Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 83

Author: Maryland State Normal School (Towson, Md.)
Publication date: 1922-1927
Publisher: Maryland State Normal School (Towson, Md.)
Number of Pages: 1024


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THE ORIOLE


May, 1925.


ioned flowers on the lawn. No mat-


tain. Clad in heavy, sensible shoes ter in what direction we looked, we saw mountain peaks. The noblest and knickers our party began the ones, however, were the peaks of the White Mountains, outlined against the northern sky. When- ascent in single file, like geese. Each member was equipped with a stout stick. These improvised canes made ever we looked at this group of mountains the picture was always the climb much easier. Because of the crooked, winding trail we were painted in different colors. The halo of tinted clouds which sur- rounded the mountain tops ran the not visible to each other much of the time. However, we were all within calling distance and shouted gauntlet of colors between sunrise back and forth at one another until


and sunset. The beauty and the quiet, contented air of this little New England town made it very restful.


But our party left Denmark be-


bind and followed the


long white


road away from the village for a half mile. At the end of the half mile we saw to the left of us, on a slight knoll, a roomy bungalow cot- tage. This was to be our home for, the summer. It was here that I found ample proof of the statement that Maine is the playground of the nation, for there at the foot of the hill was our own little pond, spread- ing out like a silver sheet. Every ripple and wave was edged with sun gold. This body of water is called "Granger Pond." Every day my friend Hope and I donned our bath- ing suits and ran down a thickly carpeted aisle of pine needles, until we came to tbe water's edge. Drawn up on the stones was our old row boat, which was much the worse for wear, but still fit for service. After we had swum or paddled around as long as possible, we hurried back to time all summer that


the cottage, ' ravenous for food. Horseback riding or hiking are other sports that we enjoyed last summer. A five mile hike took us to a stream with plenty


of fish. Mountain climbing is another of Maine's fa- mous sports.


Two of the most delightful of my experiences in Maine were climbing


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State.


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Pleasant Mountain and Bear Moun-


the mountain got so steep that we needed all our wind for the climb. When we judged we were about half way up, we chose a level spot on Which to eat our lunch. What we couldn't eat, and this was a very small portion indeed, we hid in the bushes nearby and proceeded to pre- pare ourselves for the most difficult part of the ascent. We had to climb over big rocks, make our way over fallen trees and push through a dense undergrowth. We got our reward at the top of the mountain. Across from us were other moun- tains with their peaks swathed in clouds. We traced the Saco river turning from one valley into an- other. From the lookout station we caught a view of many lakes in the midst of pine woods. We stayed until the last minute, then began the descent, vowing to come again next year. Is there any wonder that Maine holds such a large place in my heart


I have such a happy, carefree it is with


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buoyant spirias I . face the home-


ward trip. It is hard to say good bye to glorious, rugged Maine. with her crooked stone fences and hundreds of blue lakes fringed with pine trees. The journey to the train was a very much more sombre affair than the journey from the train. As we stepped on the Pullman, we took one last, lingering look at the White Mountains. It is this picture that we carried home with us as being most typical of Maine's personality.


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STATE


Praise youth and it will advance to suc- cess.


THE ORIOLE


To be fond of learn- ing is to bo at the gate of knowledge.


Vol. 4-No. 9


JUNE, 1925


Published Monthly by Students of Maryland State Normal School, Towson, Md.


EUROPEAN TRIP


Won In National Competition By Anita S. Dowell, Chairman Department of Health Edu- cation At Normal.


Miss Anita S. Dowell, assistant to the principal and chairman of the De- partment of Health Education, has been awarded the European Travel- ing Fellowship, offered by Metropoli- tan Life Insurance Co. through the American Child Health Association, and is planning to leave Baltimore early in July for five months' travel and study in Europe, during which time she will attend for a week the! World's Educational Conference in Edinburgh.


The contest was open to all Nor- mal Schools in the country which are members of the American Asso- ciation of Teachers' Colleges.


Eighteen States competed. Miss Dowell submitted a survey which de- scribed the health program being | lowship. Glad you are continuing to hold your own in the affairs of the country."


carried out at our Normal School. She discussed in detail all phases of the health work and offered recom- mendations for improvement in the course.


The names of the contestants for the Fellowship were not known to the judges, who were: Miss Emma Dolfinger, American Child Health As- sociation, New York; Presidents Black, Ellensburg State Normal, Washington; Highbie, Madison State Normal, South Dakota; McKenny, Ypsilanti State Normal, Michigan, and Dr. Thomas D. Wood, Teach- ers' College, Columbia University.


Miss Dowell is a Marylander, the daughter of George W. Dowell, of Prince Frederick. She is a graduate of Goucher College, where she majored in science and biology. She has done graduate work at Johns Hopkins University and was awarded the degree of M. A. at Teachers' College, Columbia University, where she was assistant instructor in phy- Dancing.


sical education for a year. She was first to be granted diploma at T. C. for Health Supervision in Normal, Rev. Hugh Birckhead, D. D., Eman- uel Church, Baltimore.


schools. She has taught at the Towson Normal School twelve years, the last three of which she has been chairman of her department.


The following is only one of the many congratulatory messages she has received:


Mr. Hillegeist, Registrar of the University of Maryland, says: "Con- Commencement on the campus.


SCHOLARSHIPS, LOANS AND HONOR AWARDS.


Perhaps the outstanding student in a school like this is one who is willing to borrow money for his edu- cation, giving a note to return the loan with interest after he has he- gun to teach. Perhaps the hest type of student is to be found among the gift-scholarship students; such gift- scholarships as are represented by the Daughters of the American Revo- lution and the County Boards of Education. Perhaps after all the hest student is not in either of these two classes, but rather is the student who, without promise of reward, day hy day, builds up his record until he is voted upon by either faculty or


students, or


both, for certain


achievements, unquestionably fine.


This introduction is given to in- trigue the reader into an interest in the following account of the honor achievements of students at Normal. Loan Funds.


The Sarah E. Richmond Loan Fund is money accumulated, first, hy the gift of Sarah E. Richmond of the two thousand dollars present- ed to her when the Alumni of the school honored her upon the occas- ion of her fiftieth teaching anniver- sary in the school; second, by the in- terest accumulated through the good business investment of this sum by the trusteees of the fund, and third, by further additions made by Miss Richmond through her will


when she passed away in March, 1921. The trustees of the fund are Dr. Wm. T. Love, Laura P. Todd, Carrie G. Richardson. It is a fund for Seniors only and is loaned, at 6 per cent interest to outstanding Juniors, who will do honor to the school that Miss Richmond so truly and deeply loved.


In Jannary, 1922, Reese Arnold, one of the happiest and most popular of the members of the Junior Class, was almost abruptly, after a brief illness, taken from us. The Student body decided to give a gift to the school that would perpetuate her


The fund is known as the "Reese Arnold Memorial Loan Fund" and is awarded an entering student who has achieved honor in his high school life and who without the loan, could not continue his edu- cation. The teaching profession has


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ANITA S. DOWELL


gratulations to the school and Miss Dowell for winning Traveling Fel-


COMMENCEMENT ACTIVI- TIES JUNE 4TH TO 16TH.


Thursday, June 4, to Saturday, June 6-Visiting High School teams (our guests in Newell Hall).


Friday, June 5-9.00 A. M., State Volley Ball Meet (Homewood Ath- letic Field) .; 8.00 P. M., Visiting teams entertained by Senior Class.


Saturday, June 13, Alumni Day; 3.30 to 4.30 P. M., Reception at Sarah E. Richmond Hall; 4.30 to 5.00 P. M., Class reunions; 5.00 to 6.00 P. M., Business meeting; 6.30 to 8.00 P. M., Dinner, music by School Orchestra and Glee Club; 8.00 to 9.00 P. M., Reception to Senior Class; 9.00 to 12.00 P. M.,


Sunday, June 14-4.00 P. M.,


Baccalaureate Service; Sermon by memory.


Monday, June 15-Class Day and Night; 5.30 to 7.30 P. M .- Supper on the campus; 8.00 P. M., Class Night fun.


Tuesday, June 16-10.30 A. M., The procession of guests, faculty and students will form; 11.00 A. M., gained by the intrinsicaly good char-


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THE ORIOLE


June, 1925.


SCHOLARSHIPS, LOANS AND HONOR AWARDS.


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acter of the holder of this loan It is D. D. administered through the school bank he received the degree and is guarded by the efficient busi -! After having served a short while ness ability of Miss Orcutt, one of las an Episcopalian minister he his battlefield of life on the our mathematics instructors. The entered the World War and lost Loan carries with it a 6 per cent. in- terest clause, and is due within two years after a teaching assignment is accepted by the holder.


In March, 1925, a Senior, Lillian Jackson, after a week's illness from pneumonia, died. The school again resolved that the name of such a student must not perish from our list. So a loan fund to be known as the "Lillian Jackson Memorial Loan" was created, with the definite pur- pose of putting some outstanding Junior through her first year. The holding conditions are similiar to those of the "Reese Arnold Memor- ial," and the loan will be carried by an entering student next year.


Gift Scholarships.


There are several types of gift scholarships which show the interest that is being taken by lay bodies of thoughtfnl men


and women in teacher training for the State. The Daughters of the American Revolu- tion, through the Maryland Line Chapter, the Mordecai Gist Chapter and the Carter Braxton Chapter, carry five students each year. We are pleased to report that almost without an exception the D. A. R. students have been honor students not only in scholarships hut in teach- ing ability.


ing The Davidsonville Women's Club of Montgomery County, which pre- sents a gift student to the school each year.


Boards of Education have had the insight to pay the cost of training for some of their own county stu- dents. The one proviso is that the student will return to the home county to teach. They select out- standing high school students for these honors and in the end the re- turn upon their money so invested brings a richer measure in an in- terest that has no parallel in the financial world, for it is "without money and without price." The Dorchester County Board has the honor of promoting the first of these Board Schlarships. Today three


counties are operating such gifts. Anne Arundel has five, Montgomery County, twelve, and Prince George County, one.


In June, 1923, the Alumni Asso- ciation of the Towson High School decided to award annually what is A manicure? This way.


called the Ted Prince Memoriał That girl will hold your hand, sir. Scholarship. Edmund Prince, who Thanks. Call again. Good-day. Towson Maryland


was known as Ted Prince, after hav- ing completed the four-year high school course at Towson and the four-year course at Johns Hopkins University, entered the theological school at Alexandria, Va., from which


who served during the war, he is the only one who did not return. The scholarship of 1923 was awarded to Hilda Atwill, and that of 1924 to Emma Stabler.


The Normal Literary Society.


In May, 1925, the Normal Liter- ary Society presented to the School a one hundred dollar "Loan Fund" as a memorial to their work in the school. The loan has already been sought and one of the well recom- mended graduates of an Eastern Shore High School will take the loan next year and be initiated into the Normal Literary Society as its first new member.


The Active Alumni Association,


During the Spring of 1924 the Alumni Association of the school through its very efficient President, Miss Mary Lee, of Harford county, presented to the school for the sum- mer session a fund for a Special Lectureship. We were able to se- cure Dr. Harry B. Wilson, Superin- tendent of the Berkeley, California


ing presented for the 1925 Summer Session and it is more than likely that such a project will be one of the permanent continuing activities of the Alumni Association. In hoth cases, so far, the fund was raised through theatre benefits which gave the Alumni a chance to share with each other a social pleasure and at the same project their influence up- on education in the State in a most outstanding way.


The Alumni will propose at the meeting in June to launch a drive for a $3000 fund to become a Loan Fund for Juniors. Fifteen hundred dollars is to be raised in 1925-26, and the balance in 1926-27.


WILLIAM KOERNER


A shave? Just step this way, sir. A hair cut? Take that chair. You wish to phone? You may, slr. A shoe-shine? Over there. A match? The cigar stand, sir.


Interest of the Towson Bankers.


For the last seven years the Bal- timore County Bank of Towson has offered an award of ten dollars for the outstanding scholarship student in the school. The scholarship re- cord must accumulate throughout the two-year course. Holders of this award for the last three years are as follows: Bertha Wood, of Calvert


Two years ago the Second Nat- ional Bank of Towson offered a char- acter award of ten dollars for the outstanding student citizen of the school. Ethel Lynch, of Baltimore County, was elected by the Class of 1923, and Naomi Harsh, of Washing- ton County, was elected by the Class ot 1924 as their representative citi- zen.


This year the Towson National Bank has offered a twenty dollar award for Rural Practice Teachers and Predicted Leadership for Com- munity Service. Throughout the year the students practicing in the one and two-room schools in Balti- more county, affiliated with the Nor- mal, have been doing their best. Twelve students have been observed by a committee of the faculty and at the Commencement the honor stu- dent will be named.


During the year 1923-24 the Hon- orahle J. Charles Linthicum, an Schools, who came for one week and i Alumnius of this school, now repre- lectured at the summer session. He used as his theme the title of his last book, "Modern Problems in senting Maryland in Congress, offer- ed a twenty-dollar award for an essay contest. "The Constitution of


Other civic organizations are con- tributing, one of the most active be-, Education." A similiar fund is be- ; the United States" was the topic


selected. Miss Emma Evelyn Flook of Frederick county, won the award,


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MATHIAS GROSS BARBER SHOP


YORK ROAD, Near Chesapeake Avenu TOWSON, MD.


KEENE'S


York Road and Burke Avenue TOWSON, MD.


THE HERGENRATHER STORES


Headquarters for School Supplies Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pens Eversharp and Ingersoll Pencils Stationery, Kodaks, Films Spalding's Sporting Goods Sweaters and Keds


France. Of the ' many gradu- county Class of 1922; Caroline ates of Towson High School Elizabeth Read, of Talbot County, Class of 1923; Miriam Cronhardt, of Baltimore County, Class of '24.


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THE ORIOLE


June, 1925.


SCHOLARSHIPS, LOANS AND HONOR AWARDS.


(Continued from Page 2) The American School Citizenship. League.


The American School Citizenship League has for a number of years been active throughout America and throughout the world in the pro- moting of citizenship, national and international. This school has had signal success in winning the honors offered by the League. We can not miss this opportunity to pay a tri- bute to the scholarship and ability to guide students, possessed by Lena C. Van Bibber, one of the instructors of history at Normal, for she has been indefatigable in setting up scholarly standards for study and research among the students of the history classes who have entered their essays year by year in the in- ternational contests. The record of the school is as follows:


1919- Lola Wood,


3rd prize, Senior Class. 1920-Grace Tull, 2nd prize, Academic Class.


1921-Lucile Heath, 1st prize, Senior Class.


1922-Cornelia Wilson, 2nd prize, Senior Class.


prize, Senior Class.


This year while athletic awards, numerals, letters, etc., were being conferred at an assembly it occurred to a member of the staff that an Honor Society for Scholarship, Char- acter and Achievement in regular school activities and in life should be honored in some appropriate way similiar to athletics. So the Honor Society was conceived. It is about to be organized and its membership will be made up of faculty members who have received honor scholar- ships, or promoted achievements, and of honor students in both Senior and Junior years. Eventually mem- bers of the Alumni who have achieved outstanding honors will he invited to join. The first meeting will be held Friday, June 12, at the Principal's house.


If the measure of a school is the interest of the public in its purposes, and the interest of its pupils in the world outside that touches and shapes their professional ends then certainly the Maryland State Nor- mal School can say, "We march on together hand in hand-we cannot fail, for education leads and under- standing followeth close and touch- eth deeply."


LIDA LEE, TALL Principal, Maryland State Normal School


A FACULTY MEMBER WILL WED.


Mr. and Mrs. George Sutherland Buckley request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter, Rutlı Elizabeth, to Mr. Bernard F. Gehring, on Saturday morning, June thirteenth, at ten


o'clock, St. Anthony's Church, Balti- more, Maryland.


HOW I CONDUCTED A NEWS-


PAPER IN MY THIRD GRADE AT HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND.


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To in still a love for reading my pupils have a book shelf, which is composed of books donated by them. It happened that on this book shelf I had placed some copies of "The Star," a newspaper published by last year's Maryland State Normal summer pupils, and an issue of "Bare Facts," published by the pri- mary grades at Bare Hill, Baltimore county.


Much interest was created by these papers and finally that interest reached such a high pitch that it broke into a desire to have a news- paper at Wayside School. So, for


English.


First, we discussed just what was a newspaper. Following this lesson we decided how a newspaper would be of use to us. Then we talked about the expense of a newspaper. This made the newspaper proposition look rather gloomy, as we at once! agreed that we could not afford al printed paper. Finally, it dawned upon me that a hectograph would be just the thing to solve the publish- ing proposition. I told the children about it and displayed a hectograph. We decided that we would hecto- graph our paper.


Next and most interesting was our choosing a name for the paper. Each child was allowed to suggest a name. As a reward for the best suggestion Safety we decided to feature that one in our first issue. We voted upon these suggestions, voting "Wayside Whis- tle" as the most appropriate.


Next, we talked about the cover for our paper. As an assignment


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following the discussion each was asked to design a cover. These de- signs were most complicated and comical. The one which was the best for interpretation was that of a round figure representing a boy whistling. We liked the idea, but not the picture, so we asked one of our friends to draw us a picture carrying out our idea.


We then agreed that we should have someone take charge of col- lecting the news, etc., for our paper. We found out what names were given to such folks and appointed our staff, which consisted of an edi- tor, assistant editor and reporters for games, jokes, riddles and other news.


After the organization of our paper we did one hundred per cent. better work in all our lessons, be- cause the best of that work would always be selected by our school mates for our Wayside Whistle.


Not enough copies could be issued for each of ns, so we organized into reading circles. Each circle made out a list of its members, who each had his turn in taking home the paper. You can imagine how anxious we were for our turn to come.


True, it is, that we have not had as many issues as we had hoped, but that does not discourage us. We do, however, feel that we have begun


1924-Katherine Gibson, 1st prize, Senior Class; Harry Bachelor, 3rd one week we took the topic "Our Newspaper" for talks in our oral ; something that shows our best work in thoughts, own hand-writing and drawing.


As you know, all newspapers have an exchange list, so when you begin your paper won't you place us, "The Wayside Whistle," on your list?


NAOMI (PAT) HARSH,


Class of '24.


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TOWSON SHOE STORE First Class Shoe Repairing L. ECKER, Prop. York and Joppa Roads, TOWSON, MD.


June, 1925.


THE ORIOLE


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THE ORIOLE


PUBLISHED MONTHLY


BY THE STUDENTS OF THE MARY- LAND STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, TOWSON, MD.


Managing Editor: ALICE L. MUNN


Business Managers: JOHN GILDEA EARL PRICE


Advertising Managers:


MARGARET ESKRIDGE CORNELIA CANNON MARY LOUISE HOFFMAN


Circulation Managers: EVELYN IRELAND CATHARINE HAGAN


PRICE: One Dollar For Ten Copies.


JUNE, 1925.


PRINCE GEORGE'S SUPERIN- TENDENT OF SCHOOLS HAS HIGH IDEALS.


Normal School Graduate, What May The Parent Reasonably Expect Of You?


Many times we hear of the rights of childhood, those rights which the practices of civilization give to the human during the period of its in- fancy. As enumerated under the common law they are the right to shelter, to protection and to susten- ance. To these have been added in more modern times the right to be well born, to be educated, to be af- forded an opportunity for the best physical growth, to be exposed to correct moral environment and ex- ample, and to be trained to earn a living. These are but samples of the rights exacted by modern society from the adult for the child.


In view of these rights of child- hood, what are the rights of the parent in relation to the school? What may the parent reasonably ex- pect from you as a teacher? Is it that you shall devote your energy and talent solely to the development of intellectual power and to mental growth, to the end that your pupils may rank well in standard tests? Is it sufficient that you shall strive to fulfill the commonly accepted func- tion of the school-to teach books? Let us hope this aim is the last in your list of teaching objectives, for of the many phases of child develop- ment, may we not properly rank as of least importance the acquirement of book facts?


May we, at the risk of bearing coals of low quality to you Newcastle of of history, geography,


high ideals and efficient training, enumerate some of the rights of the parents who next September willl send their most precious possession and regardless of what the multi- it a cold plunge."-Judge.


to be in your gentle care and nurture. In thus reposing confidence in you, in thus turning over to you the world's biggest business, the making of men and women, the parent un- deniably has the right expect : that you will aid the home and the church in making the child morally fit; that by your method of instruc- tion and your school management you will instil into the child's mind those high ideals and develop those habits of conduct that make for right living. In the present social order, this is the supreme function of child training; that you will aid the home and health agencies in making the child physically fit; that you will not only teach the facts of good health, but that you will cause the physical conditions and the ac- tivities of your school to be such that the child may acquire those habits that make for good health, to the end that his body may be free from pain, his mind free from an- guish and his spirit abounding in that happiness that can come only to the healthy body; that you will do your part in making the child so- cially fit; that you will so conduct yourself and the exercises in your school and on the play ground that the child will acquire those social virtues and that integrity of conduct that will make him a worthwhile and proper member of society-that be may know men better than he knows books; that you will aid in making the child culturally fit; that in the display of your own tastes and by attention to the appearance of your own schoolroom you will de- velop in the child conscious appre- ciation of the best that is in art, music and literature, to the end that he may obtain the most wholesome enjoyment from the leisure time that is to be his; that you will con- tribute to making the child indus- trially fit; that by precept and ex- ample you will instill in the child mind the highest ideals of work and the dignity of labor; that you will make him ambitious to succeed, to be efficient, to do better than he would otherwise the work that so- ciety is snre to give him, to the end that he may carry unfailingly and uncomplainingly his social load ; last, and perhaps least, that you will start the child on the road to be- coming intellectually fit; that by careful methods of instruction and by ideals of thoroughness you will give to him those tools of learning, the teaching of which is the com- monly accepted function of the school, and those elementary facts arithmetic, etc., that are the necessary founda- tion for future mental growth.




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