Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-23
AMONG THE EDUCATORS.

AMONG THE EDUCATORS.
meeting of the Pittsburg Teachers Aca-
DENY was yield yesterday afternoon in Union
Veteran Legion Hall, presided over by Prof.
| Fisher. The following teachers we're elected
members: Miss Jenkins, Grant School; Belle
Eads. PEBBLES School; Ollie Patterson, Mollie
and Emma Marshall, O'Hara School; Sadie
| Burnett, Allen School. Miss Sadie Burnett,
who has gained considerable reputation as an
elocutionist, recited The Pilot" in manner
that won for her the heartiest Communications.
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The Pittsburg school teachers will be paid to-
| morrow. The pay roll amounts to $50, l26 q
xts
Yesterday fine portrait of the late Superin-
tendent Hlgbee and two volumes of SIN Me-
moriam" were received at the Central Board
rooms. The latter contain sketch of his life
and many tributes by educators 10 his memory.
| The committee which has charge of the memoir
| ial and the fund, of which Prof. II. w. Fisher,
| of the Seventeenth ward schools, is a
member, decided that the school depart
| ment and State library at Harrisburg. each
normal school in the State every flee of both
| City and County Superintendent, and all schools
contributing TO the memorial fund should have
a picture of the deceased State Superintendent
and the volumes referred to above. The fund
| will be closed January l. 1t now reaches 81, ,OOO
The committee expects 1t to reach 5000. The
marble bust of Mr.. Higbee is now being COM
pleted by New York sculptor, and the monu-
ment to mark his grave at Emmetsburg IS be-
ing fitted up at Reading. Both will be placed
in position March l.
Merrily the hours fed at the third annual re-
ception of the High School Normal Alumni" !"
as the card of invitation say, but "alumnsn
properly. An address by Miss M. A Ruswinkle,
the President, welcomed the class of 1890.
There are AL members in the association, IL of
whom welded during the year and died. DR..
A. E. McCandless and Mr.. ]. VogeI rendered a
| duet, ~ Live and Love Thee;' Miss Lulu
Butler recited "How Ruby Played;n Miss
Angel;" a piano solo, whispering Breezes,"
by Miss Name Loefler; a duet, THE Lily and
the Rose" by Mrs J. b. Eiseman and Miss E.
A. Greves; a solo, "Angel of My Dreams" by
DR.. A. E McCandIess, and one by Joseph
Vogel. mon Ever" and a recitation. "The
Sioux Chiefs Daughter" by Miss Edith Smith
SON. contributed to the first part of the eY.n-
ing's entertainment The Executive Commit
tee, consisting of the Misses Tillie Beck Matte
Troup. Lou sief: Jessie McClurg and Nan
Pollock, did much toward making the receP-
tion such fiattering success. Over 100 couples
were in attendance.
Superintendent Davy, OF the West Orange
N. Y, schools, was visitor at the Grant school
Wednesday, He was on his return from
Steubenville, o., whittier here he had gone to
learn personally the merits of teacher whom
he wished to have supervise the study of music
in the schools at Orange.
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Prof. Mccullough and his corps of teachers
of the Thad Stevens school are rejoicing over
an early Xmas gift. Last week the directors
presented the school with an elegant new
piano.
The Mt Albion School Board elected an ad-
ditional teacher on Friday night. The Hum
will oil fha
granted them at the next meeting of
the Board. All the rooms in the
Humboldt school are now occupied
and overcrowded in the lower rooms. Another
building. The basement of the Bloomfield
school is to be remodeled into two schoolrooms
which will relieve the overflow of pupils in
this district. The new teacher just granted
will be elected at the next meeting of the
board.
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The Executive Committee Of the Teachers
Institute held business meeting yesterday
afternoon. A debt, the payment of which has
been under discussion for some time, was or
dered by the committee to be uaid; and the
enrolling secretary of the Institute, who has
given her services gratuitousy for the past
three years, received a check for $50.
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All teachers who desire to enter as appli.
cants for permanent certificates can obtain a
circular of information, which the Permanent
Committee has just issued, by calling at the
Central Board rooms.
December s. the High School will be pre-
sented with flag by the Jr o. U. A. NJ.
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Under the new constitution of the Teachers
Academy the meetings are more frequent than
under the old, consequently many of the men,
bers we're surprised when they received notice
of the meeting yesterday. The Board of Super
tions for the future meetings. Yesterday
Miss Sadie Burnett. of the Allen School, re-
cited with much dramatic ability "The Pilots
Story" Miss Jenkins of the Grant School:
Miss Belle Fades, of the PEBBLES; Sadie Bur
nett. Allen; Ollie Patterson, Minersville; Emma
Mars Ial o'Hara; Miss Hunter. Forbes. also
took part.
The new Glenwood building will be dedicated
Thanksgiving Day. The roofing of the new
Osceola building will be completed next week.
The contract calls for the completion of the
building january !.
H. P. Smith, who has been instructing the
higher grammar teachers the past week in
drawing, left the city Friday night. Mr.. Smith
is authority for the information that strenuous
efforts will be made to send a lady teacher to
Pittsburg, who will remain two or three
months. to give all the information necessary
about drawing.
The Seventeenth ward schools always have
1000 postal cards on hand. When pupil is
absent or suspected of playing hockey"
card is dispatched to the parents, who imme-
diately straighten out any tangled web.
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The following are the names of the pupils
who stand first in the highest grammar rooms
of the various ward schools: Luckey school,
No. l, Lizzie Vaughn; No. 2, Florence Hill;
North, Ada McCutcheon and Nellie Fox; ;Hiland,
Pearl Frazier; Liberty, NJ aggie Davis and Mabel
Mckee; Bedford, Katie Moschel; Grant, Maud
Rosinbaum: Thad Stevens, Robert Chess;
Moorhead. Mary Kerr; PEBBLES. Beulah Shuck;
Forbes. Fred Toerge; Lawrence, Parker Ander.
son; st. CLAIR, Mary Holland; Springfield,
Christ Ludwig; South, Margaret Crawford;
Monougahela, Tillie Fisher; Ralston Annie
Burns; Humboldt, Clara Lorch; Riverside,
Lizzie Foley; Washington. Laura Dietrich;
Howard, Lizzie Walker and Willie Hughes;
Hancock, Oscar Weber; Birmingham, George
Kambach; O'Hara, May Feighley and Annie
Clancy: Minersville. Lille Mathews; Wicker.
sham, Lottie Barber; Franklin, Alice Leech;
puquesne, Jacob Burger; Mt. Albion, Hattie
Joyce.
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Diphtheria in the 81. Clair school, Twenty.
seventh ward, is very much on the decrease,
and the schools will not be closed.