The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-24
WONDERFUL PROGRESS.

Every Ardmore citizen has an op-
portuuity this week of lending encouf
agement to the city schools Begin
ming with today the exercises begin
and will be continued until FRIDAY
night when the graduation exercises
will be held and the work of the year
finished twenty-five persons are N
the graduating class and a large mum
ber have finished the grammar school
and will enter the high school next
year.
Those who have kept in close foach
with the schools will note the advance
ment that has been made in the past
year. Domestic science and manual
training departments have been estaD-
lished and have been PLACED on a
firm working basis. The exhibits OF
these two departments Will be very
interesting, and they deserve to be
seen by every loyal citizen. Another
department which is new in school
work has been established here. This
department might be termed the spir'
itual part of the school work. A
visiting teacher has been employed
to work among all the schools. 1t
has been the business of this teacher
to become acquainted with every boy
and girl who is not making the prog
ress they ought to make. The teach
er goes into the homes of the pupils,
learns of their environments, and cor
rects errors that need correcting, en-
courages where encouragement is
needed, and many tagging pupils have
been fired with an ambition to do
something and to be somebody. The
work OF this department will produce
results that cannot be estimated. The
three months promotion plan, which
is original with Prof. Richards and
which has been adopted here first,
has done all that was expected of the
plan. Under this system the pupils
who make the most rapid progress
are not held back with their classes,
fewer pupils fail to be promoted at the
end of the term, and this innovation
in school work has come to stay
There will be a dozen other cities in
the state that will adopt the same
plan during the year,
The art display in the window of
Westheimer & Daube must not be
neglected. The progress made in
this department has been wonderful.
Miss O7ello Pugh is art supervisor,
she has spent a great deal of time in
preparing for her work. she has nU
counted the hours spent in deyoting
time TO the pupils; her heart is in the
work and the results are here to
speak for themselves \ novel plan
of advertising the play was resorted
TO. Several art pupils, all of whom
are boys except one, designed and oX-
ecuted cartoons advertising the art
exhibit and the merchants on Main
street kindly gave space to this work,
but the cartoons prove that they have
taken an interest this year Those
who made cartoons are Louise Wall,
Neal Ferrell, Wilbur Fieldbinder, In
gram Henry, VIII Glass, George Davis
Herbert Wolverton, Travis Ritter and
Noah Spradlin
The superintendent and every teach
er in the schools deserve to have
their work inspected by every citizen.
Let's not disappoint them
Within the past year Supt. Richards
has done one Of the greatest pieces Of
work that has been accomplished any
where. The reforms he has set in mo-
ton here within decade will have
found their way into all the city
schools of the country. These plans
will carry with them a great uplift
work for the neglected boys and girls
those who feel they have no one TO
take an interest in them and the sys-