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. Others start life w U
their hands, never use anything
their hands, and die as they begat
And we speak of them as failu
Now why can't everybody in s
town use their brains as well as t' r
hands?
Begin to-day to concentrate >
thoughts upon performing your lai
just a little better than you did >
terdav, and each day strive to in
upward on the ladder of eftii iei
When you do this you will find >
boss behind and pushing you about
energetically as you are climbi
Through your efforts and his you v.
soon reach the top, and when
proper opportunity arrives you 1
become somebody else's boss.
Brains without hands seldom
complish much, and hands with
the use of brains will most assui
ly never startle the world.
Brains and hands should work
gether and in complete harmony
Together they will surmount
obstacles in life's pathway, but >
ly they will skate through exists
on the fringe of adversity.
Many young boys are growing up
this town whose future is yet to !>
carved out. If taught the proper u
of their brain power while young tl
will become self-made men of the i
ture. If allowed to drift along uc
they arrive at man's estate they will
find greater use for the hand than
for the brain. They may not bet
failures, but at best they will situ:
be cogs in the machinery of better
men.
Start your boy right and he will
travel the rest of the way on his own
mettle.
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