Lewis Clark State College - Yearbook (Lewiston, ID)

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The anual Qliraining Eepartment Perhaps in no other department of the Lewiston Normal has the growth been more marked than in the Manual Training department. lfor the last seven years this work has been carried on under the sul:- ervision lof Miss Mary McGahey. In these seven years the develop- ment from hand-work, sewing and wood-work under one person to separate departments for each has taken place. The courses in wood- work are now open to the students in all departments as well as the grades in the Training School from the third through the fifth. Prac- tice work in conducting Manual Training classes is carried on not only in the Training school but in the Lewiston public schools. A glance in the shop at any period 'of the day will reveal a class, seemingly noisy, but busy and happy at their work, whether it he the youngest Training school class or one composed of seniors- Tn all these classes the aim is to give the students a working familiarity with tool and wood that they might use this knfowledge in the construction of some practical problem. The useful and the artistic are given special emphasis in this work. The students going out as teachers find this work offers a splendid point of contact with the students an-'l an means of directing energy to useful ends.

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Rural Qlenters i One of the things of which the Lewiston Normal school may be justly proud, is the splendid 'opportunity offered for actual rural training for teachers. This system has been carefully worked out and fostered by both Mr. VVooster and President lllack. Mr. Wooster as head of the Rural department has devoted much thought and effort toward making this phase of Normal work a really practical proposi- tion. At the present time we have five rural training centers, super- vised by rural school specialists and taught by student teachers who go out quarterly. The school nearest here is the Hatwai school, about three and one half miles across and up the Clearwater river. Miss Elizabeth Mc- Donald is the supervisor. The school house is set somewhat back from the road and nestles among the hills. There is only one room about eighteen by thirty feet- ln the back of the room is the oil stove upon which the hot lunches are cooked. There are between fifteen and twenty pupils, each grade being represented. The student teachers board at Mr. Stranahan's about a mile from the school house. Other rural centers are at Gurney, Sweetwater and Upper and Lower Tammany. The supervisors of these schools are respectively: Mrs. Dodge, Miss Wiseman, Miss Minger and Miss Cleveland.

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X R l l i QBfffir:e Jfnrte Have you a trouble? Go to the office. Miss O'Connell, Miss Wil-- larcl and Miss jolly always seem glad to help anyone who is suffering from any cause from a Hflunkl' to a lost handkerchief. Miss O'Counell is secretary to President Blackg Miss Willard is the steno- grapher, and Miss Jolly is the bookkeeper whom we all hate to see at the first of the quarter when bloard bills are due and whom we have to see after the mail comes in. Much of the smoothness of the routine of school is due to the office force. Without it the school would practically stop, and so among the students and faculty, Miss O'Connell, Miss jolly and Miss Willard me considered as especially necessary to their happiness.