The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-08
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START NEW TERM
New Courses Of Study
Added to Curriculum
EVERYBODY ON THE JOB WHEN
SCHOOL OPENED TUESDAY
MORNING,

long before o'clock, Tuesday
morning, the streets of Honesdale
were filled with hundreds of bright
faced, rosy-cheeked boys and girls,
who focked to the $65,000 High
school building on Church street,
where they registered for the term
of 1911-1912.
According to Superintendent of
Schools, Prof. Harry A. Oday, 167
pupils enrolled in the High school
and 316 in the grades, total of
4S3.
Only twenty new children entered
the primary grade, a remarkable
feature, which is easily accounted
for by the fact that Honesdale bor-
ough hasn't been enlarged of late
years. With rents averaging from
$40 to $25, man must earn pretty
fair wages to enjoy the privilege of
living in the aristocratic confines of
the City of Hone.
Workingmen do not reside in the
borough in large numbers, that is,
men who work in shops and factor
les. They live in the Texas's and in
the suburbs.
Several new courses have been
added this year, viz. Commercial
Geography, Commercial Arithmetic,
Mechanical Drawing and a full
years work in Agriculture. A num-
Der of the advanced students are
taking up these practical elective
studies.
There are thirty-eight members in
the Senior Glass, and the Freshman
Glass numbers exactly sixty-two.
Forty new arm chairs, for recita-
tion purposes, have been placed in
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school room, instead of installing new
desks, twenty chairs and twenty
tables were added to accommodate
new students.
Only one change of textbooks was
made, Leinbarger's Physics" sup
planting ''Carhart and Shutes.'
Fiye-and-one-half hours day are
set aside for purposes of instruction.
School opens at 8 a. m. and re-
mains in session until noon. The
afternoon session convenes at 1870
O'Clock and closes at p. m.
The little folks are allowed a ID
minute indoor recess. The first
grade is dismissed at 3:15 p. m.
Last year." said Prof. Oday,
we closed the first month with an
enrolment of 952 in the grades, and
159 in the High school. l can't see
that we have lost very many pupils
from people moving away"
All of the teachers were at their
posts of duty, Tuesday morning,
save Miss Mary Menner, Latin in
structor in the High school, who has
been spending the Summer abroad.
She sailed for America September 2,
and is expected home September II.
In the meantime her sister, Miss
Dorothy Menner, is acting as her
substitute.
One additional teacher was en-
ployed last Summer, Miss Florence
Brown, who has charge of the Ger
man classes, and brings the total
number of instructors up to sixteen.
The personnel of the faculty of
the Honesdale Public Schools for
1911-1912 is as follows:
High School-Prof H. A. Oday,
Phi. B., Supervising Principal (Sci-
ence); Prof. R. T. Davies, Phi. B.,
vice-principal German and Sci
ence); Miss Alice q. Gregory, eng
lish) Miss Edith X. Swift English,
History) Miss Mary A. Menner, A.
B., (Latin, History; Miss Florence
Brown, Phi. B. German and Mathe-
matics).
Grammar Department - Eighth
grade-Mrs. Alma j. G, Dix; sew
enth grade-Mrs. w. A. Sluman;
sixth grade-Miss Theresa B. Soete;
fifth grade-Miss Elizabeth Baird.
Primary Department - Fourth
grade-Miss Edith Tolley; third
grade-Miss Anna Seaman; second
graSo-Miss Caroline stephens; first
grade-Miss Matte Gillen; primary
Miss Jennie S. Lee; supervisor of
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We are affected very little by
the provisions of the new School
Code" said Prof. Oday. There are
several of the features of the Code
we have required from pupils for
years, especially, the two seasons of
entering. We did not allow children
to enter at any time.'1
The wheels of the school machin-
cry are moving along smoothly, and
the prospects for a successful year
are very bright.
Prof Oday confessed to a Citizen
man that he didn't gain any in
weight during his six weeks vaca-
tion, but he "rested his mind" And
he needed it, if the demands made
upon his time, during the brief in
terview granted the Citizen man, are
any index of what is going on every
day. What the teachers and schol-
ars didn't come in and ask him for,
isn't worth mentioning. Their re-
quests ranged all the way from pen
ellis on up to school books, note
books, and even to a copy of the
new school code!
No one asked him for money-at
least not while the reporter was
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