Southeastern Oklahoma State University - Savage Yearbook (Durant, OK)

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Model Schools Used The model city school was divided into grade levels and was under the direction and management of Southeastern’s regular faculty. According to the local paper, such training was invaluable to teachers in rural schools, and they “cannot well afford to miss this feature of the normal, as it alone will be worth what all the entire term will cost them.” The momentous event which everyone had waited for finally occured on June 14, 1909. Front page headlines on that day proclaimed, “Southeastern State Normal Convenes with Enthusiasm.” As the teachers had begun arriving in Durant in banner headline implied, much greater numbers than had been predicted. According to the paper, the visiting teachers “came from the east, the west, the north and the south, all happy and smiling, glad-handed, hearted, citizenship of the city.” By the end of the first week, statistics showed the number of teachers already exceeded warm- registration five hundred. They came from not only Choctaw, Lane, Johnston, Marshall, Carter, Bryan, Coal and Atoka counties of Oklahoma, but also Gainesville, Collinsville and other north Denison, Texas cities, as well as Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas. In essence, the first summer session and later ones for several years were joint efforts combining the regular special instructors drawn from the ranks of Southeastern faculty with superintendents and public school teachers from the several counties. For instance, among the first summer faculty in 1909 appear such prominent names as William C. Canterbury, Henry Garland Bennett, and W.H. Echols. Canterbury came to Oklahoma in 1905 as principal of Ardmore high school, moved to Marietta as superintendent and eventually became president of Southeastern in 1914. Bennett was county superintendent of Choctaw County in 1909, superintendent of Hugo from 1910 to 1919 and president here from 1919 to 1928. Echols was superintendent of the Durant Public Schools from 1908 to 1915 and he joined the Southeastern faculty. Classes convened each morning at 8 ail LUCY CAROLINE LEONARD Durant Ciraduate. Durant H: S$. 719. Alta Petentes ‘20 ‘21. W. C.. A. Cabinet °20 21. Ass't Editor Holisso. Vos, Luey, received her share of height and all the requisites thia it takes for an ‘round girl ' a.m. at either the high school or the Presbyterian College; after a noon intermission, a similar four-hour session followed. Chapel exercises were held

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re ern eee re Burra Photos: Opposite page: 1918 Boys’ Basketball (top) was coached by Paul Laird. 1918 Maintenance workers (bottom). This page: First Lieut. R.L. Merritt, Commanding Officer (top left) of the Student’s Army Training Corps. Dr. Edmund Dandridge Murdaugh, LL.M, Ped. D., (top right) president, history and philosophy of education. 191 Hygiene and Camp Sanitation Class (above) was related to World War I. It also shows Slew Hewitt. 1921 Yearbook ad (right) for a theatre featured a $10,000 pipe organ. financial crisis. Moore also discussed at the meeting one of the most pressing problems facing the opening of the proposed summer session - the lack of an auditorium large enough to house all the expected guests at one time. The concern was quickly answered, when on June 11, 1909, the trustees of the First Methodist Church of Durant voted to offer the use of its sanctuary for the summer session. Elated by this development, Moore publicly expressed his appreciation for the generosity of the First Methodist Church members and his hope that many Durant residents would attend the during the nightly chapel services summer term. Pee Ce was Meee Tint cw mi. fret vn Oie t toy IM eNO ME ML IN cl AE EE as To further insure the success of the beginning of SEN, President Moore announced he was asking all the county superintendents from the so utheastern state to attend a convention to be held in Durant on April section of the 29 for the express purpose of confering with them about the summer session. Moore hoped he could use such a meeting to persuade the county superintendents to cancel their own summer county normal institutes and bring their teachers to Durant on June 14. The plan succeeded and the county superintendents from the public school systems of Choctaw, Coal, Atoka, Carter, Lane, Johnston and Bryan counties agreed not to hold their own normals and bring their teachers to Durant. Consequently, by securing this agreement, Moore had assured th e fact that the summer normal would be a major educational assembly. feature which especially appealed to the county One innovative superintendents was conceived by VP Hinshaw. With the cooperation of President Moore, Hinshaw planned.and organized a model county rural school and a model city grade school in which teachers could observe and participate. The model county school covered the entire eight grades of the primary level and was taught by one teacher. OUT et Ey pert ary

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2) Use SNOLISSQ: 2 Nose Kel ley a . Lover Jaw : Tratney Collar-Bone -Werk : Right Arm-Miss Hallie fondle tert | — Misal ng lub Lt Pore Arns Ni ies, CO Pw pape + | ae {4 as Hatin nd sone ¢- Mlatirre ‘Thay LE Ti by Tr Skeleton of S outheastern, Eae hers 5 HT Feet Laird — | j college | Photos: ; each evening at the Methodist Church Opposite pagé! 1921 student (top) Miss Lucy Ads | Leonard and her “credits”. 1919 Custodians beginning at 8 p.m. There, the guests and (bottom) worked long hours. : - . This page: 1921 Student Council (top left). 1922 students enjoyed Be, social, | “Skeleton of Southeastern” (top right) education and cultural activities. | 1922 Training School Industrial Art Class (above). Professor Mildred Riling (right), 1928 English Because of the vast number BEETS | teacher. who responded to the summer session, President Moore had to hold the model | school in several locations to provide more room for the observation.