The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-04
RECEIVED DIPLOMAS
GRADUATING EXERCISES OF KIN
DERGARTEN TRAINING SCHOOL.
SEVEN GIVEN DIPLOMAS
TWO YEARS OF ARDUOUs WORK
CROWNED WITH SUCCESS.

Lawton emoriaI-Grnduates and
Undergraduates Formed a Class
and illustrated Practically That
which They Had Been TauGht-In-
teresting Theses on Kindergarten
Work-DiplOmas Presented by MIR.
George j. Baldwin.
The graduating exercises of the class
of 1901 of the Training School of the Kate
Baldwin Free Kindergarten were held
last night at Lawton Memorial. The
showing made was a most pleasing and
gratifying one to the friends and ad-
mirers of the institution.
The class of 1901, which graduated last
night, consisted of Miss Jessie Anderson,
Miss Kate Roberts Burroughs, Miss
Belle Daniel, Miss Lydia Gailiard Snow
den Miss Phoebe Herbert Elliott, Miss
Ophe1ia Dent Pritchard and Miss Clari-
bel Spring. The class of 1902, which also
took part in the exercises, consists of
Miss Carolyn Sidney Bailey, Miss Marion
| Alexander Boggs, Miss Margaret Veron-
lea Converse, Miss Minnie Anna Decker,
Miss Anna Hay Pritchard, Miss Cassie
| Rembert, Miss Agnes Spencer, Miss Clara
Bliss Vaughn, Miss Elizabeth Cope Mills
| Watt and Miss Daisy Erwin Woodward.
A number of these young women are
from cities and towns other than Savan-
nah and will return, Immediately or
eventually, to their homes, to carry there
the kindergarten gospel.
Graduates and undergraduates were
| grouped on the stage last evening, their
white spring dresses and bright, smiling
! faces lending an air of holiday freshness
and daintiness to the scene. The line
formed half circle, in the center of
| which sat Miss Martha G. Backus, super
J visor of the Kate Baldwin Free Kinder
| garten System.
Miss Backus presided at the exercises.
She began them with an introductory
talk, descriptive of Kindergarten work and
aspirations, generally and as applied spe-
| cfally to the system over which she pre-
sides. She devoted attention to the work
Of the training school, showing upon what
| solid foundation of scientific truth it's
| theories were builded and with what per-
severing diligence it's students applied
| themselves to the mastery of these prin-
ciples and the grasp of the practical work
by which they were followed. What had
been taught and learned in the training
| y,
Miss Backus explained, by the exercises
of the evening, the graduates and under
graduates going through the exercises as
would the children in the class room.
The exercises followed this line of
| thought. They began with the morning
exercises of the modern Kindergarten
the little lessons of courtesy and polite
ness the children are taught and to prac-
| tice which is part of their days work
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cal Training, by Miss Jessie Anderson. 1t
was bright, entertaining and thoroughly
instructive, showing how necessary the
development of the physical side was to
that Of the mental and spiritual. In the
kindergarten physical training is taught
by thoroughly natural methods. so that
the children received its advantages with
out conscious effort on their parts.
There, followed an illustration of the
marching which is done in kindergarten
work, the class being led in this by Miss
Harriet B. Hardee. Successfully the
marching of soldiers, horses, giants and
birds was initiated, this portion of the
programme being concluded by the de-
vious evolution known as winding the
clock"
Miss Springs thesis was on 1.-The Place
of Music in the Kindergarten" that of
Miss Elliott on "Stories in the Kinder
garten," this paper being followed by one
of the stories, told by Miss Snowden; Miss
Prftchard read an interesting paper on
l'"Manual Training" Circle play was di-
rected in turn by Miss Burroughs and
Miss Daniel. In the typical games from
the class room, 'Lassie and Ladies' :"
and Little Travellers" the class was
led by Miss Matte Palmer. Interspersed
through the programme were dainty lit
tie songs, which were sung by the class,
under the leadership of Miss Backus
The diplomas to the graduates were
presented by Mr.. George ]. Baldwin,
president of the Kindergarten System. In
presenting them Mr.. Baldwin compli-
mented the members of the class on the
excellence of the record it had made, dur
ing the two years of arduous work in the
training school
Mr.. Baldwin read one of the blank
diplomas, as follows: 1.-THE Kate Bald
! win Free Kindergarten hereby certlfies
that ---- ---- has satisfactorily
completed a two years course of study
in the Normal Training School of this
association and of practical experience in
the kindergartens maintained and directed
| by it, and that she is a trained kinder
gartner competent to undertake entire
charge and direction of kindergartens."
The diploma bears also the Endorsement
| given the work of the system by the
Board of Education Of Chatham county
|
/ has adopted.
Mr.. Baldwin said that the terms of
the diploma meant exactly what they
said. 1t was the determination OF the
management of the training school to
| keep Ut up to the standard OF excellence
that had been maintained by Its first grad
uating class and in no respect to cheaper
or lessen the value of it's diploma.
1t was a matter of particular pleasure
to him, said Mr.. Baldwin, that the entire
class was already provided with work
for the coming year. Miss Snowden will
/ return TO her home at Waycross to open
| kindergarten there, while the other menu
bers OF the class will be needed in the
lSindergartens of the Kate Baldwin Sys-
tenn in Savannah. Next fall there will
| certainly be one and possibly two new
kindergartens opened, and these Nrill re-
quirc the assistance of the entire class.
He then presented the diplomas.
After the conclusion of the formal ex-
ercises of the evening there was an infor-
NAL reception and exhibition of the work
of the training school. This exhibition
stressed the manual training features OF
| the work. Mr. Baldwin. Miss Backus, her
principal assistants, Miss Hardee and
Miss Palmer, and the members OF the
class were all the recipients of very
! hearty congratulations. The thorough eX-
| celence of the programme and the in
| In