Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-03-31
Training School Notes

SchOol opened Monday, March 2Sth,
after weeks vacation.
Miss Hamacker spent the week of
vacation at her home in Stevens Point,
Miss Dove at her home in Bangor and
Miss Waldron in Menominie, while d.
A. Swartz and Miss White remained
in the city.
An instructive and pleasing talk
was given by Miss Dove Of the faculty
recently in connection with pictures
shown at the Training school. These
pictures were obtained from the Elk
tension department of the University
of Wisconsin. This particular set
covered trip taken across Canada
Ion the Canadian Pacific, a trip having
been taken by Miss Dove herself re-
Gently.
Miss Ella Zimmerman who COM
pleted the course at. the close of the
first quarter is now teaching near
Stratford. She visited the Training
school Monday.
Monday being the S29th anniver-
sary of the birth of Cominius, the
great Moravian educator, special OBJ
servance was made of the day at the
Training school. Miss Waldron of
the faculty, gave a talk relative to the
| life and work of that great man whose
ideas were 800 years in advance of his
| tine. ~
A mass meeting was held Monday
afternoon at the school, prior to the
big basketball game of Monday even
ing. The features of the accession
were songs, speeches, and yells. The
| nSMo1 lnuol Sn IF he
demonstrated quite conclusively.
Miss Edna Lowe substituted for
Miss Flatter in the second and third
grades at the Irving school Tuesday
afternoon.
Yesterday Prin D. A. Swartz skill
fully described another feature of his
Eastern trip-it being his visit to Phil
adelphia. He spoke somewhat in de-
tail about several buildings of inter-
est-Congress hall, Independence hall,
also Christ church, and the Betsy Ross
cottage. The pictures which adorn
the first named of these buildings are
quite marvellous. The great facts of
American history have been made the
theme. Independence hall is, of
course, noted as the place where the
Declaration of Independence was
signed, and Carpenters hall for the
fact that the Constitution had its birth
there. The East Wing is still main
tanned in much the same condition in
which it was at that early day in our
history. In the cemetery of Christ
church lie at rest the remains of Ben
jamin Franklin, the place beng
marked by simple slab stating the
date of his birth and DEATH The first
American flag came into existence in
the cottage of Betsy Ross. One in
teresting feature about that building
is that it is exactly II feet long and
rs feet wide making the combination
1776.
Visitors at the Training school this
week were the Misses Irene voigt.
Mabel Wendt, Minnie Bartlett, Vesta
FEELING, and Mary Mueller. NJ SIS Eel
ling and Miss Mueller are now in at
tendance at the milwaukee Normal
school, having graduated from the
Training school in 1918. Since that
time both have been teaching.
Teachers are still in great demand.
In Pierce county some schools have
been closed and the pupils are being
taken to other schools because teach
ers cannot be obtained.
AT the basketball game played
Monday night between the Business
Women's club. and the Training school.
grit, quick decision and almost ipfiex-
ible tenacity was d splayed from the
sound of the first signal to the last.
Good playing was done by both teams
Minnie almost outwitted her guard
and made basket in less than half
minute from the beginning The
Training school considers the basket
ball game played with the Business
and Professional Women, which it won
by score of to an especial tri-
umph as the team had never practised
on regular gymnasium floor and also
because Margaret Meuret, one of its
best players, was unable to play.
| Consolidation of schools is making
,headway. Many counties have made
noticeable progress. Among these are
Burnett where three consol .dations
have been made and union free high
school district established; Dunn,
| where two schools were consolidated
last year and Doom where six school
districts in the town of Savastorpal
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