Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-08-13
COUNTY, IOWA, TUESDAY. AUGUST l3, 1912
High School Notes.

When school opens again the second
day of September, number OF i'm
provements will be noted that have
been made during the summer. The
so-called gymnasium room has been
finished off and fitted up for manual
training room, while the new domestic
science department will be installed in
the remodeled manual training room.
The establishment of this department
marks new era in the educational in
terests of Cresco, and puts us in the
front rank, shoulder to shoulder with
the most progressive schools of the
country. With new and up-to-date
equipment, adequate to the needs of
class of twenty at one time, and
graduate of Ames in charge of the
work, this department bids fair to be-
come one Of the most popular and bene-
ficial in the school. 1t is planned to
have the work given in two sections
this first year in order to accommodate
all those who wish to enroll in the
course.
Another important feature of next
years work will be the fact that this
will be our first year as State Nor
NAL Training High School. The sue
cess of the normal work as carried on
of our own accord for the past three
years has been such as to insure even
greater perfection in the work now
that we are recognized by the State
and can give certificate to our gradu-
ates that ranks even better than first
grade certificate. A large number of
former graduates of this and other
High schools, including many who have
taught year or so, have already sig
nified their intention of returning next
year in order to earn this highly de-
sirable certificate.
The faculty next year bids fair to be
the best we have ever had. Mr.. H. l..
Nearpass returns for his fourth year
as Super ntendent, and will teach
Pedagogy, Reading and Grammar.
Mr.. A. l. Tiss, who has been with us
for the past year and half, will re-
turn as Principal, and teach History,
Economics and Commercial Geography,
besides having charge of athletics.
Mr.. E. D. Wells will teach Physics,
Agriculture, Geometry, Higher Alge-
bra, Arithmetic and Bookkeeping, He
is an honor graduate of Grinnell Coll
ege with post graduate work in Agri-
culture at Ames.
Miss Ida Reed will return to us an
other year and teach Chemistry, AL
zebra. Botany, Zoology and possibly
Physiology. A graduate~of Cornell
College, she has been pursuing post
graduate work at the University of
Chicago this summer in Science and
Mathematics.
Miss Minnie Laxson, who comes to
take charge of our English department,
is graduate of Upper Iowa Univer-
sity with years successful expert
ence.
MISS IuSu IldIIScu, du HOlIOI IL ouu-
ate of Central University at Pella, Ia,
will have charge of our Latin and
German department. She is also
graduate of business college and dur
ing her college course has:.been private
secretary to the President of Central
University.
Miss Bessie Miller, graduate of the
full four years course in Domestic
Science at Ames, will establish this
new department in the Cresco schools,
and also teach Physical Geography or
Physiology. She has had a year of
practice teaching il the Ames public
schools and comes to us highly recon-
mended.
The public speaking department will
again be in charge of Miss Allie Mae
McCook; the manual training room will
as usual be presided over by MIR. A.
R. Cornish; the music work will be
conducted again by Miss Mabel Kratz,
and the Art and Penmanship work by
Miss Clara Drake. All of these have
proven their worth by one or more
years work here in Cresco.