The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-17
Appropriate Class Day
 Exercises.
with sonEs and Marches of Beautiful Young AIabamians, Most success- fuI Session of state Indus
 trial School Closed.
nx waII IT, sheehnn.

cICiocS diSO maTked the Qdy.
 There were arches of cedar and pine
 built here and there upon the great for each of tn eclasses and through dark green arches the girls, in col umns of two, decked in the Oxford cap. the Confederate grey skirt and the white shirt waist marched and sang The trustees spent the morning in discussing the welfare of the school. rhe present Board meting is one of weighty importance to the school. It is the last meeting before the assemb- ling of the Alabama Legislature. It
 has been nearly four years since the Legislature met The school has hut in accommodation and in equip
 ments there has not been the same advance. because for four years there has been no appropriation except the appropriation for maintenance. The Board yesterday therefore inves- tfgated the needs of the school and de- termining what 1t shall ask from the
 next Legislature. Additions to the Domitary are absolute necessities. It
 is inconceivab1e that the Legislature will decline to meet this necessity.
 There are other planned features of
 extension and addition. for the means
 and authority of making the Board
 will ask the Legislature. They were
 under the consideration and discuss
 sion by the Board at its all the morn ing session today.
 There are some few vacancies to fill. Cupid no more respects the teach
 ether Tne Chicago Board rsSof'i of Eruca tion is by nc. means the only super visory educational body whose plans
 nssans wtn 0S Sas peen nyen the loud complaint of the Chicago Board that 1t. can hardly keep an ef, | fcient corps of teachers in the school frn frAr rA fnr nf mi Everywhere educational bodies have the same trouble. Tbe modern board
 figures on certain amount of loss in a merchant figures on shrink kage. | breakake and leakage.
 Because of which the Board of Trus-
 cancies. One or two of the retiring | teachers, 1t Is said, admit the matrl-
 monial Impeachment while one or two
 others vigorously deny y,. 1t: . cises the several industrial departments have been thrown open to the public
 and visitors have zone ons among as tge them nt,n
 dents: The purpose of its founders
 fact be an industrial .sa. school IS kept cises of the mind which have so long | associated with culture and refinement | are Ignored or lost sight of. Music and art have an important place in the curriculum of the school | but not a place of over weening impor- l tahoe. These which may be called the finer but less useful graces are united
 with the more utilitarian arts and
 made a part of the general work of | the school
 l In delivering the certificates to those who had completed the work in some
 one of the industrial departments. and
 iE speaking of the equipments they | had received for the making of liv- | irg, Dr. Patterson said; l "But remember. a woman's first and | best place Is the home"
 In this is revealed the plan and pur- pose of the school and It's industrial | education-that it shall be an equip
 ment primarily and first of all for home making. That 1t shall be equip ment for making a living if the neces-
 sity arise and make the demand is of expressed purpose.
 The school therefore gives instruc-
 tion and training in cooking. in dress
 stenography and typewriting and bookkeeping. The visitor in his rounds through the industrial depart
 % pupils proficiency in industrial work. There were hats which the lady vis- | itors declared were models of the fine
 arts of the milliner made by the stud
 ents of the school; in the dress making department evening dresses and eve 1 min wraps which were the subjects of | equal compliments. f
 
 the department of stenography. it was
 sand that positions awaited the gradu- atas in the outer world If they chose
 to go out for the earning of their own living. In one and in all the depart
 ments the sincerest, the most earnest
 effort is made for efficiency and for
 proficiency. The danger of superficial
 ity of dilettanteism Is avoided in every
 way in which it may be avoided. It Is said. for example, that since the founding of the school ten years ago,
 the art department and that so thor | ough and complete was her training | that she had the offer of an excellent position in St, Louis. In the fine arts trial arts development efficiency is ever 1 the aim.
 Meeting of Alumni Yesterday. The alumni of the Industrial Arts
 met yesterday morning in the presl-
 ton of oficers for the next year. The officers elected were: President. Miss Elizabeth Houston Winston; Vice Prisident, Miss Adra | Lallie Tice Recording Secretary Miss l Leo Sanders; Corresponding Secretary, Miss Willie McKibbon; Treasurer, Miss The members of this association are those who have graduated from one l of the industrial departments of the school
 The attendance on the meeting of the Board of Trustees was unusually large. All members were present with | the single exception of Hon. w. R. Dortch. of Gadsden.
 The personnel of the Board of Trus- tees is as follows;
 Governor W. D. Jelks and Hon. l. w l Hill State Superintendent of Educa- l ton. ex-oficio memebers.: Hon. Jones G: Moore and Rev, A. J: Dickinson, of at Large Judge A. Austill, Mobile; First District Hon. Sol. D. Bloch. of Cam
 den; Second District. Judge A: H. Al ston, Clayton, Third District. Hon. H. i S D. Mallory Selma; Fourth District
 M A, Graham, Fifth District PrattyIlle
 caloosa Hon. w. R. Dortch Seventh District Gadsden. Hon. Virgil Bouldin. | Eighth District. Scottsboro. Col. Sam l Will John. Ninth District. Birmingham.
 The Board held it's first meeting ! Monday afternoon when President Pe- , terson submitted his report upon the made for the future welfare of the
 school After the report had been | read and discussed generally and in- | formally, it was referred to q commit | tee and the Board adtourned untll | o'clek this mrning. Yesterday ses-
 sion extended from o'clock until at- ternoon SO long session being nee , essarY to transact the necessary ousl- ness which came before the Board A general scheme of addition anu extension of the schools activities anu 1 resources were adopted at the meet ] for carving them into effect Will De
 asked of the Legislature when t l convenes next winter. The scheme | embraces the completion of the dorml- l tory building by the addition or new | wings the tearing away of the old | 1lrl,t [ t1,r ,1o