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Catalog of _______ New London, Wisconsin 1907-‘08 Training School Board: HON. JACOB WIPF, President Training School Faculty: C. B. STANLEY, Principal Calendar for 1907-‘08 SCHOOL OPENS Monday, August 26 Members of the County Board Bear Creek Calendonia Dupont Farmington Fremont Harrison Helvetia Iola Larrabee Lebanon Lind Little Wolf Matteson Mukwa Royalton Scandinavia St. Lawrence Union Waupaca Weyauwega Wyoming Embarrass Village Fremont Village Iola Village Manawa Village Marion Village Scandinavia Village Weyauwega Clintonville New London First Ward Ike Poepke Second Ward Chas. Rice Fourth Ward G. H. Putnam Fifth Ward J. W. Dean
Waupaca First Ward Lars Larson Second Ward W. O. Ware Third Ward F. W. Rosche Fourth Ward Thomas Pipe
Alumi Roll Class of 1903
Class of 1904
Class of 1905
Class of 1906
Class of 1907
History of Waupaca County Realizing the need of some special training for the teachers of rural schools and recognizing from his experience that the State Normal Schools were unable to supply this need or demand on the part of the rural districts, Supt. D. F. Burnham secured from the County Board of 1901 favorable action on the proposition to establish a County Normal or Teachers’ Training School and an appropriation for that purpose. At the same session of the Board Hon. J. Wipf, of Iola, and Capt. C. A. Holmes, of New London, were eleceted to at with the County Superintendent constituting a Training School Board. At the first meeting of the Board Mr. Wipf was chosen President and Mr. Holmes Treasurer, the County Superintendent being Secretary ex-officio. After a number of meetings, held to consider location and other vital matters, the school was located at New London in the South Side High School building. G. L. Bowman, of the Superior Normal School, was elected Principal, and later Miss Lucy Norton of the same place was chosen as assistant. The school opened in August of 1901, with twelve pupils enrolled, which number was later increased to nineteen. Of this number six were graduated at the close of the year. Jan. 1st, 1903 C. B. Stanley succeeded Mr. Burnham as Secretary of the Board. The enrollment for the second year was, for a number of reasons, much better than that of the first year, and the graduating class numbered twenty-six members, The enrollment of each succeeding year has been very satisfactory in size and fairly so in quality, have succeeded one another at each annual commencement. In October 1904, Prof. Bowman resigned the principalship of the school to accept a similar position in the Dunn County Normal, and Supt. C. B. Stanley was elected to fill the vacancy thus created. W. E. Smith, of Manawa, was appointed County Superintendent, thus becoming Secretary of the Board. In June of 1905, Miss Norton resigned to complete her course in the University of Michigan, and Miss Julie Servaty, of Neillsville, Wis., a graduate of the Oshkosh Normal School and also of the University of Chicago, was chosen to the position of assistant. During the summer of 1907, the school was removed from the South Side to the new North Side Ward School building, where it occupies very pleasant rooms on the second floor. During the five years of its existence the school has graduated 99 students, every one of whom has taught or will teach in the schools of the state. Already the graduates of the Waupaca County Normal have given over 150 years of teaching service to the State of Wisconsin, and are thus repaying the investment which the State and the County have made for their training. In the fall of 1906, a committee was appointed by the County Board to meet the Board of Outagamie County with a proposition to make the school a joint school for the two counties. At present no arrangement has been consummated, although the location and railroad connections are expectionally favorable for such a joint school. At the opening of the school in August, 1907, the course of study will be changed and a two years’ course will be offered to students who are common school graduates. The one year course will be continued for students who have had two or more years of high school work, or its equivalent, or who show that they are sufficiently mature to do the work in a single year. This changes of course will eventually necessitate the appointment of an additional teacher, and it is hoped that music and manual training may then be added to the curriculum. Copyright © 2006-2009 Paula Vaughan |