Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-13
EDUCATIONAL NOTES
What Our Maine Teachers and Pupils
Are Doing.

Rolnh l.. Kendall or OrrinSton has
III, olected sub-master in the Jordan
ITCH school, Lewiston.
Miss Lola H. Durrell of Kennebunk
:, n he one Of the teachers in the Elm
trc,t school, South Portland.
Tho summer school at Bucksport has
.losed after q very successful four
weeks session.
s.t,nben Bean of Saco, graduate of
mn. College, in the class of '05, has
,na, engaged to teach the Norridge-
,,oc,s High school the coming year.
Tho NJilbridSe primary schools VIII
reoncn for the fall term on September
n and the other schools on September
"a.
Miss w. Mae Nash, graduate OF
r.,os College, daughter of MI ana
Mrs. John f. Nash. formerly of Lewis
ton is touring London and Paris our
ing the vacation season.
rho annual reunion of the Frederick
p,hia High School Association, SCUM
xyinaham. will be held at the Coleman
untoI High street. Portland. on tues
dav September IL, at +. Nj.
rho North Berwick High Schoo'
Association will hold its annual II
Union in the "Hobbs" grove August
16 If stormy the exercises Will oe
n;yen in Commercial hall.
Miss Rose \. Allen, former assistant
i, the Rockland High school, ana WIN
scnooI, is graduate of Berwick Acad-
envy. and also of Smith College.
Linwood l.. Workman, who gradu-
ated from Colby College in 1902, has
been elected principal of the Higgins
Classical Institute at Charleston to
succeed A. NJ. Thomas.
Mr.. Jones, the newly elected princi-
pal of Pcnnell Institute. South Gray, is
native of South China. He is Il
graduate of Haverford College Penn
sylvania, and has taught for a number
OF years.
The Eaton and Norridgewock High
school alumni held their annual re-
union in the Congregational church.
Tuesday, August Z. A very interesting
program was furnished. Several
members were present from other
states.
At Il recent meeting of the oxford
school board. teachers were elected for
the unsupplicd schools. Pigeon Hill.
Alice Needham, re-elected; Webster
district, Belle Skillings: Minnie Davy
of West Minot has been appointed
teacher of number seven.
The fifth annual meeting of the
alumni association of Limerick Acad-
envy will be held August Is, on Old
Academy Hill. At P. NJ, business
meeting. papers and speeches by
prominent members; 6 p. NJ. picnic
lunch; p. NJ, concert in Town hall.
The summer school for boys at Lake
Whitney, three miles from Mechanic
Falls, is in charge of Prof. Adclbert f.
Caldwell professor of English in De
PAW University. GrccncastIe, Ind.
Professor Caldwell is a native of OK
ford.
G. L. Hathaway, Norway, has re-
ccived Il large order from Berlin for
windows to be put into a new grammar
school building that is being built
there. One hundred and sixteen offthe
windows are to be four-lightcd, each
light 2Ox22. There are also smaller
quantities of other sizes included i'll the
order.
At a recent meeting of the Lisbon
Falls school board Miss Ethel Taylor
was transferred as teacher from the
Dcoring to the MARI school and Miss
Gladys Cox takes the Deering school
Another meeting will be held later in
the week to elect a principal for the
High school at Lisbon and for the
grammar school at the Falls.
The resignation of Miss Mason as
assistant in the Lincoln High school,
Springvale, has been received and ac-
cepted and Miss Blanche Bragdon. a
graduate Of the school and more re-
Gently of Bates College. has been
elected to fill the vacancy. Miss Beard
is to be succeeded by Miss Mcintyre of
South Berwick.
Prof. Charles ]. Ross, A. NJ. gradu-
ate Of Colby. with his wife. Mrs. Lii
lian f. Ross, A. b., graduate of
Wellesley. teachers of several years
experience in High schools and acade-
mics in Maine. Massachusetts and New
Hampshire. have been engaged by the
trustees of East Corinth Academy for
a term OF years. i ne ScnOol year com
mences the last Tuesday in August
New seats have been received for
Thornton Academy. Biddcford. and
will he put in place Of the settees which
have been used there. The new seats
ar" of an improved kind and have
wide arms for use of the scholars in
taking notes. 1t is expected that sew
era new desks will be placed in the
schoolroom soon. The new seats will
be placed in position by the firm which |
supplied them.
Ezra X. MaxfieId. Colby 1905. who for
the past year has been principal Of the
High school. has resigned |
that position and has accepted a posi-
ton as instructor in the science de- |
partment of the Friends Central |
School. Philadelphia. This is one of |
the largest private schools in America
1t employs faculty of thirty instruc-