The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-08-31
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
TO OPEN MONDAY
PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT FOR A
MOST SUCCESSFUL YEAR OF
SCHOOL WORK
MANUAL TRAINING TO Be INTRODUCED
Twenty-Five Teachers and Superin
tendent Compose Corps-Bright
Prospects for Football Team

The Brookings city schools open
next Monday morning, after the long
vacation, and the youngsters now
have thirty-six weeks of work ahead
of them. superintendent Browning
has taken hold of the work with an
enthusiasm that cannot fail to be
impaired to the teachers and pupils
and we look for a most successful
years work.
A feature this year will be manual
training, which will be tried out in
the schools for the first time. The
work will be given to the seventh
and eighth grades this year and will
be extended gradually through the
high school classes. A teacher from
the college will have charge of the
work for the coming year.
superintendent Browning intends to
organize an orchestra this year and
will take the matter up soon after the
beginning of school. There is consid-
cradle excellent musical talent in the
school and it can be welded into a
fine organization without a doubt.
Superintendent Browning also has in
mind the encouragement of literary
work, a feature that has been ne
elected somewhat in the past, and
frequent oratorical and debating con-
tests will be held during the year.
Mr.. Browning is a supporter of ath-
letics, as well as every other phase of
school life from which the pupils can
derive good and which tend to foster
a school spirit. "All work and no
play makes Jack a dull boy" and the
student who leaves school knowing
only what he has managed to dig
from his books has missed the most
valuable part of school life,
At the regular monthly meeting
of the board of education the teachers
were assigned to their respective
rooms, and the following are the
teachers and their assignments:
High school: Ralph L. Patty, prin-
cipal, physical science and book-keep-
ing; Marie Acomb, German and Eng
lish; Frances Hicks, Latin; Myra R.
Downs, mathematics; Mabelle Boy
son English; Edna P. Pammel, sci
ence and history; Cora E. Ostroot,
music and penmanship.
Grades: eighth grade, Helen Biers-
dorf and Bessie Chappell; seventh
grade, Dora Sykes; sixth and seventh,
Nora Parish; sixth, Mabel Irish; fifth,
Agnes Johnson and Marie Vahle;
fourth, Mable Binnewies and Elsie
Morrice; third, Mary Boyd and Ella
C. Anderson; second, Winifred Enos
and Ella Black; primary, Emma Sor-
enson and Eleanor Bennett.
The text books to be used for the
coming year will be the same as has
been in use. Practically no changes
are to be made.
The board of education has had
the buildings put in first Glass shape
for the opening next Monday. All the
rooms have been thoroughly cleaned
the wood work vanished, the old
wooden window shades replaced by
new blinds. The most notable i'm
provement is the painting and deco
rating made at the central building.
A meeting of all the teachers will
be called by superintendent Brown
ing at the high school Saturday, Sep
TENDER 2nd at 2:30 p. m.
With the opening of the fall term
the football boys are taking stock
of their prospects for the coming sea
son. The outlook is very bright, so
the boys tell us, for a winning team
this fall. A good many Of the veter-
ans of last years great team are in
school and the natural improvement
of the substitutes will give Coach
Patty a fine squad to work with. The
following veterans are in school:
Captain Hanson, Waltz, Olson, Hoov-
er, Peterson, Miller, Fishback, Skin
ner. Others who are expected to
put up a strong fight for a place are:
Jerde, Simmons, Blakley, Knutson,
Morrow, Goodfellow, Holiday. Cap
tain Hanson will play his old position
at fullback, while Skinner will like
ly be shifted to quarterback. The
graduation Of Catlett and Caldwell,
the two star ~halfbacks, may make II
necessary to bring back Olson. Miller
and Fishback back from the line. Waltz