Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-06-26

en- months.... 3
Whole number months service ............... l57
Average number months taught. g 7-25
The Marathon County Training
School for Teachers, being the first of
its kind established, has been under
close observation from the day it first
opened its doors to the boys and girls
of Marathon county.
To ex-Supt. John f. Lamont and to
A. l.. Kreutzer we are indebted for the
idea of creating this kind of school and
its final establishment here Let me
here say that they have remained the
friends of the training school through
all its struggles.
The first Training school board con-
sisted of A. l.. Kreutzer, II. j. Blanch-
ard and j. F. Lamont, all of whom have
remained in service until last year,
when Mr.. Lamor was succeeded by w.
j. Farrell as county superintendent ard
secretary OF the training school board.
This board selected as teachers for our
school, Prof. o. E. Wells and Mis-
Rcsalia Bohrer, both or whom, we are
glad to say. ere still with u.s.
The objecs of this school is to review
the third grade branches and train the
country boys and girls for teaching in
the district schools of Marathon county.
ANY graduate OF the common schools;
any person holding third grade GER
tihcate or any person holding a pro-
motion card from eighth grade to high
school will be admitted.
The Marathon County Training
school opened in the Humboldt school
building, September II, 1899, and con-
tinued there uGtil the middle of the
year when it moved into the new high
school building. We were here given
two recitation rooms, an Office and seat
ing room in the main assembly hall.
Here we were very comfortably located
until the fall of 1902, when we moved
into the new agricultural building on
the west side, where we have since re-
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public that we are not running in OPP
position to any other school, but are
getting our pupils, largely from class
not reached by any other schools. We,
in fact, are sort of stepping stone be-
tween the district schools and the state
schools of various kinds. We take the
boys and girls from their country
environment and prepare them for
higher scholarship and usefulness.
During the past year, have received
letters from many training school
graduates, stating that they would not
have been able to travel, to attend
worlds fairs and schools of higher
learning had it not been for the year
spent in the Training school. And. |
think, if the whole story were told.
many of them would say that they
would also have been unable to appre-
ciate these things had it not been for
the Marathon County Training School.
Some of the things that can be cited
to show the value of the school are the
following: The teachers of the county
recognize its value and SO attend in
large numbers, before and after their
school terms; students who fail to
graduate one year come back second
year, in order to finish, some of them
finding it necessary to work one or two
years before coming back; the gradu-
ates often come back to take up review
work when rot teaching; the state
normal schools give us one years credit
for work done in our school and are be-
coming anxious to obtain our graduates.
Fourteen of our number have attended
other schools since graduating and
number are contemplating doing so in
the near future. A number have mar
ried and one of our number has passed
away.
We have just completed our seventh
year. Although we have met with
some failures we have had the lions
share of successes and the future seems
very bright. We look forward to it with
pleasure and long to see what it will
bring forth.
Can another school so famous
Yet be found our annals DER
search you well in town and country
Search you well from shore to shore
None have ever yet surpassed il
None have reached its level quite
And meth1nks, none eer will gain 1t
Till the daV tIlras nj oh