Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-01
IN THE ScHOOLROOM.
What is Being Done in Maine for the
Advancement of Education.

Miss Lillian A. Norton of Lewiston.
Bates 'O3, has secured a position to
teach at Gould Academy at Bethel,
the coming fall.
Everett C. Higgins of Clinton, Bates
'O3, will be superintendent of schools
and principal of the high school at
Bowdoinham, next fall.
Miss Margaret Williams of Searsport,
who for the past two years has been
preceptress of Goulds Academy, has
resigned her position to become pre-
ceptress of Washington Academy
Mrs. Blanche w. Roberts of Lewis
ton has been chosen assistant librarian
under Miss Woodman. She will sue
ceed Miss NJ. S. Bennett, Bates 'G1 who
leaves to take further study in library
work at Albany, N. Y.
William L. Wing, A. B., of North
Anson, has been elected principal of
Corinth Academy in Penobscot county.
Mr.. Wing was graduated from Anson
Academy in 1898 and from Bowdoin
college in 1902.
| Bertram E. Packard, Bates 1900, has
been elected principal of Leavitt Insti-
tute, Turner, for the coming year. Mr..
Packard is a Litchfield boy and for the
past two years has been principal of
the Litchfeld Academy, which position
he has most acceptably filled.
| Miss Freeman of Gray, a graduate
| of Bates college, has been engaged as
preceptress of North Yarmouth acad-
emy for the coming year. Miss Harriet
| l.. Boardman of Sheffield, Mass. who
was "a pupil teacher last year and a
member Of the graduating class, will
return as,assistant.
| Josiah w. Taylor has been appointed
to the principalship of the Mexico high
| school. Mr.. Taylor is a graduate of
Kents Hill Seminary and of Wesleyan
| University. He has taught six years,
| four of which were in Maine schools.
| For the past two years he has been
| principal of the Essex, Conn.,, high
| school, and had been reelected to his
position there at an increased salary.
Miss Vivian Putnam of Lewiston,
has been elected to the position of
| assistant at Monmouth Academy. Miss
| Putnam is the daughter of Assistant
Postmaster Putnam of Lewiston and
| a graduate of Bates college. This is
the first time for years that the school
has required the services of two assist
ants. Prof. A. J. Chick, a graduate of
Bates, is principal and Miss Annie E.
Millay of Bowdoinham is the other as
sistant.
Miss Grace Dolley who has been
elected first assistant in the GOrham
high school, is graduate of the school.
| She afterward took four years course
at Mt. Holyoke, graduating with high
honors. After graduating there she
took, a course at the Gorham Normal
school. She was then elected assistant
in the Freeport high school, where she
has been a popular teacher for the past
six years.
The Rumford Falls school board be-
J lieves it has taken an important adj
| vance step in deciding to employ in
place of the first assistant a man as
sub-master of the high school. To the
position thus created has been elected
| Lawrence M. Price of Cambridge Mass.
| Mr.. Price is a graduate of the James,
| town, N. Y. high school, being one of
| the eight honor members in a class of
! sixty, and a winner of competitive
prize in American Literature. He
graduated this year from Tufts college.
The trustees of the University of
F.. Maine have chosen a new professor of
| agriculture, who will take his chair in
that institution at the opening of the
fail term. The gentleman selected is
| Prof. William D. Hurd, who is a grad
| uate of the Michigan agricultural COL
| lege and was for two years connected
, with the teaching force of the New
| York school of agriculture at Briar
Cliff farm, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Prof.
| Hurd is at present connected with the
! Rhode Island college of agriculture and
| experiment station.
President G. C. Chase and other
members of the Bates faculty are still
busy consid ering candidates for vacan-
cies on the. board of instructors at the
Lewiston college the coming year. The
three assistants have been chosen.
George E. Stebbins of Shelburne Falls,
Mass, a graduate of Bates last COM
mencement. has been elected assistant
in the ply sizes department. Harold Fl.
Thayer of South Paris, also q graduate
of Bates this spring, has been elected
assistant in chemistry under Prof. l..
G.. Jordan
The school in District No. 10, Burn
ham, rec emily closed a successful term,
taught tty Anna E. Means of Unity.
During The first two weeks of the term
an Improvement League was formed
for the purpose of improving the school,
room and grounds, and the record made
by the rwenty-four earnest members is
worthy of note and of emulation.
They Rlaced the years wood that was
in the yard in the woodshed, removed
the Many stones that studded the yard,
filing the holes, raking up and burning
the debris, making it level and beauti-
full, ard obtained a rope for the flag
that had not been in use for a very
long time. The schoolroom was thor
oughly- cleaned, the ceiling wl1itened,
the w alls papered and pictures mount
ed to form a border above the black
board. From the proceeds of very
credif2ble and successful entertain
ment, they bought shades for the win
dow';, a dictionary and stand, and one
dozt n erasers. Success to the Improve
merit League of District No. 10, Burn
hahn.