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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1914
Page
9
A page from the Alliance Herald curates details about the Alliance Junior Normal running June 8 to July 31, issued by Earl M. Cline and Della M. Reed. The notice outlines activities, schedules, and resources for participants at the Junior Normal event in Alliance.
Attendance expected to be high as the same faculty from last year returns to teach at Alliance Junior Normal. Della M. Reed serves again as registrar and county superintendent of Hex Butte, overseeing a staff including Jas E. Delsell and Earl M. Cline with principals in Weeping Water and Sid. Braham among others.
Superintendent Earl M. Cline of Geneva city schools is reappointed by the state superintendent as Principal of the Alliance Junior Normal. The action confirms leadership of the Alliance institution and continuity in district education.
The Alliance Junior Normal begins Monday morning June 8 with registration at 7:20 AM. Tuesday classes start Tuesday with season assignments Monday and regular work to follow. The institute shuts Friday July 31.
Monday, June 8 is the registration day. Plan to be there at the specified time to enroll and complete the process.
When you arrive in Alliance go north up main street to the high school building ten blocks away. Instructors will be at the high school Saturday to help you arrange board and room and get located comfortably.
Furnished rooms near the Senior Normal building may be rented from fifty cents to one dollar per week for two occupants. Board available from three dollars and fifty cents to five dollars per week. Advances in rates for board and room should be directed to Registrar Della M. Reed in Alliance, Nebraska.
The Alliance Junior Normal School, state maintained, charges no tuition. A small enrollment fee grants free admission to all entertainments and lectures. those enrolling for institute only pay one dollar and gain free admission to weekly entertainments.
Schools announce no tuition this year for high school students beyond the regular two dollar enrollment fee. Last year pupils earning high school credit paid seventy five cents weekly, but this year only the enrollment fee applies.
Students are urged to study the daily program to decide subjects before registering. Note that two classes have been scheduled in many essential subjects to allow all who wish to take them to do so with minimal difficulty.
The guidance urges teachers to advance from third to second and from second to first grade certificates, and to aim for professional life certificates for those with a first grade. The push emphasizes continual professional development in the teaching field.
Students may take four full subjects and two drill subjects as the maximum. Drill subjects include music model school primary methods penmanship and drawing and require no extra preparation outside regular class time.
The Model School will again be in charge this summer by Mrs Gertrude Fulton of Lincoln. Superintendent Fred M Hunter calls her one of the best teachers in this work in the state. She has Junior Normal experience and prior teaching background.
The Alliance City Schools loan textbooks to regularly enrolled students at no charge and allow free use of all apparatus. Teachers are advised to bring any reference books they have for supplemental use, especially in Pedagogy and Drawing subjects.
Teachers may prepare for any grade or kind of certificate with subjects offered by Alliance Junior Normal. The program does not require all life certificate subjects, but related subjects may be added if demand exists. Write to Principal Earl M. Cline in Alliance Nebraska with interest in any unlisted branch.
The Third Grade lists Orthography Reading Writing Geography Arithmetic Physiology Composition Grammar U S History and Mental Arithmetic. Second Grade adds Civics Bookkeeping Drawing Agriculture Theory and Art of Teaching. First Grade requires Algebra Botany Plane Geometry Physics. Professional Life Certificate adds Chemistry English Literature General History Geology Physical Geography Plane Trigonometry Psychology Rhetoric and Zoology.
The Alliance high school offers one of western Nebraska’s best gymnasiums. Junior Normal students receive instruction in floor work basketball indoor baseball and other gym activities directed by Professor E. L. Meyer who is well prepared to supervise.
The Junior Normal provides an excellent opportunity for high school students to take up back work or pursue advanced branches. Courses include physics botany geometry algebra and normal training subjects with credit transfer to high school credits. Alliance and surrounding towns are urged to send many students this summer.
The Junior Normal institute week, June 8 to 12, invites teachers from Hex Butte and nearby counties. Regular instructors will share methods and devices, and Professor W. Pugsley of the University of Nebraska will present on practical agricultural education. The period emphasizes practical advances in education.
This summer all regular class periods will come in the morning. The first period will begin at seven twenty and the last period will close at twelve thirty. There will be seven periods, unchanged, allowing work to be completed before the heat of the day.
Each week a faculty member delivers a chapel talk to students on an education theme. Prominent state school men will also give addresses as part of the program.
The Alliance Chautauqua arrives at Junior Normal from June 25 to 30 with a strong lineup of speakers and entertainers. Morning classes enable Normal students to attend chosen Chautauqua shows, and the tent near the high school provides easy access for all pupils. A season ticket grants access to premier lyceum circuit talent for a nominal fee.
Teachers seeking city certificates should prepare at Alliance Junior Normal. All teachers in Article 21 schools must hold city certificates, with preparation similar to first grade county and professional life certificates. Those pursuing these certificates will also work toward city first grade and city life certificates.
At the close of the session graduation exercises will be held for teachers who completed the Teachers' Training Course. Requirements include four sessions of at least six weeks at a junior normal school for an elementary state certificate. Those with partial attendance must spend at least six weeks this year to qualify.
The Model School offers eight to twelve week normal training courses to qualify for second and first grade county certificates. Courses include school management and methodology plus observation, with optional academic subjects, and open to all students regardless of credit needs.
Superintendent H H Reimund of Weeping Water returns to Alliance Junior Normal with music leadership and U S History Physiology Agriculture Public School Music and Advanced Algebra. Superintendent W J Brabham of Sidney also returns to instruct, bringing history composition botany and psychology courses plus math and physics.
Superintendent E. L. Meyer, longtime Alliance educator, returns for the 1914 session. A Peru State Normal graduate, he served as principal in Fairbury and Alliance High School before advancing to superintendent roles, with recent studies at the University of Nebraska and a new post in Randolph. He will teach arithmetic, English literature, bookkeeping and rhetoric this summer.
Junior Normal students welcome Mrs Gertrude Fulton of Lincoln back to Alliance Junior Normal where she will direct Model School work primary methods and penmanship classes. She has training from Fremont Normal Wesleyan University and University of Nebraska and twelve years as Lincoln city teacher plus rural and Havelock experience.
Very few school men in the state match Superintendent Simeon Moss of Wisner in scholastic attainments. An 1897 Nebraska graduate Phi Beta Kappa with an A B, Moss earned a Master’s degree after two years as a state university fellow. His varied career includes rural and city schools, Carleton high school principal, Latin instructor at the state university, Weeping Water principal and superintendent, and now entering his fifth year as Wisner superintendent. He will oversee Civics Latin Beginning SS classes this summer.
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