Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-09-14
Oak Grove Opens Fall
Term with Staff High
Grade Instructors

Oak Grove. Vassalboro. Me-. Sept.
14.-Oak Grove will open for the
second year as q school for girls
only, on Wednesday, September Is,
with a resident enrolment exceeding
that of last year and with two addi-
tional members on the teaching staff.
All Of the rooms but one in the DOR
mitory are reserved and the pros
poets are most suspicious for the
coming year.
There will be a staff OF ten resident
teachers beside the special music
teachers and other associates who
come to- the school for part time in
struction.
Mr.. and Mrs. Owen who are be-
ginning their ninth year dit the head
of the school attribute the distinction
which has come to Oak Grove as n
college preparatory school 90 the
high quality they have had in their
faculty. Since Oak Grove Is being
sought increasingly In New England
as a school to prepare girls for the
large colleges for women, Mr.. and
Mrs. owen have spared nothing
the last year to assemble a faculty
of unusual merit and ability.
With Mr.. and Mrs. owen will be
Helen Hawkes. Meader. the French
teacher, who has studied in Paris
and Is beginning her fourth year at
Oak Grove; Mary Rand Thompson,
who Is returning for her seventh
year as head Of the Mathematics de-
partment after a years leave of alb
sence during which she has taken
courses at Bates and the University
Of Chicago; D. Maud Dayton, the
head of the hygenic department, who
Is entering upon her second year and
DR.. John ]. Martin, the head of re-
ligious education and school pastor,
who is entering upon his second year
at Oak Grove.
Mr. and Mrs. owen take pleasure
in announcing that Eleanor Cofran,
B. A. NJ. A., will be the new English
teacher. Miss Cofran was graduated
with honors fromN Wheaton College
in 1921 where she majored in Eng
lish. After teaching with outstand-
ing success in North Affdover. Mass,
for two years she was appointed
Dean of Women and instructor of
English at Washington Collegiate
Institute, Washington. North Caro-
lima, where she remained until she
went on with her graduate study at
Drew Theological Seminary last fall.
courses in English and Biblical liter
allure, receiving her Masters degree
in June, 1926. Miss Cofran is a young
woman of high scholarship, unusual
ability and charming personality.
Miss Cofran is a member of the
Methodist church and she was dis
tinctly honored in August in her
native state Of New Hampshire by
being elected one of the prominent
leaders at conference at Lake VIM
nepesaukee. where she delivered a
series of lectures which won most
favorable recognition. Miss Cofran
will devote all of her time to the
English department which receives
so much stress at Oak Grove, and
Mrs. owen viii also teach some
classes during the year.
The department of physical edu-
cation is to receive increased promi-
nence at Oak Grove through the
election of trained specialist The
new head is Miss Frances Crosley.
who is a graduate OF the School OF
Physical Education of McGill Uni
versity where she was very promi-
nent. Besides extensive training in
recreational, corrective and aesthetic
gymnastics, Miss Crosley has had
courses in anatomy, physiology, os-
teology, myology. kmesology, an
thropometry, remedial gymnastics
and physical diagnosis. all of which
have direct connection with the
scientific methods she will use at
Oak Grove. Miss Crosley has had ex-
perience for several seasons as drec-
tor In a summer camp and has had
charge of classes in physical educa-
ton at Montreal for the last two
years.
Miss Margaret Ware will be I'M
able to return during the coming
year on account of serious illness
early in the summer, and her place
Will be filled by Miss Ernestin Porter
who was graduated with Phi Beta
Kappa honors from Colby. has done
graduate work at Harvard and
comes to Oak Grove with a record of
seven years of highly successful ex-
perience. Added to Miss Porter's
keen knowledge both of her subject
and of the latest pedagogical prin-
ciples she brings an enthusiasm to