Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-15
PRINCIPAL FRANCE HAS
FINE REPORT SHOWING
ACTIVITIES At AGGIE
Trustees to Get Full Accounting
Of Every Department at An
nual Meeting Here
VALUE OF SCHOOL PLANT
All Current Debts Paid Promptly,
and Various Departments
Show Profits Made

Principal john M. France, Of the
Third District Agricultural and Me
chanical School here, recently com
pleted his annual report to the trus-
tees, and presented this at their
annual meeting just concluded w.
! j. Mathis, of Terrell, is president Of
I the trustees, and Frank Lanier, Of
Americus, is treasurer Of the board
and both these officials submitted
annual reports showing Aggie affairs
to be in fine condition.
The report of Principal France
shows that every current obligation
of the Aggie school was met prompt
ly during the past year, and that the
various departments into which the
school activities are divided showed
satisfactory progress, with the school
farm netting a neat profit through
its operation above all expenses. The
report shows there was an average
attendance throughout the year of
100, and that the school served more
people the past year than at any
time since the main administration
dormitory building was destroyed by
fire several years ago. Taking the
regular couse this year were ~ boys
and 40 girls, making total of 112
in the regular classes, and in ad-
dition there were 27 boys and AZ
girls taking special work, the total
in these classes being 70, giving the
total attendance for the year in both
regular and special classes of 1872
Special attention is called in the
report to certain specific needs of
the school these including definite
financial requirements and an ade
quate sanitary disposal plant to pro-
tect students against contagious di-
seases, especially typhoid and other
fevers. Many screens have been
placed in the school buildings this
year through the efforts of students
there, and other precautions have
been taken to protect the health Of
those enrolled.
The report, in part, says:
Literary work-1he literary work
in the school is as good as can be
found in any senior high school in
the state, and is rated IN Class One
in the list Of Senior High Schools
the State. Regular course ouele1 TO
all students are: English, GIVES, his
tory, arithmetic, algebra, geometry,
biography, physics, chemistry. Spe-
ciaI courses offered to girls are gar
ment making, cookery, home nursing
first aid, poultry, millinery, and nj
triton and health. Special courses
offered to boys are: agronomy, horti-
culture, livestock, dairying farm
management, farm mechanics, and
farm engineering. The school is
graduating 25 students this year; 18
boys and 7 girls, Sixty-one per cent
of all the boys graduated from
this school are now farming. Twen-
ty Of our former students are now
in the State University. Six mem
bers Of the class Of 1922 are gradua-
ties of our school.
Industrial work-Both the agricul-
tural department and home econo-
mics department are doing a great
work. Some educators who have
visited our school and have looked
over this work have said that the in
dustrial work alone was worth the
entire cost of attending school.
There is no doubt that the work be-
ing done by these classes is proving
to be Of great value and is going to
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