Wisconsin State Teachers College - Meletean Yearbook (River Falls, WI)

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B. LOUISE HILDER MAUDE TAYLOR IRMA B. ARMSTRONG State Teachers College, A. B. Kentucky Wesleyan A. M. Teachers College, Co- St. Cloud College lumbia University Fourth Grade Critic Third Grade Critic Second Grade Critic training, and each student is required to take a definite amount of practice. Each grade has a room and a regular teacher or grade critic. The classes are taught by the practice teachers under the supervision and advice of the critic. This training by an experienced instructor is of great value to the young teacher. Special training is given in art, music, manual arts, home economics, and physical training. It is the aim of these departments not to produce artists or musicians but to create in each child the ability to see and hear, and the desire to create beauty for himself, that life may be more worthwhile. Let anyone questioning the value of this training stand by any day and watch the children as they come into the art room to work on some useful and interesting project. These include problems in design, harmony of color, beauty of line and form. The projects may include modeling, soap sculpture, study of masterpieces, interior decoration, costuming, drawing and painting, and others too numerous to mention. LUCILE M. FOBEs ESTHER JOHNSON ELAINE HUETTL B. S. Teachers College, Clerk Clerk Columbia University Primary Critic Twentwain e

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RUSSELL JOHNSTON MABEL L. BRIDGES NATHALIE DELANDER A. B. Washington and M- A- T?Nhers. Cohege, B. S. University of Minnesota Jefferson College Columbla UmverSIty Geography and History Director Training School Supervisor Junior High School Elementary Grades THE TRAININ G SCHOOL THE training school occupies the largest part of the New Building, which was 1- erected in 1927. The school is constructed accordmg t0 the most modern plans and equipped with the best school fixtures. It contains the ofhces of the head of the training school department and the heads of the departments for grammar grade and elementary teachers, along with splendid class rooms and assemblies for the grades. There are three floors to the building, the third floor containing the junior high school, the second floor the intermediate grades and the first floor the primary grades. The pupils attend from the surround- ing city. The primary pu'rpose 0f the training school is to afford opportunity for the pros- pective teachers to gain actual teaching experience as a part of their teacher , DOROTHEA E. BIRDSELL OLGA GAUSTAD AUGUSTA THOMAS A. M. University of Wisconsin State Normal School, River River Falls State Normal English, Junior High School Falls, Wisconsin School Rural Critic Fifth and Siwth Grade Critic Twenty-Eight

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PATRON'S DAY N May twenty-seventh, 1928, the new addition to North Hall, to be known as the Training School Building, was dedicated. This was also the annual Field Day of the Agricultural Department, and the two events were made the occasion for a gathering of the friends of the school in a Patronls Day celebration. Faculty and students held open house all day for parents and school officials from the sur- rounding towns and counties. Mr. Hill of the History Department headed the program committee, and'Mr. Hanna of the English Department took charge of the publicity and advertising. Miss Greene of the Art Department was chairman of the exhibits. Miss Irma Hathorn, dean of women, was in charge of the entertain- ment of the guests. The day began with the dedication of the new building. Members of the Board of Regents and presidents of the other Wisconsin Teachers Colleges were in at- tendance. State Superintendent J. C. Callahan, Mr. J. W. Doudna, Secretary of the Board of Regents, President Snodgrass of the La Crosse Teachers College, and our own regent, Mr. P. W. Ramer, addressed the audience. They traced the progress of education in Wisconsin, and also gave the history of the growth of the college here at River Falls. Thirty