The gold leaf., 1910-10-27
FOUNDERS DAY.
State Normal College.

In a circular letter addressed to
the Alumnae of the State Normal and
Industrial College, after setting forth
the fact the faculty and board of di-
rectors have named October 18th of
each year as Founders Day for this
institution, and the objects aimed at
thereby, President Julius [. Foust
saws:
1t will, | am sure. interest you to know
that the past year has been one OF
growth and development. We shall
soon complete our new lnfirmary Build
ing, which will not only be an ornament
to the campus, but will also enable us
to care for the sick in the best possible
manner. This building has been made
sufficiently spacious to meet not only
the demands of the present, but also the
demand of the future when the College
plant will become much larger than it is
at present
We went through the usual experience
this past summer OF being forced to re-
fuse admission to large number OF
young women who desired to receive
the advantages offered here and, hence,
better fit themselves for service to the
people OF North Carolina. | am sure
that not less than two hundred earnest
ambitious young women were denied
the privileges of your College on account
OF its limited dormitOry capacity. | feel
that the Alumnae should know some
thing of this condition and in every
reasonable way impress upOu our people
the absolute necessity OF enlarging the
facilities of the College. The institution
ought to be able to meet the reasonable
demands which are made upon it by the
people of the State and the officers must
rely largely upon the Alumnae to arouse
the people on this vital question.
We are inaugurating this year certain
lines OF work which we think will enable
your Alma Mater to render larger ser
vice to our people. A great strong in
stitutiOn like yours should not only
teach the six hundred young women who
attend as students each year, but should
endeavor to render broader service to
the people OF the State. 1t is in this
spirit that we are undertaking to do, on
a small scale, some extension work.
Through the liberality of the Southern
Education Board we have placed a
supervision of elementary schools in
Forsyth County. Miss Anna Meade
Michaux, of Greensboro, North Carolina,
who was a member of our Training
School Faculty last year, has under
taken this special line of work. She
spends her whole time in the elementary
schools Of this county aiding the teach
ers by suggestions and in every other
way that seems possible to her. | am
convinced that it would pay every
county in the State to employ a super
visiOr OF primary instruction, and we
are trying to demonstrate the fact by
this experiment. This would open an
entirely new field of service to the grad
yates of this College and would place
them in a position to become a vital
force in the development of our educa-
tional system.
We shall, also, this year issue five or
six bulletins for distribution among the
citizens of the State These bulletins will
deal with vital questions and in that
way we hope to stimulate thought and
activity along certain lines The first
bulletin is now being prepared by the
Head OF our Domestic Science Depart
ment, and will be mailed out within a
short time. We thought it best to deal
with this subject first, as it is attracting
considerable attention at the present
time. Other members will follow and it
ls our intention to make this q per-
manent feature of the work undertaken
by your College.
We are seriously considering keeping
the College open during the summer.
have felt for some time that the State
had too much money invested in the
plant to permit it to lie idle for about
one-third of the year II we can get the
proper support from the State Legisla-
ture in the way of appropriations, we
will inaugurate this work kext summer.
think there are great possibilities along
this line and we shall, OF course, rely
upon the sympathy of the Alumnae in
this new departure.