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Show SCHOOLS OPEN SEPTEMBER 16 Increased Attendance at Dixie College Forecast for Coming Term; District Schools Ready Schools throughout Washington county including Dixie College and district high and grade schools, will open next Monday, September 16. Three meetings of the Dixie College Col-lege faculty have been held and all is in readiness for the opening of that institution. Prospects are exceptionally good this year for an increased attendance. attend-ance. Many students from outside states have written concerning board and rooms and a large number of students from within the. state have already moved in for the winter. The faculty is composed of twenty-six twenty-six members, several of. whom are here for their first year and some who have been on leave of absence ab-sence attending universities, have returned. re-turned. Miss Mary Lee of Brighani City, a graduate of the B. Y. U., will : teach physical education for girls and dramatic art. Miss Alice Sevy of Salt Lake City a graduate of the U. of U. will teach domestic and fine arts. Miss LaBerta" McGregor, a grad-(Continued grad-(Continued on last page) SCHOOLS OPEN SEPTEMBER 16 (Continued from page 1) uate of the TJ. of U., will instruct in high school English. Claik Iliggins, instructor in violin studied under Willard Weye in 1925 and in 1927-28-29 studied under Da-vol Da-vol Sanders at the University of Southern California. Arthur K. Hafen, director of the division of liberal arts and head of the department of English and modern mod-ern languages, attended the University Univer-sity of Southern California this sunv-mer sunv-mer and will attend the winter quarter there. He will teach in the college here during the fall and spring quarters. B. Glen Smith, director of the division of education and head of the normal training department, taught at the B. Y. U. this summer and will teach here until the spring quarter. J. Win. Harrison of the biology and botany department made a tour through Utah, southern Idaho and the Yellowstone park making a study and gathering a collection of specimens. speci-mens. Miss Evelyn Thurston, head of the piano department, spent the summer in Los Angeles where she studied under Prof. Shepherd. Last winter was spent in Paris and Berlin where she studied under some of the greatest great-est artists in that line. Leland Hafen, athletic coach and physical education instructor .for boys, attended the coaching school at the U. A. C. this summer. Mrs. Juanita Pulsipher spent last winter at the teachers' college of Columlbia university and will teach English in the local institution. Joseph Wm. McAllister of the department de-partment of normal music, choir and voice culture, went to Los Angeles An-geles this summer where he worked with a great Italian conductor who was visiting in the United States at that time. Misses Alice Pendleton and Ruby Bryner, former teachers in the Dixie College, have accepted positions in Salt Lake City, the former with General Motors, and the latter with the Union Pacific railroad. New equipment has been added to many departments and improve- meats including painting, remodeling, calcimining, and interior decorating, have been made. A large number of new books have been added to the library and new typewriters purchased. Students in this department are now assured of practically new machines. Elementary schools of the county will meet for instruction and high schools for registration next Monday. In the high schools under the supervision su-pervision of the county no tuition charges will be made but a flat laboratory fee of $10 will be charged all students from the ninth to the twelfth grades inclusive. In addition addi-tion to this fee the individual high school is at liberty to charge a student stu-dent body fee. These fees must be paid upon entrance as no student will be registered as a member of the school until all fees are paid. Principals will meet at the school board office Friday, September 13, to formulate policies and receive final instructions before school opens The superintendent wishes to impress im-press parents with the necessity of having their children attend school at the beginning so that work will not need to be duplicated and all will get an even start. Splendid improvements have been made at the Woodward school this summer and all is in readiness for the winter's work. New floors have been laid in all the upstairs rooms and new supply cupboards have been placed in the rooms on the lower floor. New towel racks have been placed over each basin in the halls. New supplies have been received, including new text books for all grades from the third to the eighth. Pictures which were taken of the sixteen sections last spring have been framed and are in the office. Woodward school faculty members mem-bers will meet in the school at 8:45 Monday morning. All students will meet at 1:10, and are asked to bring promotion certificates" or report cards to avoid confusion or delay. The Woodward faculty hopes for a continuation of the splendid support sup-port given them in the past and will cooperate in any way with parents. par-ents. In turn they ask the cooperation coopera-tion of the patrons of the school. An effort is being made to start group piano work for the pupils of the Woodward. The school board is unable to finance this so if it is to be given this year it must be J financed through the fees charged the individual. These . fees may amount to $5 for two lessons per week for the school term per child. All who are interested in this work are asked to report to Principal Wor-then Wor-then or to the school board office by September 18. |