Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-12
THE NORMAL ALUMNI.
AN INTERESTING ADDRESS BY sUPERIN-
TENpENT LUckEY.

How the Graduates of the School Have
scattered-An English Educator Visits
the Pittsburg Schools-Value of Mechan-
ical NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Gossip.
At their old alma mater, the Miller street
building, over 100 members of the Normal
Alumni Association, constituting the
bright and younger city teachers, assembled
yesterday afternoon and were addressed by
Superintendent Luckey on professional
Zeal" Before the meeting was called to or
der the chatter of the bright school marms
as they talked of old times would discount
an old-fashioned carpet-rag social, but at the
tap OF the bell, obedient to their own rules,
all was serenely still.
Superintendent Luckey thought the High
School Normal alumni should have at least
one meeting each year. 1t would help to
keep up ones acquaintances and give op-
portunity to talk of old times, and above all
to help one another. The work of the Pitts
burg Normal School is even better that that
done BY the State Normal schools, for 1t IS
more in the direct line of teaching. He
would like the work of our Normal
pick out the rooms taught by them
in any school, and their reputation
to be such that any of them could sacure
position by simply presenting diploma,
and these things cannot be unless there is
professional zeal. This quality belonged to
men who made their names famous. Prof.
Burt's pupils were all imbued with his en-
thusiasm and made teaching success.
In closing his remarks Superintendent
Luckey advised the teachers to band them
selves together with a sacred resolve to
make the work of their alma mater famous.
He cautioned against jealousy in the pro-
fession, and said that if one teacher did her
work better than another the other teachers
should try and copy her methods.
After this address the following officers
were elected: President, Miss NJ. A. Rus
winkle; Vice President, Miss Elizabeth Nc
Cabe; Secretary. Miss Louisa Self; Treas
urer, Miss K. Neiper; Executive Commit
tee, Maud Evans, Rose Davis, Margaret
Lennon, Lillian Johns, BERTHE Torley. The
Executive Committee will meet shortly to
make arrangements for a Normal Alumni
reception which will likely be in November.
There are 430 graduates of the Pittsburg
Normal School and over 200 Of them are
teachers in the city schools. Miss Margaret
Cuthbert, of the class of 1879, is a missionary
in Japan. Margaret L. Jones is in South
America. She is the wife of Rev. Robinson.
Principal G. B. Wood, Of the High School,
was present and made few pleasant re-
marks.
Mr.. LYMPH Stanley, a member of the
London School Board, and one of the visi-
tors of the British Iron and Steel Institute,
chaperoned by Superintendent Luckey,
spent FRIDAY at the Grant and High schools.
Before the visit he told Secretary Reisfar he
had heard of the high reputation of the
Pittsburg schools over in England, but one
thing that surprised him very much is that
SO little attention is paid to manual train
ing in a manufacturing city like Pittsburg.
In England there are cooking and sewing
schools and they are now trying to have a de-
partment established where cutting and fitting
school is a step IN the right direction.
Mr. Stanley has visited the schools in all
large American cities.
On Tuesday evening the Central Board meets
The Music Committee will ask for authority to
change the present route of schools now fol-
lowed by the music supervisors. The election
of additional teachers for the High School will
be ratified, and the Committee on Night
schools shall be open.
: The Ninth Ward School. Allegheny, reports
the largest night school in the city. Six rooms
are IN operation, having an attendance of 175
The Oakland school district had the largest
increase in attendance of any In the city. and
last Tuesday evening the school board elected
four new teachers For the Bellfeld School
Miss Maggie E. Jones and Mollie Bennett are
the new teachers and Miss l.. V. Steel was
elected writing and drawing teacher. Miss
Lizzie Small was elected the additional teacher
at the Soho School and Miss Alice Kelly writ
ing and drawing teacher. The substitutes are
the Misses Alice Anderson, Katie Farrell and
Miss kneps.
Prof Elliot, the new assistant in the depart
ment of science at the High School. is a grad
uate of Cornell, and taught two years in the
High School at Auburn, n. Y. Miss Gutten-
dorf is of Pittsburg.