Albuquerque morning journal., 1921-08-21
STATE NORMAL.
(Silver City.)

1H0 NdCdllOfl IulI HI LH6 state
normal Is giving way already to
strenuous activities in preparation
for the coming fall term of school.
Dean Persinger and Miss Lasseter,
secretary, are In charge of the Of
flee, and have already completed
the making of schedules, adver-
tising and mailing out of circulars
that constitutes the bulk of the
August work. President Cham
berlain reports that he will have
the list of new members of the
faculty ready for publication with
in short time. Everything is be-
ing rapidly put in order for the
opening of school, with prospects
for most prosperous and success
ful winter session.
Mrs. Vincent's Spanish room in
the main building has been cal
cimined In a light gray-brown
that adds greatly to the lightness
and attractiveness OF the room,
and will make 1t very agreeable
for those who have work there
this coming year.
The new girls dormitory, Bar
nard hall, has just undergone its
first annual cleaning and removal
ton, from garret to basement, and
will be an even more attractive
place of residence than when 1t
was entirely new last year.
The gymnasium is undergoing
q thorough cleaning up, which in
cludes a reoiling and remaking of
the much used main floor. The
gym Is the most popular building
on the campus during the regular
year, as we'll as during the sum-
mer, but is 80 we'll built that it
stands the wear remarkably we'll
and each year shows up as clean
and bright looking as II did the
first year 1t was In use. Some
slight arrangements OF rooms
will be made in the gym building
this year.
Ali the out-buildings on the
campus are undergoing an un-
usually thorough renovating this
summer, being replastered, reoiled
and repainted and reroofed, with
the result that the spick ana span
ness of the campus will be greatly
increased.
The new blackboards received
last year, but only partly installed
at that time, are now being in
stalled in the remaining rooms of
the main building. This will be a
great help to the instructors and,
students in these rooms and will
make the old main building as up
to-date as the more recent ones.
The first box of new books for
the library arrived this week and
will be followed soon by others.
Quite q number of books will be
added to the library at the open
ing of school, partly from library
funds and partly as gift of the
senior classes of last year.
The memorial tablet for the
Normal boys who lost their lives
in the world war has arrived. II
is fine piece Of work and will
make a notable addition to the
! various memorials on the campus
when 1t is inserted in the base or
the main building sometime dur
ing the fall term. Special ded1-
catory exercises will be held for
the installation of the tablet early
In the fall term.
During the summer session stu
dents from out of the state show
ed a great deal of interest In the
Normal's recently begun attempt
to accumulate "reminiscences and
recollections of New Mexican
pioneers for use in the writing or
rewriting of local or state history.
A number of such students volun-
teered their services for the col
lecting and editing of this kind of
material in their own localities,
ana present prospects are that this
work, begun last year, will double
or treble in volume this year the
contribution of very valuable ma
terial for local and state history.
The Normal urges all teachers OF
New Mexico who are interested in
the history of their own locality,
or of the state in general. and who
have not already received q copy
of the Normal's bulletin on Local
History in New Mexico Schools"
to send for a free copy Of the bull
letin and to enter upon the work
with the opening of their school
and continue 1t during the year.,
The Misses Mary and Isabel
Eckles left the second week after
summer school for a vacation trip
to California. Their present adj
dress is Balboa, Calf. They ex-
pect to return about the first of
September.
J. F. Epley of the commercial
department Is spending his vaca-
tion with his mother at their home
In Los Angeles.
Mrs. Hariett Vincent Of the
Spanish department is spending
her vacation with relatives In Dem
lver and neighboring places. -,
f. varrelman Of the science
department writes from Chicago
that he will probably spend next
year in graduate work at Column
bia university. with the hope of
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