Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-09-17
EDUCATIONAL NOTES
A Chat Concerning Our Maine
Teachers and Pupils.

Miss Birdena Trafton of Hartland
| has accepted a position in the fifth
grade in the public schools of Nor
walk. Conn.
| The Castine schools will begin Mon
day Sept. Il. The High school will be
in charge of Mr.. John Lock Hooper.
The Grammar school will be taught by
Miss Mary Sheppard, Miss Carrie Per-
| kinS will teach the intermediate
school on City park, while Miss Mary
Hook has charge Of the Primary school.
| The two schools outside the village
will be taught by Miss Annett Robin
son in the Emerson District and Mrs.
IneZ Grant in the Steel District. The
schoolhouses have been generally re-
paired and are in good condition.
| The Lindsey High school at Shap-
| leigh was to have opened on Sept. 4.
with George Leatherbarrow as Prin-
cipal. but n few days prior to that
| time. the Superintendent of Schools
received notice that Mr.. Leatherbarrow
had accepted a similar position else
where, thus delaying the opening OF
the school until September TO-
| The schools of Windham have
opened with the following teach
ers: In the John A. Andrews.
Miss Shristine Whidden OF Calais,
principal, Miss Jessie Brown.
assistant, Miss Alice Burnell, Primary:
in the Dodge School, Miss Annie w.
Hussey. nf Berwick; in the Newhall
School, Miss Marion Maines, of North
Windham.
| Pierront Jordan of Saco. who has
finished a preparatory course at Mil
| ton. Mass, academy. will attend Har-
ward college this fall.
| The State teachers training course
that has been introduced at the Bucks
port seminary this year is interesting
a number of the entering class. 1t is
intended that this course shall furnish
| the equivalent of high school train
ing in addition to the professional
studies. Four years will be required
for it's completion. Graduates from
high schools may take up the course
at the beginning of the third or fourth
year and complete it in one or two
years. Teachers who have not had
normal training and wish to qualify
for State examination. will be admitted
to these training classes after passing
| satisfactory examination in the studies
Oh the lower years.
Miss Mollie Small, who has been
elected a teacher i'm the Westbrook
| high school, has been unable to get a
release from her engagement at a
| school in one of the towns near Bos-
ton without giving months notice.
| Her place in the Westbrook high
| school is being taken by Miss Frances
| Haskell, a graduate of Mt Holyoke
| college. and the daughter of Edwin j.
Haskell of Westbrook
Miss Ethel French of Bath. Morse
High school, '08. is to enter the
| Gorham Normal school for a course in
training for teaching.
! Miss Grace E. Clancy, Wilton. has
resigned her position as first assistant
in the Robert w. Trap academy,
kittery, to accept a much better posi-
ton i'm the High school at Portsmouth
N. H.
The Island Falls schools have opened
for the fall term with Elmer r. Verrill.
Bates '06, as principal. and Miss Edna
Robinson of Otisfield as assistant.
The fall term of Kicker Classical In
stitute at Houlton opened for the fall
term Sept. II. with the largest enter
ing class in it's history.
Miss Cora T. Ward of PASSPORT, a
recent graduate of the Boynton High
School, and winner of the Holmes gold
medal. for best scholarship, has recent
ly secured the position as teacher Of
shorthand. typewriting and bookkeep-
ing at Foxcroft Academy.
The second annual reunion of the
alumni association Of the Frederick
Robe High school of South Windham
was held Sept. II. 1t was voted to hold
the next meeting in Portland.
Miss Thea bennett Of Saco is to at
tend the Gorham Normal school the
coming year.
William Hoyt of North Arson is one
of the teachers at the kingfield High
school for the coming year.
Mrs. Viola S. Haskell of South
Brooksville has been engaged to teach
in North Sedgwick this fall.
c larence Chatto of Sargentville has
been engaged as teacher in the New
Portland High school this coming year.
Miss Idella Stanwood of Ellsworth
has been engaged az a teacher In the
Perkins school at Brockton, Mass;
The school at Walkers Mills this
fall will be taught by Miss Lena Far
well of Bethel. There are 50 pupils in
the school,
Miss Edith Gray, who has been
teaching in Holbrook, Mass, for sew
eral years. has resigned her position
to accept one as bookkeeper at the
Files dry goods store, Fairfield.
Miss Margaret Mcguire of Biddeford
is to enter the State Normal school at
GOrham this year.
Miss Emma w. Hinckley of North
Bluehill, a graduate Of the Castine Nor
NAL school. class of 1905, will teach at
Attleboro, Mass. the coming year.
About 35 members of the Portland
Girls High school. which existed from
1850 to 1868, held reunion recently at
Riverton park. 1t was voted TO hold
reunion next year. which will be the
fourth event of its kind.
Timothy J. Mahoney of Biddeford.
who has been studying at the Grand
Seminary, Montreal, is to enter st.
Johns Seminary, Brighton, Mass,