Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-07-30
EDUCATIONAL TOPICS
Matters of Interest Concerning Maine
Teachers and Pupils.

| Miss Ethel Foster. a graduate OF
| Bates College, class of 90, has been en-
gagged as q teacher in the Bluehill acad-
envy.
| Miss Louise Chase has been engaged
for another year as assistant in the
Fort Fairfield High school.
| Lucy NJ. Hayes. a teacher in the Nor
way school. has accepted a position in
the schools at Stoneham. Mass.
The eleventh annual reunion of the
Eaton e Norridgewock High School
Alumni Association will occur Tuesday
August T. 1906.
Egbert Case. formerly principal of
the Guilford High school, has accepted
a position as instructor in a private
school in Louisville, Ky.
Mr.. Cleveland Giles has resigned his
position as teacher in the Grammar
| school at Old Town and has taken a
position with Tyler & Fogg in Bangor
Miss Maud Monroe has resigned her
position as Superintendent of the Troy
schools and Mrs. Georgia Tyler Woods
has been elected to fill the vacancy.
The Abbott school at Pennington has
| leased FewacreS for five years and will
use it for additional Accommodations for
pupils.
Miss Alice f. Forsythe of Bucksport
has been appointed assistant teacher in
the Bangor high school, to succeed Miss
Sadie Brown Howe. resigned.
Beulah burlington of Mechanic Falls,
a graduate of Colby this year. has been
elected as assistant in the Paris high
schools
| BY the will of the late George H.
ingalls,, which has just been filed in the
| Boston probate court. BridgtOn acade-
my will receive the sum of $4,000.
The annual reunion and banquet of
the Ellsworth high school alumni asso-
citation will take place at Manning hall
Thursday evening. Aug 8.
Patten academy trustees have elect
ed Mr.. Payne. graduate of Bates
College. '06. principal of that institu-
ton. Mr.. Payne has been Il teacher in
the Lincoln Grammar school.
The number of scholars in Houlton
has been tabulated at 1888. and accord
ing the town will receive $4,34S91 as its
share of the county allotment which is
$66,57023.
Miss Myrtle Blackwood, of Westbrook
who graduated from Bates college in
June, has accepted a position as teach :
er of Greek and Latin in the Norway
high school,
Principal f. c. Harmon of Kicker
Classical Institute, Houlton has hand
ed in his resignation to the executive
committee. Mr.. Harmon has accepted
a position in a preparatory school near
Washington, d. G.
Grace r. Bicknell has resigned her
position as assistant teacher in Norway
high school and accepted the position
of assistant in the Leomins;er. Mass,
high school, Il school of some 300 pupils.
g., Miss Rogerson who graduated this
this year from Boston University. has
been elected as instructor of the Ian
guage Department of Rridgton acaG-
envy for the ensuing year.
Miss Winnifred S. Durham of Lew
iston has received an appointment a.
teacher in Il school in Lansdowne. Pa,
which is a fitting school for German
town Seminary.
Prof. Henry w. Hubert, who resign
ed from the faculty of the Bangor The
illogical seminary in June to engage in
!. study in Russia will sail at once from
:. New York.
Miss Anna Boynton. Colby College
1906, has been elected to succeed Miss
Roberts. resigned. assistant in the
Fort Fairfield High School for the
coming year.
Mr.. Hilton principal of the High
school at Eastport has secured a pos
itiOn as principal of the High school
: at Warren, Mass, at an increased sal
airy.
The principalship of the Fort Fair
field High school has been offered to
George n. Hatch Of Belfast, a Bowdoin
College graduate. 1906. at salary of
81 900. He has not yet accepted.
Miss Mena COady, a graduate of Pat
ten academy. in the class of '06, has
accepted a position as teacher in the
school situated in what is known as
Poor Mans Retreat in Crystal. Miss
Coady succeeds Miss Kate Bracket.
Miss Nina G. MacKusick. formerly
teacher in music in the Biddeford pub
lie schools. has accepted a position to
supervise the music in the public
schools of Oldtown. Orono and Gull
ford. She will have charge of the work
in music in two high schools and the
other public schools in these towns.
II. r. Williams. formerly superin-
tendent of schools in Guilford, Dover
and Foxcroft. has accepted the princi-
palship of q ten-room Grammar school
at South Braintree, Mass, work to be-
gin i'm September Mr.. Williams is now
in the Teachers Summer Training
school at East Pittston, associated with
Prin. VIM l.. Powers of Gardiner.
Charles N. Perkins of South Brooks
vile. who has been principal of the
High school in Springvale. Mass, and
also superintendent of schools in that
town, has accepted position as prin-
cipal of the Brewer High school Mr..
Perkins succeeds Clifford H. Preston
who is now studying architecture at
the Massachusetts, Istitute of TechnoI-
ogy.
At a recent meeting Of the trustees
of State Normal Schools, the following
corps IF teachers was elected for the
Gorham school the coming year: Prin-