Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-17
NORMAL ALUMNI
FEAST in HOTEL
Annual Banquet of Shippens-
burg Association in Penn
Harris Last Evening


Two hundred and nineteen covers
were laid for the tenth annual BAN
quet of the Cumberland Valley State
Normal School Alumni Association
successfully held last evening in the
Penn-HarriS.
DIR. Samuel z. Shope, 610 North
Third street, president of the asso-
citation as POSTMASTER introduced the
following speakers: DR.. A. l.. ROW
land, Director of the Bureau OF
Training and Certification of Teach
ers, State Department of Public In
struction, who spoke on, "Co-opera-
ton between the State Department
and the State Normal Schools" out
. lining the departments plans for the
improvement of the quality and the
increase of the quantity of the
higher class of teachers, class that
always earns more than it is paid
however high the salary may be.
He said that this improvement and
increase must come through the
normal schools cooperating with
the State Department of Public In
struction. DR.. Rowland urged the
teachers to give their best efforts
to their work, for the future of the
nation depends largely upon it's
100000 teachers and he p/ited out
that the benefits that accrue to the
teachers of this State from the
Woodruff Act passed at the last ses-
sion of the Legislature are but an
earnest - a foretaste - of the boon
which proposed national legislation
will confer upon them and thus
raise the teaching profession to its
proper dignified position alongside
the other learned professions.
nf q.
hanna University said in brief that
teachers are so poorly paid that
many have been forced to leave the
profession, seeking employment IN
another field, and so many schools
are to-day without teachers. SO
serious has the situation OF living
on an insufficient salary become Tor
them that there was real danger
/ that teachers might fall in with the
spread of Unionism and should that
happen, the Bolshevik idea would
spread broadcast"
DR.. Lehman, principal of the
Normal School spoke on The Past,
Present and Future Place of the
Cumberland Valley State Normal
School in the Educational World"
He SAYS that there is the largest en-
rollment in school history and the
school cannot accommodate the
prospective students for the spring
term.
Enthusiastic Speakers
Frank B. Wickersham, assistant
| District Attorney of Dauphin County
| in speaking on 1.-THE Relation of the
Alumni Association to Alma Mater,
insists that 1t is the solemn duty.
and should be the real delight, or
every alumnus of "Old Normal" to
y1ncoiIHIo MD IN the Alma
Mater in this great movement for
| the uplift of the teaching profess
sion and through it, the real Amer
| icanization of the men and women
| of the future. He plead for con-
slant display of real affection toward
| the "beneficent mother" on the part
of the sons and daughters who owe
so much to that mother"
DR.. H. H. Baish, chairman of the
State Teachers Retirement Board,
Professor J. S. Heiges, Dean of the
| Normal School. Mrs. H. r. Omwake,
secretary of the association and j.
were also among the speakers.
The president of the association
then proposed that the local alumni
association of Dauphin and sur
rounding counties amalgamate and
| thus produce a united army of
workers in the great cause. This
was enthusiastically and unanimous
ly adopted. The Central Pennsyl-
vania Alumni Association of the
Cum berland Valley State Normal
| School was Immediately organized
and the following officers. elected
for the ensuing year: President. DR.,
Samuel q. Shope, 610 North Third
street; vice-presidents, Professor p,
L. Hooker, Harrisburg; Superin-
tendent H. j. Wickey, Middletown;
Assistant State Librarian H. H.
Shenk, Annville; Superintendent
John c. Wagner, Carlisle; DR.. L. A
Carl, Newport; Mrs. Mary Hartman
Hoechst, York; F. B. N. Hoffert,
Mt. JOY; Secretary, Miss Grace
Eisenhower, Harrisburg; assistant
secretary, Mrs. William c. Bowman,
Lemoyne; treasurer, Professor John
F. Kob, Harrisburg.
Miss Minerva l.. Adams, Profes-
sor of Vocal Music of the Shippens-
burg Normal School delighted the
audience with a number of vocal
selections. Miss M. Margaret Stroh
Professor of Reading and Public
Speaking of ftGe Normal School,
| gave those assembled some amusing
but pointed advice in her two read
ings entitled, THE Danger of the
! Motorcycle" and After the Wake
| which highly pleased the recipientS