Fairmont State University - Mound Yearbook (Fairmont, WV)

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p -v 5 FACULTY N Gfifc MRS. ALLEDA SNYDER Matron Girls ' Dormitory GOLDIE JANE CONKLIN Secretary to the President 27

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FAIRMONT STATE NORMAL SCHOOL BEATRICE FITZWATER Oral English and Expression MRS. EMORY F. McKINNEY Librarian 26

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Butcher Training School [4, HE Butcher Training School is primarily the model school of the Fair- mont State Normal. It is the place where the Normal Seniors observe and put into practice, for about sixteen weeks of their Senior year, the principles of Psychology, General Methods and School Management, and receive practical instruction in the art of teaching. Well equipped in every way for such a purpose, is this school. It is a modern twelve-room building, with large basement playrooms and out-door playgrounds. There is an enrollment of two hundred and eighty-three pupils, and work is given in all eight grades. The faculty consists of a Principal and eight regular teachers, instructors in Do- mestic Art and Manual Training, and supervisors of Art, Music and Penmanship. Departmental work is done in the four upper grades, Miss Prickett having charge of the literature, Miss Creel the music, Miss Henry the history and Miss White the geog- raphy. A special feature of the school is the library. Each grade has a collection of books adapted to its particular needs, and averaging about one hundred and twenty volumes. A general library brings the total number of books to over one thousand, all of which have been censored and approved by the head of the English Department of the Normal School, Mr. Barnes. To encourage and further the English work, regular literary societies have been organized in the upper grades, and special programs are frequently given on Friday afternoons throughout the school. ' The Butcher Monthly, a magazine of the happen- ings of the school, is compiled by the pupils in manuscript form, and the last number in each year is published. Music work, too, has been given special attention, and, this year, the pupils and teachers have bought and paid for a splendid Edison. A favored way of earning the money was by putting pictures at the High School, showing pictures that will tend to develop good tastes along that line, and, at the same time, prove remunerative. A splendid school spirit prevails, and the feeling between the patrons and teachers is most friendly. Special social affairs are arranged throughout the year to bring par- ents and teachers together, and thus encourage co-operation. Athletics, too, receive proper attention, and Butcher School won the cup in the indoor track meet of the city grade schools last year. A model school beyond the usual meaning of the term is the Butcher Training School. While the student-teachers are only beginning to learn the art of teaching, it is by no means an experiment station, and every lesson taught must first be approved in written plan by the critic teacher of the grade in which it is to be taught. Being also a regular city school, it gets away from the usual narrowness of a normal model school, and gives the very best results to both the student-teachers and pupils. H. S., ' 16. 28