Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-04-14
SCHOOL NOTES.

School opened Monday after weeks
vacation. Just two months OF school
work remain.
Considerable work was done in the
old high school during vacation by
the general contractors. Doors were
cut in the south wall on all floors
These doors will connect the new high
school with the old. Partitions have
been put up in the old gymnasium
These rooms will be used for grade
work next year but after that they will
be turned into an agricultural depart
ment The bank on the east side OF
the old gymnasium will be cut down
and full length windows installed.
The floor has been raised two feet
above the level so that these rooms
will be very nice and comfortable.
Arthur Erickson of the class Of 1912
visited school on Monday. Mr.. Erick-
son is teaching Manual Training in
Fargo, North Dakota. He expects to
go to Wausau, Wisconsin to teach the
coming year.
A first grade class will be organized
in the Normal Training Department
March 49, This class will run from
9 A NJ. to 1890 A. NJ. We want an
enrolment Of "a pupils and prefer
those who are already are or will very
children whom they wish enrolled in
this class will call the superintendent's
Office at once. So far the following
pupils have enrolled: Helen Brohaugh,
Conrad Clough, Helen Kavanagh, and
Marian Ring.
Last week we advertised the facts
that on April Is, all parents and
others interested are to visit schools.
We will call this parents Day." The
object Of this day is to have parents
become acquainted with the school
system and the work that is being done.
Please make it point to spend some
part of the day in the schools where no
special entertainments will be offered
but school work will be conducted as
usual.
Reverend w. r. Keesey of Mount
Pleasant, Iowa, has been selected to
give the commencement address to the
high school. Commencement exercises
will be held on Friday evening, May
%. The boys and girls of the senior
class are hard at work preparing their
class play. The play this year is a
comedy called Aaron Boggs.
One of the most important education
al meetings of the year was the an
nual short course for superintendent
and principals held at the University
last week. Two of the biggest men
day were the principal speakers. One
of these was DR.. Lewis M. Terman,
Professor Of Education, Leland STAN
ford, Junior University, Stanford, CAL
ifornia. The other was DR.. Alexander
Inglis, Professor of Education, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts,.
On Saturday, April 3, occurred tho
biggest meeting of School Board Mem
| bers in the history of the state of
nj
women representing schools in every
part of the state met at the College
of Agriculture to discuss the salary
situation in Minnesota. The conditions
which now exist were put before the
Board Members by a committee of the
Minnesota Educational Association
and by men representing the State Dep-
artment Of Education. A suggestive
| scale of salary minimum was offered
| by commissioner of Education, JIM.
| Mcconnell. After considerable discus
| sion this scale was unanimously adop-
ted by the Board Members present.
| The Board Members voted to meet every
year at the time of the M. E. A. Con-
vention in the Twin Cities.
The cadets of the Teacher Training
class have gone into the country for
two weeks of country practice. Each
girl has gone to different school,
where she will work with the coun-
| try teacher. The teacher Training ms
tructor will spend her time visiting
the cadets in the country, getting ready
for the spring primary class, and gen
| orally planning the work for the rest
| of the year.
| The following students are on the 9Th
grade Honor Roll for this month:
| Esther Benson Eleanor Ostlund
| Louis De La Hunt Myrtle Sandin
| Robert Davis Viola Sommerville
| Lyla Eckwall Myrtle Sundberg
| Elsie Eklund Alberta TAYLOR
Ona Heimdahl Esther Volk
Dagny Jacobson Peter Peterson
| Reynold Johnson Btta DeCamp
| TrygVe Johnson Erwin Walker
| knute Kiland Agnes Elkjer
| Hattie Larson Helen Ohsberg
| Anna Olson
The following children in the second
grade. Lincoln. had 100 in spelling the
past month: Howard Chew, Nellie
| Dougherty. Violet Jensen, Lester Lund-
| berg, Frank O'Nen, Marceline Pierce,
Clarence Olson. Alvin Langager.
Children in the fourth grade, Lincoln
Building, who have had one hundred in
| Spelling during the month of March are:
Jennie Watterson and Elenor Johnson.
Children in the third grade, Lincoln
School, who have had one-hundred in
! Spelling during the month of March,
| are: Marie johnson, Malcolm Johnson,
Jack selin, Helen Fitzgerald, Gladys
Hermanson, Marjorie Holmberg:
The following children in the first
grade Lincoln School, have earned gold
stars in Spelling the last month: Kath-
| crime Peterson, Margaret Rykken,
| Hazel Monesmith and Kathleen Fitz-
| gerald The children in the first grade
have formed a bird club. 1t is called
the JuniorAudubon Society. They will
study the spring birds.
Mildred Bengtson entered the sixth
| grade and Gladys Rosman the fourth
| grade at the Central School this week
Pearl Benson, Clarence Mootz and
Ruth Hareid in the sixth grade, Cen
trail, spelled all words correctly in
spelling during the entire month.
They also got one-hundred in tn test
at the end of the month.
The following pupils in the sixth
grade, Central Building, were neither
absent nor tardy during the past
month of school: Gertrude Peterson
Gladys Anderson, Willard Baklund
Lawrence Norman, Clarence Mootz
Esther Dunhom, Berger Berg, Lola o.
son, Milton Johnson, Kenneth Carlson
Mildred Botten Charles Mclaughlin
Carl Hanson, Elmer Johnson, Claribe]
| Nygaard, Marcella Berkness, Elvert
Forssell, Harriet Johnson, Blair Crit
fin, Myrtle Olson, Alvin Holmberg
Clifford Johnson. Milford Benetson.
Stanley Somerville, first grade Gar.
held School. has been neither absent
nor tardy this year.
The seventh grade, Central Building