School Notes I
Parents and friends of pupils in our
school to the number of thirty-five
met Friday afternoon and organized
a local branch of the National Parent
Teacher Association. Officers were
elected as follows:
President—Mrs. T. J. Donohoe.
Vice President—Mrs. Chester Melli
son.
Secretary—Mrs. Louise Schaupp.
Treasurer—Rev. A. G. Shriver.
While waiting for the nominating
■committee to report, Miss Wright ren
dered some very enjoyable piano
music. After the election of officers
Rev. Dr. Condit, who has just re
turned from a trip to the far North,
gave a most enjoyable and profitable
talk in which he related many very
interesting incidents connected with
his trip.
The following are charter members
of the new organization: Mesdames
Daggett, Ziegler, Porter,. Adams, Field,
Corser, Robinson, Dooley, Greenig,
Dyson, DeLeo, Lydick, Scheffler, Ross
wog, Schaupp, Mellison, Call, Walker,
McCarthy, J. C, Smith, Foster, Hed
strom, Johanson, Tibbs, O’Loughlen,
Donohoe, Howard, Misses White, Ed
elbrock, Wright, Kolbenson and
Keever, and Messrs. Higginson, Cor
ser and Shriver.
The next meeting will be held on
Friday, February 13, and it is hoped
that our membership may be doubled
at that time.
On Friday forenoon the school was
favored with a very interesting talk
on the myths and legends of the Es
kimo people by Dr. Condit, who knows
well the art of holding an audience,
young or old. As one person ex
pressed it: “Dr. Condit’s talk had
but one fault—it was too short.” So
say we all.
As the last week of February is the
National Week of Song, we hope to
have a community song-fest in the
school house one evening of that
week. Get your song books and re
fresh your memories on the words of
ye old-time songs, for . we want your
help that night.
The school is preparing for an art
exhibit to be held some time before
the end of the year. Instead of doing
work specially for the exhibit, the best
work done each day is saved so that
patrons and friends of the school may
see what has been accomplished in
certain lines of endeavor. It is
planned to hold this affair at night, so
that the fathers who have so little
chance to visit school and knowT what
their own children are capable of do
ing may be able to be present.
There w'ill be samples of weaving,
sewing, cutting, writing, painting,
drawing, etc., with booklets made of
work done in different subjects. Work
of this kind is tangible and can be
put on exhibition. While it is ex
ceedingly valuable in the develop
ment of the child, let us not forget
that the biggest things accomplished
by the school can never figure in any
formal exhibit of work done, as they
can only be judged by the fruit they
will bear in the years to come in the
lives of our future men and women.
“We must work always with regard
to the social effects of our teaching.
We are not teaching just arithmetic,
reading, writing and the rest; we are
making men, the social pillars of social
institutions. The final significance of
all our teaching is social.
“It is for us as teachers to bring
the qualities of professional life into
our daily teaching practice and make
the term “teacher” mean four things
in one—master, expert, servant and
leader.”—Dr. Suzzalo, U. of W.
Thrift
Thrift thru the ca.e of body and
■mind.
Thrift thru securing and utilizing
knowledge.
Thrift thru simple living.
Thrift in saving and wise us of
time.
Thrift thru temperance in eating
and drinking.
Thrift thru right care of books
and other property.
Thrift thru saving of time, talent,
health and money.
A thousand religions; a thousand
creeds;
Is one a rose and the rest but weeds?
Or is each one suited to meet some
need?
Is your own so great that the rest
seem small?
Then keep it and live it; that’s all.
“Teaching is a fundamental thing.
Teachers do an essential work. As j
long as there are children born into
the world, the primary obligation
rests on parents to be teachers. As
long as foreigners come to our shores
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it is the essential work of the good
citizen to be a teacher. It is a duty
we can not evade or neglect, nor can
we hand over our entire responsibility
to any one group of people whom we
call teachers.
“We pay them less than a day la
borer, we expect from them nothing
short of a miracle. If any class of
people might be justified in striking,
it seems to me it might be the teach
ers. But they are the very ones who
never will strike. Their usefulness
and devotion are too earnest, their
vocation is too real, their willingness
to be forgotten is too great.”—Rev. E.
J. Van Etten, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Notice to the Public
As Cordova has no public library,
it has been decided to open the school
library for general use. Hereafter
anyone who cares to take out books
will be welcome to do so on Wednes
days from 3 to 4 p. m. Books must
be returned the following Wednesday
or the borrow'er will be subject to a
fine of 5 cents a day until they are
returned. To cover possible loss or
damage, a deposit of $1 will be re
quired from those having no connec
tion with the school, the same to be
returned at the close of the school
year. Our library has grown from 264
volumes to over a thousand in num
ber, and while many of our books
are juvenile, thei’e are also many that
will interest adults. Alice Daggett
will have charge of this branch of the
loan work, and borrowers will see her
when wishing to borrow or return
books.
Items
P\ipils who receive a mark of “V.G.”
in any subject on the monthly report
will be exempt from the term exami
nation in that branch of study.
The High School bulletin board
holds a very good display of work in
penmanship and typewriting, which
represents the very best efforts of
the pupils.
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In English class we are studying
Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.”
What would happen if—
Edna’s typewriter would work right?
Margaret came to school before the
five-minute bell rang?
Miss White should get a real new
record for the Victrola?
The girls didn’t get their rubbers
mixed?
The ninth grade ever used the dic
tionary voluntarily?—Margaret Foster.
Of course the Cordova Parent
Teacher Association will never be sat
isfied with less than a 100 per cent
enrollment. Do you belong? If not,
won’t you join us soon? We need you.
You need us, too, though you may not
have thought of it in that way.
(Elizabeth O’Loughlen)
In the sixth and seventh grades the
pupils awarded progress buttons are:
Headlee Lamprey and Ophelia How
ard. Palmer pins were given to Celia
Friedman, Mike Shepard, Elaine Bol
linger, Mildred Raber, Ruth Donohoe,
Billy Fields, Edith Smith, Helen Down
ing, Waldo Walker, Pierre DeVille,
Genevieve Dyson, Bryan Lamprey,
Bob Daggett and William O’Neill. The
only pupils in this room to have the
Palmer diploma are William Claveau,
Matthew O’Loughlen and Ophelia
Howard.
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The pupils are spending time out
side of school in making the “compact
oval” and “push and pull” exercises.
All of the High School pupils of
the penmanship class have won
Palmer buttons and many of them
have the progress pins. Barth
O’Loughlen. is devoting his time to
practicing drills for the American pen
manship certificate, the highest honor
that can be conferred.
Dills have been prepared to send to
the Palmer company in response to
their request, and we hope to see
much of our best work reproduced in
their paper, “Pointers,” which has a
wide circulation.
A Little Nonsense
Teacher: “Keep your eyes this
way, please. I am going to describe
a hippopotamus, and it is impossible
for you to form any conception of this
hideous animal unless you keep your
eyes on me.”
Teacher: “What comes after the
letter ‘H’?”
Pupil: “Don’t know, ma’am.”
Teacher: “What’s on both sides of
your nose?”
Pupil: “Freckles, ma’am.”
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