Excerpts
from the Directory
[from pages 4 and 5]
THE COUNTY INSTITUTE
The Seventy-Second Annual
Crawford County Teachers’ Institute was held in Meadville during the
week of August 28 to September 1, 1922. As usual the general sessions of
the Institute were held in the large court room. The sectional meetings
and the sessions of the County Directors Association were held In the
Grand Jury rooms and in the Men’s Lecture room of the First Presbyterian
Church.
ORGANIZATION
OF THE INSTITUTE.
Officers.
President—P.
D. Blair, County Superintendent, Meadville.
Vice Presidents—T.
E. Kingsley, Principal, Cambridge Springs; W.
D. Wright, Principal, Linesville; J. B.
Berry, County Vocational Supervisor, Meadville; Milton
Lafferty, Principal, Bloomfield.
Secretaries—R.
S. Winton. Principal, Townville; J. H.
Titsler, Principal. Cochranton; J. C. Prindle,
Principal, Conneautville.
Treasurer—C.
F. Adamson, Assistant County Superintendent, Meadville.
Registrars.—Brice
Walker, Charles N. Petitt, Perry Yokes, Charles Graham.
Auditors—1921-1922, T.
E. Kingsley, B. E. Nelson; 1922-1923, W. M.
Pollard, W. F. DeRemer.
Ushers—Russell
B. Mosier, Fred M. Wells, F. R. Heberling, William McGuire.
Committees.
Resolutions---T.
E. Kingsley, Chairman; W. C. Pollard, W. W. Clark, W. D. Wright, C. R. St.
John, W. B Page, Ida J Lawson, Marian Morrison, Anna Mills, Irene
Culbertson, Blanche Hendrick, Icel Birchard.
Nominations—J.
H. Titsler, J. C. Prindle, Frances Venen, Ellen Tobin.
School, Professional and
Community Activities---(Including Parent-Teacher Organization, Local
Institutes, Patrons’ Day, etc.)---J. B. Berry.
Chairman; W.C. Shoop, R. L. Shoaf, G. D. Decker, H. A. Davis, Faith L.
Kinney, Edith Powell, Bess McBride, Jeanette Hood, Louise Flick, Orpha
Dearborn. Roxie Shaffer, Mrs. Minnie Boyce, Emily Rankin.
Instructors.
Dr. Lee
L. Driver, Director, Bureau of Rural Education, Harrisburg. Dr.
Driver was unable to be present on account of the recent death of his
mother.
Dr.
Orton Lowe, Director of English, Department of Public Instruction,
Harrisburg.
Dr. R.
Edwin Lee, Professor of Chemistry, Allegheny College, Meadville.
Miss
Mabel Carney, Professor of Rural Education, Teachers’ College,
Columbia University. Miss Carney was unable to attend on account of the
serious illness of her brother.
Messrs.
B. Vincent and George H. Galbraith, Brookville, Pa. Mr.
George Galbraith was forced to give up his part of the program
under orders from his physician.
Dr. A.
G. Crane, State Normal School, Edinboro.
Dr. J.
H. Kelley, Executive Secretary, Pennsylvania State Education
Association, Harrisburg.
Dr.
Harry M. Chalfant, Philadelphia, Pa.
Prof.
Thomas A. Bock, Assistant Director, Bureau of Rural Education,
Harrisburg, Pa.
Prof.
Ben G. Graham, Superintendent Schools, New Castle, Pa.
Miss
Martha Britton, Supervisor of Music, Crawford County Schools,
Meadville, Pa.
[from
pages 14 and 15]
IN
CRAWFORD COUNTY.
Perhaps the first consolidated
school established in Pennsylvania after the passage of the Consolidation
Law of 1901 was the North Shenango Township Centralized School which was
authorized by a vote of the people and brought about the closing of all of
the one and two-room schools in the district and the transporting of all
of the children to one school in nine or ten school conveyances.
The new school was opened in
the fall of 1903 and has been In successful operation since that time.
Various other communities in
the county in order to provide better schools for their children have
effected consolidations or partial consolidations. In some cases it has
included an entire township, in others a part of the township, in others
a township and a borough or an independent district or parts of two or
more districts.
In spite of the opposition of
politicians the chief hindrance in the progress of establishing better
schools is the financial situation, the low prices received by producers
of agricultural products and the very high cost of everything needed in
the way of making changes in the schools. Farmers can hardly feel
otherwise than that they are experiencing an unnecessary and unnatural
financial depression unnecessarily severe, and they are naturally being
Influenced, thereby in delaying the making of proposed and much needed
improvements
in the schools. Never the less
Some
Notable New Building Projects
have been undertaken. One of
these is the fine new Sparta-Spartansburg Consolidated School Building.
This fine new brick building of the modern type is now under roof and
fully enclosed and will be completed next summer in time for the opening
of school in September. It is being erected by the joint district of
Sparta Township and Spartansburg Borough and is designed to accommodate
the Joint Vocational High School, the elementary schools of the borough
and as many of the township schools as are within transportation distance.
Six of the township schools, Blakeslee, State Lot, Tyler, Hatchtown,
Murdock, and Enterprise have already been closed and are being transported
to the central school as are also the 7th and 8th grades from the Britton
Run and Twilight districts.
The New
Bloomfield Consolidated School Building.
Bloomfield Township is
erecting a fine modern consolidated school at Lincolnville similar to the
Sparta-Spartansburg building and at least equally as good. It is designed
to accommodate a first grade township high school and as many of the
township schools as are within transportation distance which will include
nearly all of those in the township. The building will provide a fine
auditorium as well as a standard gymnasium, library, laboratories and
other essentials of a modern school. Opportunity for a suitable teacherage
will be afforded and also ample play and athletic grounds.
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