Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-29
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
What Maine Teachers and Maine
Schools are Doing.

| gan tuesday with 102 pupils registered
| % of whom are in the entering class
About % more students are expected.
Fl. 0. Smith, graduate of Harvard,
| class of 1903, has received the position
| Of instructor at Limerick Academy
| which will open September 8 for the
| fall term.
| The fall term of Greedy Institute,
| Cumberland, will open, Monday with
| Prof. Clarence Pierce formerly OF
| Pennell Institute Gray, as principal
and Mrs. Helen w. Davis as assistant.
| Miss Mabel F. Craigue, a graduate
of Mt. Holyoke has been elected as
| second assistant at Lincoln Academy
to take the place of Miss Neal, re-
signed. She will teach mathematics
and sciences.
Grant Pierce of Fairfield, who grad
uated from Bowdoin in June. has been
selected to fill the vacancy caused by
| the resignation of Herbert GrinWell
from the Westbrook High school fac
uty as sub-master.
The Maine Central Institute will
open for the fall terms work, Monday,
/ Sept I. The prospects indicate large
attendance. The new dormitOry IS fast
nearing completion and will have room
to accommodate about 40 girls.
The school board has filled Il vacancy
in the prinoipalship of the Sullivan
High school by electng a Harvard
man, Horace F.. Bates, at a salary of
| $500. Mr.. Bates comes here from
| Groton, Mass, where he taught last
year.
| Miss Alice L. Belt of Boston. has re-
signed as teacher of drawing in the
pubic schools of Exeter n. H., to take
a similar position at Lewiston, Me. AS
| her successor the school board has en-
gagged Miss Maude II. Rose of Haver-
| hill, Mass, a graduate of the Boston
| Normal Art school.
| Owing to the Resignation of the three
teachers of Hampton Academy, an en-
| tirely new corps has been engaged,
consisting of Mr.. A. w. Jones, princi-
pal: Miss Marina Everett, first assis-
| tant and Miss Annie Mayhem, second
assistant. All of the teachers come
! highly recommended and there is pros
pect of ansexcellent school.
| 1t is expected that Miss Mildred
! Stone of Bangor, will have charge of
the music course at East Maine Con-
| ference Seminary, Bucksport. at the
opening of the fall term. Miss Stone is
now i'll Italy where she has been study
tinasfor several months, but will prob
Iably he home at the beginning of thu
Eschool year. which may he somewhat
| later than usual owing to repairs which
are being made on the buildings.
VIM. NJ. Brooks, formerly resident
| of oxford, now of Massachusetts,
visited his oxford friends during the
| week Mr.. Brooks is in the truest
| Sense Il Veteran school teacher He has
taught nearly POO schools. 1t is said
! he has taught II longer time and more
| terms of school than any other teacher
now living in New England. Very
many of the people of Norway and OK
ford, now old residents of the towns,
have attended his schools. He is well
and strong
Clarence l.. Mitchell of Freeport, has
been appointed principal of Hampton
| Academy and High school. Exeter n.
II. Mr.. Mitchell is a graduate of Bow
dom and has taken post graduate
| t'hl 'tP az litti NttiNi. me ileaS taught
eight years at Freeport and was super
| intendent there for two years He
Was principal of Powers Institute at
| Bernardston. Mass. in 1913, and was
then. until 1901, principal of the Ware
ham High school He has since taught
at Warner and New Salem.
| Pupils of the Pennington Nor
mai school have secured positions
as follows: Miss Florence Rich
| ardson of the ID class has Sc
cured the Primary school at South
Paris for this term; Miss Olive SWEET,
Grammar school at West Paris; Chas.
| Fl. Holman at DiXfield; Miss Kathleen
]. Dyer at North Haven. Miss Ethel
| Matthew '03, will teach the Primary
| school at Livermore Falls this fall:
| Miss Dele Wheeler O3. at North Ches-
| teryillc; Miss Ethel Sanford '03. at
East Exeter; Howard F. Wright 'O3, at
| Strickland'S Ferry.
William ID. Hurd, the newly appoint
ed professor of agriculture at the
University of Maine. is a graduate of
the Michigan Agricultural College.
After graduation he taught several
wears in the Lansing High school
leaving there to become n professor in
the School of Practical Agriculture ut
Biiarcliffc Manor, n. Y. During one
summer he acted as orchard and nurs-
cry inspector for the state of Illinois.
At present Professor Hurd is carrying
out practical extension and demonstra-
ton work for the Rhode Island college
among the farmers of that state.
Charles f. Leadbettcr of Wayne,
has been secured as principal of
the Machias High school to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of D.
l.. Wormwood. Mr.. Leadhetter is a
graduate of Colby. class of 1891. and
has had twelve years experience as
principal in high school work. During
the past two years he has been princi-
pal of the Guilford High school and
previous to his connection with that
institution had been principal of the
high school at Berlin, N. H., the Mat
tanawcook Normal Academy at Lin
coin, the York High school and sub
master of the Waterville High school.
The Millinocket schools will begin
August 81 with the same teachers as
Ia CT ta,.D1 1'ha AcoIan,y an6 Ora y11p191,