Arizona republican., 1896-06-13
NORMAL SCHOOL ALUMNI
Interesting Session Held
 at Tempe.
The Governor Is Present and
 Speaks.
Annual Meeting and Banquet-Se- lection Of Officers for
 the Year.

Thursday night at the Territorial Normal school at Tempe the proceed ings of commencement week were closed with the annual exercises of the Normal Alumni association. The as- sociation, comprising members from every class graduated at the institu-- tion since it's first year, now numbers, inclusive of the fourteen members of the class of '96, just admitted, a mem- bership of sixty-one, and of that num- Der over fifty were present. < The guests of the evening were few, com prising Governor B. J. Franklin, Sl- perintendent of Public Instruction T. B. Dalton, the faculty of the school and the husbands of the members who have assumed the dignities of matri- mony.
 One of the large recitation rooms was prettily decorated and made into the semblance of a parlor and there the reception was held, with the gov ernOr as the central figure.
 In the assembly room later a short programme of exercises was presented. It embraced music of especial excel lence and thoughtful papers by the secretary, Miss Anna R. Stewart, and by Lee Gray, the latter taking for his theme Evolution The annual ad- dress, delivered by President Jas. H. McClintock of 'S7, was especially presentation of the duty of the asso- citation to the school and claimed for the association, as it's right, the con- duct of the school when the day shall arrive when the number of the gradu- ates shall be sufficient to give to the executive due latitude in choice of di- rectors. A plea was made that the management of the school he made in dependent of politics and that directors and faculty alike be appointed to hold till such time as removed for cause and for the betterment of the schools ef- iciency. The speaker took the ground that the occupation of a teacher should by few be considered a life work, how ever merMorious be such occupation, and that while the work Of the Nor nal fitted the pupil to be a teacher, the work of the school room best fitted the teacher for broader scope of useful ness, in no more honorable pursuit, but better paid, and instanced the fact that a very large proportion of the ablest of the nations leaders in youth held the ferule in some remote school house. In conclusion due welcome was extended the class of the current year, that day elected to membership in the association.
 Carl Hayden, class president of '96, gave pleasant response. directly and eloquently telling of the work that his class expects to do in behalf of the school it's members are leaving. The long tables for the banquet were spread upon the south porch and were served by the members of the class of '97. To the right of Toastmaster Nc Clintock was seated the governor, to whom fell answer to the first toast, "The Territory of Arizona Governor Franklin stated he had but few words to say, but warmed to his evidently agreeable subject as he proceeded and gave one of the most effective of talks, full of spirit and fire, and full of meat for his hearers. He spoke of the inl-
 portant position occupied by the 1 teacher in the commonwealth and ex- pressed his assurance that success in, full measure would come to those who sat before him, to whom is to be com ! mitted the training of the Nations | hope
 Mrs. J. w. Johnston of the class of
 '87 responded in poetical vein to the toast of 3'The Normal" and Dr. Me-
 Naughton, principal of the school, was given as his theme Alumni Asso-
 citations" He told of the important
 work of similar associations in other
 places and prophesied a career of wide
 usefulness for the Arizona Normal as- sociation.
 Teaching as a Profession" was the theme of Superintendent Dalton. His remarks were in humorous vein, indi-
 eating that he believed in Arizona at
 least the profession on the feminine
 side is divided up among those who
 pursue it as life work and those who 1 go from the school room to the task
 of rearing more limited number of pupils.
 After singing America adjourn
 ment was taken till the regular meet
 ing next May.
 The offieers-elect for the ensuing
 year are as follows: President, Lee
 Gray; vice-president, Charles Woolf;
 secretary, Miss Manic Anderson; treas-
 urer, Miss Bertha Wilson.
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