The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-04
TRIBUTE PAID
MISS TEST BY
CITY SCHOOLS
Warner School Closes in Re.
spect to Memory Of Teach
er-Work is Praised.

Memorial services Tor Julia r. Test
who died Thursday. will be held Sun.
day afternoon in the High school au-
ditorium at $3.50 o'clock Warner
school. where Miss Test had been a
teacher for 80 years, was closed today
in respect to her memory.
Miss Test was teacher In the
Richmond schools for over fifty years
and was q leader in primary work
over Indiana.
She inaugurated a system Of her
own for giving the children the funda-
mentals OF the English language, by
taking what she considered was use
full from the various new systems In
troduced. BY teaching children
phonics rather than pounding out each
word she found she could make the
children self reliant in learning other
words and this this method was a
great help to them as they went
through school.
1t is not improbable that half the
people in Richmond have gone to
school to Julia Test. Her co-workers
thusiasm which she gave to others,
and no teacher was ever known to
have such devotion to her work.
services have not been completed.
The committee in charge is composed
OF Miss Harriet Thompson, Miss Mar
tina Whitacre. Miss Sophia Marchant
and N. c. Heironimus.
Children Show Love.
When the death of Miss Test reach
ed Warner school yesterday the chill
dren in each room were told and a
short service was held in each room.
This morning, children In all the
rooms on their own initiative brought
pennies for flowers. No teacher men,
toned 1t and the gift was truly love
offering. Over six dollars has been
brought In pennies and nickels.
Funeral services for Miss Test will
be held Saturday afternoon at 4
o'clock at the funeral parlors of Pohl-
meyer-Downing and company. Burial
will be In Earlham. Friends may call
Friday afternoon and evening
Tribute Of Teacher.
The following tribute to Julia Test
was submitted by E. e. F.:
The next time we meet Miss Test
she will doubtless be teaching little
children in the Kingdom of Heaven.
How else could she be supremacy
happy?
No child down here on earth, how
ever stupid or forlorn or inattentive.
ever came under her care that her
dynamic pedagogy did not at once re-
spond to the problem of setting the
derelict on the road to self-mastery.
To such task, she had dedicated
her life.
Many children-how many, only the
recording angel knows, coming from
homes where they were petted and
INDUCED and but rarely subjected to
any kind Of wholesome discipline,
have learned from her their first les
son In obedience, moderation, thrift
and self-sacrifice. To supplement this
lack Of training, she counted no task
too great, no effort too burdensome.
She would devote herself to a back
ward pupil, working over hours" try
ing one device after another to arouse
him to normal activity.
She had the happy faculty of i'm
parting to children an insight into
subjects which, in their entirety, were
far beyond their grasp, thus awaken
ing interest In many divergent lines of
knowledge. and laying a broad foun-
dalton for a substantial superstruc-
ture.
She would even ask the privilege of
taking children in more advanced
grades under her tutelage for a period
to ground them in certain principles
not properly grasped in their initial
training, which she regarded as es-
sential to their further progress.
Acknowledged Leader.
AS primary principal, she was an
acknowledged leader. Always recep-
tive to new ideas she still weighed
them with discriminative judgment,
holding herself as well as her CO.
workers to the highest standards of
excellence. While not personally in
sympathy with many of the expert
mental fads foisted upon the educa-
tional world during her period of SER
vice. she adjusted herself cheerfully
to the changes as they came, giving
each an additional value by an infu-
sion Of her own native common sense.
Her enthusiasm for her work often
led her to call additional meetings
besides those established by the sup
erintendent, in order to discuss the
separate problems of her own grade
with those most closely associated
with her All the year round, her
keen mind was on the alert for stor-
les and poems that would appeal to
her pupils.
Assuredly. few women have ever
lived who devoted themselves more