The Stephens County Teachers' Institute will be held at Breckenridge November 18th to 22nd, inclusive.

All teachers who have contracted in writing, or verbally, to teach in this county are required, under forfeiture of their certificates to attend for five full days of seven hours each, unless prevented by sickness or other unavoidable misfortune.  The County Superintendent has no legal authority to grant a permit of absence to any teacher.  Teachers failing to attend for five full days of seven hours each will not receive any pay for Institute attendance.

The institute work is divided into three sections -- Primary, Intermediate and High School.  The Primary section includes the First and Second Grades; the Intermediate Section the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grades; the High School Section, the Sixth and Higher Grades.

McMurray's "How to Study and Teaching How to Study" will be used as a text during the institute and during the year.  The book can be purchased from Jesse R. Smith, Breckenridge, for $1.25.

The following will serve as class leaders for the week in the subjects designated:

PRIMARY SECTION
English..........................................................................................Miss Vivian Hill
Spelling. .......................................................................................Miss Dora Sikes
Reading. .....................................................................................Miss Emma Hope
Numbers..................................................... ............................Miss Dell Andrews
Writing.................................................................................. Miss Frankie Wragg

INTERMEDIATE SECTION
English.................................................................................. Miss Lena Matthews
Arithmetic............................................................................... Lee E. C. Duckworth
Reading................................................................................... Miss Winnie Guffey
Writing........................................................................................... Miss Mary Ault
Geography............................................................................ Mrs. Katie Granburry
Spelling.................................................................................................... B. R. Grant
History........................................................................................ Mrs. Edna Allison
Physiology............................................................................................... J. F. Boles

HIGH SCHOOL SECTION
English.................................................................................................. J. C. Allison
Arithmetic............................................................................ Rupert N. Richardson
Physical Geography.......................................................................... Irven Warren
Physiology......................................................................................... Albert Gentry
Algebra.............................................................................................. Jesse R. Smith
Geometry................................................................................................ J. S. Turner
History..................................................................................... Mrs. Jesse R. Smith
Agriculture..................................................................................... J. M. Blackburn

Other teachers who attended and participated in the institute were:

Alexander, James
Armstrong, Miss
Atkinson, Loreta
Baldridge, Miss Isla
Conner, Miss Dessa
Cox, Lee
Creagh, Miss Catherine
Crudgington, Miss Effie
Crudgington, Bess
Curry, Miss Fannie
Echols, Miss Eva
Gandy, Luella
Gilbert, J. M.
Gracey, Miss Ola
Green, Miss Frances
Hayes, H. M.
Lauderdale, Edith  (replaced Miss Eva Sigler)
McClure, Miss Lois
McMeen, Miss Bess
Meaders, Miss Maggie
Nelson, Miss Lois
Norton, Miss Carrie
Smith, Tull
Smith, Mrs. Lizzie
Spratling, Claude
Stevenson, Bert
Stoker, Miss Clara
Swenson, Alma
Wragg, Miss Lillie
Wragg, J. F.
Yates, Clifford

The Stephens County Teachers' Institute for 1914-1915 will be held in the Breckenridge Public School Building, December 14-18 inclusive, 1914.

All teachers who have written or oral contracts to teach in this county are required under the law to attend five days of seven hours each unless prevented by unavoidable circumstances.  Teachers who comply with the above conditions will receive pay for the five days, provided the work is up to the standard prescribed by the State Superintendent.

The institute work is divided into two sections.  the Primary and Intermediate sections will be composed of teachers doing work in the first seven grades; the High School section will be composed of teachers doing work from the seventh grade up unless some few changes be made by the section leaders or county superintendent.

The State Department of Education has approved two books to be used in the institute as follows:
School Room Essentials and Charter's Teaching the Common Branches.  These books can be bought from the Drug Store of Dr. J. W. Wharton, Breckenridge.  Most of the teachers have the former book.  The work of the institute will be based almost entirely on these books, and every teacher is urged to procure a copy at once; the best work can not be done without a close study of these splendid texts.

Section Supervisiors
Primary and Intermediate:
The first two days, Miss Winnie Brown; the last three days, Miss Edith Lauderdale.

High School Section
The first two days, Superintendent J. C. Allison; the last three days, Principal Rupert N. Richardson.

The section supervisors are to preside over their respective sections and, in a general way, be responsible for the efficiency of the work.

The following will act as class leaders for the entire week in subjects designated.  The leaders may call on other experts in these subjects to assist them.

Primary and Intermediate Sections

Allison, Mrs. J. C. (History)
Andrews, Miss Dell (History)
Creagh, Miss Catherine (Numbers)
Crudgington, Miss Dot (Writing)
Curry, Miss Fannie (Physiology)
Davenport, Miss Allene (Writing)
Davis, Mrs. Vera Walker (Spelling)
Grant, Ben R. (Arithmetic)
Guffey,Miss Winnie (Geography)
Hope, Miss Emma (Reading)
Jordon, J. B. (Arithmetic)
Lauderdale, Miss Edith (Reading)
Moore, Miss Ruth (Physiology)
Pratt, Miss Hettie (English)
Robinson, Miss Willie (Numbers)
St. Clair, L. H. (Geography)
White, Miss Ezelle (English)
Wragg, Miss Frankie (Spelling)
 

High School

Allison, J. C., Supt. (English)
Brown, Miss Winnie (Physiology)
Cox, W. Lee (Geometry)
Cox, Lee (School Room Essentials)
Crowley, P. R. (School Room Essentials)
Crudgington, Miss Effie (Arithmetic and School Room Essentials))
Curry, Mrs. Pearl Norton (History)
Davenport, W. F. (History)
Davis, J. O. (Agriculture)
Dickie, Miss Myrtle (Spelling)
Gentry, Albert (Agriculture and School Room Essentials)
Guffey, Miss Winnie (School Room Essentials)
Henderson, Miss Freda E. (Physical Geography)
Jordon, J. B. (School Room Essentials )
Richardson, Rupert N. (Civics and School Laws)
Richardson, Rubert  (School Room Essentials)
Rosenquest, F. O. (Algebra and School Room Essentialsl)
Sikes, Miss Nettie (Physiology)
Smith, Mrs. Jesse R. (English)
Wratten, L. E. (Arithmetic)

Other teachers who attended and participated in the institute were:
Ault, Miss Sarah
Baldridge, Miss Isla
Brown, Miss Ella
Caldwell, Hon. C. M.
Campbell, Miss Ruth
Hilterbrand, Miss
Jones, Mr. Robert F.
Judd, C. D., Supt.
Pogue, Miss Alzanda
Veale, W. C.
Wright, Miss Ruby
 

It has not been my aim to place all of the teachers on program, but all are expected to come prepared to participate in the work.

Jesse R. Smith,
Ex officio County Superintendent

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