The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-13
WOMAN'S CLUB HOLD
THEIR MEETING
Address by Principal of the Johnson
Normal School

Normal School
The ST. Johnsbury Woman's club /
held Their November meeting at |
Pythian Hall Monday evening, with !
a very good attendance of club mem /
bers and tee chers, guests of the club.
The president, Mrs. Robert French,
announced that the executive board |
had voted $25 to the state scholar
ship normal school fund, and that the
club had paid Mrs. I. G. Marshall $38
for her splcndid service in the homes
of the sick during the recent cpl
demic.
The following members were APP
proved and admitted by the executive
board: btrs. G. A. Martin, Mrs.
George Franklin, Mrs. NJ E. McKeen,
Mrs. Helen Bonette, and Mrs. A. c.
Howard, ;,s regular members; and
Mrs. Harold Powell, Miss Hattie
Buckley, Miss Ellen Magoon, Miss
Ruth Parker and Miss Mary Root, as
associate members.
To accommodate the speakers the
December II Getting will be in charge
of the committee on public health,
and the art committee will hold their
meeting in January.
An appropriation of $14 was grant
| ed the Give committee for the settees
which the committee placed on the
Court House park last summer.
The president spoke feelingly Of
the death Of two members since the
last meeting, Mrs. Timothy Murphy
and Mrs. Foster G. Stevens, and the
following committees were appointed
to draft resolutions: For Mrs. Muir
ply, Mrs. L. n. Smythe, Mrs. Elsie
Harvey, Mrs. Henry Ellis; for Mrs.
Stevens, Mrs A. B. Noyes, Mrs. D..
D. Patterson: Mrs. Charles Flint.
The program was in charge of the
education committee, Mrs. Clara Bur
rows, chairman, and was preceded by
two pleasing piano selections by Miss
Sigrid Ekloff The speaker, Miss
Bessie Baker Goodrich, principal of
the johnson Normal school, gave a
most into esting talk on modern
methods q teaching and brought
: home with great clearness that intelli-
, gent and responsive work In the
schoolroom must have the right en-
vironmen:, everything, even the loca-
I perfect background, which would
+ result in better work and change the
. old-time schoolroom into restful
, interesting classroom. She empha-
r sized the point that child must take
1 the initiative and develop originality
: that his efforts should be guided, but
l not dictated, that when pupil is in
terested in his work discipline is un-
f necessary, that the day for the rigic
q displinarian is past, and that often {
O change Ct position from the tiresomt
q hard seats which formerly graced 81
our school 'ooms a pupil could anC
would be relaxed and rested and dc
i better work
q She cited many interesting in
stances proving her points and he
talk showed remarkable insight int(
the character and development Of
children.
Il She brought a splendid collection o.
: posters and cards showing the excel
lent work cone by the pupils of the
II Johnson Normal school, of which
n Miss Goodrich is the principal.
Her talk was sensible and practica
It and at the close of the address thu
e president suggested that the motherr:
j. present could apply the same princi
q Piles in home training of their children
g NJ 1.1- NV
Il mother who had raised large family
e eff / was tc live my life over again
S I would leave out the word don't,
and do ard encourage my children
7. to be more self-reliant and depend
: less on My judgment and more OF
: their own i" determining their dali!
problems