Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-05
MAINE SCHOOLS.
Items of Interest to the State Edu
Gator.

Miss Sadie Proctor of LISBON VIII
teach in New Hampshire the coming
school year.
Miss Mary Pulsifer and Miss Jennie
Rich, teachers in the Auburn public
schools, have resigned.
Miss VIM. the assistant at the Lis
bon Falls high school. has resigned to
accept a position in Massachusetts.
Miss Lou Smith has been elected to
fill the vacancy in the Sabattus schools
caused by the resignation of Mrs. Mot
tram.
Miss Harriet b. Long of Tenants
Harbor, has been elected teacher of
Latin in Kimball Union Academy,
Meriden, N. H.
Miss Mary II. Mason has resigned
her position as teacher in the Belfast
grammar school to become principal
of the grammar school in Brdgton.
Miss Dorothy Elliott CT Hartland, for
seven years teacher in the Dexter High
school, has resigned to accept a similar
position in Orono.
Miss Annie Doyle, a graduate of
Gorham High school, Glass of 1903, has
accepted position as teacher in one
of the Jackson, N. H., schools.
Miss Beulah NJ. Sylvester has been
engaged to teach the grammar school
at Seal Harbor for the Ensuing year.
and Miss Louise Cox the primary.
Mr.. Chaffee of Warren, will have
charge of the High school at North
Berwick, this fall. He is a graduate
of Brown University
Miss Carrier 3. Phinney of West
brook, who has been teacher of music
in the schools at Bridgton for the past
two years, has been elected as teacher
| of music in the schools of Kennebunk
The outlook for a large attendance
at Westbrook seminary for the coming
year is very bright. 1t is expected
| that there will be an entering class of
over forty.
Miss Florence Lord of Portland, q
graduate of the high school in that city
| in the class of '03, will leave soon for
| Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, where she
will take a course in domestic science
Miss Lillian Hopkins teacher for the
last two years in the village school
primary department at Canton has
been engaged to take charge of a
school in Bartlett, n II.
Miss Minnie Bubar of Danforth and
| Miss Louise Chase of Kent's Hill, have
resigned their positions as teachers in
| the Fort Fairfield High school. On ac-
count of illness in their families they
Will not teach the coming year.
The High school at Presque Isle will
open Sept. IA with Noah Y. Barker, as
principal, and Myra f. Nickery and
Ida M. Knowles, assistants. The
| other village schools will open Sept 2S
and the rural schools oct. ).
Among the graduates of the Brewer
High school who completed their stud
les this year. three will enter the Uni
versty of Maine ut the opening of the
fall term They are Arno Cayting,
| William Stone and Edward Harlow.
Harold. Collins will go to Bowdoin,
| {. F. Bragdon of Westbrook, has
been elected principal of the Grafton,
Mass.) High school. There We're &c
applicants for the position. Mr.. Drag
don was graduated from BoWdoin Col
lege in the class of 1900 and IL few
months later was elected principal of
| the Ashland High school.
Owing to the improvements on the
East Maine, Conference Seminary
buildings being much more extensive
than ut first expected, it has been de-
cided to postpone the opening Of school
until September 22d The three
| weeks lost out of the fall term will be
made up by lengthening the other
terms of the year. The Seminary ex-
poets large attendance.
Edward G. Bean has been secured as
principal of the Greenville High school.
He is a graduate of Hebron Academy
and Bates College For the past three
| years he has been sub-master OF
| Leavitt Institute, Turner. The other
| teachers are the same as last year. viz
Miss Annie Rea, primary: Miss Briggs,
| intermediate: Miss Small, lower gram
mar; Miss Coombs, upper grammar;
Miss King, Junction school.
| A new course of study for the COM
| mon schools of South Portland, has
been prepared which will be used with
the opening of the school year. 1t is
! hoped that by confirming the Teachers
efforts to it's limits more thoroughness
in the fundamental processes of
| arithmetic may be obtained, better
| reading may result and a more certain
| and definite knowledge of the facts of
geography and United States history,
| which are presented, may be secured.
The school board of Sanford has
acted on the suggestion of Superinten-
| dent Bennett and adopted new four
year course of study in the high school.
| Eighty units are required of every
| scholar, and there are required studies
| aggregating 43 units. The remaining
units may be made up by selections
rfDr elective studies. No class will be
| permitted to elect more than one for
| eign language the first year, and one
FOR each succeeding year during the
| course.
The town schools of Orland, with one
or. two exceptions began their fall
terms on MSpday with the following
teachers: village schools, Misses Alice
Gray and Harriet Partridge; East
| Orland, Mrs. Mllie Snow; Higgins
| Corner Mise olliSe Rnxye. Rrav dis