The Coconino sun., 1922-05-19
NORMAL SCHOOL NOTES

& Last Friday afternoon the Girls Melee club went to Williams and that &evening presented their program in *the Sultana theatre. The program Mwas very we'll and beautifully given #and President McMullen's comment &that the party was carrying the Nor &mal schools honor with it was full &filled. The talent was evident. The taught in music and drama in &the Normal was demonstrated. It all & showed the spirit of work and coop Iteration existing. Everything drew & loud applause and many calls for en- { cores although no encores were given { as time was limited because of the &length of the program. Six cars of { Normal people were in the party, and they returned to Flagstaff that night. Monday the party went to Leupp E to entertain there that night and in Holbrook and Winslow on the return trip. Their success in these towns was, if possible, more pronounced than at Williams. As a whole the successes of this party have marked an attainment in the extensive work opened this year in the Normal de- partment of music, art and drama. 1t was tried out this year. It is a success. In the future it will be an
 added asset to the school.
 The program, given under the di- rection of Mir. Ridgely, was as fol- lows Sanctus (from St. Cecilia Mass) (Gounod), by girls chorus; c Minor Sonata for violin and piano (Grieg), Miss Walsh and Mir. Ridgely; Folk Song transcription, Aloha, Out Where the West begins, etc, "ukes" and vio- lin; Reading, The Highway (Alfred Noyes), Miss Martha Dewey; Duo Dances, Misses Catherine Beckwith and Lucretia McMullen; Trio, from Christmas Oratorio (Saint- Saens) !, Miss Catherine McMullen, Miss Mar garet Moran and Mir. McMullen; Mer- " Lives and Nursery Rhymes, by girls chorus; reading, "An Irish Mother" Miss Martha Dewey; Group of popular violin numbers, Mir. Ridge ly; Twilight and Wake, Miss Lindy,
 by girls chorus.
 Those in the girls chorus were:
 Edith Briscoe, Delina Calhoun, Mrs.
 Roland Hamblin, Anna Ring, Jennie
 Crosse, Frances Kapanke, Catherine
 McMullen, Lucretia McMullen, Han
 nah Matchin, Elsie Maxwell, Helen
 Maxwell, Marguerite Moran, Alma
 Tabler and Lucille Wilder. Accom-
 panists were Miss Margaret Walsh,
 Miss Catherine Beckwith and Miss
 Inez Tdwell.
 Tuesday evening the Spanish par
 ents of the training school students
 and the teachers met in the training
 school to become better acquainted,
 to promote better cooperation be-
 tween parents and teacher. Miss
 Wheeler and Dr. Walker spoke. Miss
 Wheeler has a plan for the planting
 of garden in the triangle north of
 the school. A large portion of each
 students time is spent with and un-
 der the care of the teachers. The
 teacher often has the child under her
 direct observance and guidance more
 than the parent does and often comes
 to know the child better or from
 more impartial angle than the parent.
 The big aim is to make the child feel
 that the school is his home. It does
 not belong to the teacher or any or
 ganization but is his, built especially
 for him. Miss Wheeler's plan for
 the garden is to promote this feeling
 of ownership and cooperation. The
 plants are to he largely flowers of
 every variety possible to raise in this
 climate. At first the flowers are to
 be used as gifts to any Spanish per
 son who is i'll. Later if the garden