Arizona republican., 1916-10-03
THE NORMAL 5 CELEBRATION
 IF PROGRESS

TEMPE, Oct. 2.-With its attend mark, and the total registration of the institution nearing the seven nun 1 dred mark, the Tempe normal school 1 this morning fittingly celebrated with | a jollification meeting at assembly Thirty two members of the faculty, | every one of them present, and the | four hundred students all assembled together in the auditorium and gave a true representation of what Tempe normal really is today, and contrast ed with the normal of a score or more years ago it was a most remarkable showing.
 From a little three-room brick building. located by it's lonesome as the central figure to a twenty acre alfalfa plot, the Tempe normal has within thirty years increased to an institution of comparatively immense proportions. it's faculty now number thirtv-two and the total attendance in the normal proper, the training school, the Kindergarten and the model rural school, nearly 700
 Of the four hundred in the normal, better than two hundred are taking the junior and serior courses, show ing more than fifty per cent of the DOIffldl SluutulS lO Dt OA iiASi SNhCDi standing. Despite the opening of high school year by year in the various rapidly growing towns, the normal has annually for years in creased it's enrolment, and now with a high school in practically every town in the state, the local institu- tion is catering more particularly to the advanced students with the high school standing.
 is. was out of the ordinary, and the fla culty members and students entered into the spirit of celebrating the nor malls four hundred mark, that made the hour one of the most enjoyable of the year.
 Dr. A. l. Matthews, president of the institution and next to the oldest member on the faculty interestingly recounted the growth of the institu ton since he had become it's head With tine thirty-two instructors pres ent he invited the students to join with them in the celebrating of the new mark and so interesting was the occasion that barely anyone realized the dismissal hour was at hand. "Dismissar' this morning meant more than usual too, for the school closed at the noon hour and students were permitted to pass the afternoon at | fit
 Probably none of the short ad- dresses given by the instructors of historic normal days, was more in teresting than that of Professor F. M. Irish, assistant to the president, and the oldest in point of years of any person now connected with the school. When the normal in it's entirety was one story brick with three rOoOms Zee ,n,i,, i,,.,t At,r members, Professor Irish came to Tempe In those days the attendance was small and classes were conducted two in room, and even in some in stances when compelled by necessity, on the porch or lawn. During his fifteen years here, Professor Irish has worked always with the best interests of the normal at heart and much of the credit for it's size today is at tributed to his untiring efforts.
 President Matthews next became associated with the normal after Professor Irish and during the same term, Professor w. J. Anderson, ar rived to conduct the classes in art. and his department has grown and flourished simultaneous with the school proper.
 Professor J. L. Johnston, music instructor came to take charge of and an interesting item to his short talk this morning, particularly to those who have lived in Tempe many years. was the recollection of the opera productions, dating back many seasons ago when the Old Folks Con- cert, "Pinafore," 'The Egyptian Prin- cess" were presented and later ''Priscilla,' and then just last season | Princess Bulbul."
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