The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-04-29
TEACHERS IN SESSION.
Donaldsonville Branch of the Parish AS
ISOLATION convenes at Ascen-

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sion High School.
The Donaldsonville branch Of the
parish teachers association convened
at the Ascension high school at 9
O'Clock this morning, with President
J. L. Rusea occupying the chair and a
large attendance of teachers. In call
| ing the meeting to order, President
Rusea took occasion to deliver the fol-
lowing forceful address:
We have organized ourselves into parish
| teachers association. Let us hope that it will
not fail OF its purpose through lack Of pFofes.
| siona1 pride or professional spirit; Rather let
| MS hope that the interest in and the power for
good Of these meetings will continue to widen
as the months roll by. Let us continue the
| good work begun at our last meeting. Let there
be no dFones, no laggards among US.
| ask you IN the name of the thousat DIS Of
| school children throughout this parish. as they
are to receive the benefits, to keep up this or,
| ganlzatlon and to strive earnestly to do we'll
the work which you are called upon to do.
We owe it duty to ourselves and to the great
cause for which we are laboring to take an act
i've part in all that will add to our professional
| advancement and to the advancement of educa-
ti0n in the south, and especially in Louisiana.
Let US, my friends, have an abiding sense of
| the responsibility resting upon
DO We ever stop to think that we are shaping
| the future lives and moulding the characters of
our pupils? That in due time these pupils will be-
come worthy citizens of country of which each
one is n essential and integral part, each com
petent to do his share in guiding the future life
and defending the honor of the republic?
| If these views of our duties as teachers are
sound. then it is evident that it is the teachers
| in the public schools of the United States who,
| today, more than any other profession or class,
hold in their ha nds the destinies of the nation.
Realizing this, them let us endeaVor to be in
the highest degree useful to those who are TO
be taught. Let US cultivate that spirit which
eievates above everything else the nature of the
human soul and which tTembles under the re-
sponsibility of attempting to be it's educator.
| spirit that looks upon gold as tho dross of
earth when compared with that imperisha BILE
gem which is to be polished and brought ont
into heavens light to shine forever: a spirit
every child and that burns with a desire to be
instrumental in training it to the highest at
tainment of which it is capable.
Following is the interesting program
carried out at today's session Of the as
sociation:
Opening exercises-Song, "My Old
Kentucky Home. ~
Roll call-F.esponses from ''Jean
Mitchell's School,
Science Of Study Chapter g
Mrs. w. A. Skolfeld.
Elementary Agriculture PROF. j.
Z. Rusca.
Fundamental Propositions in
Teaching ii, sThe Basis of Assign
ment and Teaching of Lessons" Miss
F. A. Smith; 2, "What the Recitation
Determines, /" F. x. Hidalgo; 3, 1.-THE
Pupils Work, Miss Elise Hebert; 4,
'sThe Teachers Work. Miss Ora
Dalferes.
E. N. Pugh, president of the Ascen.
sion school board, and Prof. D. B.
ShoWalter, parish superintendent of
education, were expected to deliver
addresses, but owing to the fact that
both OF the gentlemen are out of town
these items were omitted from the pro-
gram.
The Donaldsonville branch Of the
parish association is Offered as fol-
lows: Prof. J. Z. Rusca, president;
Miss Katie Bigley, vice president; Miss
Florence Thompson, secretary; Miss
Leda Landry, treasurer. Executive
committee. T.. Rusca, Misses Flor
enee Thompson, Leda Landry, Katie
Bigley, Leila Morgan and Edna White.