Fort Wayne Normal School - Annual Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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IO OUR Yesri-:RoAvs teachers, our married aluninae responded to the call so that we suffered less than most places during that trying period. THE TRAINING SCHOOL The supervised teaching of the students was originally done in rooms selected in dif- ferent buildings. Miss Swan found that by this arrangement the schools could not be under the strict supcrintendence so essential to their welfare. For this reason, since the refounding of the school in ISQ7, the Training School and Normal have occupied the same building. At present there are eleven rooms with a kindergarten and six grades in charge of training or critic teachers. A fully equipped playground kept open the year round pro- vides recreation for the children, and opportunity for learning how to conduct playgrounds for the students. Many interesting projects have been undertaken in the school. A garden has been cared for by the children, Sometimes the products have been sold and the money thus obtained used for school purposes. At one time a hive of bees provided opportunity for study. Such enterprises have not only motivated the Nature Study, but have given oppor- tunities for social experience through group activities which will be long remembered by both pupils and students. THE LIBRARY Bliss Swan states in her report of 1868: The school is without a Library or Cabinet. Books are very much needed, especially books of reference and those relating to the arts and sciences. At the present time the school has accumulated a valuable and up-to-date library of nearly five thousand bound volumes. This is quite a complete specialized library for a small school in which not a great number of duplicate copies is required. All the current educational magazines are on the shelves. ASSEMBLIES It has been the custom of the school for several years to hold an Assembly of the stu- dents and teachers one afternoon each week. One week the juniors plan the program, the next week the Seniors. and the next. the teachers. Each group has an assembly committee. Each committee selects one from its members to be a member of the General Assembly Committee to which all programs are submitted for approval. The Committees strive to give programs which are both educational and entertaining. They are usually given by members of the faculty or students, but occasionally by outsiders. SOCIAL ACTIVITIES At the beginning of each year it has been customary for the Seniors to give one party in honor of the Juniors and another in honor of the Seniors of the past year. Later the Juniors return this compliment given them by entertaining the Seniors. The faculty is in- vited to these parties. Often another is given by the faculty for the girls. Games are played, various stunts are given, and class songs are sung. Much wholesome rivalry has existed between classes over the composing of class songs. These are not the only parties enjoyed during the year, for often informal wiener bakes and marshmallow roasts are given in Lakeside Park. Then, too, for the past few years, the Normal students have been given a Christmas luncheon in honor of the faculty whom they have had as class teachers during the year. ' CARTOON CONTEST In IQI2 Miss VVilber introduced a cartoon contest to stimulate the interest of the Normal students in public affairs. The presidential election furnished a good subject. Cartoons were first studied in class to find what stories they told, what attitude the cartoonist had taken, and what aid or hindrance the cartoons were to the cause of the election. Then the students were asked to make a collection of cartoons from magazines or papers telling the election story. The prize was to go to the student who by November 17, 1912, had made the collection best telling the story. If told equally well by several, the prize was to go to the student whose collection was thc most pointed and humorous. The judges were B. J. Griswold of the Sentinel and H. E. Larimer of the News. The collections varied in length from two hundred to four hundred cartoons, and single collections represented as many as fifty cartoonists. One interesting result of the contest was the marked growth of political thought. Girls who had previously been loyal to their fathers' preferences developed independent opinions, and girls who had formerly had no political preference became strong adherents of a definite party policy. However, very few collections showed political bias. The per- sonal testimony of the students eight months later showed that the interest stimulated by the contest carried over not only into politics but also into other public questions.

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