The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-09-07
PRESIDENT
MOORE IS A
BUSY Man
Teachers and Pupils Ar
irving Daily; New
Voice Teacher

September the 18th has been fixed
as the date of opening for the fall
term OF 0kahomas college for young
women In chickasta and the new ad-
ministration building is one Of the
busiest places in the city, Final ar
rangements for the opening Of school
are being rushed and the work Of ar
ranging for the accommodation OF the
students who win be given board and
room in the building has increased
the activity Of the past few days.
President Moore has been a busy
man an summer but he Is busier just
now than he has been at any time
since he assumed the responsibilities
as president Of the institution fTeaeh-
ers and pupils have begun to arrive
and the matter Of meeting the trains
brings much extra work. Visitors are
beginning 70 call at the presidents Of
flee for information concerning the
opening classificatIons and the indi-
cations ale that the enrolment this
term viii be large.
II is safe to say that the faculty
o. the institution Is one Of the strong
est In the state. being composed o. In
struciors who have specialized in
their respective lines Of work and tho
young ladies who enroll in the Col
lege s year may BE- assured that
they viii receive instruction OF the
highest character.
Among those retained from last
years faculty are Misses Olive Leman
Mcclintic. Lora Linn Garrison, Joy
Belle Hancock and Ethel Alta Dunn.
These ladies' are too well known o
need any introduction All are grad
yates OF schools Of high standing.
Misses Hancock and Dunn have spent
the summer specializing Ia noted east
ern colleges and universities.
Among the newly elected members
o, the faculty are Miss Ella Hockaday,
Mrs. Edna Maddox. Miss Sarah Whcel-
r. Miss Merle Marie stephens. Miss
sarah b. Trent. Mr.. Fred Walters.
Miss Make woodring. Miss Ky'ie
Browlow and Miss Rose Murray.
Miss Hockaday will have charge Of
the biological science department and
has the highest recommendations for
her work. She taught in the south
eastern normal az Dnrant last year.
Miss Hockaday Is graduate Of VIII
liams-FIeming college and has taken
special post graduate work in coiu,a-
bla university She came to Chicka-
sha directly from Columbia, Tenn.
Mrs. Edna Maddox will have charge
OF the commercial department Of the
school and expects to make this de-
partment OF the college one OF the
finest in the southwest. She comes TO
Chlckasha from the southwestern nor
nal school at weatherford. Mrs. Mad
dox has been doing practical banking
work this summer in one of the large
banks OF Oklahoma City.
Miss Sarah Kent Wheeler Of Con-
cord. Mass. has been elected to take
the place Of Miss LYDIA Overall as di-
rector Of the physical culture course.
Miss Wheeler has been taking spec
ial work in the Posse gymnasium In
Boston. Mass. during the summer
months and comes to the school fresh
from the best athletic institution in
the east.
Miss Merle stephens who was di-
erctor of the domestic art department
Of the Alabama Technical college last
year has been doing post gradu-
ate work in the Columbia university
this summer and made splendid cred
its in her work. She is a woman Of
superior ability and holds a B. S. dc
gree from the state normal school at
Athens. Georgia.
Miss Sarah B. Trent will have
charge Of the history department She
"a a scholar Of exceptional ability be
ing a graduate Of the North Texas
Femaie college and Peabody college
for teachers Miss Trent was prin
cipal Of the Muskogee Central schoo