The herald., 1898-12-24
NORMAL SCHOOL

"Grandma's Mistake" Edgar Tilley; song,
"Jingle Bells school
NORMAL SCHOOL
The Psi Sigma fraternity gave a dancing
party last night at Kramer's hall. The deco
rations were elaborate and were carried out
in turquoise, white and gold the fraternity
colors. The Strauss orchestra furnished
music for the dancing About seventy five
were present.
The Skull and Crossbones society, COM
posed of fifteen of the students of the Los
Angeles normal school, gave a dance at the
school gymnasium last evening. The party
was chaperoned by Mrs. L. II. Pierce and
Miss Lawson of the kindergarten
The students of theLos Angeles state nor
NAL school held an informal dance Thurs
day afternoon at the gymnasium to cele-
brate the close of school for the holiday
Vacation.
There was no school at the normal yester-
day. President Pierce leaves this morning
for Sacramento to attend the meeting of the
state board of education, at the conclusion
Of which he wall go to the thirty-second
annual meeting of the California Teachers
association, to be held at Santa Rosa.
Miss Amelia Sanborn of the high school
faculty will be married on January 4th to
Professor Allen of the University OF Cali
fornia, Berkeley. Miss Sanborn has been
connected with the high school for il year
and a half and was popular and valued in
structress The wedding will take place at
the brides home in Pomona.
ANN STREET SCHOOL
The Ann street school held special Christ
mas exercises yesterday morning in the
school grounds The occasion was the rails
ing of splendid flag furnished by the con
tributions from the children from the kin
dergarten to the eighth grade.
No more touching sight could well be
imagined than half a thousand children,
each with right hand raised to heaven and
the words, eve pledge allegiance to our
flag" etc. repeated by every voice.
An inspiring talk on patriotism from Su-
perintendent Foshay lent additional inter
est to the occasion and the interest mani
tested by the presence of the board of edu-
cation and patrons and friends of the school
help to encourage teachers and pupils in
the good work OF carrying out the higher
idea of education that is to make good citi-
Zens
The kindergarten tots were delighted
W hile in the midst of their festivities by the
sunny face and welcome greeting from the
kindergarten supervisor, Miss Ledyard and
they all went home happy with gifts and
the fruits of the work from their tiny fin
gers
The other classes closed the year with
general good time. Singing of patriotic
songs, Christmas carols, recitations, de-
bates and finally ending with genuine old
fashioned Christmas treat
In some rooms the boys constituted them
selves the walters in true apron uniform and
in others the girls made jolly looking maids
in caps and aprons. The whole closed with
a rousing song and all went home for a
weeks vacation
KINDERGARTEN EXERCISES
Interesting exercises were held at the
Norwood street kindergarten and a large
number OF parents ard visitors gathered in
the prettily decorated room to see the
Christmas tree and to hear the children sing
their Christmas songs. No special pro-
gram was arranged other than the merry
songs and the regular morning exercises.
The tall tree in the center of the room was
laden with gifts, fashioned in the school by
the little people for their parerts and none
were forgotten. n huge basket at the foot
of the tree was piled high with all sorts
of mysterious parcels containing Christmas
gifts from the children to be distributed
among the poor. In the kindergartens and
in many of the schools of the city similarex-
ercises were held and there were some wei
arranged programs of recitatons and songs. |
The beautiful custom of giving was empha-
sized, especially among the smaller children
and the little people went home with glad |
hearts to enjoy their own merry holiday
season.