Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-01-09
PLANS FOR 1922
SUMMER SCHOOL
ARE UNDER WAY
Three Special Lecturers
Have Already Been Ar
ranged for the Session OF
the Las Vegas Normal.

Especial Corr OoDdence TO The journal
East Las Vegas, n, NJ, Jan. s.
Plans for the 1922 summer school
of the Normal university are well
under way, according to the an
nouncement of President ]. H.
Wagner. Three special lecturers
have already been arranged tor'
DR.. ]. w. Searson, who has beeh
frequent visitor TO New Mexico,
will come to the normal a9aln
next summer Dr.. Searson Is well
known in the educational world as
the ico-author of the Searson ana
Martin readers, as the man who
nut the Kansas Agricultural col
lege on the map with his work IN
building up a practical course IN
Journalism and printing, and as
the very efficient publicity manager
the National Educational asso-
citation, Or. Searson is at present
connected with the University OF
Nebraska as extension lecturer.
Expert in Surveys.
The second special lecturer will
be j. Adams Puffer, national sec
rotary of community service, Inc
with headquarters at Kansas City.
Mr.. Puffer is an expert in max
ing surveys Of communities ana
community activities and mas
worked extensively and SUCCESSFUL
ly with the Rotarians in their boy
activity projects. Mr.. Puffer Is one
of the few able to solve practically
the problems of the utilization Of
- yrn,tf11 nf
the community, His visit VIII be
valuable and significant not only to
the teachers in attendance at the
normal but to the community it.
self.
J. F., Heating, the veteran SUI
perintendent of schools in Pueblo,
Colo, will also be present and ad-
dress the summer school at some
time during the session, Superin-
tendent Heating has handled the
superintendency of District No. ]
in Pueblo successfully for the past
2S years and Is known through
out the country as practical
school man. He is also a mem
Der of the N. e. A. council.
Miss Fanny Dunn, head of the
department Of rural school educa-
ton in Columbia university, New
York, has also been invited to come
to Las Vegas as a special lecturer
and it is expected that she will &C
cept.
The regular faculty for summer
school will be of the usual high
standing. 1t is expected that many
of the present faculty will remain,
In addition there will be a num-
Der of assistants and instructors In
various departments, chosen from
among the leading teachers, princi-
pals and superintendent through
out New Mexico,
The new Ilfeld auditorium which
has been under process of con-
struction is now about ready for
roofing The regents have under
consideration a proposition where
by the building may be completed
and ready for use by the first
week in June, when summer school
opens.
Extension Work.
A bulletin presenting the extern
sion and correspondence work of
the normal In full has just been
issued, The plan of the present
administration is to inaugurate ac-
tual extension work along with the
correspondence courses offered
heretofore. Wherever classes of
sufficient number may be organ
lied among teachers or other alb
sentee students. the Normal uni
yersity will send out at specified
intervals professors OF the various
departments to meet these class
es and to give almos identically
the same advantages of instruction
as are enjoyed by students in at
tendance, except of course, that
these sessions will be less fire.
quent. Correspondence courses
are to be groups of lessons and as
signments totaling twelve for each
term, to correspond to the twelve
weeks of the regular term at the
normal. Glasses to be visited by
lecturers have already been formed
at Springer and Miami In Colfax
county.
At present Prof. Clark e. Per-
singer is director of correspond
ence and extension work. II is ex-
pected ultimately to have regular
field man whose time will be en-.