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School Year 1876-77

N.D.

CHAPTER 61.

... instructors employed for the school year '76-7.

When very much crowded with work, we occasionally employed a student to teach a class or two. These students were very anxious to have their names published in the catalog. Students at various time offered to teach classes gratis if we would insert the name in the catalog as a teacher. Some wanted "mother" to see the catalog, other wanted to show the catalog to Boards of Education when soliciting positions for teaching.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

H.S. Lehr, A.M., president. J.G. Park, A.B., secretary, J.J. Wood, G.W. Rutledge.

BOARD OF INSTRUCTORS.

H.S. Lehr, A.M. principal; J.G. Park, A.B.,; J. Fraise Richard, A.M.; Mrs. E.A. Richard; Miss Mollie Schoonover, A.B.; W.J. Woodard, Mrs. Hattie Rowley, C.E. Rowley, Will H. Pontius, A.C. Pierson, Fred Maglott, Mollie Dobbins, Robert Kidd, A.M.

Instructors employed for the next school year.

H.S. Lehr, A.M.--Arithmetic, Higher Mathematics, Moral and Mental Philosophy, Political Economy, German and School Government.

J.G. Park, A.B.--English Literature, Rhetoric, Natural Sciences, Elocution, and Superintendent of Drills in Composition, Teaching, etc.

Miss Mollie Schoonover, A.B.--Algebra, Geometry, Latin and French.

M.J. Ewing, Assistant Instructor in Mathematics and Natural Science.

W.D. Woodard,--Book-keeping, Plain and Ornamental Penmanship and Drawing.

Mrs. Hattie Rowley,--Piano and Organ. Miss Mollie Dobbins, Assistant Teacher of Organ.

Will H. Pontius--Vocal Music, Voice Culture, Violin and Cornet.

Prof. Robert Kidd, A.M.--Special Instructor in Elocution and Voice Culture.

Our sweet singer, Prof. Rowley resigned to go in the ministry. Mr. Pontius was elected to take his place.

The terms remained the same as they had been he last few years, but we raised the tuition some and made many changes in the courses of study.

PUBLIC OCCASIONS.

On the evening of June 14, 1877, there will be an address before the two Literary societies and a reunion of the Alumni.

Commencement exercises, June 15, 1877. Contest between the Literary societies, Friday evening, June 15, 1877.

The school year still closed with the spring term. In those days it was an easy matter to keep the students till after commencement.

The Normal term of six weeks began June 14. At the close of the short term there was a vacation of two weeks. From the time when I was eight years old till I enlisted in the army, I had no time for recreation. My parents were poor. As I stated before I became quill or school boy at eight. I never had time to hunt squirrels; occasionally would hunt or gather nuts to sell and went fishing possibly six or seven times. Began teaching and college life at sixteen.

I came home from the army about the last of May, '65. Took a few weeks off, but soon began work. Since April 1866, ten years, I had labored incessantly. I concluded to take about nine days to visit Niagara Falls, go down the Hudson, spend two days in New York, see the great Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia and visit Allentown, the Pennsylvania home of my parents. I left W. Rutledge in charge of the correspondence. Mr. Rutledge is hard to excel as a letter writer. There are few who can equal him. I charged him to be fair in society matters. He promised he would and tried to be, but the "flesh is weak" or rather was weak in those early days in society affairs. The Franklins charged that he gave letters of those who wrote they were coming to some of the Philos and they wrote to the prospective students and solicited them to join the Philo society. The Philos did get the names of a number of new students somehow. It was claimed that some one purloined the letters or rather the names while visiting his room in his absence. Miss Lizzie While got one of the letters from one of the new students. I patched up the quarrel as best I could.

Some one had written to Eva Sisson, now Mrs. Prof. Maglott. She had missed the train on which she expected to come and she was met by some one that took her to a room she did not like. She went to the station to find out the best time to leave Ada for Lebanon. Mr. John Van Lieu my personal friend and a friend of the school came, and told me that a lady had been to see him about going to Lebanon. She told him she had been at Lebanon and did not like Ada as well as Lebanon. He described the lady. I immediately began a search, found her and took her to our home and rented her the best room in the house. She and my niece, Ida Lehr, soon became warm friends and consequently she joined the Franklin society. Her parents had sent her to Ada because they had learned that the President belongs to the Christian church. She roomed at the Lehr home many terms and had "eaten salt and broken bread" many, many times at the Lehr table. She has been a valuable acquisition to the school and to the Franklin literary society. I will have other occasions to speak of her scholarship and her work in the classroom as a teacher and in her society.