Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-03-09

Hill Division Entertain the
People Charmingiy.
contributed

On Friday evening, March 3rd the
splendid Witter building was again
thrown open to the public and was
the scene Of a very interesting and
profitable meeting.
The Hill Division had charge of
the reception and as the guests ar
rived they were welcomed by those
ladies, then ushered into the large
music room where the program was
carried out.
Mrs. Hill presided during the meet
ing and introduced those who took
part. Supt. c. w. Schwede rendered
all hearty welcome and expressed
regret that more male Representatives
were not present, then in a few we'll
chosen words opened the topic for the
evening: Cooperation Between Par
ents and Teachers"
The program was the work of the
School Committee and proved very
interesting and instructive.
Mrs. Guy Nash delighted the audi
ence with a beautiful piano solo, be-
autifully rendered
Mrs. Guy O. Babcock, chairman of
the School Committee, of the FEEDER
alton, then read report Of the work
of that committee, in which was put
forth in a concise manner the motives,
accomplishments and necessities, a
long the lines of the work of the com
mittee. We hope this report may APP
pear in print, so that all may learn
what has been done, what is being
done, and how much there is still to
do.
The next speaker was Prof. Creutz
of Beaver Dam, whose subject was
Home and School Mr.. Creutz spoke
with earnestness and urged the need
of sympathy and understanding, be-
tween home and school The parent
to become acquainted with the school
life, and the teacher to make it a
part of, her duty to look into the
home life, thus making a united eff
fort to build a child's character prop
erly.
Mr.. Creutz spoke at some length
ON Home and School Among other
things Prof Creutz said, 1.-The thing
we need sometimes is a school for
parents" instead of schools for chill
dren.
School men are slow, the same as
any other great institution is SLOW
law, church, etc.,-but they are using
their lives to make education the
greatest institution We are not Civ
ing industrial training as yet, but
cultural and leading toward the in
dustrial proper
We are making our education more
democratic and the High school has
ceased to be a white collar institu-
tion and honest toll finds. its place
and its merit
The mostimportant factor is strong
teachers, not more courses, teachers
who know human nature, who apply
themselves to the best of their abili-
ty and take into consideration the
home life and influences, which en-
ter into the chiId's life A hidden
hint from a parent, illustrated this.
A child was found to be in need Of
cleansing and the teacher wrote
polite note to the parent to
that effect: Dear Mrs. B. Please
see that John is taken care of-the
odor is. such that the children can
not stand it. RepIy:-Dear teacher
My boy is no rose, learn him, not
smell him
He said many things which though
strange are true For instance, if a
boy is never in need of a reprimand,
something is wrong with the boy-als
a boy as a rule doesn't care much a.
bout the being gentleman part of
it, but he wants to be on the square.
His was a very good talk and I am
sure those who heard it appreciated
it fully.
The next number was the Girls
and We cannot refrain from
giving due praise to the sweet girlish
voices, and to the excellent training
by Miss Laura Reeves as shown in
The rendition Of the two selections.
Mr.. Victor Thompson, next took /
he floor and gave a most excellent |
paper entitled Manual Training an
important Factor in the Development |
If Craftsmanship" This viii appear
n print later and we hope every ia
her and mother will avail themsel
res of the opportunity to, read it.
The next number on the program /
vas paper concerning Domestic
Science very ably handled by Miss
3hoda Dick.
This was followed by a few fitting
words by Supt. Schwede and the pro-
gram was finished. The guests then