The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-06-05
In Manual Training Depart
ment In Schools
Meeting OF The Board Of
Education Monday Night

At the meeting Of the Mt. Vernon
board of education Monday evening,
superintendent p G. Zemer gave his
recommendation of the names of six
ty-eight members of the Senior class
for graduation at the annual com
high school auditorium THURSDAY
morning, June 11th. The students
recommended to receive diplomas this
year are as follows,
Gertrude Marie Barber, Arthur
Beck, Frank Raymond Elliott, Emma
Jane Fobes, Jay Samuel McDevitt, op-
al Fern Andrick, Edna Maud Bell, Elsie
Schipper Selena Bessie Schafer, Her
bert Dale Hutsberger, John Mckinley
Phyllips, Augusnta Martha Brigcde,
Edna Emma Blair, Nina Catherine
Shifflette, George Oliver Melick, Zul-
eme Smith, Allen Dwight Sapp. Stan
ley E, Johnson, Mary Taphena Beggs,
Mary Bromley Reed, Margaret Helen
McTntire, Beulah Colville Herrick
Leota Salena Loney. Helen Lucille
Vernon, Dwight Tracy McNabb, Mel
vim Hill Black, Clark lowering, l..
Dale Davis, Ruth Colville, Helen Mag
define Moore, Dale s. Porter, Edith
Christina Cervenka, Florence Pearl
McClelland, Gertrude h. Lorey, John
Gordon Bone, Bruce Martin Lepley,
Russell Edward Crouch, Ray Emery
Harrison, Beatrice Elizabeth Singer,
Alison Redmiles Bartlett, Hazel Belle
Worley, Velmah Pugh Hilbrant,
Edythe Hillbrant Elizabeth Splitter
Owen, Leota Irene Gleason, Robert
Russell Ewalt, Arletta Fac Davis,
Sarah Jane Mary Wynkoop. Charles
Robert Tulloss, Myrtle Evangeline
Mapes, Leo Russell Thrailkll, Alberta
C. Payne, Elsie NJ Melick, Layerna
Neoma Mild, Mary Margery Claypool,
Marguerite Dowds, Dorothy Juliet
Blair, Sara Elinor Long. Thomas Van
Voorhis, Wilfred Oren Phillips, Maur-
lce Almon Mitchell, Oscar Wise
Kramer, Gladys C. Smith, Margaret
Mary Kelly, Harold Mill, Margaret
Isabelle Todd, Frank C. l.. Claypool
Waiter Sapp.
Little business was brought to the
notice of the board Monday evening
except matters pertaining to the com
mencement. One thing suggested by
superintendent zemer was the present
unfavorable plan OF conducting the
manual training course. The work,
according to his ideas, Is not properly
arranged
Manual training. under the present
system is begun in the fifth grade of
the grammar school The pupils are
rather young in this grade and are, as
whole. unable to grasp ideas of the
work properly and are unable to prop
erly handle the tools that are neces.
sarily used, From the general trend
of thought expressed by members OF
the board, it is gathered that the work
IN the fifth grade may be dropped aud
mot be started until the pupils reach
qhe sixth grade.
Another feature suggested as un.
satisfactory under the present system
is that the course of manual training
is broken by the frst three years OF
the high school work The course
being started in the fifth grade
is continued until the enters
the high school and is then
discontinued until the senior year OF
ahe high school is reached The gen
sraI contention of the superintendent
is that the plan, while not necessarily
inconsistent, Is not good. The pupil
while retaining many Of the gooC
points in the work learned before h,
reached the high school, will have los
nepy from his mind during the inter
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