Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-16

ing in, these institutions. Accredited to a secondary school the same dis tinction and honor that Phi Beta Rap pa or Sigma Xxi membership confers on an individual to or that high Brad street rating brings ot firm in busi- ness. Moreover, membership in the Association aids boards of education to secure better prepared teachers. to erect barriers against untrained in- structors, and to generally raise high CT all educational standards.
 The Associations Standards.
 The standards of qualification re- quired by the Association are numer- ous. They are rigid and conserv- ative. To have fulfilled them, and especially to have been entered in the accepted" list on the first applica- tion, is thing of which the High school may be honestly proud.
 Among the standards relating to teachers of academic subjects are, first, the minimum attainment of graduation from a standard college where the course is four years in ad- vance of the standard high school course; and second, that the training of such teachers shall be at least elev- en semester hours in Education.
 The Faculty.
 The High Schools principal. E. Q. Snider, is graduate of the University of Illinois, and during the past summer he completed his work there for the Masters degree. Hsi teaching expert ence includes district, grade, high school and academy work
 Miss Hattie Mallom is vice-principal and teacher of Latin and history. She taught in both grade and hign schools, and her almer mater is Albion. The mathematics teacher( do students in high school still despise her subject with the same intensity that it has been despised for generations0 is Miss Marie Bartlett-a graduate of Colorado college.
 Instruction in Latin and French comes under Miss Genevieve Stimson, who halls from the University of Michigan; while a Bisbee girl and a product of the state university teaches civics and economics. She is Miss Catherine Hoy.
 Miss Florence Watkins, who iE- stills knowledge concerning history and Latin into the minds of the many, has but completed her first year Ot teaching. In 1916 she was graduated from the Milwaukee-Downer college, previous to which she had received her diploma from the very institution in which she is now serving.
 Teaching mathematics and directing athletics is a Utah Agricultural col lege man, E. J. Laurenson. He has done grauate work at Illinois. An Ohio U. graduate, c. W. D. Chance, has charge ofScience, and he is admir- ably fitted for it, having specialized in that field at the University of Chica- go.
 The Art Department.
 Directing the art department is Miss Anna Winners task. She has been graduated from both the Illinois State Normal College and the Kansas Man ual Training Normal College. She has done summer work at California and in the Chicago Art Institute Under her supervision. one of the most nov el and pleasing courses in the High school. is offered. The freshmen talk ing it do charcoal and pencil drawing, and take up basketry and rug weay- ing. Those who continue the work through the sophmore year get pot tery, pastel, and water color work. while the juniors take up costume de- signing, house planning. and ali that goes with it This "all' is hard work, too. The students study all the pew houses that are erected in Bisbee and the best way in which to furnish them; and they also study varnishes, paints, and period furnish ings. Before they complete their jun for year each must plan and design five room bungalow and write out the specifications.
 When the artists get to their senior year they take up china painting and