Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-20
MAINE SCHOOL TOPICS.
A Glance at What is Happening in the
Educational Circles of Our State.

FRANK h. CSner, pTlIclpdi VI
Westhrook Grammar school has tehd-
cred his resignation.
Miss Maud Dyer of Madison has been
engaged TO teach the Readtield Gram
mar school the coming year.
The fourth annual reunion OF the
Webber School District, Oxford, VIII be
held or Wednesday, August -.
Mrs. a. +. Curtis of Lewiston mas
been elected teacher of the second ana
third grades of the schools at LISBON
Falls.
Miss Bertha L. Soulc, a former teach
er in the Bangor High school, is now an
instructor in one o. the high schools IN
Brooklyn n. Y.
The Ellsworth High School Alumni
Association held its annual banquet III
that city August 5. The attendanc"
was not quite as large as in 100.
Miss May Bartlett of So. Thomaston
has been engaged to teach the Wald-
oboro Grammar school in this village
this fall. Miss Bartlett is IL graduate OF
the Maine Wesleyan Seminary.
Contractor Thomas. with crew of
mon is at work adding Il half story to
the schoolhouse i'm Cundy Harbor dis
trict. AS it will now he a graded school,
it was necessary to have more room.
Alfred I.aferriere, Bowdoin '01 who
has been teaching at Hebron Academy
since his graduation, has resigned t"
| become head coach of the football
team At Bowdoin for the coming sea-
| son.
| At tho recent annual meeting of the
Limington Alumni Association. the fol
| lowing ofii1 crs We're elected j. II. Libby
of Portland. president; w. :. small
vic" president: Emily Homes, secretary;
j. W. Larrabcc, treasurer.
Miss Mabel Holmes. who taught in
Richuond High school last year, has;
hc"n elected a teacher Of French ana
Latin in the High school at Mon
tague. Mass. Miss Holmes is a sradu-
ate of Bates College, class of '05.
Tho Pennington Normal School
Alumni Association held its annual
reunion on August .. with about so in
attendance. The exercises were in
charge of tie class of Sc. and a very
interesting program was furnished.
Prof. Llcwellyn NJ. FETCH principal of
the Normal department Of the Kicker
Classical Institute for the rast II years,
has been elected by the trustees To the
| principalShip recently made vacant by
the resignation Of Prof. Erwin c. Har-
mon.
Prof Arthur NJ Thomas, who was
for Is years principal of Kicker Class
zeal institute and who has for the. past
three years been principal of Higgins
i,,St fntn Il. -tr, 1,n
cepted a position of the high school at
| kennebunkport.
The Weber. Biscoe, Tucll. Forbes.
Partridge, Hollow Whittcmore, Mount
ain Tubbs, and King schools of Paris
will open Aug. %; the high school and
other common cshooIs will open Sept.
sd, except the North Paris school,
which will open Sept 10.
Miss Carol NJ. Holland Of South
bridge has been elected teacher Of
music and reading in the Gorham Nor
m2l schools. Miss Holland received her
training at the Emerson School IF
Oratory. and the New England Con-
servatory of Music. Boston.
! At Il recent meeting of the Cape
Elizabeth school board it was decided
| " liNItoHc tiit llGIIl VI lllC SClio'l
year to SO weeks, these terms of T.
weeks each. The fall term will begin
| Tuesday, Sept. 4, the winter term Dec
3, and the spring term, March -.
| Richard NJ. Andrews of Grey. who for
the past four years has been an inStruc-
tor in mathematics in Englcwood, N.
j., has been elected to a position in
the Stuyvesant High school in New
York City. Mr.. Andrews holds the de-
gree of a. Il. from Bowdoin 1896, and
A. NJ from Harvard, 1899.
| Th" Sanford School Association
| was organized Saturday, August 4, at
| Cape Porpoisc. The object Of this as
| SociatiOn is purely social, the intention
| being to hold a reunion once IL year Of
all TIL" women who. as girls. attended
| the common schools of Sanford pre-
vious to the first graduation and or
ganization of the alumni.
The :2d annual reunion Of the Wilton
| Academy Alumni Association was held
At the Academy last week. and the fol
| lowing officers We're elected for the en-
suing year: J. Putnam Stevens, Port
land, president; Or. II. +. Makopcace,
Pennington, vice president: executive
| ''iiliIllNi'f. " - fibI1DS 81 ANbfNthll,
| Mass. Mrs 4. y. Sanborn and Ralph
Sawyer Of Wilton.
The schools in West Bath will begin
Tuesday, Sept. I with the following
| hers: In district No /, Miss
| Bertha w Judkins. Districts two and
| three are to nc united and school main
| tanned in district No. 3, with Elmer f.
| Williams teacher, and he will convey
| the scholars from Fosters Point The
| school in Districe No. 4 will he taught
| by Miss Mary a. Whitney.
| The Belfast schoolboard has decided
| to change the system of writing in
| the public schools of that city, from
| vertical to slant. Walter s. Adams has
been elected principal Of the high
school. to succeed Hal r. Eaton re-
signed. Mr.. Adams is a graduate of the
| Bates College. class of 1904 and re-
| signed the principalship of the Lisbon
| Falls high school to go to Belfast. The
| following teachers have been elected:
city schools. 9Th grade, Miss Mildred
Mason, Belfast: Head Of Tide, gram
mar, Miss Irene Sibly, Freedom: prim-
mary, Grace Emmons, Belfast: Poor's