Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-02-17
PRESIDENT HENDR|CK
OF UNIVERSITY HERE
lNSPECTS SCHOOLS AND WILL
BE BANQUETED THIS
EVENING

President A. w Hendrick, the new
head of the state university, arrived
in town this morning and is spending
the day here inspecting the Nye
County Normal school and getting ac-
quainted with the people. This after
noon Jay Carpenter, who is an alum
nus of the university, took President
Hendrick about in his auto to meet
some of the mining men. Later he
returned to school, where he ad-
dressed the high school on the sub
iect nearest to his heart, the state
university and its relation to the
schools and the young people OF Ne
vada. The rest of the afternoon was
spent in meeting people and getting
acquainted further.
/ This evening DR.. Hendrick will be
4 the guest of honor at a banquet in
the Mizpah hotel The other guests
viii be the Tonopah school trustees,
I the teachers of the Tonopah public
schools and the principal and stu
dents of the Nye County Normal
At $3.50 this evening there will be
la general get-together-andget-
quainted meeting in the high school
gymnasium. Every parent, every tax
/ payer every citizen, man or woman,
and every other person interested in
education in general is cordially in
vited The chief address of the even
ing will be delivered by the presi.
dent, who will take as his subject
the university and what it means and
/ what he hopes to make it mean in
| future to the people of Nevada. AT
ter the speaking he wishes to meet
as many as possible of the towns
people
The president is a man of large
ambitions for the university, to the
1 leadership of which he has been
called. He came to the state a few
months ago as total stranger and
at once embarked upon a campaign
OF constructive planning to make the
school bigger, buster and better than
ever and to try to bring the people
at large into more intimate sympathy
and relationship, so that each may be
mutually helpful to the other
All the alumni are invited to be
present this evening to help welcome
the guest who is making his first
visit to this part Of Nevada.
Upon arriving at school this morn
ing he was shown about the high
school and introduced to the high
school teachers, three out of FIVE OF
whom are graduates from the state
university. He expressed himself as
much pleased with the appearance OF
the building and its location. He
stated that he had been requested by
Governor Boyle, president of the state
board of education, to inspect the
Nye County Normal, of which Miss
Anna J. REEVE is principal, and to re
port TO the state board his findings
There is a possibility that, as a re
suit of this and other visits of inspec
ton, credits in the university may be
granted to graduates Of the various
county normals
Owing to the fact that definite
news of the date of President Hen
bricks visit was not received until
yesterday the program has been cur
tailed from the original plan and viii
of necessity be brief and informal
The time of beginning had TO be sci
at $3.50 on account of the banquet
The program as tentatively arranged
will be. A vocal selection; j. y
Tregloan. representing the Tonopat
school board; Jay Carpenter, repre-
senting the alumni of the state uni
versity; vocal selection; and then the
chief address of the evening. Presi
dent Hendrick, on the University
After the speaking there will be an
informal reception aud Handwriting