Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-07-27
INTERESTING SCHOOL NOTES.

| A LIST OF PER SO MAILS -TEACHERS
ABRoAD-CHANGE IN THE COLLEGE
FACULTIEs-THE sTAUNTON PUBLIC
sCHoOLs-THE NORMAL INSTITUTE.
&C., &C., &C.
Rev. James Willis. Principal of the
Staunton Female Seminary, was in Nor
folk last week in the interest of that
school.
Mr.. W. W. Gibbs Is on tour South in
the interest of Prof. KabIe's Staunton
Male Academy.
Miss Virginia M. Stricken of the Au-
gusta Female Seminary Faculty, is attend
| ing the summer session of the Massachus-
etts V. s.. Institute at Cottage City,
Mass.
Prof. J. Lewellyn Massey, Principal of
Sherwood Female Seminary of Staunton,
left this week for Texas and other South
ern States in the interest of his school.
Mr.. J. Fl. Bader, Principal of the
, Staunton High School, has been, since
| July OH, attending the Summer School of
Languages at Burlington, vt. This school
| lasts for six weeks and is taught by the
most distinguished professors of languages
| in the colleges of the country. 1t is a
boarding school at which. in the matter of
modern languages, native professor from
the country the language Of which is
! being learned, sits at each table and moth
ing but that language is spoken. There are
German, Italian, French and other tables
| at which native professors preside.
Mr.. W. H. De Bell, Assistant Principal
at the Staunton High School, is attending
the Normal at Alexandria.
Prof. Calhoun and wife the Miller School
are visiting friends in Mddlebrook.
Prof. Charles E. Young and Misses Ma
mie Young, Christina Mauzy and Mary
Mathews of Lewisburg, passed through
here last week on visit to the Luray
| Caverns.
Prof. Thos. Hume and family, of Chapel
Hill, N. G. University, are spending the
summer at Waynesboro. the fayorite sum-
| mer resort of the Doctor.
Mile Agathe Elise Jacot. teacher of mod
ern languages at the Augusta Female
Seminary, is spending the vacation at
Nantucket. Mass.
| Mr.. Guthries of this county is attending
teachers assembly in session at James
| town, N. Y.
ssKleinberg School," that well known
school for young ladies', of which Rev. B.
M. Wales and his daughters are the head,
has been removed from Lodebar to anoth-
er point in Nelson county, the estate re-
Gently occupied by Mrs. A. G. Bledsoe,
near Rockfsh Station, on the Midland
Railway.
| Col. Jno. d. Letcher, son of the late
Governor Letcher. has been rendered the
chair of Engineering, Tactics, &C., in the
Oregon state Agricultural College, situat-
ed at Corvallis.
| e. B. Shepherd of the Miller School has
been elected professor in the new school
of Technology at Atlanta, Ca, salary
81, 500.
The Norfolk College for young ladies
! has elected a teacher IF dress.making,
Mrs. Langley.
| Fl. B. Motley of Belle Heth Academy
| Christiansburg. has taken the chair of
| Mathematics in the Danville Female Col
! lege.
r. W. Jones, former President of Mar
| tina Washington College, has been elected
| President of Emory q Henry College.
Maj. R. P. Barry, has purchased the
Fauquier Female Institute at Warrenton,
from Robert Frazier for $500.
| President G.. W. GUSTS Lee of Washing
ton & Lee University, will spend his va
cation at the Greenbrier White Sulphur.
| Rev. W. M. McPheeters of Marion,
Smyth co., has been elected Professor of
Biblical Literature at the Theological
Seminary at Columbia. s. G.
President William T. Davis of the
Southern Female College at Petersburg,
and former President of the Danville Fe-
male College, died last week.
Prof. Tuttle of the University Of Ohio,
at Columbus, pupil of the John Hop
kins University and OF Freiberg, Germany,
has been elected Professor of Biology. &C.,
at the University of Virginia
DR.. John l.. Buchanan, State Superin-
tendent of Education of Virginia, has
been unanimously elected by the National
Educational Association, as President of
it's Department of Superintendent.
Prof. G. S. Venable has declined re-
election as Chairman of the Faculty of the
University of Virginia.
CHANGES IN COLLEGE FACULTIES.
We have the following changes in the
college faculties for the ensuing session to
note:
At the Wesleyan Female Institute, Prof.
John D. Epes, teacher of Senior Mathe-
MATES. &C., retires, and his work is taken
by Prof. Poyntz and other teachers. Miss
Edith A. Jones, teacher Of English, &C.,
retires. Miss Lizzie J. Daniel, for so
many years teacher of vocal music has
retired on account of ill health. and her
place, which has been temporarily filled
| by Miss Fannie TannehilI, will be filled by
Mrs. Clara ID. Mclean.
At tie Augusta Female Seminary there
? are but two changes-Miss L. M. Haugh-
won't, late of DIR. Wards Seminary in
Nashville, takes the school of Elocution.
She is pupil of the Boston School of Ex-
preston. Boston School of Oratory, the
National School Of Elocution and Oratory
at Philadelphia, and Prof. Curry summer
school at Saratoga. Miss Ella Z. Wei.
mer of Va, a graduate Of the Seminary
, who taught there some years ago. returns
and takes the school of Calisthenics.
AT the Virginia Female Institute, the
, following changes are made-Miss ]. B
Munford takes the place of Miss L.