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3n0ttuctors in 1884 W. H. RUFFXER, Prixcipal PSYCHOLOGY, ETIIK ' S, DIIJACTICS, AND LESSON ' S IX XATl ' RAL SCIENCE MISS CKLESTE E. BUSH, Vice-Principal GEOGKAPHY ' . PHYSIOLOGY, IMTEI) STATES HISTORY, MORALS AXD MANNERS MISS il. PAULINE GASH ENGLISH GRAMMAR, ENGLISH LITERATLHE, GENERAL HISTORY, RHETORIC, ELOCLTION. PENMANSHIP illSS LILLIAN A. LEE MATHEMATICS, DRAWING, BOOKKEEPING, CALISTHENICS MR. BEVERLY H. ROBERTSON ' NATURAL SCIENCE, LATIN, ALGERRA illSS CLARA M. BRIMBLECOM VOCAL MLSIC MRS. C. T. BARTKOWSKA MODEL SCHOOL MISS BELLE JOHNSON PIANO HOME DEPARTMENT MR. DANIEL. Steward JIRS. DANIEL, Housekeeper
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Reminiscences for the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary at Farmville ONE whose memory covers the qiiartov eeuttivv nf the existence of the Faniiville Normal School can hut marvel at its ra])id growth and nn- Ijroken prosperity, for it has overtaken and ontstripped many an insti- tution that tells its age in centuries. But the school was most healthy and lively as an infant, as those present at its birth can testify. The writer recalls vividly a time in her old normal school in Connecticut when a hea ' ily built, reticent gentleman visited her classroom through se ' eral recitations. At the close of the second day he told her how Virginia had voted to establish a training school for her teachers ; that he had been appointed principal ; that he was seeking a vice-principal who could manage working details, of which he had no knowledge, while he would manage the vice- principal ; and ended by offering her the position. In this year of grace, 1909, any teacher might be proud of a position at Farmville; but in 1884 it was a different proposition. Suppose the plan went wrong ; who wanted any share in a failure ? Virginia politicians had talked much of repudiation; were salaries secure there? The late War was then less than two decades away ; would a daughter of the North be welcome to the i eople ? With such doubts, it was not strange that she dared not, then, accept the oifered honor; but she has, since, been heartily glad that it was repeated, reconsidered, and accepted. So far as professional methods were concerned, Farmville could start at the most advanced point then gained by older normal schools ; but for material equipment it could cnly, like a fiddler crab, slip into the first vacant shell. There came an October day when the principal introduced the vice-principal to the school-shell where she was to manage and he to super-manage. The memory of that old building is full of charm to her to-day, though ' just why for the life of her she could not tell. No factory or warehouse could be more frankly ugly without or artlessly jumbled within. Its bricks stood awry and its boards were rudely matched and planed. It had grown old not gracefully, but gloomily and grimly. But the old structure was soon alight with bright faces and light hearts and the more stately structure of to-day no more shames its rudeness than does York Minster shame the manger under the stars of Bethlehem.
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