The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-09-18
Night Work
Opens Door
OF Learning
eY L. FRANCIS ROSS.

The Richmond night school VIM
open for the winter term OF 19l5-l9l6
on the night Of Tuesday. October 5th
and will be In session on 10 nights
until March 4th. according to the an.
nouncement to this effect made public
today by Principal Frank G.. Pickell
OF the High school. who. this year.
like last season, will act rs supervis-
or of the class.
While Mr.. Pickell has not given the
subject of the night school this year
much consideration In view of his
work In opening High school day class
es, yet he Is Of the opinion that the
work of the night classes this season,
will be wider in scope. more thorough
In training and the number OF pupils
who entered last year, 735 In all. will
be increased in the 1915 enrolment
Tuition 10 Free.
Free tuition will be given to the
as usual will be conducted in the
High school building and the expenses
Of the instructors will be betrayed
by the Richmond Board of Education
as was the arrangement last year
The night school will be held two
, nights each week. Tuesday and Friday:
and will be conducted from October,
8. until December IL. when the classes
will be dismissed for the Christmas,
holidays. On January 4, the school will
re-convene and will be held for the
balance of the term on the same
nights of each week until March 4th.
The courses Of study this year will
consist OF two groups. viz: academic,
prevocational and commercial studies
forming the first group and vocational
instruction composing the second
group.
The first group will comprise the
following subjects: American History,
civic government. English for foreign
ers and advanced English for natural
born Americans who desire II. Span
ish. German. algebra. geometry. COM
mercial arithmetic, bookkeeping. type
writing. stenography. all shop work.
mechanical drawing, cooking and sew.
ing.
Courses In Cooking.
The vocational courses will consist.
of Home cooking, dressmaking, mil
linery. preparing and serving meals,
automobile course, electrical work,
carpentry. sheet-metal. machinist's
trade. plumbing. pattern-making forg-
ing with mechanical drawing for all
the above named subjects.
Principal Pickell and Superintend-
ent ]. T. Giles OF the city schools will
select the teachers who will have
charge Of the instructions given the
classes. The number Of teachers to be
employed will depend entirely upon
the demand. Mr.. Pickell is OF the be-
lief that it is as likely that their will
be a demand for more teachers.
II is probable that the corps OF
teachers will include the following,
who Mr.. Pickell says will be given
first consideration in the selection OF
instructors: The names below are
those teachers who had night school
classes. last year: Miss Bond, Miss
Bradford. Miss Campbell. Miss Fisher.
Mr.. Gillespie. Mr.. Holman. Mr.. Hybar-
ger. Mr.. Kelly. Miss Kelsey. Miss
Locke. Mr.. Mays, Miss Morris. Miss
Newman. Mr.. Nohr. Mr.. Null. Miss
O'Neil. Mr.. Outlard Miss Parsons. Mr..
Strait. Miss Thompson. Miss Eva
Toms. Mr.. Tschaen. Mr.. Vickery. Miss
Won Pein, Mr.. Walker. Miss Wells.
Mary Luella. Mr.. wissler. Miss Mar
shall. Mr.. Towle. Miss Matilda Won
Pein. Substitutes. r. e. Coate, Miss
f. L. Bush and W. s. Kaufman. as
sistants. Fay Drake and Mollie Par
sens.