Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-01
MocOn High School Letter
To our County Patrons:

close TO Macon have patroniAeu s"e wy
school and the list OF high school sraou'
ates will show that 9 large per cent O.
them live outside Of the separate school
district. During the past few years our
couqty patronage has rapidly increased,
due to the building Of good roads. Last
year almost cne-fourth of the total en-.
rollment OF our school came from the
county outside of the separate school
district. These pupils stood right in the
front ia their class work and conduct,
and the cooperation Of our county
patrons was all that could be desired.
This year we have worked to the end
that we may take care Of more OF our
county pupils and we offer the following
inducements:
/. We offer you q graded school that
ranks with the best in the state. When
our pupils move to other towns and
cities they most invariably are advanced
in grading. and in no case have we had
any who could not keep sp with their
grades even in larger cities as Meridian
and Memphis.
2. We offer you high school with
SUFFICIENT number Of high school teachers
that we are affiliated with ell the state
coIleSes. Our graduates are admitted to
the freshman class Of all state institu-
tions without examinations.
3. We offer you building, equipment
and grounds unsurpassed in the county.
and equal to the best in the state with
the addition Of domestic science which
we are adding this year. The bu''@E fs!
a splendid brick structure, in food re-
pair, practically FIRE proof; it is equipped
with sanitary water closets; sanitary bub'
bling fountains; the floors are oiled and
the house kept clean by q paid janitor;
each room has library Of the best
books besides high school library of
about six hundred volumes; and the play
Grounds are large, well kept and modern.
4. We offer you a splennid faculty Of
colleSe and university trained teachers
with experience. During the past year
we have worked especially hard to
strengthen our faculty and we believe
that we have the best faculty in the
history Of the school. The high school
faculty remains the same a. last year
With the exception Of domestic science
and science teacher who 10 to be elected
this week. Miss jamie Stennis will have
the hall and history and Miss Marian
Huddleston will have mathematics and
latin. Both of these women rank high
as instructors and made "sood" in other
places before coming to Macon. They
are trained teachers with several years
of successful experience and have spent
this summer at Tulane University, New
Orleans, in better preparing themselves.
The principal will have charge Of the
higher Enslish work.
Our Primary and Grammar school
teachers are also strons. For nine years
Miss Lottie Hooper has been primary
teacher and her work is unsurpassed by
any primary teacher in the state. This
year we lost her. She 10 to spend the
session studying in Chicago University.
Miss Mai McCracken has been elected to
take her place. She has the same repu.
tation in her part Of the state that Miss
Hooper has in this section. She has
taught for number Of years and is con-
sidered 60 efficient by the state depart
ment of education that she is assigned to
normal work each summer. After sew.
eral weeks work in Tulane this summer
she had charge Of the primary work in
the tri.county normal held at Collins,
Miss.
Mrs. Bvans Dorroh, who has done
such good work for several years in the
second primary room will have charge Of
this work again. Those who have had
children under her do not hesitate to ex.
press themselves as being highly satisfied
with their progress and with her instruc-
ton. She is energetic, studies her work
and measures up with the very best
teachers in her field.
Miss Virsisia Campbell of Bond, Miss,
has been selected to take the place held
by Miss Carlotta Stewart who resigned
to become Mrs. Ches. Featherston. Miss
Campbell has had four years OF success
full work on the coast. She has taken
several terms work in the Mississippi
Normal Collese. Supt. Guy Dean, un-
der whom Miss Campbell has been work.
ind, is so enthusiastic over her work
that he recommend her unreservedly, re-
srettins that his county had to give her
up. All who have seen her work speak
Of her in the very highest terms. She
was reelected to her former position
whea approached about the place in
Macon. The "job" sought her instead
Of her seeking the job. This is the case
with every one of our new teachers.
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