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Show Snow Academy Teachers. The following letter from Prof. D. C. Jensen will be of interest to the patrons and friends of the school: Brigham City, Utah July 7,1914.. Principal Newton-E. Noyes, Ephraim, Utah. Dear Brother Noyes: I am in receipt of your letter dated' July 5, and note with much pleasure what you say concerning advanced normal work in. the Snow academy. For the good of the educational interests inter-ests of our state, and of our people throughout the West, it is "devoutly to be wished" that the sixth year may be added at once, so that our graduates gradu-ates will be standard normal graduates, and will be privileged, under the interstate in-terstate certification regulation, to teach In any of the western states, upon presentation of. their certificates, without further examination. Tnis would give the academy such prestige pres-tige as to make it as desirable to hold Its certificate as that of any normaj school in the West.. It is not necessary for mo to mention men-tion here the. great work whieh the Snow academy has already accomplished. accom-plished. Its work speaks for Itself., Its teachers are most favorably known throughout the Great Basin region. J Compared with other schools of its. size, the Snow academy stands in a, class all by itself so far as the preparation prepa-ration of teachers is concerned. While Mr. Meurman, the government inves-. tigator, was visiting with me here in. Box Elder, he made the observation, wholly unsolicited, that the little Snow academy at Ephraim. is one of, the most efficient normal schools he-had he-had been privileged to know. He said he had seen its teachers from one end. of the state to the other and had never nev-er yet found a weak one among them. It is to be hoped that the Church Board of Education will recognize this splendid record of the, past by making the Snow academy one of the great normal colleges of our. inter Continued on last page. Snow Academy Teachers. mi (Continued from, first page.) mountain West. It is advantageously advantageous-ly located; its patrons are already converted con-verted to normal work and to the necessity ne-cessity of preparing our own teachers; and its normal graduates are sought after wherever they are known. As to the need of more emphasis being placed on normal work, I feel that you will pardon a reference to our condition in Box Elder. I have had the engaging of our teachers the past two years now. Each year fully 50 per cent of our teachers have withdrawn with-drawn from our service at the end of our school year. This has necessitated necessi-tated our engaging over eighty new teachers annually. There are 3,000 public school teachers in Utah. If other districts lose 50 per cent of their teachers each year, 1,500 new teachers would be required annually. But place the estimate at 25 per cent, which I think is conservative, and Utah alone would now require 750 new teachers annually without any increase of population. To supply this demand we sho-ild have at least five large normal schools distributed throughout the state, each graduating graduat-ing an average class of 150 students each year. Besides, Utah is a natural educational center for this whole in-termountain in-termountain country. We really ought to be supplying teachers for surrounding states, instead of importing import-ing them in increasingly large numbers num-bers each year. I can conceive of no greater mission, for our church schools than to be the means of tilling this most compelling demand of our growing towns and cities for more of our home trained boys'and girls to fill the positions of teachers of our future citizen". I wish you God speed in your endeavors en-deavors to build up a bigger and better bet-ter normal school.. Sincerely your brother, I). C. JENSEN, Supt. of Schools. |