Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-15

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| Galutatory; May Hamblen, prophecy:
| Florian Arey. class history; Raymond
| Hutchinson. class essay. The exercises
will take place May e.
Miss Annie Dionne, who has been
| tea ching the French school at Caribou
| the past two years. has been obliged to
| resign and return to her home in Van
Buren,. where she had been elected
superintendent of the schools in that
| town for the ensuing year. Mrs. Carrie
Webb will finish out the term.
The graduating class of the Castine
Normal school held it's first class
| meeting last week. The vote was
| unanimous for a trip to Washington.
D. c., at the close of the school. Glass
officers elected: President, Mr.. Nash !;
vice-president. Miss Anna Wardwell;
secretary, Miss Delano; treasurer, Miss
Marshall.
Principal A. NJ. Rollins of the Calais
grammar school will sever his connec-
ton with the schools in that city at
the end Of the school year in June. Mr..
Rollins intends making his home in
Massachusetts. Mr.. Rollins. who is a
Calais boy. is a graduate of Bowdoin
of the class of SO. and received his
bachelor of laws degree from the
Harvard law school in 1905.
The senior class at Edward Little has
elected Miss Edith Dunn one of the
three prize speakers to represent 1907
in the annual contest in place of Miss
Ethel Allen who resigned. The other
senior speakers are Geo. Barton and
Aida Bradford. The class has won the
shield two years in succession, and
should it win this year will become the
owner of it. The date of the contest
has not been set.
The graduation parts of the Belfast
High school class of 1907 have been
assigned as follows: Miss Olive
Wadlin. salutatory: Miss Louise Heal,
valedictory; William Vaughan, his
tory; Misses Gladys Richards and
Marion Hazeltine. prophecy; Miss
Emerald Bradman, poem; Clyde
Shute. Grafton; LinwOod Thompson
and Chester F'ost, presentation of
gifts; Miss Alberta Farnham, essay on
class flowers: Gladys Pitcher. class
essay.
The assignment of parts for the
school is as follows: Miss Mary Phil
pot, valedictory: Herbert Stevens.
salutatory: Miss Alice Longley, LIST
honor essay: Miss Ivie Collins. End
honor essay; Miss Velam Briggs,
prophecy; Miss Gertrude Baker, his
tory. The parts We're awarded ac-
cording to the standing in the class
with the exception of prophecy and
history which We're awarded by vote
of the class.
Principal a. NJ. Rollins will sever his
connection with the Calais schools at
the end of the school year Mr.
Rollins is d well known Calais boy.
He was graduated from Bowdoin in
1899. He was principal of Norway
High School three years, 1899, 1902
In the fall of 1902 he entered Harvard
Law School. received his bachelor of
laws degree there in 1905. and was adj
mitted to practice law in Massa-
chusetts in October of the same year.
Mr.. Rollins will leave for Massachu-
sets as soon as his duties are over in
June.
Announce mcnt has been made Of the
honor parts secured by the seniors of
| the Lewiston High school Mr..
Rudolphe Roy will be valedictorian, at
the graduation exercises in June. and
the salutatOry will be delivered by
| Miss Celia Jones. The other parts were
| announced in the following order:
| Miss Helen Adams. Miss Marian
Adams. Miss Frances Holmes. Mr.
| Geo. Robinson. Miss Edith Pemberton
| and Mr. Frank Southland. 1t is inter
esting to note that Miss Marian Adams
and Miss Helen Adams, who receive
fourth and fifth honors are sisters.
| A training class for teachers has
been organized in the Caribou High
school. This class has been formed
for the benefit of those pupils in the
senior class who wish to teach in
the rural schools. The work is plan
ned by Miss Louise Thomas assisted
by the village teachers. Each stu
dent is placed in grade and allowed
to teach under the direction of the
| regular grade teacher. She is to re-
ceive suggestions by which she may
improve her next teaching lesson
The students will be given a variety
of grades in which to teach and only
those who show ability as teachers
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schools. The school committee hope. in
this way, to raise to some extent the
| standard OF the rural schools
The opening of the new schoolhouse
in Center street, Bangor, has necessi.
tated number Of changes among the
teachers. Miss Adelaide Mansur, di.
rector. and Miss Georgia McClencf
have moved their kindergarten from
the old Division street schoolhouse t
the new building out in the Little City
Miss Augusta KRISTEN will move hel
fourth grade from the former Center
street school to the new building. Mis-.
Agnes Mullaney will take her fiftf
grade pupils from the Abbot squar,
schoolhouse to the old Center stree
school, and Miss Emma Lewis will
transfer her sixth grade from the room
in the manuel training building to tn
room made vacant by the removal o
, Miss Mullaney's pupils to Center street
The school board has reoeiyad -