The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1920-11-20
Normal University

LAS VEGAS.
Five members Of the faculty. DIR.
Roberts. Deans CARBON. Rodgers and
Mottingcr, Prof. Van Horne and Miss
Kennedy, left for Albuquerque to at.
tend the n. NJ, T.. a. Friday. The
others are to go down Sunday. The
Normal Is To be well represented on
the program, rot only in n general
way, but In the highly specialized
discussions Of the sectional meetings.
Dr. Roberts. who " chairman Of the
committee on constitutional amend
ments and secretary OF the Spanish
section, will make "a number OF nd.
dresses. Dean Carroon will speak In
the anti-tobacco section on the Gig
arctic under the title. The Greatest
Fire In History" He will also nd.
dress the superintendent on What
the Superintendent Can DO for tina
Teacher" Prof. Tom G.. Rodgers,
whose reputation as n teacher OF
mathematics H. u modern and highly
successful manner is state wide. will
deliver u paper on Al Experiment
IN the Reorganization of Secondary
Mathematics Professor Mottinger
Will preside as chairman Of the Anti
Tobacco league, and will speak in
the historical section on why West.
ern Movement ls Difficult to Teach"
Mrs. Lena Eldredgc. professor 1f
Spanish. will speak on The peda-
hFhN - " . w 'Ahh AaAAlk AAAkfs ~
ganization and Administrators OF
Part.Time and Evening Classes I'm
der the Smith'Hughes Act" will be
he subject Of Il discussion by Miss
Nerna Writ In the home economies
section. Although Miss Ethel l., Far.
Icll is here for her first term, ner
reputation as n commercial teacher
has reached the program committee,
and she will speak on THE Relation
Of Commercial Work to the Aca-
demic." Miss Kennedy, head Of the
English department, will speak In tho
English section. as Will Prof. A. u.
Van Horn, professor OF classical
languages In his section.
On ccoun of the n. NJ. Il. 4.
there will be no school here Thanks
giving week, and many OF the Out.of-
town students are planning to go
home for the week. School will re-.
open November 20, on which late be-
gi"s the winter term. While students
will be expected to attend classes
there viii be no assigned work and
the time will be given over to regis
tration for the most part.
DR. Il II. II. Roberts has been APP
pointed by Governor Larrazolo as
delegate to an educational confer.
ence to be held In Denver on the Sth
and 9Th OF December. This is to be
In the nature of u meeting of promi.
nent citizens OF all professions inter-
ested In education rather than n
gathering of teachers. Superintendent
Wagner has asked DIR. Rot erts to
speak on the subject Of Public We'll
fare Activities" Mayor Blood as
president of the board Of regents. has
also been asked by u. s. Commits
sioner y. p. Claxton to attend.
The resignation of Miss Ruth
Zicglor, critic teacher of the sixth
grade, which was announced last
week, has been withdrawn. Miss
Ziegler will remain here until spring.
Miss Watt and Miss Reese, who are
now on sabatical leave to attend the
University of Chicago. are expected
to he on duty again next term.
Miss Cora Duncan OF the First Ma.
tional bank gave n talk on the habit
OF saving n the proper use OF saw.
ings banks last Monday in chapel.
Wednesday n special chapel was
held to discuss plans for the school
annual. the Southwest Wind" and
to award prizes for the best work
In the issue OF last year. Prizes for
art work were awarded to Emma
Lou Witt and Alice Meader. Sostencs
Delgado, though not n student at the
time and therefore ineligible to COM
pete, was II prolific and skilled con
tributor OF cartoons and decorations
to the annual md would doubtless
have won n prize had he been prop
erly eligible. Awards for literary
work went to s. omar Barker, Doro.
thea CARBON and Marguerite Cars.
callen. These prizes were gold
ENersharp pencils, chosen with good
taste, by the president.
Fun reports of the work of the
Normal university for the year end
ing June /, 1920, have been COM
pleted and show the following attend.
ance' For the winter school from
September, 1919, TO June, 1920. $50
enrolled, Of whom PIT were In train.
ing school, 2i7 OF high school rank
and 1b3 OF college rank; 26S were
from points outside OF San Miguel
county. A fair estimate indicates
that ut least 30 per cent OF these will
ultimately become teachers. mclud-
ing the summer school OF 1919, the
total enrolment for the year was
l,b34. Of whom 0b3 were not resi-
dents OF SAP Miguel county. Reports
now In preparation for the summer
term OF 1920 will show n decided in
crease over these figures. Still the
school Is much handicapped by lack
OF funds for the employment OF nde-
quate numbers. In It's teaching force.
AS Il IL, Increased attendance means
additional work for the faculty with
no additional pay nor assistance.
The regular or high school rank
team OF the school defeated the col.
lege rank boys In a practice game OF
basketball Thursday. None Of tho
college boys had been prncticing.
The team for match games this year
will be picked from among the fol.
lowing according to present indiea-
Hursch tcaptnin), Tony Gutierrez.
Pete Pnnkrntz, Herbert Hilgers, Al
vim Naylor and sostenes Delgndo.