Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1922-08-30
CAsr1NE NORMAL SCHOOL
Summer School of Rural Leaders
Unusually Successful.

| Unusually Successful.
| v The school of rural helping teach
ers and rural community leaders,
which has been held at the Castine
normal school this summer, has
closed it's fourth annual summer ses-
sion The school has been especially
successful this year, as to the char
acter and amount Of work accom-
| plished, as to the efficiency, enthu-
siasm, and spirit of the students, and
as to the quality of the instruction.
| The school was originated four
| Thomas, State superintendent of
schools, for the express purpose of
improving rural education in Maine.
1t has probably already accomplished
more toward that end than any other
factor in recent years. DR.. Thomas
! has taken the time this summer to
spend several days at Castine during
the first week, and to visit the school
at several other times during the ses-
sion. Not only has the school as
whole been greatly benefited by his
personal supervision and active in
terest, but the helping teachers
themselves have appreciated very
much the opportunity to know their
chief personally, at work and at play,
as a sympathetic friend and adviser
The principal, William D. Hall,
has been ably assisted by the two
State agents for rural education
Harold A. Allan and Miss Florence M
Hale, both of whom have been close
ly associated with the school each
year since it's origin. The list of
names of instructors and lecturers
that follow testifies to the fact that
DR.. Thomas reputation as leader
in rural education is well sustained,
and that he believes that the rural
teacher is entitled to the highest
quality of instruction.
The leaders of the six unit courses
were DR.. Augustus o. Thomas, State
superintendent of public schools;
Miss Charl o. Williams, county super
intendent of Shelby county, Tennes-
see, and retiring president Of the
National Education association; Miss
Emily Hoag, United States Bureau of
Agriculture, Washington, D. c.; Lee
L. Driver, State agent for rural edu-
cation, Augusta.
Special lecturers and instructors
during this session were Principal
Drew T. Harthorn, Coburn classical
institute; Dr. A. E. Winship, editor
of the Journal of Education, Boston;
Rev. Henry E. Dunnack, State Ii
brarian DR.. Gertrude E. Hall, State
board of charities and corrections:
DR.. Barbara Hunt, Bangor; Gablno
Tabunar, Manila, Philippine Islands,
who is a graduate of the University
of Illinois and who received his mas
ters' degree in education at Columbia
university this summer; Miss Kath-
crime Blake, principal of the Lille
DevereuX Blake school, New York;
Miss Charlotte M. Simon, New Eng
land field director of the American
Red Cross; Miss Jean Brown, field
director of the Canadian Red Cross,
and Josiah w. Taylor, State in
spector of secondary schools.
The regular instructors and round
table leaders during the session were
Mr.. Hall, Mr. Allan, Miss Hale, Miss
Alice Coffin, principal of the Aroos-
took State normal training school;
Miss Helen j. Piper, director or
teacher training at Lincoln academy;
Miss Nellie F. Harvey, Eastern State
normal school; DR.. e. E. Philbrook,
director of music, Eastern state
normal school; Mrs. Adriel Bird, in
structor in drawing, Rockland; Miss
Nellie w. Jordan, acting State d.
rector of physical education and the
new dean of women at Gorham
normal school
The Eastern State normal school
itself has caught the spirit of the
school of rural leaders, and will en-
deavor to train an increasingly larger
number of teachers for service in the
rural schools of Maine. 1t offers the
regular two-year course, to Whlch
graduates of standard secondary
schools are admitted without ex-
animation. and a special one-year
course, open to teachers who have
taught successfully for five Or more
wears. The fall term Wilt open
September 13, with a large increase
in attendance.