Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-07-01
NORMAL ALUMNI NIEEr.
Home of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Walker
Scene of Pleasant Reunion.

One of the most enthusiastic and
successful reunions of the Southern
oregon Normal School alumni was
held last Friday, the 2Sth inst. at
the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Walker on the Boulevard, both
host and hostess being graduates of
the normal. A delightful program
was rendered as follows: Solo, Mrs.
Walker; address by president, Mr..
Homes; solo, Mr. Walker; reading,
Mrs. F. d. Wagner; instrumental
solo, Miss Caldwell; addresses by
Prof. Van Scoy, Prof. Mulkey and
Mrs. King; solo, Miss Foster.
Dainty refreshments were served
and "a guests responded to roll call
almost every class graduating from
the school being. represented. 1t is
worthy of note the great distances
many of the alumni had Travelled to
be present at this meeting From
Douglas, Alaska, came Susanne
Homes, '96; Ora Patrick, '0S, Cal
gary, Canada; Maysie Foster, 90,
Portland; Maude Rippey, 'OS. Klam-
ath Falls; Agnes Storey, '09, Rose
burg; Olivia Pohland, '04, Corvallis;
Eva Norcross, '0S, Central Point;
Winifred Spencer, 'OS, Toledo; B. S.
Stancliffe, 'O6, Phoenix; Gertrude
King, 90; Ada Welch, 'O9; Jessie B.
Wilson, 90; Glen Conwell, 'O9; Miss
Fielder and B. F. Mulkey, all of Med
ford, and Beulah Caldwell, 'O9; Eliz-
abeth Beaver, '09; F. C. Homes,
'9S; Lillian Kaiser, '07; Louise Pc
rozzi, '99; Flora Walker, 'O4; G. H.
Milan, '03; Walter Herndon, 'OS;
Roy Walker, 'O4.
After a discussion of the ways and
means of reopening OF the normal,
committee was appointed by the pres
ident and the following resolutions
were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, The Oregon State Nor
NAL School located at Ashland was
discontinued by legislative action in
1910, and
Whereas, The number of trained
teachers for the schools of Oregon is
decreasing, the ranks when filled
coming almost exclusively from other
states, and
Whereas, Southern Oregon is par
ticularly suffering from dearth of
normal trained teachers, and
Whereas, The school boards and
superintendents of schools are ran
sacking foreign territory to meet this
demand for trained teachers, and
Whereas, There is no higher edu-.
cational institution nearer the
Rogue river valley than $50 miles
and no normal school nearer than
800 miles, and
and women as seek normal schooI
education are finding it in California
and adjoining normal schools, where
they become enlisted and are lost to
Oregon forever, and
Whereas, The people of southern
Oregon gave majority of 5000
votes for the southern Oregon insti-
tuition, and
Whereas, The one normal school
now established is pitifully made
quate to perform the duty of supply
ing teachers for the entire state,
Therefore be it. Resolved, That it
is the sense of the Alumni Association
of the Southern Oregon State Normal
School now assembled, that the inSti
tuition should be reopened by the peo-
pie, and in the interests of the people
of the state.
Be it Resolved, That the splendid
normal school property now idle con-
tinue to be held in trust by the state
of Oregon until that time now fast
approaching when through pressure
of public necessity this school, which
has been established for many years,
will be reopened.
Resolved, That it is the determina-
tion of this association to place be-
fore the people of Oregon by an in
itiative measure in 1914 an oppOr-
tunity to vote upon the question of
placing the school on a firm footing
as permanent part of the educa-
tional system of the state.