Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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26 NORMAL OFFERING Nnrmal Glluhz. Ellie Erihgematvr Glluh nf New Burk sinh Hirinitg. President, H. C. Leonard g Vice-President, Miss Isabel Hathawayg Secretary and Treasurer, Miss Mary White. 4 Eauvrhill-Erihgrmatrr Glluh. President, Miss Madge Feenyg Secretary, Miss Mattie Brooks, Treasurer, Miss Annie Hunt. i g7PITiU11 ZS. Qllama nf 'HIL President, Frank Ellis Gurneyig Secretary, Miss Katherine D. Jones. 0112155 nf 19119. 'President, Miss Louise Monkg Vice-President, Miss Marjorie Davisg Secretary, Miss Mary Bragdong Treasurer, Miss Margaret O'Brien. Zfirihgrmeiivr Nnrmal Aaanrieitinn. Giirgeinigrh. 1545. President, .... Charles L. Bentley p ' Vice-Presidents, Alfred Bunker Frederick W. Swan George A. Smith Mrs. Florence M. Williams Mrs. Clara Guild Secretary, . - . Mrs. Sarah W. Turner Treasurer, . . . . Charles P. Sinnott According to the constitution, All past and present pupils of the Normal School shall be considered members of the Association, unless they express a desire to the contrary to the Secretary, and all past and present Teachers shall be considered Honorary Members. The Association holds a summer reunion at Bridgewater biennially, and an inter- mediate winter meeting in Boston. 'fDeceased. ,

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NORMAL OFFERING 25 Svrninra. Helen Gertrude Annis, Plymouth Helen Louise Ashley, Dartmouth :Harriet Louise Bath Helen Miriam Braley, Rock Grace Marguerite Bride, Riverside, R. I. Catherine Rollins Brown, Quincy Ruth Edna Brownell, New Bedford Eula Cushman Bryant, North Lakeville Annie Miles Buckley, Saylesville, R. I. Doris Burnham, Quincy Catherine Francisca Cabana, Taunton Katheryn Campbell, Dighton Mildred Lee Canfield, Fall River Myrtle Paine Carlisle, Marshfield Lucy Lavinia Coolidge, Wollaston Louise Anna Daley, West Wareham Almyra Louise Davis, Acushnet iGertrude Ellen Devine fMarion Lucille Downey Isabel Cecilia Duarte, New Bedford tAnnie Marguerite Dwyer Mildred Schubert Frank, So. Dartmouth 'Edith Alberta Gould Hilda A. Graveson, Wrentham Gladys Lovisa Haffords, Taunton Agnes Lewis Hallet, New Bedford Elizabeth Cabot Hamlin, Falmouth Marion Temperance Hammond, North Scituate 'Laura Frances Hatch Mary Agnes Herman, Lancaster Helen N. Hewett, Haverhill Mabel Alice Johnson, South Braintree iMildred Emily Jones 'Irma Margaret Killian Mary J. King, Taunton 3 Margeret Gertrude Knight Lora Elizabeth Lamb, Quincy i Address unknown. Elsie Lilian Lanfair, Rochester Ruth Orcutt Leavis, South Carver Kate McKecknie Leiper, North Rochester Avis Gertrude Little, Halifax Florence May Lincoln, Raynham Center Annie Edith Locke, Beverly Cora M. Look, West Tisbury 'iMarion Lyon Helen Agnes Mahoney, South Sandwich Claire Veronica Mahoney, Foxboro Helen Margaret Martin, North Raynham iGladys McQueen Cleora Margaret Munson, Egremont 'Margaret Violet Murphy : Ellen Sophia Nelson Carolyn Bangs Nickerson, So. Weymouth Mildred Sprague Nickerson, So. Braintree i'iLucy Agatha Norris . Marie Monica Power, Fall River Mary Evelyn Reed, Fall River Lillian Mary Reilly, Taunton Anna Gertrude Riley, New Bedford Emma Viola Rogers, Quincy Margaret Clara Rogers, Plymouth Alice Maude Russell, Carver Ruth Sumner Sanford, Norton Helen May Simmons, Somerset 'kDorothy Elizabeth Snow Marion Celestine Sparrow, Attleboro Priscilla Sprague, Vinal Haven Rachel Hortense Steele, Hamilton Agnes Veronica Sullivan, New Bedford Mary Gaspar Sylvia, New Bedford Margaret Tuthill, Wollaston Alice Mildred Tuxbury, Winchendon Mary Edith Walling, Lakeville Mona Rosilla Young, Brockton

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NORMAL OFFERING 27 A Zirarhrrh mark in an Armrniam Hillagv. N to AM very glad indeed to write about a teacher's life in M1 49 3 'll 11 1 ' A ' d ' 11' ,aio if a V1 age sc oo 1n rmenia, an to try to picture 1S Qx97' O u n . Q 1 45351, X' daily life, because the work IS quite different from a ' , teacher's work in America. my 1 There was a time when a teacher in a village was .:. . tl -- ...... I . the one person who was able to read a little from the Bible or other religious books. He was both teacher and preacher, and very often the lawyer and the judge of the village. But since the last half of the nineteenth century the conditions have been a good deal changed, although not entirely. After the cities began to pay attention to their schools, giving them every possible chance in their progress toward a normal and satisfac- tory condition, the villages too got their own share, but of course not so rapidly as the cities. The villages, too, changed their old school system and tried to follow new methods, but of course it was impossi- ble to change conditions entirely, and so even in our day the teacher not only gives instruction but is sometimes the preacher, and, if not the judge, at least the lawyer of the village. A village teacher in these days is a graduate from a high school, or very seldom from an academy, in the city. These high schools do not give special attention to methods, or the art of teaching, but in the absence of normal schools the teachers have to be satisfied with high- school knowledge and go into the country to teach. Here they have to meet practical life with its hard and difficult sides, but, being very young yet, they like this busy work, and they put all their time and thought into it. They are teaching school, and in the meantime trying to make the villagers understand what is thereal value of education, because most of the villagers think that the new methods of teaching are guiding their children away from their religion. There are govern- ment officials in the city or village, but, because they are Mohamedans, the villagers do not believe in them, and therefore come to the teacher to iind out who is at fault or who is in the right. This is another extra work that the teacher has to do. In some of these villages, school buildings are very poor indeed, containing sometimes just one room, though usually two or three