Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-07-17

to be found in the larger families of
these isolated rural areas.
Mrs. Anna Schultz, county super
intendent, and Ray Bjork. principal
of the Dawson County high school.
encourage the students to attend a
high school whenever it is possible for
them to do so. However, they know
there are some who cannot attend.
In such instances. if they feel the
students have, or can develop, mi
, tiative. perseverance and self-depend-
ence. the students are permitted to
attend the rural school and take
courses on the high school level under
the supervision of the rural teacher
| at Marsh or at some other rural
school. While the supervisory duties
of the rural teacher are important,
they are not time-consuming mas
much as the assignments, projects end
| the entire testing program are for
/ mulated at the State Correspondence
| school and made available to the
supervisor teacher) and student The
supervisor sends all the students
work to the Correspondence school for
! correction and appraisal.
The character of the work, the high
percentage of completions the success
| of the students who later attend high
school-all testify to the benefit the
students derive from this extension
/. service. We have now Travelled far
enough in the state to know that
there are many such communities, as
pictured above, in Montana.
The town of Wolf Point is the home
of Virginia Marshall. In August, 1899,
Virginia's mother wrote:
My daughter, who would be
senior this year, is in the Deacon
ess hospital, Great Falls. recover
| ing from an accident last April
which necessitated an operation.
The doctor tells us that she can
not attend high school this semes-
ter and it would be well to keep
/ her out the entire year. This will
probably depend on how well she
| RECEIVERS
From the time she was in sew
| enth grade until the time of her
accident last April she had always
been on the scholarship honor roll,
besides taking part in various &C
! tlvitieS. Last year she was editor
| in chief of the Wolf Talk,
monthly mimeographed paper
published by the junior class. I
mention all this merely to show
that she should be able to carry
correspondence courses, although
! physically handicapped
! After few years it will not
make a great deal of difference
to Virginia whether she graduated
from high school in 1910 or l94l,
but just now it makes a great deal
/; of difference. Even though she
does not complete an entire years
work, we would much rather that
her mind be occupied construc-
lively than that she be merely
marking time.
Served As 4 Tonic
10 Virginia the correspondence work
carried on under the supervision of
the nurses was more than study-it
was medical tonic. She improved rap
IDLY, completed her correspondence
work, and graduated with her 1910
classmates.
Frank Cuts-the-Rope, like many
Indian boys and girls, loves to en-
press himself by drawing Frank lives
IN an artists paradise in the historic
mining and cattle country of the Little
Rocky mountains.
When Frank enrolled for drawing
and design. Sister NJ. Limana, his
local supervisor, introduced him to
the art instructor with the following
letter:
| Dear Mr.. Bartholomew:
| Frank CutS-the-R Ropes chief in
| terest is INDEPENDENTLY ami
| mails. He never reads a book unless
it is an animal story, and then he
literally devourS it. He likes to
| draw western pictures - horses,
| Indians and the like. He is also
| interested in cartooning and en-
| joys making caricatures of people.
| We certainly appreciate your in
tereSt in Frank, for we feel that
| his interest in art may be the
| stabilizing influence in his life. He
| wants to go to an art school after
he graduates from high school
next spring. In fact. his desire to
study art was his only reason for
finishing high school.
! Frank is a full-blooded eros
| Ventre, typically Indian; even
here among the Indians. he Is
| nicknamed Chief" He is an ex-
cellent athlete. an expert Indian