Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-05
|DISTRICT SCHOOL
HAS UNIQUE PLAN
Green River Pupils Canned
Articles for Hot Lunches
Successful Work by Miss Gallup - Fine
Spirit of Cooperation Between Teach
er and Pupils.

just what patience and perseverance
on the part of a teacher i'll small dis
trict school can accomplish when she
wins the hearty cooperation of her pu-
pills is apply demonstrated by the showing
made by the Green River school at the
exhibit of canned and dried products
which opened yesterday in the farm
bureau and board of trade rooms.
One entire section is given over to a
display of vegetables and various
canned products, result of work start
ed by Is pupils in planting time last
spring under the direction of Miss Leila
Gallup, their teacher. Both Miss Gal
lup and District Superintendent Harold
+. Motif feel justly proud of what has
been accomplished and so far as known
this was the only individual school in
Windham county having a garden of its
own.
[ All of the products were raised on one
third of an acre of the school ground,
each child having his or her own plot.
During the summer vacation they met
every Thursday to pull weeds and care
for the gardens in every way, not one
pupil neglecting to be on hand at the
appointed time.
Following is the harvest Thirteen and
a half bushels of potatoes, AZ quarts of
beans, two bushels of tomatoes, one bu-
shell of cucumbers and few minor veg
etables including vegetable peaches
which grow on q vine and are used for
favoring, cow horn potatoes and Golden
Globe onions.
| The total cost of the garden was
40 cents.
In addition to this Miss Gallup has
taken up and succeeded in interesting
her scholars in other work this fall. In
the past some of the children have had
scanty and cold lunches at noon time
and Miss Gallup has planned a treat
for them this winter in this way: BY
providing a small gasolene stove with
her able assistance they have canned
IL quarts of corn, seven quarts of to-
matoes and five quarts of pickles raised
in the garden. These are to be used for
lunches, beginning about Thanksgiving,
and will be served hot
| Miss Gallup's activities in the inter
est of the children of her district have
by no means stopped with the garden
ing and canning. She has taken up do
nestle science also, and is teaching the
girls how to bake bread A loaf made
by a 14-year-old girl is among the ex-
hibits and it is credit both to her and
the teacher. She also teaches sewing
and even goes into the homes and in
structs parents how to be more efficient
In conducting their households
| Miss Gallup is native of the dis
trict herself and is very enthusiastic
about the work which she is doing, al
though she finds her duties multiplying
every day. She has won herself into
ftlie Hearts of The pupils and the parents
as well, and when she considered max
ing change at the close of the school
term last spring the townspeople would
not harken to it. They have agreed
to paint the little schoolhouse and it
is now her intention to brighten il in
side and make it as inviting as possible.
All of the work which Miss Gallup is
dong i'll addition to her regular duties
as teacher is at her own expense. She
now has % pupils, which is the largest
number during her three years connec-
ton with the school
There are not many young teachers in
the rural districts who take the interest
IN their work and show such creditablc
results as Miss Gallup. There are al.
ways unruly pupils in every school and
her life is not all sunshine, she admits.
but with her disposition it does not take
long to win their cooperation in what
ever she undertakes.