The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-05-22
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL
CLOSING ITS BEST YEAR SINCE
1T WAS ESTABLISHED
COMMENCEMENT EXER-
CISES.

The attendance at the Normal
school in this city during the past
year has been greater than any pre-
vious year since it was founded. The
enrolment, including all depart
ments, has reached a total of 400. OF
this number, 81 have been taking
work which will secure them a certifi-
cate to teach at the end of the school
year, or which will enable them to en-
ter the sophomore or Junior year
of college next fall. Two hundred of
these are enrolled in the grades in
the training school and the remainder
are taking academic work.
The following have been pursuing
the regular work which leads TO a
state certificate and life diploma:
Vernon Beaumont, Iva Borland,
Vera Cline, Nina Coffey. Lila Conger,
Helen Foley, Pearl Goodroad, Ethel
Jones, Madeline Johnson, Mabel
Kvenvold, Blanche Porter, Bernice
Roberts, Francis Roche, Stella Run
KEEL and Bernice Stolzman.
Those finishing the fifth year work
which entities them to first grade Ger
tifcate without further examination
are:
Emma Bennett, Myrtle Billings,
Edna Billings. Beryl Beaumont, Mar
garet Carr, Cecile Detjen, Lavina Ell
fert. Kathryn Fergen, Irene Fleming,
Stella Fitzgerald, Loretta Foley. Mar
garet Gleason. Alma Garthune. Flor
ibel Green, Ruth Hammer, Minnie
- Az. TIar4FrrC Anna Hn n
dorf. Florence Heying, Edith irish
Fern Johnson, Wesley Keith, Emeline
Kehrvold, Marjorie Laughlin, Alice
Lawrence, Ada Manson, Hazel Nc
Martin. Kathryn O'Brien, Marie Par
ker. Clarence Powell, Gladys Pratt,
Anne Rice, Elda Roth, Guyla Roth,
Emma Robinson, Mabel Smith, Lyla
Sloeum, Sidney Sollitt, Ethel Shipton.
Eva Stilson, Myrtle Selby, Victoria
Skala, Anna Trooien, Ethel Winter
steen, Laurel Witt and Gertrude
Yule.
Those completing the elementary
teachers course which secures them
a second grade certificate are:
Mabel Anderson, Edna Anundson,
Marie Fitzgerald, Olga Gipson, Flor
lenee Gill, Winifred Gilman, Leona
Healy. Lauretta Hurley. Nellie Lar
son. May Leighton, Ina Larson, kath-
rvn Mueller. Anna Moberg, Anna
O'Connell, Eva Phelps. Matte Peter
son. Mildred Rudd, Marjorie Suther-
land, Frances Stanley, Mabel Stevens,
Ruth Tysdale, Helena Waechter and
Irene Weber.
Following is a list of those who
have been taking strictly college
work:
Wesley B~eardsley, Chas. NJ. Daugh-
erty. Margaret Golf, Lois Latin, Har-
vey Lawrence, Emil Loriks, Olive
Lynch. Don May, Clifford Powers,
Horace Roth, Geo. Runkel, Edward
Slack and Vernon Zimmerman.
Commencement exercises will be
held in the Normal auditorium be
tween June 5 and June 8. These ex-
ercises will end the regular schoo.
wear and the summer session will be
gin the following Monday, June IA
An eight weeks session will be helc
this summer, closing August o
Credits received during the summel
term will be equal to those of any
other term during the school yeal
and will be SO accepted by the state
department of education.
The special faculty that will have
the summer school work in charge II
made up of the following teachers:
j. w. Heston, J. w. Golf, S. I
May, Edith Beaumont, b. M. Law
renee, l.. M. Tolles, Loren G. Ather
ton, Loretta McElmurry. These will
be assisted during the week of teach
ers' institute by Miss Della Sheridan
Supt. Geo. w. Brown of Paris, Ill.
Prof. S. l.. Smith of Aberdeen Nor
NAL. Prof. Warren Tolles of Austin
Mimi, and other lecturers.
An examination of the secretary
books shows that a large amount o
new apparatus and equipment ha'
been added to each of the depart
ments during the year and this viii
add to the efficiency and prestige o
the institution for the future.
The department of expression pu
on an excellent peace program in tn
chapel on the 18th. The students o
! the Madison Normal organized earl!
in the year a branch of the American
School Peace league and several pa
) pers, essays and orations of a yer.
high one have been given during tn
year on the subject of peace. Tn