Trending
Everything in Readiness for
Beginning of Fall
Term in Public High and Grade Buildings.
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SEVERAL CHANGES MADE IN SOME
DEPARTMENTS
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Catholic and Lutheran
Parochial Schools Also Open Tuesday. Dr. Martin Luther College.
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The New Ulm public high and grade schools, as well as the Catholic and Lutheran parochial schools will open next Tuesday-day following Labor Day–for the fall term. For several weeks past Superintendent F. B. Andreen and those in charge of the three parochial schools have been busily engaged in making preparations for the beginning of school activity.
Superintendent Andreen and his clerk, Miss Mildred Meyer, have found much to occupy their time during the past several weeks in attending to the multifarious office duties incident to the beginning of school, and everything is now in readiness for this important event.
Some Changes Made.
There have been some changes made in the course of study in the local high school. Since October, 1920, the State Department of Education has been at work revising the recommended course of study for Minnesota schools. Some of the leading experts in the schools have worked on committees, which have made this revision.
The general course is essentially a college preparatory course, and those, who expect to take general industrial training, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, law, nurses' training, teachers' training, and a number of other courses in higher institutions are advised as to the electives they should take in preparation.
New Industrial Features.
The board of education recently appropriated $500 for the extension of the industrial department of the high school. Heretofore the courses in manual training have concerned themselves entirely with woodwork and cabinet making. Only a fraction of the students make woodworking their life work. Therefore, it was considered a practical improvement to add electrical wiring and sheet metal, gas engines and auto mechanics and carpentry to the manual training projects.
Seek Board and Room.
Superintendent Andreen informs the Journal he has received a number of requests from parents of prospective high school students from out-of-town, who desire to secure board and room for their children while attending classes here. Anyone wishing to accommodate one or more of these young people should communicate with Mr. Andreen immediately.
By a resolution, adopted by the local board of education last year, all children, who will attain the age of six years on or before January 1,1926, will be admitted to the primary grades in the public schools. Children not able to qualify in this respect, due to their youth, may attend the kindergarten classes in the Lincoln or Washington buildings, depending upon where they reside.
Teachers' Meet Monday.
Superintendent Andreen announces there will be a meeting of the entire teaching corps of the high and grade schools at the high school building, Monday afternoon. At that time, matters pertaining to the opening of school will be discussed.
Parochial Schools Open.
The Holy Trinity Catholic parochial high and grade school, St. Mary's Catholic parochial grade school and the Lutheran parochial grade school will open next Tuesday morning for the fall term.
Dr. Martin Luther College.
The Dr. Martin Luther college opened Wednesday for the fall term. This local institution is attracting Lutheran young men and women from all over the northwest.
Attendance Last Year.
The attendance upon opening day last year in the public schools was 690. It is anticipated that this number will be augmented somewhat on opening day this year.
There were a total of 485 pupils at the Holy Trinity Catholic high and grade parochial schools upon opening day last year. Seventy-seven of these were in the high school. St. Mary's Catholic parochial school there were 234 present upon opening day, and 228 answered roll call at the Lutheran parochial school last year, upon the first day of the fall term.
It is anticipated that the enrollment will show an increase upon opening day this year over last in the different schools of the city.
But Few Changes on Force.
There are but few changes in the faculty of the high and grade schools this year, as compared with last. Miss Aylwyn Espersen succeeds Miss Celeste M. Carney as instructor in English I and II and dramatics, in the high school, while Miss Theodora Idtse will instruct in mathematics in place of Miss Louise Fritsche. Miss Gertrude Pitz, will succeed Miss Thea Muehlbach in commercial training while Miss Esther M. Yaeger, will be the music instructor, vice Miss Elsie Marti.. These are the only changes in the high school and special teaching staff.
But two changes are noted in the grade schools. Mrs. Grace Ewy will succeed Mrs. Harriet Fritsche as instructor in history in the Emerson building, while Miss Anne Buggy will teach the 5th and 6th grades in the same building instead of Miss Gertrude Hughes.
Brown County Journal
September 3, 1926
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