Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-07-18
MAINE NEWS IN BRIEF
IN THE scHooL.RooM
what IS Being Done in Maine for the
advancement of Education.


Inc 9oth anniversary of the incor-
poratlon of Limerick Academy oc-
Cured, last week.
Miss Mildred Stone of Bangor, has
been elected teacher of music at the
Eastern Maine Conference Seminary,
Bucksport.
isaac A. Smith, a graduate of the
fafmlngton Normal school, class OF
~ mas peen appointed principal OF the
WEBSTER Grammar school, Auburn. For
the past three years he has been p9incl-
pal of the grammar school at Norridge-
Wock
Miss Edith Williams of Searsport,
who formerly taught at Freedom, and
has since graduated from Colby, was
elected as the preceptress Of Freedom
Academy at a recent meeting of the
executive board. Miss Avis Woods
graduate of E. S. N. S., Castine, was
chosen as teacher in the grammar
grade.
Fred NJ. Ward, a. B., of Addison, has
accepted the position as principal OF
FoXcroft Academy and will begin his
first term in September. Mr.. Ward is
graduate of Bowdoin College, class
of 1900. He has taught the Cherryfleld
Academy and has also been teacher
at Bucksport Seminary. He has wife
and one child.
Miss Louisa A. Stetson, q graduate or
Lincoln Academy and Gorham Normal
school, has been elected assistant at
Lincoln Academy, Newcastle, for The
next year. Miss Stetson will have
charge of the Teachers Training
Course. Miss Josephine b. Neal A. b.,
for the past year teacher of mathe-
mates and sciences has resigned.
Prof F. E. Russell has rendered his
resignation as principal of East
Corinth Academy and will leave
with his family this week for
Rangeley Where he will engage
in business with his brother. For
four years Professor Russell has been
in charge of the school. During the
four years money has been raised, a
new building erected, and an addition
to the endowment fund made, in
great measure through his influence.
Several changes in the Auburn teach
ing force are noted. Miss Thirsa Mer-
rill of the Sixth Grade Webster gram
mar school, has been granted a one
year leave of absence. and Mrs f. A.
Sweetsir was appointed TO fill her
place. Miss Garland, teacher in the
fifth grade of the Webster school, re-
signed, and Miss Lila Howard was
chosen to fill the vacancy. Miss Laura
Smith, teacher of Latin in the Ed
ward Little High school, also resigned
and her place will be filed by Miss
Hazel Durham.
The Lewiston school board has elect
ed f. F. Cunningham as sub-master
of the High school ct 4 salary of $500
per year and Miss Christian d. Ross as
teacher of modern languages in the
same school at a salary of 800 per
year. MI. Cunningham, who is ma
tive of Edgecomb, Maine, is a M2ssa-
chusetts teacher of seven years eX-
perience and comes here very highly
recommended. Miss Ross is O native
of Rome, n. Y, and for several years
has been a very successful teacher in
the Michigan schools. She has studied
two years i'll France and two years in
Germany, and speaks both languages
fuently.
DR.. j. B. Segall has recently been
chosen professor of Romance Lam
guages at the University of Maine,
Orono. DR.. Segall spent four years in
study in Munich, Paris and Zurich. He
took his bachelors degree at the Uni
versity of Jassy and that of Doctor of
Philosophy at Columbia University,
New York city, 1903. For one year he
held a fellowship in that institution, He
has been an instructor in French in
Cornell University, Ithaca, n. y, six
years. For the past two years ne has
been teaching French in the College of
the City of New York. Dr.. Segall has
published several works and is editor
of several French texts. He is a fire.
quent writer for such periodicals us the
Modern Language Notes and the
Bookman. He is now preparing for an
edition of Branger's poems, to be pub
lished by Silver, Burdett q Co. He is,
at present, preparing for the new In
tcrnational Encyclopedia, which is be
ing published by Dodd, Mead & Co., an
article on the Roumanian languages
and literature