The weekly times-record., 1913-10-30
(From Fridays Daily

(From Fridays Daily
Greetings from Valley City Normal
graduates and former citizens were
expressed by Mrs. Una B. Herrick,
dean of women at the state agricul'
tural college, Bozeman, Mont, IN an
address at the general exercises at
the Normal school yesterday morning.
Mrs, Herrick was formerly an instruc-
tor in the Normal school and for sew
eral hours was the guest Of the school
yesterday meeting old friends. Said
the speaker:
President Mcfarland, members OF
the faculty and students, it is indeed
q pleasure to come back and look out
over this auditorium, and the sad and
beautiful part of il is that l see so
many new faces. That means things
are moving along and are not at
standstill. l not only greet you N.Y.
self and for the institution from which
/ have come but for lot of Valley
City people who live in Montana for
that state elaine 10: of Valley City
people. Miss Eva Mckinney who
graduated, I believe, in 1906 is my
assistant in the campus house and has
some work in physical education. We
had a four county institute in Boze-
man and my daughter was visiting
there at the time. She and Miss Nc
Kinney started out to round up all
Valley City friends and they found
quite number of girls and one man.
Mr.. Adolph S. Peterson is teaching
manual training in the Bozeman
schools and doing good work too.
Livingstone has four young ladies,
Miss Vorachek, Misses Runice and
Miss Portz. Then, Miss Leech is also
there. We had an informal luncheon
together and had a good time and how
we all talked! Everybody talked. Mr..
Mcfarland wanted to know why l
didn't let ahim know about it so he
might have planned to be present He
doesn't know, but l am going to tell
him, that We are to have an eight
county institute at Bozeman and l
shall send him telegram inviting him
to luncheon and I shall expect him
to come, too.
Even before my day in Montana, the
educational world there has been seeth
ing with the problems expected in
new state. Once when said we did
such and such thing in North Dako-
ia, a lady said to me, do you know
that we have twice as much space in
Montana as North Dakota, and that
North Dakota has twice as many peo-
ple?" l find some Of the Valley City
girls out there fussing over things be-
cause they are not as they have been
at Valley City, but everything is new,
a new country with new conditions.
The consolidation of state schools is a
problem We are now very much dis
cussing The state university is scat
tered all over, the domestic economy
department is at Bozeman, the school
of mines at Butte, etc. When the mat
ter was brought up last winter that
the schools were all to be placed at
one point, Immediately Great Falls,
Kalispel, Lewiston and other cities
were saying the university was to be
situated in their town, their express
sion was, 1--WE are going to have the
greater university" One lady said that
to me and replied, indeed, didn't
know the question was settled yet. 3"
The bill for the consolidation was
killed last winter in the house, but in
July, think of it, in July after our cat
alogs were all out, they had meeting
Of al 1.-The educational boards and gave
Bozeman the Home Economics work
That department is wobbly and it is
largely in the interests of that work
I am here. We want to interest the
girls in other professions than teach
ing. We have the girls graduate from