The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-07-23

lott went to Nevada, and Miss Ada Dam
was elected by the Board to fill the vacancy.
This year a class of twenty was graduated,
and it went to work at once.
The crops of teachers was the same the
fourth year, except that one Model room,
Miss DAMS, was discontinued by order of
the Board; and during the year Mr.. T. J.
Gray was employed to assist in the Normal
department. A class of ten was graduated,
which became class of teachers. After
the close of this scholastic year, three of the
teachers, Misses Walker, Barrett and Havens,
moved by considerations of health, went to
California. Their departure was much re-
GREETED, as they have proven themselves re-
markably efficient teachers.
The fifth year opened with the following
teachers:
Prof. Moore, Miss Martha J. McCumber
and Mr.. Thomas J. Gray in the Normal
Department, and Miss Anna A. Rice, in
the Model School. Miss McCumber and
Miss Rice were from the Oswego IN. "
Normal School; Mr.. Gray graduated from
the St. Cloud school. During this year q
very interesting and valuable series of lee
lures on Physiology was delivered by DR.: A
E. senkler, Of this city. Music, which had
been previously taught by the regular
teachers in the school, was placed in charge
Of Prot. s. H. Rhys, with good results
Lessons in penmanship and bookkeeping
were given by Prof. c. G. Curtiss, Of Vino
ma. A class of fifteen graduated in May,
and every member of the class is teaching
or is engaged to teach with the opening Of
the fall schools.
The sixth year of the school will begin
on Wednesday, August 18th, when the
crops of teachers will consist Of Prof.
Moore, Miss McCupber, Miss Mary Gun
derson and Mr.. Gray, in the Normal De-
partment, and Miss Ada Murray in charge
of the Model School. Miss Gunderson is a
graduate of the St. Cloud School, and Miss
Murray, who comes from Red Wing and is
teacher of several years experience, grad.
uated at the Winona School.
The Legislature at its last session ap.
propriated $4,000 for heating and furnish.
ing the building. The new furniture is
now on the way from Chicago. 1t is of the
best pattern and most approved make. A
Chickering piano for the use of the school
is also on the way. The building will cost
completed and furnished Excluding the
cost Of the grounds) $4,000. No debt has
been incurred and it is not intended that
any shall be. The management of the
school, in every way, has been excellent
and it numbers its friends in all parts O.
the State. With less facilities, it has grad
uated more pupils, in proportion to it,
average attendance, than has either of thu
other schools. Of its sixty graduates, al
but two have been teaching or will teach as
soon as school opens in the fall, and many
of the undergraduates teach during the va.
cations
The appropriation for current expenses was
$4,000 per year until 1872, when it was in.
creased to $4,000 per year. The last Legis.
lature increased the appropriation to $4,000
per year, to meet the additional expenses
incident to the larger building and a lar.
ger school.
The different resident members of the
State Normal School Board and Di-
rectors of the school, have been:
Gen. G. G. Andrews.
Hon. N. F. Barnes.
Hon. E. 0. Hamlin.
DR.. M. G.. Tolmau,
| J. G. Smith, ESQ.