Mary Washington College - Battlefield Yearbook (Fredericksburg, VA)

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TWO YEARS OF PROGRESS through the grove, to extend our system of concrete walks, to erect a cold-storage plant, and establish at the school a health education center as the basis for an extension course for teachers in the health education of school children. The Administration has great pride in these accomplishments and freelv confesses that they could not have been realized without the co-operation of an able and loyal faculty and officers, and an enthusiastic and devoted student body. The spirit of the whole school has been truly wonderful. I desire to publicly record my high appreciation of this splendid spirit, to express afresh my well- warranted confidence in the faculty, officers and students of the Fredericksburg Normal, and to renew my pledge that all the energies of my heart and brain shall be expended unstintingly in the promotion of its best interests and the develop- ment of the course of teacher training within its walls. A. B. Ch. ndler, Jr., Presidenl.

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Two Years of Progress ' INCE The Battlefield will fall into the hands of many Alumnae and frie nds of the school, who may have no accurate or full conception of the progress the Fredericksburg Normal has made during the past biennium nor of the contemplated improvements during the next biennium, at the invitation of the editorial staff, I take pleasure in giving a brief account of its recent accomplishments and a prospectus of other extensions about to be realized. On the material side we have lecently laid concrete walks to the President ' s home and the Faculty home, rebuilt the driveway through the grove, secured a new Reo Speed-wagon for use by the practice-teaching Seniors, made improve- ments to the dining hall, added equipment to the kitchen, put in a new gymnasium floor, supplied fiftv per cent, additional equipment to the home economics depart- ment, laid a new gas main to the school, set out an orchard and erected a new fifty thousand gallon steel water tank. On the academic, professional and recreational sides the school has intro- duced a new commercial teacher training course, added a critic teacher to Lee Hill School, established a practice and observation junior high school at Ruther Glen, adopted the group elective system in the course of study, further perfected the student government plan, revived and renamed the two literary societies, done a notable religious work through the Y. W. C. A., strengthened the physical education department, developing one of the strongest, if not the very stronge.st. basket-ball sextettes in the State, introduced a Lyceum series of entertainments with a large season membership, and provided moving pictures weekly for the students. For the session 1921-22 the institution will eliminate the high school or undergraduate department, placing the school upon a wholly professional basis ; will add the senior year of the commercial teacher-training course, with an added member of the faculty in this department ; will establish an additional practice school at Spotsylvania Court House for use by the high school seniors, with wo critic teachers : will double the supervisory force ; will expand the work of the Extension Bureau ; will complete the new grammar grade course of study for the training school ; will provide a full summer quarter for the summer of 1922 ; will refurnish the parlor of Frances Willard Flail ; will add improvements to the kitchen, dining hall and service of ivieals, and will place only two girls in a dormi- tory room, with the possible exception of some corner rooms, in which three may be placed. Subject to legislative appropriations, the Fredericksburg Normal also hopes, during the next two years, to add the second unit to Virginia Hall so as to provide cabinet rooms for the Y. W. C. A. and student government councils, literary society halls, Y. W. C. A. hall, guest rooms, enlarged library, kitchenette and the like. We hope to join the Administration Building with the central heating plant, to erect on our grounds an elementary training school, to build a concrete road

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