The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-08-21
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
LEAGUE FORMED.
ORGANIZATION Effected Wednesday
And Committees Appointed.
Another Meeting Today
At 5 p, m.

Pharmacy last Wednesday and
effected an organization. Mrs.
H. Jagou was elected president
Mrs. n. p. Moss, vice president:
Mrs. A.. 3. DenOo, secretary;
Mrs. L. O. Clark, treasurer. a
committee on constitution and
bylaws was appointed as fol
lows: Mines. Alex Mouton. NJ.
RosenieId, F. Y. Mouton. Also
a committee on membership con
sisting of Mines. A. j. Leblanc,
n. AbramsOn, J. z. NuSZ, j. {.
Nickerson and c. M. Park
erson. The dues were placed
at ten cents a month. DR..
Moss generously rendered the
League the use OF Music Hall
as d meeting place which was ac'
cepted with thanks.
The purpose of the League is
to improve the school grounds.
purchase a piano and apparatus,
and do all possible to as
sist in the work Of the
schools. Another meeting will
be held to-day at ) pm. and it is
hoped that all the ladies OF the
town and as many from the
country as may feel interested
in the object of the league will
attend. The mothers of children
attending the schools especially
are urged to attend.
The following letter has been
addressed to the School Improve
ment League by Dir. n. P. Moss.
president of the Parish School
Board:
August Il, 1907.
To tbs Officers and Members Of the
School improvement League:
AS q school officer and a citizen
deeply impressed with the value and
importance of education, l wish to eX-
press my appreciation OF the praise
worthy movement you have inaugu-
rated with the object of promoting the
welfare of the school children OF La
fayette.
In all ages woman has made her In
auence felt in good works, and it is to
the holy instinct of motherhood reso-
lutely and p~erserveringly ~eXpendlng
itself in efforts for the preservation
and happiness of the children OF the
C that the world owes its progress:
and this also constitutes the glory OF
mankind.
a. The women of Lafayette nave ever
proven themselves worthy of the no.
bleness of the sex. They have always
been ready and willing to give their
services in the furtherance of any
rood cause. a very large share of
the credit for the two splendid new
school buildings which are going to
prove such q great blessing to the
children of this community, properly
belongs to the women OF Lafayette.
Their names are not engraved on any
cornerstone but the nine hundred
thousand bricks entering into the con-
structiOn of these two edifices OF learn
ing are firmly bonded together by the
love and devotion of these noble
women for the children of Lafayette;
and their labOrs and self-sacritice in
bringing this issue to a successful
termination will be ~perpetuated in the
lives of honor and usefulness of many
generations of boys and girls who will
drink at these fountains Of knowledge
and culture.
The school children of Lafayette are
to be congratulated upon the fact that
their mothers and sisters have banded
themselves together to work more eff
fectively for their educational ad-
vancement; and, in behalf of the
School Board, l ask for the earnest
c~o-Operation of the School Improve
meat League in developing our public
school system to the highest state OF
effciency attainable. School officers
are only the agents or servants of the
public charged with the administra.
ton OF their school affairs, and they
are pOwerless to carry on this arduous
and complex work successfully without
the active interest and support of the
people for the benefit of whose chill
dren they are performing a labor OF
love.
The public schools of Lafayette are
doing q grand work in preparing oul
childreu for the serious duties OF life
~. also. in broadening their capacity
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