The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-09-12
Students Enrolling Today
For the Coming
School Year
Bghl!E NJ FACULTY CHANGES
Expected Student Body Will
Number 300 Within
10 Days

10 Days
The ain Of the faculty and student
BODY OF the Fairmont State Normal
kchool this year will be to make the
chool the distinctive school OF the
state" said President Joseph Roster
This morning.
Quite q good deal Of work has al.
: ready been accomplished along the line
I. pf making the Fairmont Normal the
3utsdncttye teacher training school and
etahsdcs issued recently by State ST..
Z perintendent OF Schools. Hon. NJ. p.
AI6hawkey. Of Charleston. shows that
900 certified teachers diplomas had
zen issued by the state department to
raduates Of the various Normal
Setools. denominational schools, high
lsch6o :ltraining schools and that out Of
This nnmber 100 were granted to grad.
hates OF the Fafrmont Normal school.
when It Us taken into consideration
that there are probably 80 schools Of
this character in the state and the
Eairmont State Normal turned out 100
= put OF ! 900 It can readily be seen that
The percentage was extremely high for
HE local Normal school,
Students assembled in large mum.
begs at the Normal this morning in or.
DER 10 be registered and assigned to
the various classes and the work is
DrugreSslng nicely under the care Of
HE entire faculty. So completely has
the crgantzation been prfected that lit
\ nc. time 10 required 10 properly classi
~ each incoming student. Each mem.
! Der Of the faculty has a special place
where he talko with the prospective
students for his department and spe.
( ctaI oversight Is given to each pupil
enrolling. The organization is so per.
4 feet that all the confusion usually &C.
accompanying the first day of the open.
ing Of any school is avoided and by to.
morrow the machinery will be set In
motion and from that time on the fac.
nlty and student body will be down to
hard work.
The exact number OF students enroll
ing today could not be ascertained but
according to the best obtainable infor-
NATION within the next ten days the
enrolment will approximate 300.
Several changes have ben made in
the faculty Of the institution since the
teachers were announced from
charleston as follows: Prof Chester
Highly who for a number of years
had been head Of the department Of
history and also assistant to the pres.
dent resigned that position to accept
- similar chair in the West Virginia
Uriyersity. Prof. Walter Barnes, head
~ the English department, was given
the place Of assistant to the president.
Another new face to be seen In the
fRculty Is that of Maurice X. Turner,
hgraduate Of the University OF Penn
\ eyivania and until recently principal
of the Charleston public schools, who
lis the head Of the Department Of His
tory.
q Mrs. N. R. C. Morrow and Miss Jes.
HE Ice, who had spent the past two
years In study at the University Of Chi.
cage. having been given leave Of alb
sence, are again in their places this
year. Mrs. Morrow Is in the English
sdepartment and Miss Ice Is q teacher
eln the Department OF Education.
The Household Economics depart.
5tment has been Strengthened by the ad.
dition Of Miss Harriet NJ. Chappell, a
graduate of the Mechanics Institute Of
Rochester, N. Y. Special attention will
Z be given this year to this department.
Miss Chappell will be in charge OF the
domest cart, Miss Nell Mcconnell Of
the; domestic science and Miss Laura
Briggs, OF the drawing and art depart.
sment. Miss Briggs had been teacher
81 art IN the Fairmont High school for
Cucumber of years and resigned that
snosition for the position In the Normal
faculty.
Miss Beatrice Fitzwater. Of Buck
harmon, head OF the department Of ex-
pression, will not be able to take up
her duties for several months owing to
the illness Of her mother. During her
absence the teachers in the English
l5depaftment will have charge Of the
= classes,
The first chapel exercise will be held
1 Tomorrow morning at ten o'clock. Ad-
Hresses will be made by different mem.
/ hers of the faculty and music will be
under the direction of Miss Virginia
lMulyey, head of the music depart.
ment.
The faculty held meetin yester.
Hay afternoon at which time President
f1ZtVuk0I OuStA4So ShO WI n 90 ~ phouiu
be carried out during the school year.
Rfpf Roster emphasized the fact that
HE Normal Is distinctively school on
which TO prepare teachers for the pub
! lilo schools and announced that last
Akyear the Fairmont Normal school led
i khe state in this particular. He urged
that each member Of the faculty bend
Individual energies to this end.
While the Normal is training
4}schpol for teachers yet an academic
department is successfully maintained
INF students who do not intend to
teach.
The following Is the faculty which
VIII. teach In the Normal this year:
Hresident, Joseph Roster; assistant
btesident and head Of English depart.
ment Prof. Walter Barnes; teacher OF
thgticu1ture. q. L. Lively; geometry
and Latin, H. c. Brake; modern Ian.
tglages. Miss Ethel Ice; French and