Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-09-14
Monterey High School.

The trustees OF Monterey Dis
trict have succeeded in securing
principal for the District Higl
School to be established at Monte
rey. This has been no easy task
A new educational era has dawnet
upon Virginia. Scores of High
Schools are being established under
the recent act of tile Legislature
and educators are in demand. Ir
the scram BILE, our Board has labor
ed hard to secure good corps fol
the Monterey school, in order thai
the district might share in the ben
efits to accrue from the state APP
preparation of $4,000 for the es
tablishment and maintenance Of
such schools. With this idea in
view the Board made early applica'
ton for the maximum appropria-
ton for a district High School and
while they have not received offic-
ial notification, private assurances
have been given by members OF the
State Board, and all arrangements
have been made to comply with the
provisions of the act. A few OF
these are: The expenditure from
local funds for High School pur-
poses an amount at least equal to
the amount contributed from the
state; the high school must be con-
tinued at least eight months; at
least two teachers must devote
their time to the work, provided,
that instruction in the grammar
grade is allowed, when the entire
time is not needed in High School
work. This additional teacher will
afford more equal distribution of
work, more thorough and exhaus-
tive treatment of subjects, better
grading, classification, etc.
The Board has secured Mr.. Rob-
B. Rust, of Front Royal. as princi-
pal, and, while the time is short to
do advertising or work up an inter-
est for the coming session, our peo-
pie may expect soon to hear of his
plans and purposes. The free tut
ton to pupils of the Monterey dis
trict is an item that will not be ov-
erlooked by patrons, and the advan-
tage of having in this school a fix
edand free course Of study in which
the pupils progress regularly and
Systematically, year by year, are
too numerous and evident to re-
quire mentino in detail While
the free tuition applies only to
Monterey district. the pres snce of
such a school here will. afford a
most excellent opportunity to ru-
pills throughout the county, because
at comparatively small outlay to
parents, they may avail themselves
of thorough course of training,
prescribed by the State Board, and
that within few hours's ride of
their own homes.
Mr.. Rust is a degree man of the
Randolph Macon College, highly
endorsed by our Division Superin-
tendant, Mr.. j, S. Thomas, and
there is every promise of success
full and prosperous school. Miss
Lucy G. Hiner, Of Mcdowell, a
Farmville graduate, will be i'll
charge Of the grammar grade, and
the two remaining teachers will be
secured in few days, it is belieyed.
The school will open on the first
day of October-a little later than
usual-and parents should try to
arrange to let all children enter on
the day Of opening.
As stated above, there is an on.
ward move in Virginie along edu-
cational lines and highland should
try to keep abreast. No parent
should be satisfied with anything
less than an up-to-date, thorough
and successful High School in each
district Of the county, and nothing
short af a personal, lively interest
in the effort will secure them.