The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-11
FINAL REPORT OF
THE CITIZENSHIP
NIGHT SCHOOL

y. District court, rouItn DINlslon,
and ex-officio Superintendent
Night Schools:
The Citizenship Night School of
Nenana, Alaska, by its instructor,
begs to submit the following report:
The fourth month school sessions
of the above school ended on the
18th ultimo. The sessions con-
sisted of twenty (20) school nights,
and hours of instruction for each
night varied from 3 to 81 hours
and more. There was an increase
in enrolment over last month from
to 40 students, 46 men and 8
women. Their ages ranged from %
70 81 years. As the school was or
ganized for 16 weeks or 60 sessions.
the term was completed on March
Is, 1918. The students represented
following nations: Norway 10;
Russia 10; Italy 5; Austria 8; Greece
2; Germany 2; Sweden 3; Denmark
/; Canada 2; Scotland l; Ireland l;
Bohemia i Bulgaria l; Hungaria /;
Switzerland /; Montenegro l; Fin
land /; Americans 5; eighteen diff
ferent nationalities.
The Enrolment by Months
First month-men %, women 3,
total 80.
Second month-men 80, women ),
total AZ.
Third month-men AZ, women 3,
total As.
Fourth month-men 46, women 5,
total 40.
The average monthly attendance
was men SO, women 5.
And now l desire to respectively
submit the following observations:
Early every Fall a similar Citizen
ship Night school should be organ
ICED in Nenana with a term of at
least 90 months duration. The
instructor or instructress should be
a teacher of much experience in the
school room, carrying besides gen.
eral, all around education of the
business world School books suit
able for foreigners and other back
ward students, and there are now a
number of such books published,
should be selected and an ample
supply be on hand before the term
opens. And no one is better fitted
to make such selections than our
present Commission of Education,
Hon. L. D. Henderson, of Juneau,
Alaska
In order to have such books on
hand at commencement of term,
they must reach this Interior Alaska
before navigation closes. To be
compelled to make use of the ordin-
airy school books, will tax the pa
tience, ingenuity and resourceful-
ness of the best teacher. Then there
should be provided in time suitable
benches, chairs, desks or tables. The
present ordinary desk in our public
schools cannot be used by students
of night school. Besides, there
should be wall maps of Alaska, Asia,
Africa, Europe, North and South
America and the United States.
These are invaluable aids in bring
ing results in a school. -:
The law giving authority to es-
tablish Citizenship Night schools in
! the territory of Alaska was enacted
! by the territorial legislature and ap-
proved by the governor May 8, 1917.
! Under this law, Section Z, says:
ANY person, an adult or minor l6
years of age or more, not attending
school elsewhere, who leads civil
lied life, shall be eligible to attend
a citizenship night school"
Under the above act, the people
of Nenana were one of the first,
if not the very first community,
in the Territory, to establish such
school.
And now, in closing this report
l would fain emphasize in a broader
way, the ideal, aim, and purpose
which should be the achievement OF
such Citizenship schools. They will
have failed of their ideals, if no,
the practical purposes, if they dc
not stimulate the people to a higher