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Schools
Were An Early Priority Here
Among others of national
and international fame who appeared at Pine Beach were General
Ballington Booth of the Salvation Army; Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor; Miss Jane Adams who organized Chicago's
famed Hull House; and several leaders of the prohibition movement.
Summer Chautauqua ended in
1909 and the property was taken over by the Pine Beach Club in 1913.
Another part of adult
education was the Stephenson Training School, later to be called the
County Normal School or the Teacher's College. When it was organized
in1905 with A.M. Olson as principal and Elizabeth King as teacher, it
began to pioneer in teaching agriculture and domestic science to young
adults, as it prepared them to teach in the county's schools.
A Vocational School was
organized in Marinette in 1916 under permissive legislation passed in
the 1911 session of the Wisconsin Legislature. At first the emphasis was
upon adult training and in giving additional education and training in
vocational arts to young people who left high school before graduation.
Gradually the educational direction has changed and today NWTI
[Northeast Wisconsin Technical Institute] is part of the larger Green
Bay school. The Marinette County branch moved to its new building in
1971 and now grants a one year vocational diploma and two year
associated degrees. It meets training needs of local industries and is
placing emphasis on the increasing need for evening adult education.
The University of Wisconsin
Center of Marinette County filled a need for local residents especially
when the County Teacher Training School was discontinued in 1965. The
main building of the U.W. Center was completed in 1965 and expanded
in1970. the fine arts building, with an excellent theater and meeting
facilities, was completed in1969 while the 30,000 volume capacity
library and a large physical education building were dedicated in 1970.
Located on a 36 acre
plot on the shoreline of Green Bay, the University Center has a teaching
staff of over 21 people and an administrative staff of six.
Just as education has
changed from the one-room school taught by the Podulupes in 1851 to the
present, so shall there be continuing, if not startling, changes in the
next hundred years. Education could become a continuing process from
early childhood to well into retirement years, with more emphasis upon
community-wide education, rather than that just held in school
buildings. But, if the past century has taught us anything, it has shown
that Marinette County will be able to meet whatever needs arise, and
will continue to be a leader in offering educational opportunities to
the people of Marinette County.
(Marinette County
Centennial 1879-1979, p. 15)
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