhere apparent. The school enters the new era with confidence in the continued support of the Alumni.

A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
To

the

Members

of the

Alumni Association

:

This opportunity to write to you through the
of the Quarterly

is

certainly appreciated.

first

number

There are several

matters concerning the Alumni Association I should like to
talk over with you, each one personally, but as matters stand
I must be content to speak to you in print.
First of all I think
you will agree with me that we have on Normal Hill at
Bloomsbiu*g, one of the leading institutions of its kind in the
shall have reason as the days go by to be still
State.
prouder of our Alma Mater. Few institutions in the State

We

have achieved what B.
I

am

S.

N.

S.

sure you will agree with

has achieved

me when

I

in the past year.

say, that the spirit

and influence of the Bloomsburg State Normal School should
be perpetuated through the Alumni Association, and that we
should begin to help the officers and faculty of the institution
to make of B. S. N. S. the most influential and best normal
school in the State. With the co-operation of every Alumnus
this

can be done.

Many

you are members

of a local Alumni Association in
should not only be members of this local
Association, but you should be real live wire members, the

your

of

vicinity.

You

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kind that take an active part in the doings of the Association.
These local Associations should begin to spread the old time
spirit of B. S. N. S., the kind of spirit that you had when you

were

at

Normal.

The

reports that

I

have had thus

the local Associations that have had their meeting,

from
that

Each meeting has been a big success.
your Association has not had a meeting, will you get in

this spirit
If

far

show

is

spreading.

touch with your local president and ask

why?

“Alumni Day” for 1922 was advertised in the catalogue for
Monday, June 12. This date has been changed to Saturday,
June 3rd, in order that the vast number of teachers belonging
to the Alumni might have an opportunity to get back on
Alumni Day and renew old acquaintances. I am sure that this
change of date will be heartily approved by every Alumnus.
Hurrah for the biggest Alumni Day that Bloomsburg has ever
seen

!

!

Nineteen Twenty-two is the time for the reunions of the following classes
1920, 1917, 1912, 1907, 1902, 1897, 1892, 1887,
1882, 1877, 1872. Last year a large number were present from
every class. Let us make this year the “Booster Alumni Day.”
Let us have such a crowd that we shall have to put diningroom tables in the class rooms. Mark this day in your calendar for next year and be sure to be on hand.
:

be glad to hear any good suggestions that you
have that will help to improve the Alumni Association.
I

shall

may

Sincerely yours,

THOMAS

FRANCIS,

Alumni Association.

President, B. S. N. S.

SUMMER SCHOOL
The summer

school of 1921

was the

third

summer

school

conducted by the Normal School and greatly outstripped preThe total enrollment was 498,
which was the second largest enrollment in the state normal
schools, one of the schools in the western part of the state having an enrollment of 503.
The attendance at the summer

vious records in attendance.

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school of 1922 will be limited only by the accommodations

which can be provided.

The enrollment

for 1922 can be dou-

bled over that of 1921 provided accommodations can be found
for those

who

will

want

to attend.

The summer school has come to be regarded as a part of
The regular year is now divided into two
semesters of eighteen weeks each. The summer school conthe year’s work.

tinues for nine weeks,

which enables students to complete oneUnder a new law enacted by a recent

fourth of a year’s work.

which requires that

legislature

after

September,

teachers in the state must hold state certificates, the

grow

school will

1927,

all

summer

rapidly in increasing importance.

The summer school attracts on the whole an earnest body
who come with a definite purpose. The instructors in the summer school of 1921, in spite of extremely hot
weather, felt amply rewarded for their effort by the splendid
work done by the students. The summer school of 1921 maintained a high standard of work.
Mere attendance did not
guarantee passing grades or a teacher’s certificate. The faculty was strong and capable and exacted work of a high
of teachers,

standard.

who teach during the regthey are so inclined, have the opportunity
of teaching in the summer school. This gives the teachers an
all year position with compensation for twelve months in a
The

teachers of the normal school

ular school year,

if

Between the close of the summer school and the opening of school in September, the teachers have a month’s vacaIn addition to the regular teachers thirteen new teachtion.

year.

ers

had

to be

added to the summer school faculty.

The Demonstration and Observation School was a very imsummer school organization. The school

portant part of the

had a group of expert teachers
of

who demonstrated

modern teaching. The school was composed

a high grade

of the first six

grades with about twenty-five pupils in each grade and a teacher in charge of each grade. A one-room school was organized
in one of the rooms of the chapel building.
The school was

composed

of pupils

country.

The

who were

transported to and from the

teacher in charge

was

specially qualified to

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demonstrate teaching in a one-room school. We feel that
without the work of the Demonstration and Observ'ation
School the summer school would have failed in a large measure
to accomplish its work.
This kind of school has become a
permanent part of our organization.

ENROLLMENT
The total enrollment at
The most gratifying phase

the present time
of the enrollment

The Junior

students in the Junior Class.

ment

of 270 students,

which

the history of the school, and

most

likely will,

it

will

history of the school.

ment

who

the

number

of

Class has an enroll-

the largest entering class in

remains intact, as it
be the largest graduating class in the
A most significant phase of the enroll-

of the Junior Class

of the class,

is

502 students.

is

is

is

if

this class

that 43

young men

are

members

are attending the school with the purpose of

preparing for teaching. The Junior Class of last year or the
present Senior Class numbers 130. There has been a gain of
over 100 per cent, in the enrollment in the entering class of
the two-year normal school course. Altogether there are 400
students who are enrolled in the two-year normal school
course. The rest of the 502 students are either in the High
School Department or in the Music Department.

The College Preparatory Department, because of the ruling
made by the State Department of Public Instruction, has been
dropped entirely from the organization of the school. The
Commercial Department has been dropped temporarily. We
hope by September, 1922, to organize a new department
with a three-year course for the training of commercial
The Commercial Department will require high
teachers.
school graduation for entrance the same as the two-year teacher training course. In spite of dropping two departments from
the organization of the school, considerable gain has been
made in the total enrollment. The dormitories and diningroom are almost filled to their capacity as was the case in the

pre-war days.

The
dents.

enrollment of our summer school was 498 stuThis enrollment together with the enrollment of the

total

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regular school year

makes

In addition to this

it is

7

a total enrollment of 1,000 students.

count the teachers enrolled

fair to

in

the extension courses as a part of the enrollment in the school.

The

regular teachers of the school are meeting on late after-

noons and

in

the evenings and on

At

classes in extension work.

Saturdays, twenty-five

the present time there

is

a total

in the extension courses. The complete enrollment of the school at this time for the year 1921-22 is 1,700.
Not only do we take pride in the enrollment, but more espe-

enrollment of 700

which the enrollment indicates that
rendering to the public school system of the state.

cially in the large service,
this school is

EXTENSION
A new

WORK

branch of normal school work has been initiated at

Bloomsburg

this year in the organization of extension classes

for teachers in service.

This work has been planned to help

The reguNormal School are being given by

teachers receive credits toward State Certificates.
lar courses offered at the

members
more

or

of the faculty in centers

wherever a group of twenty

teachers desire such work.

At present there are

twenty-five classes organized with an enrollment of approxi-

mately seven hundred teachers.
Courses are being given

in the

following subjects:

ciples of Education, Music, Fine Arts,

of

Arithmetic,

English

Composition,

Prin-

Geography, Teaching
Children’s

Literature

and Story Telling, Reading and Public Speaking, Industrial
Arts, Child Study, Personal and School Hygiene, Penmanship,
Teaching of Reading, General Science, Educational Measurements.

McAdoo, WilHanover Township, NantiDalmatia, Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, Norwegian Town-

Classes are being held at Hazleton, Freeland,
liamsport, Plains, Edwardsville,
coke,

Lost Creek, Locust Gap. New classes are being formed
Bloomsburg, Danville, Duryea, Milton, and other places.
Although the extension work is at present in its embryo state,
we feel certain that the enthusiasm shown by teachers who are
taking courses is an evidence that the work is meeting a real
ship,

at

need.

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Although we have devoted our attention exclusively

to the

organization of extension classes, there are three other very

important phases of the extension work which will soon be in
One of these is the correspondence work which
will be given the last semester. This is for the benefit of those
teachers, who because of extreme distance from a center are
not able to join extension classes.

operation.

Another important phase of the work will be the “followup” of the graduates. According to this plan, members of the
faculty will visit as

many

graduates of the school as possible

order to ascertain in what respects the work in the normal
school prepares the teacher to meet the real situation and in
what respects it fails to do so, as well as to be of help and enin

couragement to the graduates.

The Extension Department will also serve as a central
bureau for the distribution of institute work. A list of available speakers together with the subjects upon which they are
prepared to speak will be kept on file for the benefit of superintendents and others desiring the services of the Normal
School. As important as is the work within the walls of the
Normal School, we cannot help but feel that without also lies
a vast field for service.

NEW MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY
This year there are forty-five regular members of the faculty,
whereas last year the faculty numbered forty-two, and two
years ago there were thirty-six members of the faculty. The
increase in the present faculty is due for the most part to the
enlarged Training School. Twelve teachers are devoting all
of their time to the Training School. In addition to the regular teachers, there are eight special teachers who are devoting
part of their time to the Training School. The work of the

Training School has been extended to the schools of Bloomsburg and to one-room rural schools adjacent to Bloomsburg.
Altogether there are six teachers outside of the Training
are associated with the regular members of the
faculty making a total of fifty-one teachers connected with

School
the

who

work

of the school.

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This year there are sixteen new members of the faculty.
few facts about these teachers will no doubt be of interest
to the Alumni.

A

The work in Educational Measurements which has recently
been introduced into the school is in charge of John P. Herring. Within a short time the work in Educational Measurements has grown to such proportions that a Bureau of Educational Research has been organized to take care of this work.
Mr. Herring is not only the instructor in Educational Measurements, but is the director of the Bureau of Educational Research. For ten years Mr. Herring worked in the schools of
Seattle, Washington.
During most of the time he was principal of one of the schools of the public school system of
Seattle. He is a graduate of Brown University and did postgraduate work at the State University, Washington, and later
continued his advance work at Teachers College, Columbia
University, where, in June, 1921, he received his Ph.D. degree
under Dr. Edward L. Thorndike.
Aroos H. Azadian is a training teacher in charge of the
Miss Azadian was born in Armenia, but is an
American citizen. Miss Azadian received her professional
training at Pratt Institute and Adelphi College, Brooklyn, and
later at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she received both the B.S. and A.M. degrees.
Miss Azadian has
taught in schools in Asia Minor and in this country. She has
traveled extensively in European countries and in Egypt, and
Kindergarten.

handles with

facility at least six foreign

languages.

Florence E. Besse is a training teacher in the fifth grade.
Miss Besse comes from West Concord, New Hampshire. She
is a graduate of the Keene State Normal School of her native
state.
She has engaged in advanced study at New York University. She has had experience in teaching various grades of
work, and spent three years in the Keene State Normal School
as critic teacher.
Immediately before coming to this school
she taught in East Orange, New Jersey.

The new Principal of the Junior High School is F. A. Irwin.
Mr. Irwin comes from Vincennes, Indiana, where he organized
and acted as principal of a large junior high school. Mr.

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Irwin has had considerable experience in teaching in the onerural school, in the high school, and as an administrator

room

He

of schools.

received his collegiate education at

DePauw

University, Northwestern University and Teachers College,

Columbia University. He holds

a B.S. degree

from Northwest-

ern University.

Beatrice Dunlevy

Geography and English in
Miss Dunlevy is a graduate of
Swarthmore College, and has done advanced work at Teachers
College, Columbia University.
Miss Dunlevy has had experience in teaching upper grade pupils and recently has
taught in the high school of Hazleton, where she was regarded
as one of the most successful teachers on the high school
the Junior

is

a teacher of

High School.

faculty.
S. Sherman is the new teacher in the Department
Miss Sherman received a Bachelor of Oratory degree from the School of Expression of Lawrence College,
which is located in her native state, Wisconsin. For three
years she was a student at the Curry School of Expression,
Boston, where she received a teacher’s diploma in 1918. While
studying in Boston, she was registered as a special student at
Boston University from which school she received the B.A.
degree. ]\Iiss Sherman received her Master’s degree from the
University of Wisconsin in 1920. While at the University
of Wisconsin, she assisted Dr. Blanton in his Corrective Speech
Clinic. She comes to us directly from the University of Iowa,
where she was an instructor in Dramatics and Oral Interpre-

Margaret

of Speech.

tation.

Gerald

S.

Craig

is

an instructor

in

General Science, Physics,

and Chemistry. Mr. Craig is a graduate of Baylor University,
Texas, and holds the M.A. degree from Teachers College, Columbia University. He has done considerable advanced work
in the Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr.
Craig has taught in the Science Department of high schools
He came to us from the Oak Lane
in Texas and New Jersey.
He enlisted in the army
Philadelphia.
Day
School
of
Country
considerable service in
rendered
during the Great War and
preparing

men

for overseas duties.

U

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Harriet M.
^liss

Moore

is

Moore

is

an instructor

in Public

School Music,

a graduate of the Missouri State Teachers Col-

which school she received a music
She spent considerable time studying

lege at Kirksville from
supervisor’s diploma.

music in Chicago, and during the past year studied at the Bush
Conservatory of Music, where she received the degree of
Bachelor in iMusic. Miss Moore has had experience as a teacher of the elementary school in the State of Missouri and later
was Supervisor of Music in Winnetka, Illinois, and University City, iMissouri.

Jessie A. Patterson is an instructor in Public School Music.
She is a graduate of the State Normal School at Athens, Ohio.
She spent three years studying at the Oberlin Conservatory
of Music, Oberlin, Ohio, and has spent three summers in the
!Music Department of Cornell University, and a summer at
New York University. Miss Patterson was for five years head
of the Department of Public School Music of DePauw University.
She came to us from Greensburg, Pennsylvania,

where

for three years she

has been Supervisor of Music

in

the public schools.
;M. Sibyl Browne is an instructor in Fine Arts.
She is a
graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University, where
she was granted a B.S. degree and a teacher’s diploma in Fine
Arts. During the past year Miss Browne traveled extensively
in Europe, devoting most of the time to study in the field of

her main interest.
in

George
is

Miss Browne had most of her experience

teaching in the public schools of San Antonio, Texas.
J.

Keller

is

an instructor

in

Fine Arts.

Mr. Keller

High School and spent two
Bloomsburg State Normal School. He

a graduate of the Bloomsburg

years studying Art at
holds the B.S. degree from Teachers College, Columbia University, and also a teacher’s diploma in Fine Arts.
For a year
and a half, Mr. Keller taught Art in the first six grades of the

He has had experience teaching stuSummer School of Teachers College.
George ^I. Mead has charge of Physical Education for men.
i\Ir. Mead is a graduate of the University of Michigan, his native state. He spent two years in the Physical Education DeHorace Mann School.

dents in the

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partment of the State Normal School at Ypsilanti under the
instruction of Prof. W. P. Bowen. Mr. Mead was formerly
instructor in Physical Education in the Junior High School of
Grand Rapids, and later was Supervisor of Physical Education and Director of Athletics at LaCrosse, Wisconsin.
At
LaCrosse he had charge of the Physical Education work in
ten grade schools and a high school of 1,200 students.
He
supervised the practice teaching of seniors of the LaCrosse
The work in Athletics and Physical
State Normal School.
Education at LaCrosse attracted considerable attention under
the supervision of Mr. Mead. He spent two years in the army
during the Great War and eleven months of this time were
spent in France with the A. E. F.
Grace M. Stafford is an instructor in Physical Education for
She was a student at the State Normal School of
Milwaukee, and also at the State Normal School at Marquette,
Michigan. For two years she studied in the Chicago Normal
School of Physical Education, and has also been a student in
the University of Chicago. She completed her course in Physical Education at the University of Wisconsin, where she received a degree. Miss Stafford has had experience in directing
Physical Education for women at the State Normal School,
Marquette, Michigan, at the University of Chicago, and more
recently was Director of Physical Education for women at the

women.

Oklahoma A.

& M.

College.

Dorothy M. LaSalle is an instructor in Physical Education
for women. Miss LaSalle was a student in Physical Education, Columbia University, v/here she received a B.S. degree
and a teacher’s diploma in Physical Education and Hygiene.
For one year Miss LaSalle was student assistant in Teachers
College. She was instructor in Physical Education in the Liggett School of Detroit, Michigan, and later was director of
Physical Education at Greenwich Academy, Connecticut.
Miss
is in charge of the school library.
ColSimmons
of
Course
Library
in
the
student
Hadley was a
Hadley
Miss
degree.
her
received
lege, Boston, where she
had experience in library work in Utica and Rochester, New

Gladys

York.

J.

Hadley

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Marjorie K. Wilson is Assistant Librarian. Miss W'ilson
was a student in the Library Course of Syracuse University,
where she received her degree. Miss Wilson came to us from
Sandusky, Ohio, where she was engaged in Juvenile and County Library Extension Work.

SUNDAY AFTERNOON MEETING
Last year marked the inauguration of what has come to be
These meetings
as the Sunday Afternoon Meeting.
met with such a hearty response that it seemed wise to arrange a similar series of meetings for this year. From the last
Sunday in October until the middle of April a meeting is held

known

in the

Normal School

of the faculty, students of the

Normal School,

every Sunday afternoon at four o’clock
Auditorium.

The members

and people of the town and vicinity meet to hear a discussion
of current, political, social and moral questions by eminent
and capable speakers. These meetings are regarded as a part
of the educational

work

of this institution, for

we

believe that

democracy can be maintained only through popular education
and that citizens of a democracy can serve their country intelligently only when they have a knowledge of her problems.

At several meetings this year the Auditorium has been filled
with an attendance of a thousand persons. A select chorus of
girls’ voices usually furnishes music for the occasion.
The
singing of the chorus is a feature of the meetings that is very
attractive to a great many who attend. The following is the
program of speakers and their subjects for this year:

— George D. Alden, “Needs of the Hour.”
6—A. Hunt Vautier, “The Way to Peace.”
13— Frederic Poole, an Illustrated Lecture, “Allanby. Liberator of The Holy Land.”
November 20— Concert by Bloomsburg Band, Assisted by

October 30

November
November

Mrs. George R. Cruze, Soloist.

December
December

—Edward Amherst

4

Ott, “Victory.”

—Stanley L. Krebs, “Wonders of the World
Within.”
December 18— Charles Zueblin, Subject to be announced.
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— M. Tibbetts, “The Fundamentals of Our
McClure, “World Conditions Today.”
January 15 —
Culp, “The Unfolding of Life.”
January 22—W. T.
January 8

J.

Civili-

zation.”

S. S.

S.

January

29-

— Concert

by

Bloomsburg

Band,

Assisted

by

Soloist.

— Duncan Spaeth, Subject to be Announced.
— Shaw Desmond, Subject to be Announced.
— Frederic Poole, An Ilustrated Lecture, China.
— M. H.
“The Vaudeville Mind.”

February 5
February 12
February 19
February 26

J.

Lichliter,

— Sacred Concert by
Chorus.
12— William Rader, “Common Sense.”
19— B. R. Baumgardt, An Illustrated Lecture, “The
Frontiers of the Universe.”
March 26— George Earle Raiguel, “Our Relations to South
America.”
April 2—Arthur D. Carpenter, “The Imminency
God.”
March
March
March

5

Girls’

of

MANAGEMENT OF ATHLETICS
The committee

charge of the athletic affairs of the school
decided at the opening of the school year to revise the scheme
of management. The plan adopted is really a resumption of a
plan used many years ago by the school. Briefly, we are to
have a student manager for each line of sports in which teams
compete and to have a member of the faculty as advisor to the
student manager. The member of the faculty to whom each
manager is directly responsible is Prof. George N. Hall. The
faculty committee on athletics will review proposed schedules
and co-operate otherwise in an advisory capacity. It is hoped
that this plan will enlist the active support of the student body
in all the athletic events in which the school participates.
Students are admitted to all games by presenting evidence of
registration.
Members of the faculty may purchase season
tickets at a nominal rate.
in

Coach Mead had

number

boys working hard this
new equipment
was purchased at the opening of school so that with the material on hand, every boy who desired to play football could be
fitted out with all necessary equipment.
fall

a large

to develop a football team.

of

Considerable

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OUR CELEBRATION OF ARBOR DAY
Because of many features that have in successive years besuch as (1)
to the observance of Arbor Day,
Protection
Tree Planting; (2) Bird
Studies; (3) Roosevelt
Conservation Plans and (4) Gift of High Schools to devastated France, our observ^ation this fall gave us a rather full
program.

—

come attached

—

;

Auditorium periods, October 27 and 28, were used to get
through the program, and the following activities were carried
out under the direction of members of the senior class

On

27, Auditorium Exercises that aimed at MotivaArbor Day’s Allied Observances were carried out by
the following program on a stage setting consisting of

October

tion for

—Autumn leaves.
— Gate— Pathway.
Decorations —Autumn leaves, vines,
Floor

F ence

fruit.

Trees to be planted, in crock on stage as part of deco-

scheme
Memorial White Pine.
Memorial American Larch.

ration

Autumn Flowers
Black-eyed Susan (School Colors).
Jane Hall.
Gentian.
Beth Girton.

Program
Song

:

(Miss Hazel Kimble presiding)

:

—Joyce Kilmer’s “Trees.”
Reading—Judges IX; Trees Choose a King.

.

Lord’s Prayer and Response.
Governor Sproul’s Proclamation of Arbor Day, and
Supt. Finegan’s Letter, read by Dr. Fisher.
Our Arbor Day Plans Miss Agnes O’Brien.
Our Thaddeus Stevens’ Pines Miss Anna Granahan.
Trees and Birds and other related Arbor Day observances, Fire Protection, Roosevelt, France
Miss Dorothy Faust.

—

—

—

Singing

—“America.”

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While

was going on

this

in the

Normal School,

the Elemen-

tary grades of the Training School, and the Junior

School were conducting programs in their

October 28 was Field Day, and for

own

High

rooms.

this all schools

combined.

The aim was

To
To

plant trees.
collect contributions for the gift of

American School

Children, American High School Buildings, to the
school children of devasted France.

There was a grand march along a route prepared by seniors,
with Miss Thelma Riegel effectively personating the Goddess

The program consisted of two parts
Grand March The combined schools,

of Liberty.

—

(1)

led

by the

Kindergarten, following the Stars and Stripes, and
the Tricolor of France, passed the Statue of Liberty,

which stood a papier mache model of
crowing cock, into whose
mouth contributions were placed. The marching columns then broke up into groups organized for plantat the base of

Emblem

the

of France, a

ing.

Planting;

(2)

—

White Pines War Hero Memorial Trees in
Pinery to replace trees damaged since dedication.
One tree by each of grades of Elementary and
Junior High Schools.
Hero Memorial American Larch by Senior Class.

12

1

A
1

1

replacement.

Hero Memorial White Oak.
Scotch Pine, by Juniors.

A replacement.
1 California Giant Sequoia.
8 Black Walnut Seedlings by Senior High School.
2 Clematis white blue on Memorial Pergola.
replacement.
Moving one English Walnut.

—

—

Trimming Thaddeus

—

Stevens’ Pines.

Fixing Ivy of Ivy Day Planting.
Fixing Ivy of Memorial Pergola. By Seniors.
Taking of new seedlings set last Spring Arbor Day
Junior High School.

A

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A LETTER THAT EXPLAINS ITSELF
October

To

31, 1921.

the Fine Lads and Lassies of the Training School;

—

—

That proud character The Cock of France had his crop
filled so full by that Splendid Grand March of ours that when
we took him from his perch and set him on the ground, he fell
forward and many of his Grains of Com (Coin) American
pennies, nickels and dimes and quarters rolled out on the
ground. But his American friends picked them up and put
them back, $60.08 in all. Wasn’t that fine! He will give one
grand crow that will be heard around the world if all Schools
of America do as well as that. The amount that will come to
them in this way ought to give them two High Schools of
Avhich we Americans can well be proud and France glorious
France! will use them so well that she will give the world
more great spirits like Lafayette, Pasteur, the Curies, Clemenceau, the Magnificent Old Tiger, Marshal Foch.

—

—

—

;

It

our
I

was

fine for

us

to

all

work together so

nicely to “do well

bit.”

know

when I see one, and
Good Scouts

a good Scout

ing School People are

I

think the Train-

Cordially,

D.

S.

HARTLINE.

TEACHER PLACEMENT SERVICE
Requests are constantly coming to the

ment Service

of the

Department

office of the Place-

of Public Instruction, Harris-

burg, Pa., for teachers specifically trained along certain lines.

Many of these positions not only offer larger
but very attractive compensation.
The Placement Service

is

fields of service,

unable to suggest candidates for

these positions due to a paucity of registrants.

We

are calling the attention of the alumni and of the teach-

Pennsylvania to the advantages of registering with the
Placement Service. By so doing not only shall school officials
be rendered valuable service but worthy teachers the opportunity for deserving promotion.
ers of

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The Placement

Service has

made no

tration of teachers, although there

eflfort

to solicit regis-

were registered during the

In most instances these teachers de-

past year 3,643 teachers.

sired to be in positions nearer

home, and

in larger fields of in-

Many were

seeking promotion for which their additional professional training justly entitled them.
fluence.

It

was

largely impossible to learn of vacancies prior to the

establishment of the Placement Seridce, except through agen-

During the

cies operated for profit.

brief period of operation

250 teachers have been placed through this bureau, representing salaries aggregating $360,000. The actual saving in fees
for the teachers of Pennsylvania amounts to $18,000 if to this
is added the registration fee of $2 required by commercial
agencies a total saving of $24,000 has been effected. However,
this matter need not be stressed. A greater piece of work than
this has been accomplished.
Letters of appreciation from
.school officials, from teachers and secretaries of boards of education expressing their gratitude for the service rendered are
on file in the Placement Sendee.
;

One thousand two hundred and fifty requests for teachers
have been received by the Placement Service. Great difficulty
has been experienced in finding teachers specifically trained
for the positions vacant. That the Placement Service may function

most

effectively

is

it

necessary that the registration

active and prospective teachers

had upon application

At the same time

list

Registration cards are provided by which

of teachers be large.

to the

that

we

may

register.

Department

These may be

of Public Instruction.

are asking our readers to carry the

information concerning the Placement Service to teachers,

we

are asking the alumni to give the widest possible publicity to
the Placement Service, thereby rendering a valuable service

not only to the teachers and schools but to the children of this

Commonwealth.

Many

superintendents and supervisors are frequent visitors

to the office of the

Placement Service, and many teachers are

using this office as a meeting place with school
ing teachers.

officials desir-

BLOOMSBURG NORMAL QUARTERLY

The Placement

Service requests that

we

tion of teachers the advantages that will

1»

bring to the atten-

come from

register-

ing with the Placement Service and also of the advisability
of school officials in

registrants on

School

need of teachers drawing upon the
Placement Service.

list

of

in the

file

slowly gaining confidence in the work
is striving to do, namely, sug-

officials are

which the Placement Service

gesting teachers specifically trained and properly certified for
positions vacant.
officials

It will

and boards

materially assist teachers

of education will notify the

Service of vacancies.

By

if

school

Placement

calling the attention of school

offi-

which the Placement Service stands ready
to render and explaining briefly the desire of the Placement
Service to become a clearing place for available teachers and
existing vacancies, the schools of Pennsylvania shall be ma-

cials to the service

terially assisted.

HENRY KLONOWER,
State Dept, of Public Instruction.

In charge of Placement Service.

ENGLISH IN THE TEACHER TRAINING COURSE
Elizabeth M. Gill

The new course

attempted to do two
has tried to unify the aims and boundaries of English teaching in the Normal Schools of the State, and it has
emphasized the place and importance of English studies in
their relation to the other subjects of the curriculum. There
has long been a tendency not only in Pennsylvania, but
throughout the country to make the courses in English re-

things

flect

:

of study in English has

It

the personal preferences, ability, and individual judgment

of the instructors, rather than the needs of a student in a teacher training institution.

In thus organizing the course, Penn-

sylvania has taken a forward step.

Under the new plan three courses in English are required of
Juniors. The first is a course called English Fundamentals.
The name is descriptive, for the course includes a review of
grammar, which aims to build upon the previous work of the

all

student an appreciation of basic principles, underlying reasons

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and relations which govern the English sentence. About half
of the semester is given to this study of grammar. Following
that, the course meets the requirement of modern education
by giving such instruction in the use of the library as will give
a working familiarity with books in their classification, cataloging, and shelving, and with the reference section of the
library.
Further, the course includes a study of the history
of the English language sufficient to show how and from what
it has developed
some work in word-analysis, phonetics, drill
in pronunciation and enunciation.
Even spelling receives its
share of attention when necessary. The aim of the entire
course is to give such knowledge of the mother tongue that
a high standard of usage may be acquired and maintained.
;

Complementary
position.

to this course

is

Com-

the second, English

This gives constant practice

in the application of

those basic principles which make for effective use of English.
It includes a thorough study of the forms of English

prose composition, form, content, and technique.
phasis is placed on the essay and the short story.

Special em-

Both of these courses are of college freshman grade, and
presuppose a thorough grounding in the foundation principles
of English grammar and of rhetoric. At the same time the
courses are thoroughly professionalized, involving lesson
plans and the discussion of approved method.
Closely associated with these two is the third, a course in
This is not in any sense a course in elocution “it is

speech.

;

designed primarily to insure: (1) a good teaching voice, and
(2) effective address with facility and ease in oral expression.”
The laboratory method of work, making necessary self-criticism, is used throughout the course. Some attention is given
to corrective work through the study of pronunciation and
its

the

There are discussions before the class of subchosen by the students. The course is planned to meet

requisites.

jects

demands of
and other

tutes

all

sorts of public occasions, especially insti-

teachers’ meetings.

The course

offers oppor-

tunity for close correlation with the other courses of the cur-

riculum through the class reports. Certainly no more practical course could be offered in a teacher training institution.

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The
and

senior year

at least

two

is

— four

required courses

During

this year the re-

rich in opportunity

electives are offered.

21

quired courses are adapted to the type of

work

in the schools

which the student has selected. For students who have elected
Group 1, the primary grades, there is the course in Children’s
Literature and Story Telling, for the teachers of the intermediate grades and junior high school, the course in Juvenile
Literature.
No greater problem faces parents and teachers
than that presented by the questions that arise regarding our
children’s reading.

It is to aid in

the solution of these prob-

lems for the teacher that these two courses are planned to
give the student familiarity with the literature that has been
written for children and young people and with the characteristics of the books which children select for voluntary reading,
as well as with the psychological background of all their reading.
Further than this these courses aim to develop critical
ability, to give standards for criticism, to help the student to
;

discriminate between the good and the best quite as certainly
as between the bad and the good.

The course

in Children’s

Literature gives also training in story telling and information

regarding the sources of

much

material for this kind of work.

Children’s magazines and such magazines for adult readers as

children enjoy are studied both as sources of material and as

suggestions of children’s interests.

For each of these groups of student teachers there is a careTeaching of Reading. Both
classes are given the background of the psychology and hygiene of reading. The teachers of the primary grades study
the theory of primary reading, examine many primers and
readers, and become familiar, through observation and actual
fully organized course in the

teaching in the training school, with the various types of lessons in primary reading. The second group, through the study
of Dewey’s “How
Think,” and McMurray’s “How to
Study,” secure the preparation necessary for stressing silent
reading; they, too, use the readers and prepare lesson plans
based on the various types of lessons. Some time is given

We

to

word study and

to vocabulary building.

of teaching, reading
ercise,

is

Through

this kind

no longer a mere word pronouncing ex-

but a thought getting process.

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In offering a course in the methods of teaching English in

we aim to establish some standard of
attainment which will serve practically both the pupil who
will leave school at the end of the junior high school course
and the one who will continue in school through the senior
high school, and perhaps further. Accepting the “Minimum
Essentials” recommended in the “Reorganization Bulletin” as
such standard, the class works toward the greatest economy
and efficiency in reaching that standard.
the junior high school

Closely associated with this course in methods is one in
American Literature, in which the emphasis is placed on the
relation which exists between our literature and the development of American ideals of democracy. This is an important
course for those who will do a great deal toward forming the
reading habits of the thousands of boys and girls whose

schooling ends with the age of sixteen.

So
it

we have been concerned with

far

the course of study as

seeks to unify the aims and boundaries of English teaching.

The other aim

of the

new course must be given

equal consid-

Xo

one questions that a high standard of oral and
written expression should be acquired and maintained by all
teachers but too often in our schools students have been permitted to limit their carefulness and attention to good usage
to the English department, while careless, slovenly expression
has been accepted by every other department. Naturally, “the
English department has failed” in this uneven race. Now it is
the business of every teacher in the normal school to reinforce
the English department from every possible point of attack,
recognizing that only so can any worth while progress be assured. “Further work in English without further credit will
be required of all students who fail to reach and maintain a
reasonable standard of oral and written expression.”
eration.

;

No

other study in the entire curriculum reaches out in all
directions as does the study of English. Unless one can read
understandingly,
intelligible

;

and

no
it is

science,

historj^

or

mathematics can be

equally certain that nothing of informa-

tion in other lines of study can be imparted save through
forceful, clear,

convincing expression.

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A NATURE STUDY TRIP

—

Walking, Thinking, Talking A Ramble by some Ramblers,
being a Nature Study Lesson Outdoors.
asked to accompany me on this advenis helping me to an altogether delightful start-oft".
The smooth, cool feel of the firm out-pushing
shape of the superb fruit, made me want to hold it for the
“This apple that

ture, as

I

you did yours,

sheer pleasure of the

thrill of its

reaction to

can’t linger over this initial feature.
is

And on

too strong.

ish delight

color

one

—gold,

feels

way

the

over the

The

my

hold.

But we

lure to closer contact

to the bite into

it,

what a

child-

that the eye takes of the rich

toll

overlaid with vivid red, in extended areas and

narroAv strips and curious tatters, from stem towards calyx

in

tips.

And one

cover

feels glad that the red

to overspread all the gold.

And

isn’t

big enough

before the tingle of pleasure

aroused by this flash of sight has passed, the quick stab of the
pungent odor, makes one want to linger over it till he is in
danger of eating it with his nose. But the mouth has been
watering long enough, and now the cheery sound of crunching
teeth, whose music rivals the sweetness of the juice set free by
crushed cells, stored till now with liquid sunshine, and eagerly
the taste buds overwhelmed by the sweet tide, all these contribute their share to the fun of eating a Northern Spy!”
“Professor, please stop and eat your apple so that I can eat
mine with comfort. You make me so painfully aware that I
have missed several things in eating mine.”
“Professor, do you smell your apple?”

“Oh, yes

!

I

wouldn’t

like to

miss the odor of this or any

other food, or any other thing in

Skunk Cabbage or the lawn

my

surroundings

fertilizer.

Many

don’t give their sense of smell a fair chance.
this so

the

They

Some have done
You

long that they no longer have any sense of smell.

are youngsters.

At

—even

folks do.

Your senses

are

still

keen.

Keep them

so!

do not dull them by neglect. Rather sharpen them by
That, for the sense of smell, means, chiefly, give odors

least

use.

enough attention

to allow

them

to

awaken your consciousness.

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That is, allow yourself to become aware of odors. Frequent
use means strength by exercise, here as elsewhere. The race
worked too long and hard at winning the power and the structures of smell for any member of it to lightly lose them by neglect.
Everybody thinks it a calamity to lose, say sight, or
hearing. But it is equally a calamity to lose any other sense,
as smell. How great its possibilities are is easily seen by considering what it means to the dog. I slipped away from my
dog the other day while he was sound asleep by my desk. I
did not want him to go down town with me to the bank.
While carrying on the business at the bank window, I felt on
my free hand, hanging at my side, a cool wet touch. Looking
down I saw a face split by a smile extending from ear to ear.
and a Avagging tail that plainly wdg-wagged to me, ‘You didn’t
get far away from me, did you?’ ‘Comrade’ had never been

How

there.
started.

did he find

Nose

me?

The

Janitor told

me how

he

to ground, unerringly as far as he could see him,

he followed the lines of my steps. I did not know I had
dropped marks along the way, but the dog’s nose knew. It
was a busy time of day. Scores of people, like myself, had
crossed, recrossed, passed along my tracks. But he followed
mine till he came to me— the big smell.”

“Oh, Professor, what’s that?”
It says its name more plainly
“Well, Girl, hear it tell you
than you did the other day in class when I couldn’t promptly
say it and asked you to mention it. I had to ask you twice, but
hear that
Once will do, but you are glad to hear it many
!

!

times.

‘Kill deer!

Kill deer!

—short, jerky,

!

Kill deer!

!

There, see

!’

its

throbbing notes of its
You would not have
cry. New, both new, recently acquired
to go far back in its ancestry to see that its stock and that of
the fellow trilling in the swamp at the base of the Cinder Tip
flight,

fluttering, like the

!

are the same.”

“But Professor,

that’s a toad, isn’t it?”

“Yes, Boy, Bufo Americana; Listen! there probably isn’t a
sweeter sound in the grand orchestral burst of early spring
Hear that a Robin, high
than that, but it is far from artistic
!

!

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up in the tree top as if determined to keep the sun (going towards setting) in view as high up as possible; to wear for us
a halo of light, while he makes himself the center of
‘Orb after orb of wondrous sound
That’s echoed on forever and forever

we walk, in
tangent waves and with their surge move the soul of every
one of us who hears with ear that reports to heart to join him,
their happy author, in his worship of ‘Our Father.’
That’s
!”
Its beginning was a frog’s croak
artistry
orbs that sweep over the horizon of earth on which
;

!

“But, Professor, the Kill deer!”

“Yes, yes.”

“And

the toad

!

Professor.”

!”

“Yes

“And

I

would

like to

hear more about the Robin.”

“Well, hear the Robin himself, more and yet more, and then
some other time I will talk more about him. As for the Kill
deer it would spoil too good a story if I told that now. He
and his mate rear their young on the cinder tip. No, they build
no nest Now we had better watch the time and come and find

—

!

and after that again and see those wonderful, fuzzy
May be you will find them more clear in making
themselves one with their surroundings, than you are in find-

their eggs
little

chicks.

ing them there.”

“But the toads and frogs

—we can well use the time

us to walk over to yonder brook to hear the story

it

it

takes

sings, in

talking about them.”

The

story leads straight up to the birds.

I forgot that you want to read this in
took us three hours to do the Ramble. And
we walked, and talked out the Frog story, and in the song of
the brook we learned of the making of East Bloomsburg Ravine, of Bare Top, and of the Brook’s hope to roll it to the
saw the small seeds of Great Birches that are
Great Sea.
heard the Wind Symphony
for greater Birches to be.
through the tree tops.
saw the Sumac Boys and the
Sumac Girls each keeping to their own dormitories, though

But, Gentle Reader

ten minutes.

1

It

We

We
We

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these were side by side.

We

read in these

why

those in the

and those on Bare Top were
very small
We saw the Glory of the Sunset in Sky and River
and we came home with appetites that would not be satisfied
by a Northern Spy.

ravine were slender and very

tall,

!

DRASTHEIS DRAG.

FACULTY ITEMS
The

Bloomsburg State Normal School has
There have been numerous outside demands upon the time and the energy- of the faculty.
Aside from the twenty-five or more classes in extension work,
many of the instructors have been participating in programs
at County Institutes, and other Educational meetings.
influence of the

been far reaching

this year.

In October, Prof. C. H. Albert attended the Forest County
Institute

and the Glen Lyon

Institute.

Mrs. Hetty Browne,

Director of Rural Education, attended the Huntingdon County

and Miss Roxana A. Steele, Director of the Training
was on the program of the Carbon County Institute in
October and of the Wayne County Institute in November.
Institute

School,

Mr. Forrest Irwin, Principal of the Junior High School, and
Dr. John P. Herring, Director of the Bureau of Educational

Research, have participated
Columbia County teachers.

in the

monthly meetings of the

of Dr. John M. Thomas as president
on October 14, the Bloomsburg State Normal
School, was represented by two delegates. Principal Fisher
and Prof. D. S. Hartline.

At the Inauguration

of State College

During the Dauphin County

Institute, held at

Harrisburg

in

October, the graduates of the Bloomsburg State Normal
School held a banquet at the Penn-Harris Hotel. Principal
Fisher and Prof. Sutliff were present and carried the greetings
from the Normal School to this group of alumni.

Five members of the Faculty attended the Educational Con-

November 10, 11
Community School was

gress called by Dr. Finegan in Harrisburg,

and

12,

when

the topic of the Rural

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discussed.

27

These representatives were Principal Fisher, Dr.

Herring, Mr. Irwin, Mrs. Browne, and Miss Steele.

A Community

School of Religion was organized in Blooms14, 1921, with Dr. Waller as superintendThe school gives promise of filling a long felt need for
ent.
teacher training for leaders in religious education. Among

burg on November

the

many

instructors are several from the faculty of the Nor-

mal School. Prof. Brill is offering a course in Old Testament
History, Miss Mabel Moyer is giving Bible Story Telling,
Prof. Foote is presenting a course on the Poetical Books of
the Bible, and Prof. Irvin is giving a course in Junior Methods.

During the Wyoming County Institute held at Tunkhannock early in November, Principal Fisher met with a small but
enthusiastic group of Normal School graduates.

IN

MEMORIAM

After an illness of five months, following a long siege of
neuritis,

Mrs. Frederica Louise Wilbur, wife of Professor

George E. Wilbur, passed away on the morning of August 30,
1921.
She was the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Fred L. Hillier.
She was born at Newark Valley, New York, March 22,
1852. For almost fifty years she was identified with the educational and religious activities of the town of Bloomsburg.
She was always in close touch with her husband’s work in the
Normal School, and was devoted to young womanhood. Thousands of her old “Normal girls” will mourn her departure, and
will tenderly remember her ministrations and counsel.
Mrs. Wilbur

is

survived by her husband and two sons, Harry

C. Wilbur, of St. Paul, Minnesota,
sonville, Florida.

and Elmer Wilbur,

of Jack-

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ALUMNI ITEMS
1886.

Adam

Writing to Prof. Jenkins, June 11,
W., Washington, D. C., Mrs.

E. Leckie.

from 1335 Harvard

Street, N.

Leckie says

deep sorrow that

It is in

a year ago last October, in

I

write you of

Mexico

my

husband’s death

City.

I know he would want me to send a word of greeting to the
members of the class of 1886. He loved his Alma Mater, and

this reunion
will

mean

would be a day

the renewing of

of gladness for him.

many

I

hope

it

friendships and the promise

more united class in the future.
With all good wishes for the day, believe me
Very cordially yours,

of a

to be,

MAUD NORTON
1912.

lanthe Kitchen,

who

LECKIE.

for five years taught in the

was marMarch to Samuel T. Newhard. After only five months
of happy life with him, she suffered his loss, following an illness of four weeks with typhoid fever. Mrs. Newhard will
schools of Kingston Township, near Wilkes-Barre,
ried last

continue to live with her parents at Shavertown, Pa.
1896.

mann

Dr. Frederick Marshall Davenport died in the Hahne-

Hospital,

May

17,

1921.

Plymouth, Luzerne County,

in

Dr. Davenport
1871.

He

was born

in

received his early

education in the public schools of Plymouth,

Wyoming

Semi-

Bloomsburg State Normal School, after which he
devoted a number of years to teaching. He received his professional education at Jefferson Medical College, from which
he graduated in the class of 1905. Dr. Davenport had become
at the time of his death a successful and popular physician, and
a leading citizen in his community. His wife and three chilnary, and

dren survive him.
1909.

On

April 25, Madeline Bishop and Rollin Landi.'

Charles were quietly married at the home of the bride’s mother
at Luzerne. Mrs. Charles taught for several years in the Lu-

zerne High School, and last year was an instructor in the
Junior High School at Bethlehem. Mr. Charles is associate
professor of Physics at Lehigh University.

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Announcement comes of the marriage of Arthur CapMorgan to Miss Nellie Elizabeth Picht, of Bethlehem, Pa.,

1919.

pin

on October

15, 1921.

The marriage

of Grace S. Kishbaugh, daughter of Mr.
Kishbaugh, of Linfield, Pa., and Mr. Charles
Miller was quietly solemnized Tuesday morning, June 28, in
the presence of the Immediate families and a few friends. The
ceremony was performed in the Washingfton Memorial Chapel,
Valley Forge, with Dr. W. Herbert Burke, rector, officiating.
1919.

and Mrs.

J. S.

Miss Annie Cassel, after several years of successful
Hummelstown, was married
April to Mr. Irvin F. Keller, of the same city. Mr. Keller

1913.

teaching in the public schools of
last

was

a

World War

veteran.

town, where Mr. Irvin

is in

They

are residing in

Hummels-

the ice business.

1914. The marriage of Miss Mary Corrigan and Attorney
William O’Brien, of Toronto, Canada, was one of the pretty
October weddings. Mrs. O’Brien is a graduate of the University of Canada, and taught for several years before her
marriage. Mr. O’Brien is a prominent attorney of Toronto,
and served in the Canadian artillery, overseas, all during the
war. Following a trip abroad, the happy couple will reside
in

Toronto.
1916.

Virginia

Rohde

is

now connected with

State Hospital, in the field of social work,

the Bangor
where her time is

spent partly in the institution and partly in the

field visiting

She recently paid the Normal School a visit,
where her brother is now a student. She is deeply interested
in her work.

parole patients.

1897.

Mary Good,

for a

teacher of chemistry at the

number of years a very successful
Normal School, spent a year and a

session at Columbia University, and is now teaching
Household Chemistry and one class in General Chemistry in
the High School at New Castle, Pa. She writes that she likes
her work and the city. Her address is 222 Laurel Avenue.

summer

1913.

John Bakeless, author

now

of

“The Economic Causes

of

member of the editorial board of the
Living Age, now published by The Atlantic Monthly Publish-

Modern Wars,”
ing Company.

is

a

Mr. Bakeless’s book has been given generous

M

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by book reviewers
papers and magazines.
praise

in

some

of the great metropolitan

1917.
Miss Lillian Rifkin taught last year in a school of
“Organic Education,” an experimental school, at Fairhope,
Alabama. This school aims to study the development of the
child and the needs of childhood. This year Miss Rifkin is
teaching in the Modern School at Stelton, New Jersey, where
the aim of the school is the same as that at Fairhope. She is
doing excellent work in the study of the development of the
child, and in helping to bring this matter more effectively be-

—

—

fore the public.

Margaret Search taught last year in the schools of
She has since completed a summer course in
Physical Education at Columbia University.
1917.

Toledo, Ohio.

1917.

John Vavolo

is

of Erie, Pa., for twelve

now

teaching

months

woodwork

in the year,

in the schools

and draws an

at-

tractive salary.
1920. H. Keffer Hartline entered Lafayette College in September, 1920, for a four years course leading to the B.S. degree, majoring in Biological Science with a view to entering

Johns Hopkins for a Medical Course. On credits from B.S.
N.S. he was given advanced work in Biology, and was employed by the Head of the Department to make microscopic
slide mounts for the advanced courses.
The high credits
worked out in Biology and Chemistry, Mathematics, and English led to using additional credits from B.S.N.S. and passing
over the Sophomore Year, thus entering the Junior Year this
Fall. This makes it possible for him to get the Bachelor’s degree after three years of residence.

Upon

the suggestion of

he now plans to do the work for his MasJohns Hopkins. During his Freshman year,

his college adviser,

degree in
Mr. Hartline won the Coleman Biblical Prize for Bible Study.

ter’s

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. W. Reade Brower, of LehighWilliam Conner, July 14, 1921. Mrs. Brower
was Dorothy Miller, formerly of Bloomsburg.
1917.

ton. Pa., a son,

1919.

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Claire Monroe, on ThanksgivMrs. Monroe was formerly Mary Agues

ing Day, a daughter.

Smith.

BLOOMSBURG NORMAL QUARTERLY

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SCHOOL CALENDAR
1921-1922

First Semester

Registration

Monday, September

Classes Begin

Tuesday, September 20

19

November 12
Thanksgiving Recess Begins
Wednesday, November 23
Thanksgiving Recess Ends. .Tuesday, 8 A. M., November 29
Friday, December 23
Christmas Recess Begins
Tuesday, 8 A. M., January 3
Christmas Recess Ends
First Semester Ends
Saturday, January 28
Philologian Anniversary

Saturday,

.

Second Semester
Registration

Monday, January 30

Classes Begin

Tuesday, January 31
Saturday, February 18

Calliepian Anniversary

Magee Contest
Easter Recess Begins

Easter Recess Ends
Junior

17

Wednesday, April

13

Thursday, 8 A. M., April 20

Drama

Friday, 8 P. M.,

Junior Reception to Seniors
Recital

March

Friday,

by Department

Saturday, 8 P. M.,

of Music.

.

.

.Friday, 8 P. M.,

May
May
May

12

5

6

Class Reunions

Saturday,

9:30 A. M., June

3

Alumni Assembly

Saturday, 11:30 A. M., June

3

Alumni Banquet
Ivy

Day

Saturday,

1:00 P. M., June

3

Saturday,

3:00 P. M., June

3

Saturday,

4:00 P. M., June

3

Exercises. Saturday,

8:00 P. M., June

3

Saturday, 10:00 P. M., June

3

Exercises

Alumni Baseball Game
Senior Class

Day

Faculty Reception
Baccalaureate Sermon

Commencement
Summer School Begins

.

Sunday, 4:00 P. M., June 4
Monday, 10:00 A. M., June 5
Monday, June 19

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