The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-10-06
SCHOOLS OPEN FOR 1e11-12
Large Attendance at High School and
Primary SchooI-Prospects Most
Observation-Disclosures
School Also Opens

mary School opened for the term
1911-12 The attendance at the high
school was over three hundred and
at the primary school there were also
several hundred, but on account of its
being the Day of Atonement none OF
the Jewish children were present, so
today the attendance will be even
larger.
Mr.. J. H. Workman of Southside,
Tenn, who has been in Ocala for ten
years, is again principal of the high
school. He is very fine educator,
and as public school principal can-
not be excelled in the state. He has
lifted our school to such a high plane
that no school in tne state has a bet
ter reputation than the Ocala High
School. While all of the teachers at
the high school-with two exceptions
are. new teachers this year, they
had things we'll in hand at the open
ing of school. and everything went
like clock-work-nO confusion, no
trouble-everything smooth and or
derly, and each of the new teachers
made a splendid impression on the
pupils.
In the high school department, with
Mr.. Workman, this year, are Miss
Marcella McKeown of Louisiana and
Miss Mary Reynolds of Florida. Miss
McKeown is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Louisiana and other col
leges,. and the recommendations from
her professors are very fine indeed
and compliment this bright young wo-
man in the highest terms Miss Rey-
nolds received her education in this
state and at Columbia University in
New York, and she is very clever
and capable young woman, having al
| ready taught in this state several
| terms
Miss Celia Murphy of Humboldt,
Tenn, the teacher of the eighth
grade, also comes to Ocala bearing
the highest recommendations. Miss
| Nan c. Browne, a daughter of the
| Episcopal rector of Tampa, will
teach the seventh grade; Miss Eliza
| beth Mizelle of Orange Lake, the
sixth grade; Mrs. Rex Green Todd of
this city, the fifth grade, and Mrs
Leonard Wesson of this city, the
fourth grade, with Miss Mary Gates as
her assistant.
| Miss Nellie Stevens, who as a pri-
mary teacher has no equal in Florida
is again in charge of our primary
school. and she was very busy Mon
day getting her work we'll in hand and
the little ones placed for the term.
At the primary school the teachers
are the same this term as last, Miss
Stevens assistants being Miss Co.
rinne Williams, Miss Margaret Tay-
| lor and Miss Fannie Clark, with Miss
Lucille Moore as a general assistant
for the school
Miss Stevens has a number of most
interesting plans for the children for
this term, which will add still more
to her popularity as a teacher.
Last year reading was especially
stressed at the primary school: not
only we're the children taught to read,
but made reading a habit, and many
stories were read to them, and so
fond of reading did they become that
it has been impossible to supply the
demand for books, so Miss Stevens
hopes to very soon establish a good
primary school library, and she hopes
that the patrons of the school will
generously donate books for the IL
brary
The children will also this term
make a special study of plants and
flowers, and will at once begin to
beautify their grounds and rooms
with shrubs, plants and flowers,
which will be a most interesting work
for them.
Before the beginning of school the
primary SCnooi was tuoTOuSnIy anu
beautifully cleaned, every inch of the
floors and walls and every bench be-
ing cleaned and purified, so that
there is no possible fear of contagion
At both the schools during the
opening hours there were a large
number of visitors. The pupils were
only kept for short while-just long
enough to be assigned places and les
sons, and by the end of the first week
everything will be in ship-shape or
der, and the prospects for the term
are most encouraging.
The kinderoarten