Salisbury University - Evergreen Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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EVERGREE N —1 9 2 6 the Board of Education of Wicomico County whereby, under conditions mutually satisfactory, the local schools may be used as a laboratory for observation, demonstration, and practice teaching. Experience has proved that such a plan, if wisely administered, not only furnishes the teacher- training institution with the facilities it must have in order to do its work well, but it invariably provides a stimulus to a sane and steady growth in the professional insight, and professional skill of the entire teaching staff of the school system with which it co-operates. In addition to the local schools there has been provided, in conjunction with the normal school, an elementary school which exemplifies the best current practice in elementary school planning, and which will accommo¬ date seven grades in four classrooms. The teachers in this school are graduates of a teachers’ college, specialists in elementary education. For the first two years, or until the normal school is enlarged, two classrooms are devoted to the elementary school, one-half of the building being needed for normal school purposes. The plan of graded practice teaching is followed, the work proceeding through the several steps of observation, participation, group teaching, all under expert supervision. The school opened on September 7, 1925, with an enrollment of one hundred and five students. Mr. Holloway, Principal of the Maryland State Normal School at Sal¬ isbury, claims that no school can be deemed a successful school unless it has public sympathy and support. It may have the best teachers availa¬ ble; it may have the finest buildings that can be designed, with adequate equipment in every department; it is still not a success unless there is back of it an informed, responsible, participating public sentiment, anxious and willing to know what is going on in the school, assuming its proper share of the responsibility for its conduct, and partcipating, so far as it can helpfully do so, in its several activities. That this school, although only in its first year, has such community spirit is evidenced by the gifts which it has received from two of the leading fra¬ ternal bodies. On last Armistice Day, Chesapeake Royal Arch Chapter, No. 17, with elaborate ceremonies, unveiled a if the school a flag, flag staff and pedestal with bronze tablet in honor of the members of the Chapter who participated in the World War. On Lin¬ coln’s Birthday, the Wicomico Association, comprising five councils, of the Junior Order United American Mechanics, with beautiful and impressive exercises held in the school auditorium, presented to the school a lovely silk American flag and pedestal for use in the auditorium. This new State Normal School has begun its work auspiciously. It has already justified the faith of its sponsors by supplying a long felt need for higher educational facilities in this part of the State. A fine school spirit has developed, students seem to be happy and contented, and are engaging in their duties with commendable zeal. There is every prospect for greater usefulness and success in the future. Page Nine

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E EE WILLIAM J. HOLLOWAY. Principal of School Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Teachers College, Columbia University, A. M. Purpose of School Young people in a democracy can aspire to no higher calling than the training of the youth for citizenship. Teaching is real service to the Republic. Nothing is nobler or more practical. There is need in the State for enthusiastic and well-trained teachers who will dedicate them¬ selves wholeheartedly to service in the schools to which they may be as¬ signed. There is need also for higher educational facilities in the lower part of the Del-Mar-Va Peninsula. The Maryland State Normal School at Salisblury is attempting to meet these needs. It has begun its work auspiciously. A fine school spirit has developed, students seem to be happy and contented, and are engaging in their duties with commendable zeal. There is every prospect for greater usefulness and success in the future. William J. Holloiuay. Page Eleven