Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-14
EXISTING CONDITIONS.

The training school D0aru met IN the
Office of the county superintendent this
morning. and received and adopted
the annual report of the principal of
the school, O E. Wells, and transacted
the usual business incident to the clos
ing of the year. The full board was
present, Messrs. A. L. Kreutzer, H. j.
Blanchard and Supt. w. j. Farrall.
That which is of the most interest to
the public, generally, is the principals
report and the PILOT publishes it in full
as follows:
To THE BOARD FOR THE MARATHON
Co. TRAINING SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS:
Gestlemep
The ninth year of the training school
has been most successful one. The
total enrolment was ~ the average
attendance, go. The consistency and reg
ularity of attendance has surpassed all
other years. Five boys were registered,
an Improvement in this respect over
most former years. Thirty-one pupils
were graduated, two of whom were
boys. The whole number graduated
from the school is 236, or two more than
an average of twenty-six per year. OF
the 2O5 previously graduated, so far as
we can ascertain, 143 are still teaching,
three out of the state and ten more out
of the county, fifteen teach in village or
city schools.
Seven of the alumni attended the
normal school at Stevens Point last
year, two of whom were in the advanced
course and in the elementary course.
Two of the alumni hold normal school
diplomas. One graduate, Arthur
Fromm, was in the state university
last year and will graduate from that
institution next year. Ten of the grad
yates of the class of 1902, have since at
tended some other school. For most
of these facts | am indebted to the his
torian of the alumni, Miss Martha
Rhodes, who has labored patiently and
persistently to make the records as
complete as possible.
1t is pleasure to record the unani-
nous approval of disinterested and
competent observers of the work of
training school graduates in the schools
of the state. Inspectors Wood and
Drewry; president Sims; professors
Cheever and Lusk, all give enthusiastic
testimony of their resourcefulness and
efficiency. The system of training
schools in this state seems abundantly
to have justified itself Those who
planned and organized it and made the
first experiment. rejoice in the equal sue
cess of those who came later in the
field, and hope for all, still greater
achievements.
During the year our library has been
increased by 60 or more volumes and
has been catalogued by the city librarian
Miss Cramer, who pronounces our selec-
ton of books one of more than ordinary
excellence.
The school enters upon its decennial
year with prospects of the best year in
its history. The addition of another
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more and better work than it has been
possible for us hitherto to accomplish.
Concerning the new teacher. Miss Ellen
Mcdonald, we have this testimonial
from the Oshkosh Normal school of
which she is graduate. eff you get
her, you get one of the best women in
| the school business. She knows the
business; has a fine, strong character; is
sympathetic toward all; is absolutely
honest; is admirable to work with; and
do not know single bad feature in
her life, her work or her character"
Should anyone question the propricty
of employing another teacher, it may
| be said that in the school at Menomonie,
organized the same year as ours, the
third teacher was added before the close
of the first year, and one has been CON
tinously employed since. Several of
the other schools, even those organized
quite recently, have an extra teacher.
| 1t should be borne in mind that this
school has throughout is entire history
been one of the most largely attended.
| In several of the schools. teachers have
broken down and been obliged to
abandon the profession of teaching.
| In addition to the regular one year
course, the two year coarse approved
last year will be taken up. The class
will be organized with definite purpose
of devotiDg two years to its mastery.
| Algebra will be included in it, and
thus sll the branches required for a
second Grade certificate will be taught.
Drawing will be Systematically taught
to all. More systematic and extended
work in orthoepy, photography and
word analysis viii be required. A
larger use OF the library and physical
apparatus viii be made. In short, the
courses Of study will be expanded and
enriched
The question Of Accommodations be-