T h e Normal School Herald.
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S t a t e N o r m a l S c h o o l , S h ip p e n s b u r g , P a ., O c t o b e r , 1896.

The Normal School Herald.
P u b lis h e d J u ly , O ctob er, J a n u a r y a n d A p r il.
S H IP P E N S B U R G , P A .

No'. 2'

A Few Words to Young Teachers.
who scan these pages are now
teaching their first term o f school and
are anxious that their work may be
successful.

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any

We wish them success, and hope that their
fondest expectations may be realized; but it
may not be a waste of words to remind them
that success in any profession is won only by
Address all com m unications to T h e N o r m a e
S ch o o e H e r a d d , Shippensburg,, Pa.
hard and constant effort. In a general way,
success pre supposes efficiency and industry.
We are gladto believe that a large majority of
A lum ni and form er members o f the school w ill fa vo r us by
sending any item s that th ey m ay think would be interesting for
those
whom we address are well qualified for
publication.
the work they have undertaken. It is to the
teachers who have recently been graduated
S u b s c r i p t i o n Price 2 5 C e n t s per ye a r s t r i c t l y in
from the Normal, that we desire to address a
Ad va n c e. S i n g l e C o p i e s 10 c e n t s each.
few words of friendly counsel.
You have already taught long enough to
CONTENTS.
enable you to form a correct idea of the needs
of your pupils, and we trust you are en­
P ag e
couraged
in your w o rk ; but, if it should be
Editorial. A Few Words to Young Teachers,......
i
that
you
have
not thus far succeeded as well
Éditorial Department, .......................................
2
as you hoped you would succeed, do not.be
The Relation o f the Normal School to the Public
School,.............v................................ ......; ..........
3 discouraged; study-your pupils, and, above
Annual Re-Union of Students,................................ 13 all, do not fail to study yourself. It is not our
The Opening o f School,...................... .................... 13
purpose to dwell upon particular methods of
Re-Union of Adams County Students,................... 15
teaching
or discipline.
Volumes, might be
The Bicycle C lu b ,.:.,.,........,.............. ............
11
Gymnastics in the Model School............................. 16 written ; volumes have been written, filled with
New Teachers o f the F acu lty,.................................. 17 helpful suggestions to the teacher ; but after
Y . W. C. A. Department,.......................................... 17 all, every teacher must solve the perplexing
Y . M. C. A, Department,_.................................... 18
The Scientific Course..............................
14 questions that arise in'School work for him­
Obituary Notices,.........................................
10 self or herself. We will however, suggest a
Marriage Notices,..... ...................................... ;.
few general thoughts for your consideration.
Athletics, 1............... ................................. ............... .
,jg Take an interest in your pupils, not only in
Normal Literary Society Department,,...... 21
their school work, but in their work outside
Philo Literary Society Department,.................
22
of
the school.
Do not neglect them when
Personals, .... .......................................... ..................
they
are
upon
the
playground. You may be
Where some of the Former Members o f the Fac­
ulty are................................................'V.!.'..’..
14 able to come closer to their real natures there
Subscribers to Alumni Library Fund, ................. ... 22 than in the schoolroom. Interest yourself in
E z r a L e h m a n , Editor.
H . M. R o t h , Business Manager.
A d a V . H o r t o n , Personal Editor

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the affairs of the community in which: you
teach; not officiously, of course, but in such
a way as to show that you are anxious to be of
benefit to those whose servant you are. Do.
not fail to take an active interest in all matters
pertaining to education. If there is a local
institute held in your district, do not fail to
attend it, and if placed upon the program be
sure to serve. Teachers sometimes find fault
with the patrons of their schools for not taking
a more active interest in education, when they
themselves do not manifest interest enough to
take part in educational meetings.
As the long winter evenings approach, do
not fail to adopt a course of reading and study.
W e take it for granted that every live teacher
subscribes for, and reads at least one good
weekly educational journal; but we refer to
a definite line of study),; The teacher needs to
be conversant with the best books that have
been written. What added strength does that
teacher have who is familiar with the world’s
masterpieces of literature.
Every teacher should pursue at least one
line of study, so that he may become thoroughly
proficient in it. The teacher who ceases to
study ceases to grow, and approaches what Dr.
Schaeffer has fittingly termed “ the dead line ”
in teaching.
Finally, remember that no matter what your
wages may be ¿your duty is to do all that you
can for your pupils. You are gaining expe­
rience now that will be valuable to you in the
future. Guard your words and actions ; they
are i|ing. imitated by those before whom you
appear from day. to day. So teach and act
that when you stand before your pupils for the
last time at the close of the term’, you will be
able to say truthfully: “ I have taught the sub­
jects of the course to these boys and girls as
well as I could, but more than that, I have,
tried to instill such principles into their minds
as will cause them to become better and
nobler and truer men and women.”
James McAllister, ’93, is now a member of
the Junior class at Pennsylvania College.

Editorial Department.
editors o f the H e r a l d may have de­
cided opinions on the money question,
but they w ill not obtrude them upon
their readers.

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However,® they desire'to say, lest there
should be any doubt about the matter, that
they will be glad to receive a silver 25-centpiece
at any time in payment of a year’s subscription
to the H e r a l d , no matter how the election
may go in November.
The address delivered by Dr. Eckels at the
State Teachers’ Association, upon ‘¿T h e Rela­
tion of the Normal School to the Public
School, ’ ’ occasioned much favorable comment.
We take pleasure in presenting it to the read­
ers of the H e r a l d . It treats of a subject in
which all teachers and students should be
interested.’
The editors of the H e r a l d desire to thank
the members of the alumni and the students
for the support and encouragement they have
given to this journal.
The call for subscriptions has met with a
generous response, and, in many cases, sub­
scriptions have been accompanied by expres­
sions of good will and interest.
It shall be the endeavor o f the management
to make the H e r a l d as interesting as possible,
and to this end the alumni and former students
are earnestly requested to send information
concerning themselves and their work.

Copies of this number of the H e r a l d will
be mailed to a large number of newspapers,
educational journals, and school publications.
We are very desirous of establishing an ex­
change list, and hereby request the editors who
receive this journal, to consider it a request
for exchange.
We shall be glad to acknowledge in the
columns of the next number of the H e r a l d
all publications received as exchanges. A ll
matter for exchange should be addressed to

T H E NORM AL SCHOOL H ER A LD .
the N o r m a l S chool H e r a l d , Shippensburg, Pa.
We desire to thank all who have been
prompt in forwarding their subscriptions to us.
W e trust that they may not be disappointed
in their expectations of this journal. This
number of the H e r a l d will be mailed to few
persons besides the regular subscribers, hence
we shall have no method of appealing directly
to those who have not yet forwarded their sub­
scriptions. We shall appreciate- greatly any
effort on the part of our subscribers to add to
our subscription list. May we not ask you to
co-operate with us in securing every member
of the alumni as a Subscriber.
The Relation of the Normal School to the
Public School.
T n the discussion of this subject the first
thought suggested is the nature of this re­
lation, Under this head we observe :
I. This relation is a very close one.
The Normal School is a direct result of the
establishment of the public school. Whereever public schools have attained their highest
efficiency they have been aided by the work of
the Normal School.
Whenever men have
given serious thought to the public school
question, the advisability of establishing
training schools for teachers has come upon
them as a deep seated conviction.
Every
State Superintendent of common schools from
Burrowes in 1836 to Gurtin in 1857, when the
Normal School law was passed, recommended
in his report the establishment of Normal
Schools. The opposition to Normal Schools
has had but little support from men who have
been interested and prominent in public school
work. Those who have been the strongest
promoters of the public school system have,
likewise* been the staunchest friends of the
Normal Schools.
The educational history of the world
shows that in modern times the advanced
states and nations have full faith in the ability

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of the Normal School to better the public
schools. A ll the most highly civilized nations,
and even some that are not the most highly
civilized, of the old world, have adopted for
the advantage of the public schools a system
of Normal or training schools for teachers.
Prussia has 117 Normal Schools, England has
43, Italy has 134, Japan has 80, Russia has 61,
Austria has 69. In the United States all th e.
leading states have their training schools for
teachers. Not a single state or nation of
prominence anywhere but has made some pro­
vision for jglhe education of its teachers.
Those who advocate the doing away with
Normal Schools must expect to find history
condemning their policy. The pages of his­
tory wherever they give expression to the
value of public education, are likewise replete
with arguments in favor of Normal Schools.
II. The relation is a necessary one.
The chief factors in a school are the child
and the teacher. You may expel the parents
from the district and you may burn the school
house and the text books and libraries to ashes,
but so long as you have children gathered to­
gether to learn and a man or woman there to
instruct them you have a school. The chil­
dren come largely as, nature has made them,
some with bright minds and some with dull
minds, some with healthy bodies and some
with delicate bodies, some with high ambi­
tions and some with low ones ¿ but all to be ed­
ucated. The teacher, if he be a teacher, must
be educated when he begins the work of teach­
ing, otherwise it will be the case of “ the
blind leading the blind.” Nowhere else than
in the training school can the teacher receive
the necessary preparation for teaching in the
elementary grades. The teacher iu advanced
studies may do fair work by copying the
methods of his own teachers in these particu­
lar subjects, but in elementary work this is im­
possible for the reason that in our elementary
training our attention was never directed to
the methods by which we were being educated ,
and we could not have understood them even
though our minds had been led to observe them.

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It is necessary that the teacher should from
the commence ment of his teaching come into
possession of the lessons drawn from the best
experience of the past. A Normal School
gives the student who is preparing to teach
this knowledge. Not only does he get his
knowledge in its theoretical form but much of
it is exemplified for him in the Model School.
The exploded theories of education are
brought to his attention in order that he may
avoid their use in his own practice.
It is necessary that the teachejf^be taught
how to study the child and to make use of the
knowledge obtained from this Study in the un­
derstanding of the laws governing the proper
development of the child. This position can
hardly be disputed when we recall the fact
that the physician before he is permitted to
practice his profession is required to make a
careful study of the body under the direction
of competent teachers.
Is the problem of mind study so much sim­
pler a process than the problem of the study
of the body that the untrained and inexpe­
rienced teacher can be safely allowed to under­
take and finish it for himself without direction
or assistance from some one who knows more
than himself, or are the mistakes which the
new teacher must necessarily make because of
his ignorance of the important subject of
Child-Study of so little consequence to the
child and to the world that the commonwealth
can afibrd to have them continued indefinitely ?
I leave this question to be answered by those
'-who fail to see the necessary relation existing
between the Normal Schools and the public
schools of the state.
It is necessary that the teacher be taught
how to teach the several branches in harmony
with the general body of accepted educational
principles. How can a man come to know
these principles unless he be taught them ?
It may be answered that he can study them
for himself without the help of a teacher. In
answer to this question I have only to say
that he might be able also to study his arith­
metic without a teacher, and some have, but

would anyone recommend this plan for those
who are to become the future teachers of the
children in the public schools ? The truth of
the matter is this, that the “ How to Teach ”
is a much more difficult subject to comprehend
than the “ What to Teach.” And a teacher in
methods is a more necessary help to the indi­
vidual who is preparing to teach than a teacher
in matter.
It is necessary that the teacher come to un­
derstand the Psychology of the mind in its
fully developed state in order that we may
have a proper conception of the true end to be
reached in education. ■ It is the end in educa­
tion that must govern us in the selection of all
the means of education. Wrong means are
being employed by teachers because they have
not selected them with reference to the .true
end to be reached. Only when the teacher
has grasped fully and firmly the right end of
education is he a safe person to instruct the
young.
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There is no necessity for making each school
a training school for the transforming of a
novice into a skilled teacher, even if such re­
sult were possible. There can be no excuse
for the ‘ ‘ slaughtering of the innocents ” by
those who are untrained, merely for the pur­
pose of having them acquire skill by reason of
their observation of their own mistakes in the
school room.
With just as much reason
might the young man who expects to become
a physician claim the families in the commu­
nity in which he lives or some other commu­
nity where possibly they do not know him so
well, .as material upon which to experiment in
order that in time he may become a skillful
practitioner. When we see how carefully the
laws of the commonwealth guard the people
from having their bodies treated by untrained
physicians, we are led to wonder why the
state takes so little interest in the character
and fitness of those who are to minister to the
minds of the young.
It is true that rapid
progress has been made within the last half
century in improving the qualifications of
teachers, and it must be admitted that this ad-

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In the colleges: where Normal
vance is due largely to the influence of the graduates.
graduates have been regularly admitted they
Normal Schools themselves.
There can be no such thing as a system of have uniformly taken first rank in the English
When preliminary examinations
public schools without a well organized sys­ branches.
tem of training schools. In order that there have been made for entrance upon the study
may exist a system of public schools, there of law, Normal School graduates have been
must be uniformity in the aims and methods found to be very thorough in all the branches
guiding the teachers of the commonwealth in belonging to the. Normal course, and in the
their practice. No such uniformity is possible Theological schools the Normal graduate has
without a trained body of teachers. By this always made a creditable record.
They have given to methods of. teaching
we do not mean that every teacher in the state
must be a Normal graduate but we do mean their scientific character. The principles of
that the lump must be leavened with Normal teaching as they are evolved from the nature
leaven. This Normal leaven is the1“ rising’ ’ in­ of mind and the nature of knowledge are
gredient in the profession of teaching to-day thoroughly comprehended by the Normal stu­
and the good teacher who has not been trained dent as a basis for the developing of methods.
in a Normal School throws a shadow across No process of teaching is worthy the name of
his own pathway to higher success whenever Method unless it be in harmony with the prin­
he attempts to belittle the work or injure the ciples of teaching.
They have introduced into the schools of
reputation of the Normal Schools.
There can be no general growth in the sys­ the commonwealth a better organization.
tem without the influence of training schools. One of the prominent features of a Normal
There may be good Schools in certain districts, School is its complete organization. , In order
where fortune has favored them with excep­ to meet the wants of the students as fully as
tional natural teachers, but these schools will possible a systematic organization becomes a
be the exception and not the rule, and their necessity. In no other school, save possibly
influence will not be great enough to lift out in a military school .does the student find him­
-of their low condition the great majority of self confronted with so many requirements.
the schools which’ must necessarily be taught The student finds it necessary to adjust him­
by incompetent teachers. The Normal School self to a very rigid formula of duties. This
is the only solution to the problem of how to self-enforcement of system and regularity be­
keep the schools moving onward and upward. comes a part of the student’s daily life, and he
III.
The influence of the Normal Schools goes out from the Normal School imbued with
the very spirit of order and organization.
upon the Public Schools.
They have made the supervision of the
The influence of the Normal Schools in the
:advancement of the Public Schools can be Schools more efficient. Normal students have
learned how to supervise from their experience
-easily recognized.
They have given to the teacher a more thor­ in the Model School. They have come to
ough knowledge of the branches he teaches. learn the value and place of criticism, and to
There are no other schools in the common- look upon criticism as a necessary aid to selfwealth where the Academic work is done as improvement. The graduate who has gotten
thoroughly as in the Normal Schools. De­ from his model school training all that was
spite the criticisms that have been made upon possible to be obtained could not fail to receive
the standards of the Normal Schools, it is important lessons in the methods of super­
yet an undisputed fact, that in the civil service vision. To know how to strengthen a teach­
^examinations, no other class of persons are so er by judicious supervision is a power which
uniformly successful as the Normal School belongs to every competent superintendent.

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No better opportunity is afforded an3^where Superintendent, who have been most Un­
else for the securing of this power than is friendly to their chief ally in promoting theopened to the student teacher in a properly welfare of the Public Schools, the Normal
conducted Model School.
Schools#,
They have imbued the teacher with a more
The Superintendency and the Normal
enthusiastic spirit. It is due possibly more to Schools were brought into existence at almost
the spirit of. a Normal School that the Normal the same time. The law establishing the
graduate owes his success than to any other Superintendency and the law establishing the
power which he has received from the school. Normal Schools were originally incorporated
It is really inspiring to the teachers in a Nor­ in one bill. But, the friends of these twoi
mal School to notice the development of the measures as a matter of policy separated the.
teaching spirit among the students. Students Superintendency portion of the bill from the
who have entered Normal School with but lit­ Normal School portion, deeming it unwise, as
tle thought of becoming teachers go out from Dr. Wickersham has expressed it, to hâve a.
these institutions with a burning desire to be­ “ new ship too heavily freighted# It was de­
come teachers. ; Parents have sen # their termined by the friends of both measures that
daughters to these institutions to be educated, the Superintendency bill should be passed
but when they have finished the course they first, with the belief that the establishment o f
have been unable to keep them out of the the Superintendency would necessitate the
school room.
establishment of Normal Schools. The ful­
They have developed a better public school fillment of this hope was soon realized, and.
sentiment. The Normal School graduate has three years later than the Superintendency
learned that to teach the children well requires Act, in 1857, was passed the Normal School
a certain kind ,of education for the parents. Act.
It was due largely to the sentiment created
The patrons must be brought into sympathy
with the teacher’s aims and methods. This by the first Superintendents of the State that
necessity for the awakening of public senti­ the demand for Normal Schools became so
ment in favor of sound education is found urgent. The State Teachers’ Association was
more frequently in the educational creed of also very influential in having the act passed
the Normal graduate than in the educational by the legislature providing for Normal
creeds of those who have not had the benefit Schools. In 1854 this body presented a me­
morial to the legislature asking for # e estab­
of a Normal training.
IV .
The Normal School in relation to the lishment of training schools for teachers. It
will thus be seen that the Superintendency and
agencies of the Public School.
The two chief agencies of the public school the Normal Schools owe their existence to the
are the school directors and the superintend­ same sentiment. Both have grown out of an
ents, and the growth and efficiency of these earnest desire on the part of the patriotic
schools are largely in their hands. It is a fact school men of the state to better public schools.
of history that the influences which have been That they both have fulfilled the most san­
most conducive to the advancement and wel­ guine' expectations of their advocates, the his­
fare of the Public Schools have been the Su­ tory of the public schools from 1854 to the
perintendency and the Normal Schools, and present time abundantly proves.
It is clearly the duty of the Superintendent
strange to say, there are even to-day those who
and
the persons concerned, in the management
pretend to be friendly to the Public Schools
of
the
Normal Schools to work together in
and yet are hostile to the Superin tendency and
their
efforts
to improve the public school con­
the Normal Schools, and stranger yet is the
fact that there are some holding the office of ditions of the state.

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It is the duty of the Superintendent in the this blunder somewhere else than on the
state to establish a high grade of provisional Superintendent when incompetents now come
certificate. It would be in the interest of the into possession of this grade of certificate. . It
public schools if only enough provisional cer­ is to be expected that but few mistakes will
tificates were granted to. enable the directors hereafter be made in issuing this form of cer­
to lawfully fill the vacancies left over after the tificate:. It, is difficult to see how the law
teachers holding higher grade certificates than could be changed so as to afford greater protec­
the provisional certificate have been disposed tion to the standard of scholarship that should
o f .' In order to do this the examination for be obtained among this grade of teachers.
Superintendents should be careful in issuing
provisional certificates should be held in A u ­
gust, and instead of holding them in each of the original certificates to those , who desire to
school districts they should be held in a suffi­ teach. In most cases it is possible for those
cient number of central points in the county. who wish to become teachers to make some
This would enable the directors to make their special preparation' for the work before begin­
selections as far as they deemed advisable ning to teach, and when this is possible 'they
from among those holding professional, per­ should be urged to do so. In fact the expe­
manent and State certificates, and Normal rience of some young teachers is worse than no
School diplomas, and then to report the num­ experience, the only marked effect being the
ber of vacancies to the Superintendent of the acquisition-of a lot of bad habits. They are
county, borough or city having charge of the often the most difficult persons to handle in a
training school. Before a training teacher can
schools where the vacancies exist.
Superintendents should be careful in grant­ begin to build them up, he must first resort to
ing professional certificates, granting them the eliminating process, which is. .often very
only to persons of recognized competency. If slow and always humiliating to , the. student
we are to believe the testimony of the teachers teacher. I f apart at least of a training course
in some of the counties of the Commonwealth, were taken by the young person before ever
these certificates are not always granted upon entering upon the work of teaching for him­
the basis of merit but for the reason that the self, the result would be better for the school
applicant has a “ pull” on one or more of the and the teacher.
Superintendents should make a careful
directors in the county. It is much to the
credit of the Superintendency of the State that study not only of the plan of Normal Schools,
these abuses of power are not more frequent but also, of Normal School conditions. Many
than they are. One of the elements of strength of the Superintendents;! are Normal School
■ of a Superintendent is his popularity with the ~ graduates and for this reason it is to be ex­
directors and teachers, and I have no doubt pected that they are familiar with the work­
that many times Superintendents yield to the ing of the Normal Schools. When we rememimportunities of teachers and their friends in bet*; however, thaM a graduate is usually
the granting of these certificates with no desire obliged to serve quite a long apprenticeship in
to gratify any selfish purpose, but simply for the public schools as a teacher, before he is
the purpose of adding to their popular strength. deemed worthy and- safe to entrust with the
Superintendents should be equally careful in school interests of a town or county, it must
recommending persons for examination for necessarily be the case, that considerable time
State Permanent Certificates. The new law has elapsed with most of these persons since,
giving the State Superintendent the power to they took their departure from their Alma
appoint the examining committee in connec­ Mater bearing with them their diplomas, and
tion with the granting of these certificates the benediction of the principal and faculty.
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in the plans and methods of conducting their
Alma Mater, which if examined into carefully
would give her increased claim upon their de­
votion and pride. It would, therefore, be well
for all Superintendents,! whether graduates of
Normal Schools or not, to keep in close touch
with the Normal Schools of the state, and to
become as familiar as possible with their aims,
conditions, and results. This familiarity
would, no doubt, expose many weaknesses
which they have not hitherto discovered but
this would cause no apprehension of danger to
their interests on the part of the Normal
Schools, because they would come to us with a
friendly spirit, and we would expect their help
in removing defects in our work where they
exist, when it is in our power to do so, and
where we are unable to make desired changes
by reason of conditions which we cannot over­
come, we would expect them to discover the
fact of our inability and to have patience with
us until a better day comes.
It is the duty of our Superintendents to
offer friendly criticisms. The best friends the
Normal Schools have to-day among the Super­
intendents are not those who are withholding
comment, but those who are giving us the
benefit of friendly criticism. There are always
two classes' of critics abroad in the land in
connection with every important institution of
every kind; those who criticise to tear down
and those who criticise to build up. The Nor­
mal Schools invite this latter class of critics to
enter their territory and request the benefit of
the criticisms.
The directors constitute the greatest force in
the public school system. The public school
system of Pennsylvania is essentially a popu­
lar system, the “ court of last resort ” remain­
ing with the people. Under our common
school system, the directors are the sole repre­
sentatives of this power, and within the line of
their duties are well nigh absolute. A body
of men having such unlimited power must
necessarily be potential either for the good or
ill of the schools of the Commonwealth. As
the teacher is the most important factor in the

school, the selection of the teacher is the most
important duty of the director.
It is, therefore, an imperative duty of the
directors to give teachers with the highest
qualifications the preference in their appoint­
ments. It is a fact beyond dispute that ex­
perience and competency are often set aside to
make way for inexperience and incompetency.
That “ a prophet is not without honor save in
his own country” does not always apply to
the school teacher in his selection for position.
The worthy are often rejected because their
applications have been placed in the hands o f
strangers to consider. We are as people quick to
resent the evils that threaten us from foreign
foes, but we endure patiently the dangers that
menace our institutions when the cause of the
danger lies in the breasts of our own people.
It is the duty of directors to grade salaries
in accordance with the qualifications of the
teachers. When we use qualifications in its
broadest sense it is safe to assume that the re­
sults of a teacher’s work will always be pro­
portionate to his qualifications. It is a fact
beyond dispute that the greatest barrier to the
advancement of the standard of qualifications
for teachers is low salaries. Notwithstanding
the fact that the average qualifications o f
teachers has advanced greatly within the last
quarter of a century, and that the state has
been very liberal in the appropriation o f
money to the public schools, there has been
little advance made in the average salary paid
the teachers of the state. As Normal Schools
are intended to improve the qualifications o f
teachers and have been established for that
special purpose, it is plainly evident that those
directors who refuse to regard qualifications in
the selection of teachers, and who, further­
more, make little or no difference between
high grade and low grade qualifications in the
adjustment of salaries, are interfering with
the work of these training schools for teachersby refusing to set an adequate value upon itr
and by destroying one of the most effective in­
centives to a better preparation by those whointend to become teachers. It is claimed to-

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■ day that there is an overabundance óf teachers public school system. It was deemed best,
:in the state, but I venture the assertion that if therefore, to make the controlling power in
the incompetent teachers were weeded from the management of these Normal Schools
the ranks there would be a dearth instead of local. Hence the state by its Normal School
an overbundance of men and women applying Law invited the citizens of the several Normal
for positions to teach. It would then be found School districts to contribute money in the
that the Normal Schools instead of turning shape of stock toward the establishment of a
out too many graduates are not really turning Normal School for each district, agreeing to
-out enough to meet the wants of the state.
give these contributors as a protection to
V.
Criticisms made upon the policies of their interests in the schools a two-thirds repre­
the Normal Schools.
sentation upon the board of trustees. The
Unfair comparisons are sometimes made be­ money which has gone to make these schools a
tween the Normal Schools of Pennsylvania success has not come exclusively from the
and the State Normal Schools of some of the State as in New York, but much of it has come
other states, as for example, the Normal Schools from the contributions of private citizens, and
•of New York, the Normal Schools with which from the profits of the school;;, when there
we are most familiar after our own. Our critics have been any profits. A little investigation
-say our Normal Schools are not as well equip­ will show that after admitting all we have ad­
ped as the New York Normal Schools, that mitted in comparing our schools with those of
we do not pay the heads of departments as another state, and we have, admitted more
large salaries, that our students graduate in a than we need to admit in order to conform to
ishorter time, that we do not do as much pro­ the truth, that our system of Normal Schools
fessional work, that our graduates do less is the best in the country. Our system of
practice teaching. We will grant these charges Normal Schools has the effect to create a local
as true, and at the same time show that in interest in the schools which would not exist
-granting them we assume no discredit for the if the schools were purely state schools; the
Pennsylvania State Normal Schools. Who has management of our Normal Schools is more
equipped the New York Normal Schools? Who economical than the management of purely
pays the salaries of the faculties ? Who pays state institutions usually is; the plan of the
the tuition of the New York graduate, enab­ Pennsylvania Normal Schools allows each
ling her to remain a longer time to finish the school to have, consistent with the interests of
-course, thereby receiving more professional the entire system, a policy of its own, each
training, and spending a greater length of time school has constantly before it for guidance
;in practice teaching? The answer to all these the strong features of all the other Normal
interrogations is, the State of New York. If Schools of the state.
the charges represent defects in Pennsylvania
I have admitted for the sake of making
then you must make complaint against the clearer the limitations of the Normal Schools of
-state for not supporting her Normal Schools as Pennsylvania, some points which cannot be ad­
her sister state of New York has done. You mitted injustice to some of the Normal Schools
must help us to get larger appropriations of Pennsylvania. For instance, there are some
from the state in order that we may more fully of our Normal Schools as well equipped as any
-equip our Normal Schools, and that the bur­ of the New York Normal Schools, the A ca­
dens of expense may be lightened to the student. demic work is done much better in some of
Itmust be remembered that the Normal Schools them, and the professional work is done as satis­
-of Pennsylvania are at most but semi-state in- factorily when we take into account the length
-stitutions. The Normal Schools have been of time devoted to the course in Pennsylvania.
-established in harmony with thè policy of our What I have said must not be regarded as a

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OBITUARY NOTIGES.
reflection on the New York Normal Schools.
For -it cannot be admitted that the plan of the
Owen M. Grammer, son of George L. H.
Pennsylvania Normal Schools, although the
Grammer,
of Philadelphia, died at the Presbyte­
best plan for our own state, would be as
rian
Hospital,
West Philadelphia, on Sunday
good a plan for New York State as the one
morning,
August
30th. He was an inmate of
which New York has adopted for herself and
the
hospital
for
14
months, and suffered greatly
which she has carried out so magnificently.
during
that
period
with ^Tubercular Caries,”
It is claimed by some of our critics that our
a
disease
of
the
spine,
resulting from an in­
course is not extended enough. We have met
jury
received
from
a
fall
from a building five
this criticism by the establishing of the Regu­
lar Normal Course” which comprises a year’s years ago.
He was born in Lancaster county, taught
work in addition to the “ Elementary Course;
school
in this county, was a graduate of Shipand the Scientific Course,|| which includes two
pensburg
Normal School, class of ’88, and at
years’ work in addition to the “ Elementary
the
time
of
his failing health was principal of
Course.” More students are taking these ex­
the
Summit
Hill schools, of Carbon county. He
tended courses every year, and no doubt in the
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will
be
buried
in Green Mount Cemetery at
near future we will be able to drop what is now
Arendtsville,
Wednesday
afternoon, Septem­
known as the Elementary Course and make the
»imi mum course the ‘ ‘ Regular Normal Course. ’ ’ ber 2nd.— Gettysburg Compiler.
By the death of Mr. Grammer the class of
It is further claimed by some critics that the
’88
loses an intelligent and progressive mem­
Normal Schools should be self-supporting. In
ber.
His work in the Summit H ill schools
answer to this I have only to say that no
was
of
such a character as to win for him the
other educational institutions of high character
h a v e ever been self-supporting without mak­ active cooperation and support of all who were
ing them much more expensive to the students j associated with him. His wife, who was Viola
M. Arnold, ’88, survives him. The H e r a l d
than the Normal Schools are made.
It is claimed by some that the Academic extends its sympathies to her in the great loss
work done by high schools should be accepted j that she has sustained.
by Normal Schools as sufficient on these sub­
jects. On this point even the critics them­
L. Harvey Hatfield, ’88, died at his home
selves disagree, as some of them claim that the
Normal Schools should adopt even a higher in West FairviewIgPa., on September 29th,
standard of academic work than they have after a lingering illness of about four weeks
adopted. I presume, however, that the best from typhoid fever. The news of his death
thing for all parties concerned will be for the fell like a pall upon his friends and acquaint­
Normal Schools to adopt their own standard of ances, many of whom were unaware of the
classification as the colleges do, and examine serious nature of his illness. A t the time of
all applicants for admission, unless the author­ his death, Mr. Hatfield was in the employ of
ities of the school can be satisfied in some the U. S. Mail Service, but he had only re­
other way than by examination as to the quali­ cently left the schoolroom. After his gradua­
fications claimed by the persons seeking ad­ tion from Normal, he taught successfully in
the schools of his native town, and for the past
mission.
In the presentation of this subject I have four years was Principal of the same. Pos­
endeavored to be fair and frank, and I hope sessed of a ready tact, he won the hearty sup­
the entire discussion of this question may re­ port and active co-operation of teachers and
sult in a fuller understanding of the Normal pupils. Those who knew him need not be
told that he was one of the brightest students
School problem in this state.

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With this issue of the H e r a l d a regular
ever graduated from Normal. His friends ex­
pected to see him win honor and distinction in department is opened for an account of the
whatever line of work he undertook; and their work done by the Normal and Philo Literary
hopes seemed likely to be fulfilled , when he Societies. A regular report of the work of
was cut down in the flower of his young man­ each will appear in each number of this journal.
Both societies are in fine shape, and are doing
hood.
About three years ago he made a profession excellent work. To the credit of the members,
of religion, and attached himself to the United it may be said, that the relations existing be­
Brethren church, in which he labored zeal­ tween the two organizations are of a most
ously for the Master’s cause. He was in his friendly character. There is an entire absence
27th year and leaves a wife and child to mourn of that jealous rivalry that in times past did
so much to minimize the good work of each.
his untimely death.

LOCAL NOTICES.
The attendance at Normal will be largely
increased at the beginning of the next term.
Many of the students who have passed six
branches will return to continue their work,
and a large number of new students will be
with us for the first time.
Elsewhere mention is made of the deaths
of O. M. Grammer and L. H. Hatfield, mem­
bers of the class of ’88.
Both were young men of marked ability. By
their untimely deaths the alumni association
sustains a great loss.
W e publish elsewhere the names of the sub­
scribers to the Pedagogical Library. The
books are now accessible to the students, who
have been quick to take advantage of the op­
portunity thus afforded them for reading and
investigation.
Beginning with this number, the Y . W . C.
A . and the Y . M. C. A . will be represented in
the columns of the H e r a l d . Misses Elizabeth
Brown and Lillian Foust, and Mr. H. E. Freed
have been appointed by their respective associ­
ations to write an account of the "work done
during each quarter.
These Christian Associations are doing a
noble work, and one which will make much
for good in the lives of their members.

The editors of the H e r a l d wish to thank
many persons for the assistance they have so
kindly given, but there is one class, who, more
than any others, are deserving of special
thanks,— the advertisers. Valuable as are sub­
scriptions, the financial strength of any news­
paper lies in the revenue received from adver­
tisements.
A number o f new advertisements appear in
this number o f the H e r a l d . The students and
frie?ids of the school are earnestly requested to pat­
ronize those who havefavored us with their ad­
vertisements.
After much delay, due to the washing away
of the fish dams during the heavy rains of the
summer, the gold fish have arrived, and have
been placed in the basin of the fountain.
PERSONALS.
Miss Ada V. Horton assumes charge of the
Alumni and Personal Department of the H e r ­
a l d with this issue.
A ll matters pertaining to
this department should be addressed to her.
W. Boyd Morrowff’87, is a prosperous coal
merchant in Shippensburg.
Miss Gertrude Eppley, ’90, has been elected
special teacher of music and assistant in the
High School of New Baltimore, Ohio. She
reports that her work is pleasant and agreeable.
Miss Luella McAllister, ’92, was a welcome
visitor to Normal a few weeks ago. Miss
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several years, was compelled to relinquish her
work on account of ill-health. She will re­
main at home during the coming year.
J. Abner Miller, ’90, is serving his second
term as principal of the Rixford, McKean
county, schools, in which position he has met
with deserved success.
George E. Gray, ’90, has recently resigned
the principalship of the Bryn Mawr High
School to accept the principalship of the
Packertown schools. Mr. Gray was very suc­
cessful at Bryn Mawr.
Our graduates are well represented at Ursinus College. Those in attendance at that in­
stitution are W . M. Rife, ’91, J. S. Heiges, ’91,
G. Leslie Omwake, '93, E, M. Hershey, ’94,
and H. H. Shenk, ’94.
C. M. BestB194, is a member of the Sopho­
more class at Lafayette College. He continues
to take considerable interest in athletics, and
is at present playing quarter-back on the foot­
ball team.
I. W. Huntzberger, ’95, is a freshman at
Bucknell. We are not surprised to learn that
when the Bucknell foot-ball team needed a
good center our friend Huntzberger was chosen.
S. F. Gerberich, '92, taught successfully for
four years after his graduation from Normal.
He has recently entered upon a course of study
at Franklin and Marshall College.
C. Iva Smith, ’88, will complete her course
at the University at Delaware, Ohio, at the
close of the present school year.
Among the students at Dickinson College
the following graduates of Normal are to be
found: Mabel Geiger, ’93, Hattie Shelley, ’93,
H. E. Walhey, ’95, Hope Dill, ’95, Bruce
Trimmer, ’94, and Robert Smith, ’94.
Rev. Wm. H. Nicholas, is the pastor of St.
Andrews Evangelical Lutheran Church located
on 5th Street, below Morris, Philadelphia. Rev.

Nicholas has met with much success in his
chosen field of labor. His congregation has
erected, and recently dedicated a fine new
church.
Filmore Maust, Esq., ’74, is a prominent
member of the Carlisle Bar. He served one
term as District Attorney of Cumberland
county, and filled the office very creditably.
He is at present one of the Republican nomi­
nees for the legislature; and if elected, will
make a most creditable representative.
R oscoe , S o u t h D a k o t a h , A u g . 5, 1896.
H . M. R o t h , E sq .,sIv
Bus. Man. of the N o r m a l S chool H e r a l d .

Dear Friend:
Your sample copy of the N o r m a l
S chool H e r a l d is before me. I must have
this visitor to keep fresh in memory all by-gone
associations at the Normal. I would like to
visit you all on Commencement Day, but busi­
ness always prevents my doing so. My family
and I spent last winter in southern California.
When you feel like enjoying something good,
visit that land of “ perpetual sunshine .St The
Salt River Valley of Arizona is another lovely
spot. Here is a valley about one hundred
miles long, fifteen wide, sloping about eighteen inches to the mile, which is not surpassed
on earth for easy irrigation. The salaries for
| teaching school there average about $80.00 per
month, and in many cases, range as high as
j $100.00 to $125.00. W hy don’t some of
our Normal graduates pull for this country?
The expense of living is not much more, nor
even any more, than in the states. Only don’t
I go there in the heat of the summer; October is
I about the right time, then during the winter
you will become acclimated. There are good
opportunities for business also. The Pecos
Valley of New Mexico is a very good country
to try. I throw out these hints, as the East is
overcrowded.
Yours for success,
M a h l o n T . L ig h t n e r ,
Class of ’77.

T H E NORM AL SCHOOL H ER A LD .
We publish the above letter, not only be­
cause of the interesting descriptions which it
contains, but because we like the spirit of the
writer. It is nearly twenty years since Mr.
Lightner was graduated from the Normal, but
he takes as much interest in all that concerns
the school as he ever did. We are glad to re­
ceive letters of this kind, and hope that we
may be favored with more of them from the
former students of Old Normal. We know
that all such communications will be read with
interest by our subscribers.

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dents had their rooms fitted and furnished, and
were in shape for the year’s work.
Annual Re-union of the Normal School
Students at Williams’ Grove.

, July 24, was not the best day that
could have been selected for a Re-union.
But the committee on arrangements
were not responsible for this, as it couldn’t
be known a month beforehand that the day se­
lected would be one of the wettest of the
season.
Rain began to fall early in the morning, and
continued with scarcely any intermission, till
late in the afternoon. It was not to be e x ­
The Opening of School.
pected, under the circumstances, that the at­
tendance would be large; but more than a
h e Fall Term will open August 31st ”
is the way the catalogue put it, and hundred students and alumni braved the in­
as that date approached, in many house­ clement weather, and assembled in the audi­
holds might have been seen preparations for torium .
A t ten o ’clock the exercises were opened by
the departure of son or daughter. The stu­
dents began to come to Normal early on Mon­ singing “ A ll Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name,”
day morning, and continued to arrive during after which Rev. L. B. Hafer^j ’93l|offered
the day, so that by evening the building was prayer. J. S. Heiges, ’91, the President, de­
livered a short address, in which he dwelt up­
once more a scene of life and activity.
The painters and plasterers had been at on the significance and value of meetings of
work in the building during vacation and the this kind. He also spoke of the growth and
building presented a changed appearance upon prosperity that have attended the school, and
paid a high tribute to Dr. Eckels.
the return of the students.
Prof, and Mrs. J. J. Lowe, of Philadelphia,
On Tuesday morning the students assembled
in the chapel for the opening exercises of the who had charge of the music during the A s ­
school year. Dr. Eckels welcomed the seniors sembly, sang, in response to a request, “ My
upon their return to the Normal, and congrat-. Trundle Bed.” .
Hon. J. L- Youiig, ’87, of Mechanicsburg,
ulated them upon their fine appearance. He
spoke of the responsible position they would was the next speaker. Mr. Young has already
occupy during the year, and expressed the be­ won a reputation as an orator, and much was
lief that they realized the duties which would expected of him on this occasion, and he did
devolve upon them. The Doctor extended a not disappoint his admirers. We regret that
special welcome to the new students, many of the address was not preserved in writing by
Mr. Young, as we should have liked to publish
whom had left their homes for the first time.
The senior class was divided into four sec­ it in the columns of the H e r a l d .
Miss Jennie Beltzhoover, of Shippensburg,
tions in all studies; the junior, into three.
The Model School opened on Wednesday, recited “ Lady Bird’s Race ” and Miss Vida
and half the seniors reported for duty there, Wolcott, ’96, of Lykens, gave a dialect recita­
Who will forget the first day’s teaching in tion, “ Them Oxen.” Both young ladies are
Model ? By the end of the first week the stu­ possessed of much elocutionary ability,

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Rev. R. B. Hafer was called upon for an ad­
dress, and responded with a few words express­
ing the pleasure he felt at being permitted to
greet so many friends and former schoolmates.
Miss Elsie Peters, ’93, of York Springs, enter­
tained her audience by ‘ ‘ Entertaining her Big
Sister’s Beauv|’
The Musical numbers of the program were
a duette by Misses Spangler and Roop, and a
quartette by Messrs. Donnelly and Wolff, and
Misses Spangler and Roop. Both were well
rendered.
Dr. Eckels was greeted with a burst of ap­
plause when he rose to speak. He spoke of
the pleasure he felt upon being permitted to
look into the faces of those who had been stu­
dents at the Normal, and expressed the hope
that these Re-unions would bind the students
and alumni body still closer to the school of
their choice. Dr. Eckels?'concluded his ad­
dress by introducing Deputy Superintendent
of Public Instruction, Henry Houck, who
spoke of the early history of the Cumberland
Valley State Normal School, its ups and
downs. He congratulated the students upon
the prosperity the school was now enjoying.
He concluded his address by remarking that
his father had instilled such excellent ideas
into him that he was always prompt— at his meals. It was now meal tithe and, therefore,
time to stop.
A t the business session the following officers
were elected to serve'during the ensuing year:
President, J. M. Hoover, ’91, Chambersburg;
Vice President, H. M. Roth, ’89, Shippensburg; Recording Secretary, Sara Spangler, ’96,
Arendtsville; Corresponding Secretary, Ada
V . Horton, ’88, Shippensburg.

Among the new members is Dr. Barton,,
who surprised every one by bringing a new
Sterling Bicycle with him when he returned to
Normal at the opening of school. The Doctor
was admitted to the club as soon as he had
proven that he possessed the qualifications for
membership, i. e. ability to ride ten feet with­
out falling off; and is now its Steering Head,,
or President.
Besides Dr. Barton, the following membersof the faculty are bicyclists: Misses Spencer,
Eockwood, Kinsey, Horton and Mather, and
Professors Eckels, C. E. Barton and the
editor.

The Scientific Course.
of graduates of last year’s clas&
have returned to Normal, and have
taken up the work of the Scientific
Course. Heretofore it has been customary for
the post graduate students to take up a special
line of work rather than that of the regular
course. Those who have returned this year
are to be commended for their departure from;
this custom, and their action in taking a regu­
lar course instead.
The class is doing good work in the variousdepartments. The course for the Fall Term,
includes Advanced Psychology, Chemistry,.
Ratin (Virgil), Higher Algebra, Solid Geom­
etry , and advanced work in Riterature. T h e
class has already studied Tennyson’s “ Prin­
cess,” and is now engaged in the study o f
“ H am let” .

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Where Some of the former Members of
the Faculty Are.
The Bicycle Club.
is often made concerning the where­
abouts of the former teachers at Normal,
We give below the addresses and occupa­
tions of a number of them, but there are many
whom we have been unable to locate.
Prof. S. B. Heiges, Principal from 1882 to
n q u ir y

Bicycle Club has been re-organized for
the fall season, and a number of new
members have been admitted into its
ranks. A number of runs have already been
made and more are in prospect.

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1886, holds the position of Pomologist in the
Department of Agriculture, at Washington.
He resides in York.
Prof. W . T . Dutton, who held the chair of
Mathematics here in 1886, now holds a similar
position in Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa.
Prof. E. H. Bugbee was Prof. Dutton’s
successor, and remained with us until 1892.
He is now Principal of schools at Port Jervis,
N. J.
Prof. Hart V . Gilbert, teacher of Latin and
Greek from 1885 to 1889, is . now the Editor
.of the Star and Sentinel, at Gettysburg, Pa.
Prof. W. F. Zumbro taught here during the
Spring Term of ’89 and ’96. He is now serv­
ing his second term as Superintendent of the
Franklin county schools.
Mrs. Susie Hinsen, nee Jones, resides in
Philadelphia and teaches in a school, of which
her husband is the Principal.
Miss Florence C. Walker, a former teacher
o f Elocution, is now the director of the Gym­
nasium in St. Margaret’s School, Buffalo, N. Y .
Miss Emma Stone, who had charge of the
Department of Music for two years, is now
teaching in Tome Institute, Port Deposit, Md.
Mrs. Dr. Eoser, nee Atkins, who also taught
music in this institution, now resides in Shippensburg.
Miss Millie Adams, a former Art teacher, is
teaching in the pnblic schools of Vineland,
N. J.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stryker, nee Hope, who
taught music during the year of ’88-’89, now
resides at Bond Brook, N. J.
Chas. Walters, Esq., who filled the depart­
ment of English in this institution for one
year, is now practicing law in the courts of
Franklin county, and has his office in Chambersburg. He has met with much success in
his chosen profession, and has recently retired
from the office of District Attorney,
Dr. James Eldon, Principal of the Lock Haven
Normal School, taught Mathematics here dur­
ing the ’70’s.
Dr. H. U. Roop, who resigned as teacher of
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Chautauqua Normal Sunday School work, in
which he has been very successful.
Miss Emma S. Waite, Principal of the Model
school for five years, is Principal of the Train­
ing Department in - the Nebraska Normal
School.
[Communicated.]

Re-Union of Adams County Students of
C. V. S. N. S.
On Friday, August 7th, the Adams county
students of the Normal School held their sec­
ond annual re-union at Round Top Park, near
Gettysburg. Notwithstanding the fact that
the weather was exceedingly warm, the attend­
ance was large.
In the morning the following literary pro­
gram was rendered:
President’s Address......................... M. H. Thomas, ’90.
f Messrs. H. E. Walhey, ’95,
Male Quartette,......... -j Chas. Albright, ’95,
I. H. J. Taylor and I. L. Taylor.
Address,.................... ......... ...............Prof. H. M. Roth.
Address.......................................... Dr. G. M. D. Eckels.

President Thomas in his address referred to
the progress that is being made along the lines
of education. He also spoke of the recent
improvements made at the Cumberland Valley
State Normal School and of her unparalleled
success in recent years.
Prof. H. M. Roth spoke on the subject ‘ ‘The
Work of the Teacher; ” ' . Among other things
the Professor said: ‘ ‘The teacher should prepare
well for the work of moulding and influencing
those' given into his charge. Teachers are
sculptors who chisel out and fashion the destiny
of their pupils. Teachers of Adams county
may you all be successful in your work, and
may you labor zealously for the advancement
of your pupils.
’May your work be done so grandly, so nobly, so well,
That angels will hasten the story to tett.S’i >.

Dr. Eckels said he was glad to be present,
and congratulated the students upou the suc­
cessful Re-Union. The Doctor said that edu­
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schools are filled with students. The old
Cumberland Valley State Normal School has
just closed the most successful year in her his­
tory, and the outlook for the coming year is
brighter than it has ever been before.
The music by the quartette was well re­
ceived, and the singers by request gave a num­
ber of well rendered sélections.
For the coming year the following officers
were elected :
President, F. P. Starry, ’96.
Vice-President, George C. Bollinger, ’95.
Secretary, Zula Deatrieh, ’94.
Treasurer, C. A . Trostel, ’94.
It was unanimously decided to hold next
year’s Re-Union at the same place.
E. C. S.

and pleasure to be derived from such re-unions.
The H e r a l d will be glad to assist in the pro­
motion of these organizations, and will be glad
to publish an account of all efforts made in such
directions.
Gymnastics in the Model School.

A new departure in the department of
Physical Education is the introduction of pub­
lic school gymnastics into the Model School. In
previous years the Children attending the
Model have gone to the gymnasium for their
work in this line, being under the immediate
instruction of the Physical Director. It has
seemed more practical to arrange for the gym­
nastics to be given children in their class
rooms twice a day; the exercises being pre­
In another column will be found an account sented to them by the Seniors as a part of the
of the Re-union of the Normal School students required practice teaching. We do not aim to
of Adams county. We publish this not only as train students to become gymnasium directors,
a matter of interest to the Adams county stu­ but we do intend our graduates to be qualified
dents, but because it is an example worthy of to teach gymnastics in public schools With in­
imitation by! our students and graduates in telligence and understanding of the subject.
During the Junior year the students are given
other counties.
Our Alumni Association has become so large as thorough a training in free work and the
a body that it ought to be sub-divided into use of light apparatus as time will perm it,-S
local organizations. These local organizations each student being required to devote at least
would do much to increase the usefulness and two periods a week to gymnastics. Military
influence of the alumni and student body. evolutions, body building, and development
Active and efficient organizations could easily work are all given «special emphasis in the
be maintained in such counties as Cumberland, Junior year. The floor work for the Seniors
Franklin, Fulton, Dauphin, and Perry, with consists of Swedish Day’s Orders, and advanced
their scores of graduates and students of the exercises in American gymnastics. Notes are
C. V . S. N. S. Other counties might join given on gymnastic work, methods of teach­
ing, etc., which will be a guide to them in
forces, and have a joint Association.
We dwell upon the matter at this time be­ their future work along this line. The Sen­
cause the county institutes soon to be held, iors are also trained to act as leaders of divi­
will afford an excellent opportunity for the or­ sions and of the entire class. The department
ganization of such associations. A ll that is of Physical Training is a comparatively new
needed is to have a few persons take the initia­ one in the school, having been organized not
tive in each county, and issue a call for a meet­ quite two years ago. While the work is not
ing during the week of institute. A t this yet fully established on the basis on which we
meeting officers should be elected, and a pro­ expect it to stand, much has been accom­
gram arranged for a summer re-union at some plished for so short a time. The aim has been,
and will continue to be, towards practical
suitable place within the county.
It is not necessary to dwell upon the benefit gymnastic training for a public school teacher.

T H E NORM AL SCHOOL H ERALD .
A thorough understanding of free work, of body
building, and correct exercises is considered
essential.
The introduction of graded gymnastic work
in the Model School is being watched with
much interest. The Seniors who are drilling
the children in the various exercises are de­
serving of much credit for the success of the
undertaking. They are showing an intelli­
gence concerning the work that is most gratify­
ing. It does not lessen the credit which all
deserve, to make special mention of the results
obtained by Mr. E. M. Sando, of Lebanon,
Pa., Mr. C. H. Risser, of'M t. Joy, Pa., and
Miss Carrie Mitchell, of New Bloomfield, Pa.
Their pupils show an accuracy and uni­
formity of movement that can only come from
careful training on the part of the leader. It
is not always the best gymnast who is the best
teacher of gymnastics. To teach gymnastics
well one must be a good disciplinarian. The
Seniors have no better opportunity to prove
their possession of this essential qualification
of a good teacher than in leading the classes
of gymnastics in the Model School.

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and skill, and the Normal School is to be con­
gratulated in having secured so valuable- a
woman for the head of the Training Depart­
ment.
Miss Mather is a young lady who has had
thorough preparation for her work, and she
has already given promise of making an e x ­
cellent Method and Critic Teacher in her de­
partment.
These ladies are both popular with the stu­
dents, and the success of the Training Depart­
ment, under their management, is already as­
sured. They command the respect and
esteem of the other members of the faculty,
and they are regarded as a valuable addition to
the teaching force of the school.
Y. W. C. A. Department.
Edited by I I E l i z a b e t h B r o w n .
y t L u i a n F o u st .

work of the Y . W . C. A . opened this
year under very favorable circum­
stances. The first meeting was held in
the school parlors on Sunday afternoon, Sep­
tember 6, 1896, under the leadership of Miss
Young, President of the Association.
New Teachers of the Faculty.
On the. following Saturday a reception was
' I ''HE policy of the Normal School is to make given in honor of the new students. Invita­
as few changes as possible in the mem­ tions were extended to all the lady students,
bership of the faculty. This year, how­ the ladies of the Faculty, and the officers of
ever, through the resignation of Miss Waite the Y . W . C. A.
and Miss Waldo, two vacancies were made in
The parlors were beautifully decorated;
the Model Department. Miss Anna M. Mc­ large vases filled with golden rod stood in the
Bride was elected to the Principalship of this corners, while small bouquets of asters, sweet
Department, and Miss Eudora Mather was peas, and daisies adorned the pianos and tables.
elected to the assistant Principalship. Both
A ll the members wore badges of pink bear­
these ladies are graduates in the classical ing the letters Y . W . C. A . A t three o ’clock
course of the Geneseo State Normal School in the doors of the parlors were thrown open and
New York State.
the reception committee, consisting of Misses
Miss McBride has had considerable experi­ Young, Clark, Reed, Kipp and Peters, officers
ence and prominence as a teacher in her native of the Association, stood waiting to welcome
state, and will no doubt win additional laurels the new students. After all had assembled,
in the Keystone State. Her work in the Cum­ the President made a short address of wel­
berland Valley State Normal School has al­ come, after which the following program was
ready proven her to be a teacher of rare ability rendered:
he

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T H E NORM A E SCHOOE H ERAED.
M usic................................ .... C h o r u s .

vass during the second week, and secured

Recitation,..................................................................M iss M i TCHELE.
enough new members to raise the number to 58,
Mandolin Solo,...
.......................M iss R e n s h a w .
of which became active and twentyR ecitation ,.......I...............................................................MlSsW iethirty-six
rm an,
D u ette,...........................M isse s C e a r k

and

Ma r k e e y .

Recitation, ...........................................Miss B r a n d t .
Instrumental Solo,..-.....................Miss F a ir m a n .

A t the close of the program, refreshments,
consisting of cocoa, wafers, peaches and cream,
were served in the library, which also was
decorated with golden-roll and daisies. The
|jierving committee wore little wreaths of
golden-rod and large white aprons. After all
had partaken, a social hajf hour was spent in
the parlors, after which a- stanza of “ Blest be
the Tie That Binds” was heartily sung, and the
pleasant afternoon was ended.
The meetings are held regularly every Sun­
day evening at 6:30 o ’clock. The attendance
has been remarkably good so far, better# than
in previous years. Already twenty-two new
students have been received as Y . W. C. A .
members.
We earnestly hope that by the end of this
term every girl in the school may know and
love the Y . W. C. A .

Y. M. C. A. DEPARTMENT.
[Edited by H. E. F r e e d #]

two associate members.
Never before in the history of the Y . M. C.
A . at this school, has there been so much in­
terest taken in the work. ■ The membership, isnow greater than ever before, and the indica­
tions are that the Association will; continue toprosper during the year.
On Saturday afternoon, September 26th, a
reception was given to the new students in the
school parlor, when the following program wasreridered :

M usic,.....,.,................................................... :....Society.
Address of Welcome................. B. F. Grim, President,
Récitâtion.....; ,r ....................................... W. F. Benner.
Essay...... .-............................................... .....H . E. Freed,
Recitation...... ............................................K. C. Stover,
Instrumental D u ette...!™ : H . Hendricks, mandolin,
t Miss Markley, piano.

A t the conclusion of the exercises the Presi­
dent extended an invitation to all to repair to
an adjoining room, where refreshments were
served.
A joint meeting of the Y . M. C. A . and Y .
W. C. A. was held on Sunday evening,' Oct.
4th. Mr. Grim was the leader. The topic for
the meeting was ‘ ‘ Why I Believe in the Atone­
ment, ’ ’ upon which the leader gave a short, but
earnest address.

The remainder o f the program consisted o f
T the opening of the Fall Term, many of
last year’s students returned to Normal, answering questions on the topic, arid the read­
and besides these, a large number c f ing o f references.
The musical numbers of the program con­
new students came to take up the work of the
sisted of a quartette by Messrs. Pool, Sando,
school year.
Thirteen active members of the Y . M. C. A. Jacks and Kell, and a duette by Misses Ger­
returned, and during the first week a program trude B. Clark and Ella Miller.
was arranged and rendered on Sunday after­
These joint meetings are held monthly, and
noon, before a goodly number of students. give to each society a new inspiration to do
During the first week several of the old mem­ better work and press onward in the cause o f
bers hanvassed among the students, and se­ Christ. The two societies contemplate holding:.
cured a large number of names to propose for a joint social in the near future.
membership in the Association.
The officers of the Y . M. C. A. are Pres.,.
A very interesting meeting was held on the B. F. Grim; Vice-Pres., A . D. Martin; Rec,
second Sunday afternoon. Several of the mem­ Sec., E. C. Stover; Corresponding See,, AbeL
bers gave the entire building a thorough can­ Morris; Treasurer, H. E. Freed.

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J. H. M a r t i n .

H. S. P t a n k .

S. S. J a c k s .

W. B.

A. M o r r is .
E . R . ¥ m s . H. M. R o t h , Mgr.
H. E. N v é c u .
T. W . G r a y .
O. A. P r e s s e t .

B.

Bye8gifi|

G. H. E c k e t s , Capt. L. R o t h .
J. H. P a r k e t . W . H. H M u r i c k s .

T H E NORM AL SCHOOL H ERALD .
Marriage Notices.
H eg e - S h e GEY.— A t the home ofthe bride’s
parents, Mr.-and Mrs. Andrew Shelley, near
Dickey’s Station, on August 25th, Miss Myrtle
A . Shelley and Mr. Herman B . Hege, ’96, by
Rev. John Lenher, of Upton.
. T o m p k in s - H y k e s .-— On September 15th, at
the residence of Mr. Chas. T . Hykes, Shippensburg, Miss Olive Hykes, '91, and Mr. Eu­
gene Tompkins, Jr. of Greenwich, Conn., by
Rev. M. L- Drum, of the Shippensburg M. E.
church.
K is s in g e r - D a v is — On October 14th, at the
home of the bride’s parents, Wiconisco, Pa.,
Miss Martha M. Davis, '92, and IV. H . Kissr
inger, ’91, Philadelphia, Pa.
H o f f e d it z - L ig h t — On Thursday, October
8th, in St Paul’s Lutheran and Reformed
church, Lehmaster, Pa., Mr. Harry H. Hoffeditz, and Miss Alice Light, '88.

F ritz - T a ylo r .— A t the home of Prof. M.
S. Taylor, ’84, in Shiremanstown, Miss Lena
TaylorM’93, and Mr. ----- Fritz, of Waynes­
boro, Pa.
ATHLETICS.
FOOT-BALL.
N o r m a u S choou

vs.

Ch am ber sbu rg A c a d e m y ,

[Communicated-paSi

N Saturday, October 3rd, at Chambersburg, the Norma:! foot-ball team de­
feated the Chambersburg Academy
team by a score of 6 to 4. The Academy
team had the assistance of four or five players
who did not rightfully belong to it, but were
-nevertheless, very lucky that their defeat was
not worse. The play was confined almost en­
tirely to Chambersburg’s half ofthe field, but
they scored near the close of the second half
on a fake kick, Ragg making a very clever run.
Sherrard failed to kick an easy goal, cleaving
he score in favor of Shippensburg.

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The Academy began the game by kicking
off: Normal ran the ball back to the 25-yard
line. The first attempt at a gain resulted in a
fumble. In the second trial Gray made a
beautiful end run, backed up by good interfer­
ence, carrying the ball to Chambersburg’s 25yard line. After, short gains by Parret and
Watson, the ball was lost on a fumble. Orr
was soon compelled to kick. On the next
line-up, Gray went around Fletcher’s end for a
touch-down. The ball was at a rather difficult
angle, but Eckels succeeded in kicking a goal,
and the score stood 6 to o after about ten min;
utes of playing.
Sherrard kicked off for Chambersburg.
The ball was soon rushed back and Normal
was about to score another touch-down, when
time was called for.the half. The time keepers
had evidently erred by some minutes, and thus
prevented another score by Shippensburg.
In the second half neither side could advance
the ball materially , and kicking was frequently
resorted to. Ragg made a touch-down for
Chambersburg on a trick play, but the try for
goal failed. Line up :
Shippensburg.
ChambersbuTg,
W ills.................... .................. center....................... .........Sherrard
P la n k ................... ..............rig h t guard.................
M orris......... •....... ...............le ft guard.................... ............Snyder
M artin................. ....... ......right tackle.................. ............ M fifllain
Jacks................... ...............le ft tackle....................
Pressel................ ................righ t end....................
H a m ilton ...............................left en d...................
Eckels, (c)........... ............quarter back ;............ ...Berghaus, (c)
Pa rret.................. ................right half.................... .....G. Fletcher
G ray............... ..... ...... ........... le ft h a lf.....................
..... R agg
W atson ............... ...... ......... fu ll h a c k .....................
Tim e—T w o 20 m inuté halves. Um pire, H ollar. Referee, W arren. Touchdowns, Gray, R agg. Goal, Eckels.

S h ip p e n s b u r g vs. D ic k in s o n P r e p a r a t o r y .

On Saturday, Get. 10th, the Normal foot­
ball team played its second game of the season
with the Dickinson Preparatory School. The
game was played on the Himes’ field and was
well attended;. The people were repaid for
coming by witnessing a closely contested
game. The final score was 12 to 12,
Dickinson lost the toss and kicked off to
Shippensburg. On the first line-up, the ball was

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neatly double-passed from Parret to Gray and
the latter ran seventy yards for a touch-down.
Eckels kicked a goal; ¡ Dickinson kicked off
again and soon regained the ball on a fumble.
After a few tries, their Indian end rush, Suis,
skirted the end, and, eluding all tackles,
scored a touch-down, from which he also kick­
ed a goal. Score 6 to 6. The remainder of
the half was stubbornly contested, Dickinson
scoring six more points and Shippensburg be­
ing within a few yards of a touch-down, when
time was called. Score, Dickinson 12, Ship­
pensburg 6.
The second half opened with a kick-off by
Shippensburg. The ball was soon regained
on four downs, with short end runs and
plunges through the tackles, the ball was
forced past Dickinson’s 25-yard line and Gray
was sent over for the second touch-down.
After a punt-out to Watson, a goal resulted
and the score was a tie at 12 to 12. Soon
after time was called. Eine-up :
Shippensburg.
Positions.
Dickinson.
W ills..................... . ......¿.....center................ ..................... L ew is
P la n k................... ...... .........righ t guard........... ....................... D eihl
M orris........................ ......... le ft guard................................B onner
M artin ....................... ........ rig h t tackle.......... ...............„.Cathers
Jacks...A............;....... .......... le ft tackle...........................M cllwain
Pressel, (B yers).......... ........ righ t end............. ........................ Suis
H endricks..................
.’.left end.............. .................. Schiffer
Eckels, (c)........................ quarter back.................. Nunnem acber
Parret................ ............ righ t h a lf back.................. ............. Cline
G ray ............................ le ft h al f ‘ back............................... Seifer t
W a tson ................. ......... . ^ i f u l l back....................... W illiam s, (c)
Tim e —One 20-minute h a lf and one 15-minute half. Umpire,
W arren, Shippensburg. Referee, Rochow, Dickinson; touch­
downs, Gray, (2), C lin e (1), Suis (1); goals, Eckels (2) and Suis (2).

S chedule ;

of

Ga m e s .

October 24th at Harrisburg, C. V . S. N. S.
vs. Harrisburg High School.
October 31st, at Mercersburg, C. V . S. N. S.
vs. Mercersburg college.
Other games will be arranged later.
This number of the H e r a l d will be sent
gratis to all contributors to the Alumni Pedagog­
ical Library Fund, whether or not they are
subscribers to our paper.

Normal Literary Society Department.
[Edited by G a y H . R e n s h a w .]

H E opening of the Fall Term found the
membership of our society small as com­
pared with that of the Spring Term, but
strong in the possession of earnest hearts and
willing hands, ready to take up the work
where it had been dropped by the loyal mem­
bers of ’96, two short months before.
The first meeting, September 4th, was held
in the Chapel of the Model School. This
meeting, in one respect a happy re-union, still
contained an element of sadness;— so many
familiar faces were missing, so many new faces
were there to claim our friendship.
A number of new members have been already
received and the promptness and willingness
with which they perform the parts assigned to
them is a great encouragement to our enthu­
siastic members. This hearty co-operation au­
gers well for the coming year. Much good
work has been done in the past; more must be
done now, and in the future. We want to rise
above mediocrity. Many of us take hold of
society work by the wrong end. Some attend
the meetings simply to obtain amusement, or
to while away time, to such the crying crime
of the program is “ It is too dry; it is not amus­
ing, ’ • as if the great purpose of the society
were to amuse. As set forth in the constitu­
tion, the chief object of our society is “ mutual
literary improvement and social culture.”
This purpose is defeated if from each meeting
we carry no interesting fact, no beautiful
thought, no tender strain of music to stay with
us through the week and sweeten the “ daily
round.' ’
This is an age of advancement, and in our
societies there should be a stronger tendency
for that which is noble and good and pure.
W e pledged ourselves to be active members;
to be such requires many sacrifices of time and
pleasure, but the thought that we are living up
to our motto,— ‘ ‘ Science, Friendship, Virtue, ’ ’
should be sufficient recompense. When we

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T H E NORMAE SCHOOL H ERALD .
leave the shelter of these walls forever, we
want to feel that we have kept the white rib­
bon free from spot or stain. Then let us
stand hand in hand, and work' together for the
best interests of our societyr-Sin organization
there is strength. Let us see what good edu­
cation and good principles can accomplish.
The outlook is most promising. Let us
make this year the friendliest, happiest, bright­
est year in the history of our society.
Philo Literary Society Department.
[ Edited by BESSIE F oust . ]

The Philo Literary Society was organized in
1876, and has continued prosperous up to the
present. No doubt its success is due to the
fact that the members believe, and act upon its
m o t t o N o n excellentia sine labore.” .
The society opened this term with Mr. T.
W . Gray, President, and Miss Carrie Mitchell,
Secretary. The first meeting of the term was
held in the Chapel. The old members of Philo
were very glad to meet again, yet they sorely
missed the familiar faces of the Seniors of ’96,
and realized for the first time the great respon­
sibility resting upon them. They hope by
faithfulness and loyalty to maintain the high
standard for which the Philo Society has ever
:Stood.
That the society is doing good work is proven
by the marked improvement from week to
week in the rendering of the programs. The
musical and literary parts are equally good,
choice music is provided by the orchestra and
the glee club.
Much interest is taken in the weekly debates.
The important questions of the day are in­
telligently discussed, and thus both speakers
and hearers gain greater knowledge of the
problems which are at present of general in­
terest. Not only is the society prospering in
its literary work, but its financial condition is
-very satisfactory, and its'lib rary shelves are
well stocked with the works of standard
¡authors.

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A ll earnest Philos are glad to avail them­
selves of the opportunities afforded them for
literary improvement by the society. They
realize that many of the most intelligent m n
and women of the past and present have
traced their literary zeal and desire for im­
provement to inspirations received in a literary
society..
The Philo Society urges its members to take
an active part in the weekly meetings, and
thus prepare themselves for any position in life
which they may be called upon to fill.
The following program was rendered October 2nd:
Farewell Address, Retiring Presidenti...... T . W . G r a y .
Inaugural Address, President,................. J. O. B r o w n .
Music,..
.......... .................................. O r ch estr a .
Recitation, ............................... .......... . E t h e e S m i e e y .
Referred Questions:—
Where is the “ Roof o f the World?”
A n g k e e a G r iss t n g e r .

What is called the “ Queen o f the Antilles?”
L a u r a H och .

Vocal Soil®.'....:......................... ................. T. W. G r a y .
Debate:^--.. S;
Resolved, T h a S th e Spendthrift is more injurious
than the Miser.
Affirmative: Messrs. Baker and Gray.
Negative: Messrs. K ell and Eightner.
Play: “ The Finished Coquette. ”
Extemporaneous Address,........................ M. L. D r u m .
Music,..........................................................Gl.EE C e u b .
Philo Review,.'.............................................JESSE K lip .

Subscribers to Alumni Library Fund.
We herewith append the names of the sub­
scribers to the Alumni Pedagogical Library:
Nancy J. Adams.
H. A . Albert.
Mertena Allen.
J. Atherton.
Henry Baish.
Mrs. D. H. Barnhill.
Nora Baker.
Joseph F. Barton.
Chas. E. Barton.
Thomas W. Bevan.

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T H E NORM AL SCHOOL H ERALD .
M. L. Bechtel.
Sara R. Biesecker.
John A . Bish.
Sara V . Black.
Etta B. Bowers.
George C. Bollinger.
C. S. Brinton.
N. J. Briner.
Carrie Brown.
E. A. Burnett.
Mrs. Milton Biggs.
Mary Cashman.
Clem Chesnut.
Mrs. Mary V . Craig.
Maude Cressler.
Be'rd Cressler.
Oscar Cunningham.
W. N. Decker.
Mrs. Annie M. Deihl.
Jane Diller.
Mary Downs.
Allen Drawbaugh.
Sallie C. Dutt.
J. M. Ebbert.
Maude Eby .
Minnie G. Eckels.
George H. Eckels.
A . M. Engle.
J. Wilson Elliot.
Ella Erdman.
Dorothy Eschelman.
A . A . Evans.
J. E. Evans.
J. A. Fickes.
D. A . Forsyth.
John P. Garber.
Lillie M. Gleim.
Maggie Geisey.
J. O. Gray,
H. E. Gress.
Samuel Haak.
W . S. Hafer.
Mrs, Carrie E. Hale.'
Christ Hanlin.
Anna Harbaugh.
Mrs. Mary McCune Harper.
Eva Hartman.

J. P. Hays.
Mrs. Maggie C. Flora Hays.
Rev. C. C- Hays.
Nellie R. Hays.
Jesse S. Heiges.
John S. Hershey.
Mrs. Huldah Ogden Hiller.
Ada V . Horton.
J. F. Hoch.
W ill Hughes.
Lida Hilands.
F. B..N . Hoffer.
Rachel Humbert.
I. W . Huntzberger.
Ruth O. Kann.
Annie Keene.
Mrs. Clara Kelley.
James D. Kennedy.
Jessie I. Kilheffer.
W . H. Klepper.
Mrs. Maggie B. Konhaus.
Eleanor V. Kyner.
Arthur C. Lackey.
Bess M. Landis .
Mrs. Abbie P. Allen Lamonds.
Alice Lehman.
Ezra Lehman.
Ella Light.
Alice Light.
Amanda Losh.
Clara M. Lutz.
H. L. March.
Filmore Maust.
Mrs. Marne C. Martin.
Gertrude R. McCreary .
Elizabeth C. McCune.
E. C. McCune.
John McCune.
J. Mac. Means.
Mrs. Carrie Liggett Means.
A . A . Miller.
J. Abner Miller.
Cora Miller.
Jennie V. Moul.
R. L, Myers. '
Mary L. Myers.
Sadie Myers.

T H E NORM AL SCHOOL H ERALD .
W . A . Nickles.
Dr. Theo. B. Noss.
G. L- Omwake.
Mrs. Nellie McCune Patterson.
Laura J. Peffer.
C. E. Palsterer.
G. W . Ployer.
P. W. N. Pressel.
Ida B. Quigley
Julia Radle.
C. F. A . Reehling.
Enuna Rebuck.
J. H. Reber.
J. B. Reese.
George Reichter.
Lyda J. Reiley.
Mary C. Rhodes.
Estelle Rhodes.
Mrs. C. E. Ricker.
W . M. Rife'
Sara Roop.
H. M. Roth.
Noah Roth.
Lucy E. Rupley.
George S. Rupp.
Adelia Russell.
H. F. Schroeder.
Anna C. Schwartz.
Rachel M. Scott.
Adaline Seibert.
Rebecca Seip.
Mrs. Mollie B. Shipe.
Lizzie Shellenberger.
S. B. Shearer.
J. N. Shriner.
Sadie Shriver.
D. H. Shearer.
Mrs. Ida Singmaster.
James M. Smiley.

C. Iva Smith.
Columbus Snyder.
Rosa A . Spidel.
R. C. Spangler.
Mrs. Carrie Spangler.
DeKellar Stamy.
Clara’ M. Stamy.
Jennie I. Steever.
Anna Strite.
John H. Stuart.
Sallie E. Swartz.
R. H. Taylor.
Ella L- Tait.
Mrs. Jennie M. Throne.
Chas. Trostel.
Mary V . Unger.
Anna Wallace.
Dr. John Walter.
C. J. Walter.
Anna Wagner.
Kathryn Wensell.
Edith B. Wertz.
Alice Weidman.
J. T . Whitaker.
S. .A. White.
Mrs. M. E. White.
Ailie M. Wherry.
Frank B. Wickersham.
Artelia L- Wilson.
Flora W . Witherow.
Martha W. Witherow.
H. H. Woodall.
Cordelia Woods.
Clara Youndt.
James L- Young.
O t h e r Co n t r ib u t o r s .

Alice Louise Kinsey.
Anna Stouffer.

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