Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-02-22


lows Falls.
Resolutions were adopted one of
which pledges the association $ sup
port to the state and nation in carry
ing on the war. The resolutions were
as follows:
Resolved: That we, the teachers of the
Southeastern Vermont Teachers assocla.
ton. pledge our united and individual
efforts to further the cause OF education
and to assist in forwarding and promot-
ing all legitimate agencies OF the state
and nation for carrying on the war
Resolved: That we express our appre-
citation of the efficient management OF the
schools of the Vermont by the state de-
partment of education.
Resolved: That we extend to the
teachers of Brattlcboro and the members
of 'the Eastern Star our thanks for our
fine entertainment
DIR. IIillegas was the only speaker i'll
the open meeting and his subject was
The Schools Opportunity. lie did not
undertake to give set address, nut
took up in an interesting way variety
of topics. He said that in this crisis
no group of citizens has more diff
cult task than have the teachers. They
are going to be more and more dlssat-
isficd until they realize the Importance
of their positions. Unless they work
to establish the highest ideals for
which democracy stands they might
Just as well recognize that all their sac
rifices have been in vain. The school
system. he said, was the best organized
and the best organization in the cow-
try
Getting the boys and girls on to the
farms to help this summer is one i'm
portant aim of the schools. Let the
taxpayers learn that now, when they
need help, it is coming from the
schools. DR.. HillegaS said that informa-
ton which was coming to his office in
Dictated that there would be actual suf-
fering another year by reason of the
food scarcity, and he placed great en-
phasis upon the necessity of a maxi
mum production this year. Every man,
woman, boy and girl must help this
summer, and the school support must
he given with greater zeal than last
year.
DR., Hillegas emphasized the need of
giving education to all children. Pu-
pills who are not in school should be
brought in. Every ignorant person is
a menace to the community. If we
fail to teach the high ideals of democ-
racy the ignorant will do us harm.
Patrons of the schools must change
their methods of upholding the teach.
crs. Teachers no longer have to waste
their efforts in communities where their
aim of the pupils is to "get even. -
Another subject which he took up was
al, ~ Ill. l..
quatc. Expenses have gone on increas-
ing, but the salaries of the teachers
has remained substantially the same.
In the afternoon high school con-
ference Supt. II. d. Casey of Spring
field (Nt.) gave an exposition of the
cooperative industrial course as
worked out in that town, which was
of particular interest. This course is
available for boys after they have
passed the freshman year and is q COM
bination of school and shop work, COW
oring period of three years. The
boys are divided into groups of two and
one boy works two weeks in shop
while the other is in school. Then the
boy in the shop takes two weeks of
school work and vice versa, doing ex-
actlv the same kind of work.
The shop course begins with the
simpler machines and the student is
given more important work as he de-
velops capacity for it. During the
first year he receives ~ cents an hour,
in the second year - cents an hour and
in the third year 30 cents an hour. The
course has averaged % members. Two
classes have graduated, comprising l3
young men, and five of these are in
college and the rest have good posi-.
tons in the shops, earning from $lS to
$25 a week. A boy earns about 500
in the three years of the course. He
has fair mechanical education by the
time he graduates, and the shop expe-
rience is acquired in trade atmosphere
and not the artificial one of some OF
the so.called manual training schools
The work also is of practical value in
in the aspects OF discipline and good
citizenship. Although the boys are
in school but half the time it is est
mated that they do thirds to three
| fourths the work done by those who
spend their entire time in school.
At the close of the convention Z
large number of both men and women
attended a wartime tea served by
| school girls III the domestic SclencC
room, and many expressions of com
mcndation were heard,
Following in the enrolment as
furnished by the secretary for the past
year. Guy W. Powers of Saxtons River
Athens--lola Gleason, Rena Perkins
Brattleboro-D. G. Gage, d. Stolte
C. c. Trubcy, II. L. Moffitt, Charles F.
IIadley, L. B. Smith, Ethel Osgood
Mrs. Smith, Miss Wightman, May
Douglas, Esther Barrett, Ruth Ander
son, Miss Phillips, Miss Wright, Lot
tie NJ, Dodge, Elizabeth Hunter, Mrs
Ellen Barney, Rosamond Ashley, Mary
Croker, A. Narea johnson, Annie K
Parsons, Helen NJ. Smith, Incz Aklcy'
Florence Phelps, Nellie Fem, Minnie
Rawson, Edith Douglas, Miss Newton
Bessie Bellows, Ethel Eddy, Miss Mar
tin, Jessie Metcalf, Alice Morse, Flor
ence Holden, Eloise Sanders Jessie
Ransom, Orlana Ranney, Eileen Burns
Rachel Packard, Miss Mexican, Doro
thy Wadsworth, Marion Carey, Mis-
Helen Wallis, Sadie Winchester NJ. d
Henshaw, Jessie Pratt, +. c. Allen
Florence NJ. Wellman.
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