Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-03-12
SESSION OF PARISH TEACHERS
ASSOCIATION.

The first session of the Parish Teach
ers' Association, which met in st. Jo-
seph on March 9TH and 9Th, was called
to order by the President, Miss Whitney,
at 10 A. NJ.
After the opening song, Miss Whitney
gave the following address in presenting
to Mr.. Green a loving cup from the
members of the Association as a token
of their high esteem and appreciation of
his efforts in behalf of the schools and
the teachers during his administration.
MISS WHITNEY'S ADDRESS.
This is the initial meeting of the As
ISOLATION in the regime upon which we
are entering. Your President has her
first hOnors fresh upon her, and your
Superintendent assumes the robes of
office after having lain them aside eight
years ago. We recall the years of his
administration with satisfaction and
pleasure.
Our purpose here to-day is, primarily,
to gain a stimulus, am inspiration for
better work, more efficient service. But
before we take up the program duties let
us queer in retrospect to the past-to the
years covering the term of Mr.. Green's
administration
Eight years ago Mr.. Green assumed
the leadership of school affairs in Tensas.
There awoke a new spirit for public edu-
cation in the State, and Tensas respond
ed to the clarion icall for better schools
and higher standards. Alert to the duties
of his office, and endowed with an inf
mite fondness for children, his efforts
were unwavering and without WEAKNESS,
resulting in a record of which he can be
proud and for which we honor him.
New school houses were built at Water
proof, Newellton and st. Joseph, at
Hard Bargain and at Limerick, and the
country schools were furnished with
modern equipments. A system of grad
ing was introduced into all of the schools.
Kindergartens were inaugurated in Wa
terproof, NewelltOn and st. Joseph. Two
High Schools were established, gradual
ing from which youths may enter State
University or Tulane. Larger play grounds
have been provided, and spirit of ar
tistic improvement in buildings and
grounds has spread throughout the par
ish. Tie corpse of teachers has been in
created and the enrolment in the schools
is nearly three times as large as when
Mr.. Green became Superintendent.
Teachers and pupils alike have shared
his generous nature.
No duty could overtask him,
No need his will outrun.
Ere our lips could ask him
His hands the work had done.
For the teachers professional improve
ment, one week Institutes have been
provided and the best instructors the
State Board could supply have been sent.
If we are part of all we have met, then
to know them has been liberal educa-
ton. Mr.. Green's interest has been felt
by the least teachers in the remotest
country schools as well as by the profess
sor who has come clothed with authority
to teach. His guardianship extended
alike to those who had prior claims of
friendship, and to the stranger within
our gates. We have felt his sympathy,
his cooperation and his ideals, which
we have striven to reach, and in the
striving have "builded better than we
knew"
Before we bid him God Speed in the
new field of work to which he has been
elected, / want to express, in the name
of the Association, our appreciation of
Mr.. Green's services, and to give our
friendship expression in this tribute we
present to him to-day,-a fitting emblem
of our regard.
May it hold long life and health, and
as you drink, may its liquid depths re-
fleet happy face.
This was followed by Mr.. Green's APP
propriate response, which we regret be-
ing unable to give. The regular program.
followed, and following teachers respond
ed to roll call: Misses Bergman, Buck
ner, Couvillion, Gogin, Guice, Gorton,
Hughes, Keeny, Kidd, B. Lewis, Meter
vile, McGill, Palm, Owen and Whitney,
and Messrs. Groesbeek, Moseley, Par
ham and Wade.