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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1915)
Board of Education and Teachers of Loup City Schools I Professor Bur well Writes About City Schools and Teachers The public schools of Loup City are a source of pride to the city and surrounding country. The growth of the schools in the last few years has been very unusual. Seven years ago the school opened with only eight teachers employed. Now there is a force of fourteen teachers, and with contemplated changes in the courses of study to be offered next year, at least one more teacher will be needed. The school has high rank in the state, being ap proved by the state superintendent and accredited by the State Uni versity. So far, the only strictly vocational instruction given in the school is that offered in normal training. To aid this department of the work, the state gives the I^oup City district $700 every two years, and the success of our graduates who engage in teach ing, as reported by the county super intendent, fully justifies the appropri ation. In years past, many graduates of this school have gone to other insti tutions for still more advanced study. Some of the strongest students our State University has ever enrolled, i;ave come from Loup City. But to whatever institution they have gone, they have generally given a good ac count of themselves.. Of the clats of 1914. seven have since been enrolled in colleges and five engaged in teach ing. The class of 1915 was composed of twenty seven members, ten boys and seventeen girls. Of these, two hoys and sixteen girls are teaching, and six boys and one girl are in col lege. Since 1914. the standing of the Loup City high school has been such that grades made in the high school classes are taken by the state superin tendent’s office in lieu of examina tions for first grade teachers’ certifi cates. The policy of the present ad ministration of the school is toward development of power and instruc tion in worth while subjects rather than toward adornment with frills. The total enrollment so far this year is 410. Of this number ninty eight are in the high school. There are twenty-eight non-resident pupils attending whose tuition brings to the district $112 per month. Some of these pupils come from home every day, a distance of over eight miles. Some data has been gathered concerning the teachers of the school. Superintendent J. H. Burwell was horn in Pennsylvania..He received his common school education in Wiscon sin and Missouri. He took his col lege course at Avalon college and re ceived a degree from that institu tion. He later took a course at the state normal school at Peru, Ne braska. and was granted the degree offered by that school. He has done special work at the university of Ne braska in the departments of educa tion and English. He has served as principal or superintendent as fot lows: Ridgeway, Mo., three years; Pattonsburg, Mo., two years; Cedar Bluffs, Nebr., three years; St. Ed wards, Nebr., five years; Juniata, Nebr,. four years; Loup City, two years. He taught a number of terms in country schools and has done con siderable work as institute instruc tor. He holds a professional life cer tificate and a superintendent’s life certificate. Principal Roy V. Kelley is a native of Nebraska. His home is at Lex ington. He is a graduate of the Lex ington high school and also of the Her home is at Hastings. She is a JOSfcHH O’bKYAN President. W. S. WAITE T reasurer. state normal at Peru. This is his first year at Loup City, but he had four years experience before coming here. He holds a professional life certifi cate. Assistant principal, Miss Grace Fawtlirop, is a native of Nebraska, graduate of the Lincoln high school and of the University of Nebzraska. She graduated from the university in 1913 with the A. B. degree. This is her third year in high school work, and her second year at Loup City. She holds a first grade city state cer tificate. Miss Nellie Grierson was born in Nebraska and lives at Ansley. She is a graduate of the Ansley high school and of the state normal at Kearney, graduating at the latter in 1914. She has had eight years’ ex perience, five of which have been in high schol work. She holds a pro fessional life certificate. J. F. Nicoson, teacher of the gram mar department of our school was born in Knox county Indiana, April 23, 1861. He obtained his early education in the country school and later received high school training in Freelandville, Oaktown and Bruceville of the Hoosier state. Mr. Nicoson secured a certificate Miss Eleanora Holmes, teacher of the sixth grade, also claims Nebras ka as her native state, with her home near Ravenna. She is a graduate of the Ravenna high school, graduating in the class of 19X2. She taught two years in rural schools and is teaching her second year in Loup City. Her certificate is of the first grade coun ty. Miss Lena Smith, teacher of the fifth grade, was born and educated in Loup City. Since leaving the high school she has taught one year in the country and eight years in Loup City. She holds a first grade county cer tificate. Left to Right, Standing—Mable Lang, Grace Lang, Margaret McFadden, J. F. Nicoson, Anna Clopper, Roy V. Kel ley, Madge Holmes, Elenora Holmes, Lena Smith. Left to Right, Seated—Gertrude Cruitt, Grace Fawthrop, J. H. Burwell, Nellie Grierson, Mrs. Beth Owen. MRS. WILLIAM AMICK in 18S5 and taught school for two years in his native state, coming to Nebraska in the spring of 1887, and engaging in school work in Valley county the following winter. In this profession he has continued to the present time, having had experience in all grades of school work. Since coming to Nebraska. Mr. Nicoson took a course in plain and or namental penmanship and bookkeep ing in the Omaha Commercial college and spent one summer in the Fremont normal school. This is Mr. Nicoson’s eighth year in Loup City school. Miss Madge Holmes, seventh grade teacher, was born in Nebraska and lives near Ravenna. She received her education in the Ravenna schools and at the state normal at Kearney. She holds a first grade county certificate and has had nine years’ experience in teaching, three of which have been in the Loup City schools. MRS. A. B. OUTHOUSE. Miss Margaret McFadden, fourth grade teacher, was born in Nebraska. Her home is near Austin. She gradu ated from the Loup City high school in the class of 1910. She has had three years’ experience in rural schools and two in town schools. Her certificate is of the first grade county. Miss Anna Clopper, third grade teacher, is a native Nebraskan. Her home is at Liberty this state. She received her education in high school and the state normal at Peru, Nebras ka. Miss Mable Lang is a native of Ne braska. She is a graduate of the Nebraska Wesleyan Academy and of the normal department of the Nebras ka Wesleyan University. She has had one years’ experience in teaching and holds a second grade state certificate She also holds a second grade coun ty certificate. Miss Gertrude Cruit is the teacher of the first grade. She was born in Nebraska and her home is at Ra venna high school in 1912 and from vennaliigh school in 1912 and from E. G. TAYLOR WILLIAM LARSON Secretary. the state normal at Kearney In 11*11. She has had two years’ experiem She is teaching her second year m Loup City. Her certificate is a fii t grade state. Miss Grace Lang, kindergarten teacher, is a Nebraskan by birth. She is a graduate of the Universii Place high school and of the normal department of the Nebraska Wesb an University. She has had four year experience in town schools and ho' a second grade state certificate. Mrs. Beth Owen, supervisor music, was born in Nebraska and r sides in Loup City. She is a gradu of the Loup City high school and the Leander Clark college conser tory of music, at Toledo, Ohio. S,. taught private voice and piano tin* years and has had several years' • \ perience in directing and singing in choruses and choirs. She holds u supervisor’s certificate from the In stitute of Normal Methods. Kvanston, Illinois. BRAINS AND HANDS. Everybody has brains and m t everybody has hands, and the • \ > combined should chase the wolf i any door. A few people begin life by won with their hands, and as opportui presents they throw their brains the fray and make a success in ti. c-hoseu vocation. Later we speak of them as if made men. 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