Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-06
MAINE NEWS IN BRIEF
IN THE SCROOLROOM.
What is Being Done for the Advance
ment of Education.

ment of Education.
Miss EvasGpptill has resigned her posi-
mary school. 5cFsrryfleiSi 10 ac lrei - !
more lucrative situation in the schools of
North Hampton, Mass.
Miss FLORENCE symonds. Portland has;
gone TO Brewnfeid. Where she has accept
schools OF that town. Miss Symonds is a
graduate of Gorham Normal 'OI.
Miss Grace Annie Balentine Of Water.
Vli!e. graduate of Colby College. 1862.
has mas been elected to fiji the position Of
High School for the coming year.
The semi-annual convention of the
Knox County Teachers Association
will be held in Rockland. Oct. 6.
President Chase of Bates college will
deliver an address.
Miss Alice 7. NEdd, of Franklin. n. H.,
has been engaged an assistant al
Lincoln Academy She is n graduate of
Dorchester High School and Boston Nor
NAL School and : to have charge Of the
Normal Department
Leroy Kane has resigned his posilan as
principal Of the Thomaston grammar
school ana secured a situation al the
Higgins Classical Institute at Charleston
John j. Hamlin. OF Bangor, has been Sc
cured to fill the position at Thomaston
Mr.. Hamin graduated from Bates Col
lege in 1901.
Owing to the rapidly growing popu-
larity of the business course and the
corresponding increase inN the number
of pupils which follow it, Instructor
Fred c. Ban, of this department at the
Bangor High school will have an as
sistant, Mrs. Frank L. Mason.
The new year opens very auspiciously
gt Wilton ACADEMY Most of he nj 81
dents have returned and one of the lar
gest entering classes in recent years has
been. enrolled. There is one change in
the faculty, made necessary by the res
fgnation of Miss Emily Vaughan who
has been teacher for the past six years.
The school has secured Hiss NJ. L. Eaton
to fill the place.
Ralph Cameron Thompson. son of Mr..
and Mrs. l.. j. Thompson, of Portland.
who graduated with high honor from
Brown. last year. has been offered the
Fellowship of Bacterolo3y at the ufniver
sity of Wisconsin. MIR. Thompson had
graduate work in the fall and is not yet
decided in regard to the acceptance OF
this most flattering offer.
Islay +. Mccormick, Bowdoin 80. has
been elected sub Drincipal of the Bridgton
Academy. vice Geo. H. Campbell VINO
has resigned to accept the principalship
of Goodland (Mass) High School. Since
graduating, Mr.. Mccormick has taught
TWO years IN BOothhay and has taken one
year of post graduate work at Harvard
The election of Miss Mabel Furbush as
clerk in the Office of the superintendent OF
schools in Lewiston, is the first change III
this office since an assistant has been
there. Miss Helen A. Finn has been clerk
for several years, but was this year made
an assistant teacher in the mixed grade
at the grammar school Both Miss Fina
and Miss Furbush are graduates of Bates
College in the class Of 80
Miss Louise l.. Parker has been
chosen first assistant at Yarmouth
High school. Miss Parker filled the
position OF second assistant in the
same school during the spring term of
this year. Miss Parker is a graduate
of Bates college and has previousl2
taught in Massachusetts. Miss
Georgianna Lunt OF Lewiston. has been
chosen second assistant in Yarmouth
High school. Miss Lunt is a graduate
of Bates college class of 1902.
Miss Mabel A. Steward Of North An
son, has been engaged as teacher III
Kalamazoo Seminary. Michigan. She
has recently received the post graduate
degree OF NJ. A. from the University of
Michigan. where she has been for the
past year pursuing course in English
literature and philology and German
She was graduated from Anson
Academy in 1891 and from Bates col
lege in 1895.
The 9th annual encampment Of thu
Castine Alumni Association of Sandy
Point closed. Tuesday, Aug 18th, after
the most successful reunion in its histo-
ry. Among those present We're GrenNin
S. Fletcher. who was the first principal OF
the Eastern State Normal school. and is
at present one of the Massachusetts com
missioners OF education; Albert L. Rich
ardson, the present principal OF the
school: Roscoe u. Mex cen superin tendcnt
Of schools Haverhill. Mass: Walter C.
Gushee. superintendent of schools Aga
wan. Mass. Johr r. Dunton, Superin-
tendent of schools BelfaSt Me. Free =.
Pitcher, principal OF Shnrtlie school.
Chelsea Mass. The CaStine Alumni As
ISOLATION of Sandy Point is unique NJ
other school in the world having Such an
institution connected with IT, AZ hrst
these meetings were held farther down
the bay on IslesbOro and Sherman's
Point. near Camden Eleven years ago
they assembled the waters Of Pentagoet
Ia Sandy Point There this aSsoca tion
was Incorporated under the laws OF Maine
as the Castine Alumni Association OF
Sandy Point. AMI capitalized at $lo,V1
on a lot of land WAS erected commodi-
Gus cottage of two stories. Much Of the
success OF the present encampment Is du"
10 the efforts OF the president OF the as
ISOLATION, Mr.. Isaac Il. Clarey. Memorial
exercises were held, Sunday, Aug. nth
in memory Of those members of the asso-
citation who have died during the year.
The officers elected for the ensuing year
are: President. Isaac b. clareN; vice
president. Frank T. Carr; secretary, Ella
Florence Jordan; treasurer, Albert +
Richardson: trustee. Fred A. Pitcher