The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-09-18
Miss Wilma Crossan.

| Oklahoma must be represented in
/ the High School. IT will step tight
to the front in the High School by
having as another delegate to the Com
petent Association-Miss Wilma Cros-
san of Shawnee Miss Crossan is a
Baker University student and shall
dispense Latin in the latest and i've
licst forms. She says she likes Ard
more and her pleasing manners and
earnest mien will insure reciprocal
tion on Ardmore's part. Baker Uni
yersity is noted as a church school
that really develops church characters.
Miss Crossan will inspire to better
things and make stronger anything
she meets.
Miss Martha Moffett.
Perhaps no teacher in the city
schools last year grew so much in
the peoples estimation as Miss Mof-
fett. Younthful in appearance mod
est in speech and manner, the first
impression was that she must find
experience But when Cornell fixes
its stamp of A. p on young woman
already possessed of excellent culture
you may put 1t down there will be
something worth while taking place
In that TO which she puts her heart
and hand. 1t was so In this case.
The German and French teaching put
forth by her was stamped as the very
best in the state. Pupils at once
recognized when she opened her
mouth here was mistress of these
languages. An Ardmore girl was VS.
iting among some students Of good
colleges Of that section this summer
ard was tempted to try her Ardmore
French. oh" said these college
girls we have not gotten that far.
though We have studied it a term and
"A half" IF they had been in Ard
more" said the Ardmore girl, they
would have gotten some (of that
speech the first day" Miss Moifett
will have charge of this work again
this year
The Teachers.
There is an old saying in pedagogy,
AS Is the teacher so is the school.
Based upon this idea. Ardmore will
have nothing to fear this year All
that scholarship, character, special
ization and training can give in this
modern day IS found in the teaching
force of the city schools.
The teachers are divided by the
work they perform into grade teach
ers, High School teachers, supervis
ors and superintendent. In all there
are forty-one including the four teach
CO.'S of The colored schools. There
are thirty grade teachers and six
High School, with four supervisors
I The largest group OF teachers from
( any one section Is from Ardmore,
| Oklahoma It having sixteen teachers
! in the city schools. Other states rep
resented In the grades are Texas
/ Arkansas. Kansas, Alabama. In
High School, Virginia, Missouri New
York, Oklahoma, Illinois and Maine
are represented.
/ The supervisors are developing ply
steal training, music, drawing and
! penmanship in the strongest degree
/ The last has just been added and
will be pushed to very highest point
of excellence. Miss Grace Williams
of Ardmore has charge OF the first
Mrs. Katherine McClintock of Detroit
/ the second, Miss Katherine Markey OF
Gilman City, Mo, the third, and Miss
Mary Perrott of Ardmorc will take
the last.
/ All in all It is cosmopolitan
crowd. A leading insurance man
. from Dallas, who had five children in
the city schools, three in the High
school, said once: Il have lived sew
eral years in the good city of Dallas.
Il thought we had As good schools a
the south affords and | think so yet.
But my girls have made more prog
ress and live and move more In at
mosphere of refinement and growth
here than ever they did in Dallas.
And | am going to attribute among
other influences. to the cosmopolitan
selection OF your teachers My chill
dren talk and act it seems to ne as
though they are not only children of
Arimore and Oklahoma but of the
on,i9e country
Some Prominent Features OF This
Year
There must be some general ends
as we'll as some specific ones in view