The Coconino sun., 1922-01-27
NORMAL SCHOOL NOTES

Normal's 1922 Annual begins it's annual progress. Always the annual commands interest. It brings many intimate glimses and delightful mem- ories to those concerned in any way with the Normal. The annual covers large field of material that is in- teresting, entertaining and has some educational values. Among the nu- merous kinds and headings few are: Editorials, athletics, jokes, poems, Di- ographies and essays and there are numerous good pictures.
 An exceedingly competent staff has been chosen. So competent that a great deal is expected of them by the student body. Those who are on the staff and their official positions are: Miss Fairchild, editor; Miss Kapanki, art; Miss Maxwell, jokes; Miss Hall, society; Miss Calhoun, business mana ger; MT. Sanford, assistant business manager; MT. Yaeger, boys athletics; Miss Wilsford, girls athletics; MT. Boice, organization editor and Reac- ah Meador, literary.
 Work is begun at this time so that the annual may be largely filled with happenings throughout the school year. Material is collected from every imaginable source. For the rest of the school year reporters, editors, news grabbers, photographers and comedy collectors will be seen at the most unexpected and undesirable times making getaway with their evidence.
 Snow, ice, skates, sleds, the big fill, Observatory hill and merry party go to make up the best sport at the top of Arizona, called Flagstaff. Riding the big bob-sled is the most popular of all and when opportunity affords it is in almost perpetual motion, be- ing pulled to the top of Observatory and making it's own arrow-like flight back down. It takes the curves on high and finally lands in a pile-up at the bottom.
 The Normalites have found it to be the real winter sport, especially those from the southern part of the state who find for the first time the thrills that coasting and skating hold for them.
 There is a new-old branch of educa- tional entertainment coming into the grade schools in the form of puppet shows. The idea was derived by a student teacher from some hand work done in training school in the east ern states. The very old Punch and Judy shows probably had the great est to do with the formulating of plans for the puppet show after the idea was started.
 At the Normal some extra work is being applied to the subject in the training school. The student teachers give performances this week for the Normal students and the training training school classes, to show what is to be done later by the pupils. The Normal art classes are designing a puppet theatre with stage, curtains and all. Training school students will make puppets and give exhibitions.
 Instead of working the actors or the puppets by placing the hands in them as was done in the case of Punch and Judy, the puppets are made to act by means of wires attached from above and operated by people standing behind the scenes. One or the attractive parts of the puppets is that they are made to look as natural and life-like as possible and to act as people act.
 Puppet exhibitions bring out num- Der of things in the students that are not expressed in other ways. Some are quite adept in coming before au- diences to give recitations and express sions. Others have not this ability or power because of timidity, bashful- ness and diffident personalities. Tsese often do exceptionally well in things like the puppet show where they are not seen by the audience but use their voices from behind the scenes to speak for the puppets.
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