Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-25
IN THE ScHOOLR00M.
What is Being Done in Maine for the
Advancement of Education.

High school.
N. w. Allen of Sanford, has accepted
position as principal of a High school
in a'Western city.
Inc next convention of the Waldo
county Teachers Association will be
neid In Belfast, May 18th.
Miss Charlotte Dorman of Harring.
ton. superintendent of drawing in the
schools Of Northbridge and Uxbridge,
Mass. has been asked to go to San
Juan and conduct instructions in draw
ing in the schools on that island.
Rev. Leroy Bean of the First Parish
cnurch, Saco, has been engaged by the
senior class of Parsonsfeld Seminary
to preach the baccalaureate sermon for
them in June. Mr.. Bean preached the
baccalaureate sermon last year at the
same Institution.
Class parts have been assigned to
!. the senior class of Yarmouth High
school as follows: Valedictory, Charles
X. Benentt: salutatory, Bertha M. Rob-
inson; prophecy, Mary D. Freeman:
history. Marion B. Skillings; French,
Josephine L. Seabury; German, Alice
G. Grant; Grafton, Ralph G. Simonton,
| The honorary parts for the senior
class of Kicker Classical Institute have
been assigned. Miss Ethel Hayward of
| Portage Lake received the valedictory.
and Miss Iva Stafford of Blaine the
salutatory. These parts were assigned
for first and second rank respectively.
Many young lady teachers are going
away from Detroit to teach this season:
| Nellie Robertson, to Carmel village;
Freda Head, to Palmyra; Bernice
Pickund to Jackson; Thursa Raynes, to
East Newport. The supervisor, Effie
Lord. teaches in Pittsfield, Lizzie
Brown. South Gouldsboro.
| The summer term of the Monmouth
schools will begin on Monday, May 4.
The High school will close on Friday,
May l. There are five members in the
graduating class, and the parts have
been assigned as follows: Valedictory,
Harry M. Swift; salutatory, Anna B.
Longfellow; history, Carroll w. Bent;
prophecy. Marion Perry.
The vacancy created in the gradual
ton parts of class 'O3, Lewiston High
school. by the appointment of one of
it's members, Leo Plummer to the
Annapolis Naval school, has been filled.
Mr.. Plummer had one of the leading
parts assigned to him, the presenta ton
of gifts. Harold Babcock, who was to
deliver the GRAFTON will have this part
William Whittum will deliver the ora
tion..
Thyegraduatiung class of the Lubec
| High. school will be quite large one
| this year and will hold their graduating
Iovnrnicoc IN ho1
| in June. The class is as follows: Beu-
lab Mitchell, Ada Clark, Susie Thayer
Bertha Thayer Sherman Ramsdell
Da Costa Bennett, John Keegan, AL
bion Pike and Fred Kelley. The diff
ferent parts have been assigned as fol-
lows: Miss Mitchell, valedictory; Miss
Clark. class history; Miss Susie
Thayer, prophecy; Sherman Ramsdall,
saiutatory; Da Costa Bennett, Grafton.
Graduation day at the Bath High
school will be June 10. This year as
last the graduation will be held in the
Winter Street church. There are
thirty-nine in the graduating class,
nineteen boys and twerty girls. The
nearly even number of boys and girls
is something unusual as the young la
dies greatly outnumber the young
men as a rule. This year only two
girls will march together. The presi-
dent of the class, Aubrey j. Voorhees,,
will walk alone.
James r. Weber, formerly teacher
in the Bath High school, and now of
the Salem High school has been APP
pointed head of the English depart
ment on the ship Young America.
This ship is now building at Perth
Amboy and will be completed soon.
The school is Incorporated under the
avs of Rhode Island. Rear Admiral
Luce. United States Navy, is at the
head of the Board of Directors. They
take 200 boys from fourteen to nine
teen years of age and fit them for
any college, West Point or Annapolis.
The ship sails Sept. IA for nine
months cruise. She is an auxiliary
sail and steam ship of 5000 tons.
The graduating class of Patten Acad-
envy are rehearsing their class parts.
Valedictory, Ida Macdonald; saluta-
tory, Game Cunningham; prophecy,
Alice Gilman; history, Ada Brown;
Grafton. Mabel Stewart; poem, Nina
Mitchell: German essay, Lillian Mer-
rill: class will. Gladys Muncy; class
gifts, Lena Cobb: address to under
graduates, Amy Rogers; essays, Vel
mont Soule, Lucina Chase, Harriet
Sergeant. The commencement exer-
cises will take place May 81, afternoon
and evening. Reception and ball, May
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| "A meeting of the members of the sem
Tor class of the Machias High school
was held recently to decide upon the
assignment of the class parts for COM
lmencement. BY a vote of the class
Miss Eva Holway was made the class
prophet and Ray Thompson and
Charles Bryant historians-two persons
instead of one being chosen for this
part, owing to the large number of
graduates in the class. The latter will
give the history of the class during the
first two years in the school and the
former during the junior and senior
years. The valedictory and salutatoryl
are decided by rank, and have been as
signed to Miss Ellen ODonnell and
Miss Carrie Hill.
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