The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-25
Given Their DIPLOMAS
Ten Young Ladies Publicly Graduate
as kindergarten Teachers.
REV. PARTRIDGE'S ADDRESS
Exercises Arranged by tho Officers Of tho
Scranton Free kindergarten AssOci0.
ton Compliment for Miss Mary c.
Salisbury. Principal, and Class.

The second annual but the first public
closing exercises of the Scranton Nor
NAL Training Glass for Kindergarten
ers We're held last night In the Albright
Memorial building. The exercises were
conducted by the Scranton Free Kin
dergarten association and were wit
messed by select audience that COM
fortably filed the lecture hall.
The following ten young ladies'. grad
yates as Kindergarten teachers, We're
presented diplomas: Miss Harriet
Newell Barber, OF Pittston; Miss Eliza
beth Hall Kuttredge. OF Tunkhannock.
and Miss Mary Elizabeth Cowan. Miss
Sarah Amalia Dimmick. Mise Maud
Fisher, Miss Margaret De Terrence
Gibbs. Miss Elizabeth Fuller Hitch
cock. Miss Annie Belle Rose. Miss Ell2-
abcth Frances Rice and Miss Fannie
Davis Shower. of Scranton.
Especially during the last year has
the free kindergarten work of the
Scranton association won general at
tention and support. and these two feat
ures and the cause were forcibly evil
denced last night in the tone Of the ex-
ercises and the quality of the Interested
auditory. The arrangements We're car
ried out by Miss Mary G. Salisbury,
principal of thi. training school, to
whose labor much credit Is due for the
perfection and establishment OF kinder
gartcn work In this city. and the fol-
lowing officers of the associations: a.
d. Holland president; Mrs. Alfred
Hand. Mrs. c. ID. Simpson, Mrs Thorn
nd Mrp rt
ridge. vice residents: Mrs. Il. l.. Full
ler. treasurer. and Mrs. r. II. Wat
kins. Mrs, James Archibald. Mrs. j. A.
Price, Mrs. II. @. Powell and Miss
Elizabeth Howell, executive commit
tee.
The ushers were four '94 training
school graduates. Miss Gertrude North
rop. Miss Elizabeth Wolfe, Miss Grace
Peck and Miss Lillian Morris.
Opening the Exercises.
Soon after o'clock and to the strains
of II march by several of the Columbus
Mandolin and Guitar club the gradu-
ates. preceded by Miss Salisbury and
President Holland and the ushers. en-
tered the hall and approached the
plat form, above which was an engrav-
ing of Froebel, the German kindergar-
ten advocate. on the platform were
Rev Warren G. Partridge. of the Penn
Avenue Baptist church, who, President
Holland said. first brought kindergar-
ten work to the attention of the Scran-
ton public" Rev. Rogers Israel, of st.
Luke's, which church independently
maintains a kindergarten on the South
Side, and Rev. DR.. Charles T.. Robin
son, of the Second Presbyterian church.
The three reverend gentlemen and
President Holland participated in the
exercises, which We're intersprsed with
selections by the Columbian club.
After prayer was offered by Mr.. Israel,
the address of the evening was deliv-
cred by Mr.. Partridge. who specialized
the thought that decrease of crime and
the betterment of the people depend
upon the guidance of the child before Its
sixth year. He styled his discourse
'Cities and the Neglected Children"
and by reason, logic and statistics
showed that the great cities are increas-