The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-16
CITY NORMAL CLASS OF 'O9 ENTERTAINS

Maintaining the standard establish ed by their various predecessors, the graduates of the City Normal School,
 class of 1909. this afternoon entertained a large concourse of friends and pat rons at the public teaching day exer- cises. The regulation throng was in
 evidence. including representatives or the Board of Education, associate teachers and students who anticipate entering the institution next Septem-
 Der.
 As was previously announced, the work in the several rooms correlated important events in the history of our
 own country. from the Pre-Columbian
 period until the present epoch. In in teresting and instructive lessons. illus trative of the customs and perpetra- tions of ancestors remote and proxf- mate, the pupil-teachers demonstrated the methods and curriculum of the training school, in conjunction with knowledge. The blackboard decorations were very creditably executed.
 The Pre-Columbian era. embracing studies of the Eskimos and the Cliff Dwellers. was exemplified in Rooms l and 2. The period of discovery, Colum- bus and DeSoto. was treated in Rooms 3 and 4. Following these in rotation were lessons on the epoch of explora- tion, the era of settlement, the Colonial and the pioneer periods.
 Supplementary to the training de- pertinent, the grades in charge of regular teachers. Miss Anderson, Miss handled the Revolutionary and the Constitutional chronology and the events of the twentieth century. The musical features of the programs prov ed exceptionally enjoyable. especially in the grades where two-part and trio work is conducted.
 The juveniles received adequate com mendation from visitors who inspected the drawing and writing papers dis played in the corridors. It was ob- served that many of the specimens of pencil and color work were selected from lessons given when the school lacked cn art supervisor. a fact which proclaimed the ability of the young teachers in managing a special line.
 The charts in the Normal room, while attractive and ornate. had been prepared by the members of both Junior and Senior classes solely from the standpoint of utility. They were of the sciences taught in the several departments. and will be used by the teachers in charge during the coming year.
 markable for the display of unusual talent, are the drawings of Miss Sadie a member of the Junior class. Should Miss Rosenthal ever de- sion for the field of art. a successful future doubtless awaits her.
 The gift of the graduating young ladies. a relief from "The Singing Boys,'' ornamented the wall of the room during the reception. In Room IA. a large picture of Sir Gala had constituted the beQuest of the eighth grade pupils preparing for the High School
 Tn a recherche little booth inclosed with ferns. daisies and mountain laurel, fruitade was dispensed to fes- tive patrons by Miss Lima Newell and Miss Sadie Rosenthal. A visit to the bower was apparently the concluding observance of the guests of the oc- casion.
 body are 23 Juniors. who will succeed the present Seniors in September. 22 young ladies from the High School are expected to become Juniors at that time.
 The list of to-day's demonstrators. who will receive their diplomas at Warner Hall on the twenty-fourth in stant, comprised Fannie Barrows. Car rie Barske. Gertrude Curnias. Mary Dalton. Anna F'itzRoy. Louise Gren- finger, Ida Holroyd, Julia Heating, Nora Kelly. Mary McNamara. Hattie Mur- phy, Marion OConnell. Elizabeth Os- borne Marion Rose. Grace Sterling and Helen Upton.
 Acting as a reception committee were the principal. Miss Howes, and the Miss Weed. Miss F'enton. Miss Cornell and Miss Fitzpatrick.