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STATE NOBMAL SCHOOL, SALEM.
A
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public meeting, for parents and others especially interested
was held Dec.
in the kindergarten,
by Mrs. Susan
S.
Harriman
7,
1900, which was addressed
of Boston, on
"The True Meaning
of the Kindergarten."
The Salem Normal There
is
an organization of the students and teachers of the
named
school,
Association.
The
as above, which holds triennial meetings.
meeting was held July
3,
last
1900, and was very largely attended.
At that meeting it was voted to defer the next meeting until 1904, when the usual reunion will be combined with the celebration of In anticipation of
the semi-centennial anniversary of the school.
former students
this interesting event, a general catalogue of all is
Information
preparation.
in
relating
to
students,
—
their
teaching or other occupations, present residence, marriage, death or other important events,
meeting of 1904 lows
:
will
be thankfully received by the
The date and other important
principal.
The
—
will
facts relating to the
be announced hereafter.
officers of the association for the current
—
term are as
fol-
— Dr. W. P. Beckwith, Salem, Principal of the School. Vice-President. — Miss Harriet L. Martin, Salem (Class XXIII.).
President.
Abbie R. Hood, Beverly (Class LVIL). Miss Daisy C. Sawtelle, Peabody (Class
First Secretary.— Mrs.
Second Secretary.
—
LXVIIL).
— Miss Maud Directors. — Miss Mary E. Treasurer.
S.
Wheeler, Salem (Class LVIL). Webb, Salem (Class III.); Miss Jessie
Learoyd, Danvers (Class LI.) Miss Mary A. Comey, Lynn (Class LXIX.) Miss Martha P. Ober, Salem (Class XLVII.) Miss E. Adelaide Towle, Salem (Class XXVIII.) P.
;
;
;
Employment for Graduates. The
increase in the
number
teachers in Massachusetts fifteen years,
very
much
of teachers as a whole.
of normal graduates employed as
has been, especially during the past
greater than the increase in the
At
the present time only one- third of all
the teachers in the State are normal graduates, for such
is
number
steadily increasing.
In
fact, the
and the demand
demand exceeds
the
supply, and the principal of this school has several times been
asked
to
recommend candidates
for positions,
and found himself