Evening star., 1912-11-14
SCHOOL FOR DEAF.
Fifty-Fifth Annual Report of
Columbia Institution.
TEACHING CORPS CHANGES
Exhibit of Finances and Estimates
Made for Ensuing Year.
TOTAL OF $s1, 900 FOR SUPPORT
Cost of Conducting the College the
Past Year Is Placed at
$1o2, ,772.1e.

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The fifty-fifth annual report of the Co.
| lumbia Institution for the Deaf for the
fiscal year ending June 30 was made to
the Secretary of the Interior today.
The total number of pupils at the insti-
tuition for the school year of 1912-13 is
given as 172. OF this number ninety are
boys and young men and the remainder
girls and young women. During the
year just ended there were 1SO pupils in
the school. eighty-five of whom we're in
the collegiate department and the re-
mainder In the primary department. OF
these thirty-six were admitted as bene-
ficiaries Of the District. s
Several changes in the corps OF OFF,
GERS and teachers were made during the
year. Dr., D. Kerfoot Shute, for more
than twenty years physician of the -fnsti-
| tuition, retired to devote himself to
special practice. His services as eye
specialist have been retained by the in
stitution. The position Of physician was
filled by the appointment of DR.. H. H.
Donnally.
structor in gymnastics. retired during
the year. and William II. Arras, grad
uate Of Gallaudet College of last June.
has been appointed to fill the position OF
physical director established Dy the
board of directors.
Instructor Appointed.
In the Kendall School Miss Elizabeth
Palmer of the North Carolina School for
the Deaf, has been appointed instructor
to fill the position made vacant by the
resignation of Miss Taliaferro and tenn
porarily filled by Miss Winifred Nor
throp. Miss Ida NJ. Parr. a graduate of
the OswegO Manual Training School, has
been made instructor of art and manual
training in place Of Miss Gertrude l..
Dunn, who resigned to accept the position
of supervising teacher in the Elizabeth
public schools.
Miss Adelaide Warning is succeeded by
Miss Agnes Suman as special teacher OF
cooking.
Several additions to the courses of in
struction have been made during the
year. They include dairy work and gar
dening, practical instruction under Har-
ley D. Drake; Horticulture, under E. d.
science of living, under Miss Helen
Northrop. These optional courses in
terested a considerable number of the
students of the college, and will be of
fered again during the present year. 4
mo educational Institution in this vi
cnity can add to its course good instruc-
tion in dairying and gardening with less
expense or more profit than ours" the
report says.
with modern dairy and farm of
over thirty acres already in operation,
and with an excellent chemical labora-
tory where tests of milk. soils and fer
structor and small amount Of equip
ment will provide for the instruction OF
fifteen or twenty young people in agri-
culture. This is field in which the deaf
are under very little handicap, and in
which a number Of our graduates have
already made marked success. 1t Is
hoped that the small sum of money nee
essary to extend this agricultural train
ing in our institution will be granted for
the next fiscal year and thereafter"
Receipts and Expenditures.
The receipts and expenses for the year
ending July 1, 1912, show that the total
cost of conducting the institution
amounted to $1O2. .77219. OF this amount
repairs to buildings totaled 11,SO1. II;
light, heat and power, $5,O7011 erection
Of dairy, milkhouse and greenhouse and
salaries of employees. $12,JOO: commissary
department. s22,3s2 81. and administration,
s., ,O6O.O1. The exp enses in connection with
the kendall School were $40, IL and
Gallaudet College, s23, 1896.
The following estimates for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1914, have already
been submitted:
For the support of the institution, in
Guiding salaries and incidental expenses.
for books and illustrative apparatus and
for general repairs and improvements,
$S1. 800.
For repairs to the buildings of the in
stitution. including plumbing and steam
fitting, and for repairs to pavements and
roadways within the grounds, $4,000.
For the removal of the college women's
dormitory and the construction, equip |
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to replace it. and for necessary repairs to
walks and grading of grounds adjacent
to said dormitory. $4,000.
For special repairs and improvements
in the lighting heating and power plant
These last improvements would include
the installation of the vacuum system OF
heating, wiring buildings now using gas,
installation of steam cookers in main
kitchen, new engines. mechanical stok-
ers, etc. They would mean a saving Of
at least $1,000 per year In cost of fuel
and much more efficient heating and
the estimates of a competent engineer.
Boundary Lines Marked.
| During the past spring an official sur
vey and plat of the grounds of the in
stitution were made by the force of the
surveyor of the District of Columbia,
and twelve stones were set at important
corners and points on the boundary line.
The west line of West Virginia avenue
was definitely given as boundary of the
southeastern portion Of the grounds. The
area given by the official survey is
slightly over 1OS acres The grade OF
West Virginia avenue. as already decid-
ed, is considerably above that of the in
stitution's grounds adjacent. making ad-
vlsable in the near future the filling in
material to bring this portion of the
grounds up to a proper grade.
An inventory of all the movable prop
erty of the institution. furniture stores,
tools. equipment, etc. and catalogue OF
the library are nearing completion. The
inventory will be made annually here
after.
| An investigation of the occupations of
the 1T young men and women who have
| received bachelors degrees from the ad-
vanced department., Gallaudet College
during the past twelve years, shows the
| following result:
| Dental student, one; sculptor. one:
electrician. one: minister to the deaf one:
deceased, two; supervisors, two; CIVIL
service employees. four: at home young
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