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Board of Trustees.

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Representing The State.
J. Wilson Greenland, North Warren, Pa. Term Expires 1906
Edward M. Wilson, Clarion, Pa. Term Expires 1906
Hon. James T. Maffett, Clarion, Pa. Term Expires 1907
Samuel F. Brush, Clarion, Pa. Term Expires 1907
Hon. John B. Patrick, Harrisburg, Pa. Term Expires 1908
James A. Haven, M. D., Summerville, pa. Term Expires 1908
 

Officers Of The Board.
Albert G. Corbett, President.
John S. Shirley, Secretary.
Irvin M. Shannon, Treasurer.

Standing Committees.
Committee On Instruction -- S. K. Clarke, J. M. Fitzgerald, J. S. Shirley, Rd. M. Wilson, F. J. Maffett

Committee On Finance -- J. S. Shirley, J. T. Rimer, S. S. Laughlin, J. A. F. Hoy, F. J. Maffett.

Household Committee -- W. Day Wilson, R. G. Vingling, J. T. Maffett, S. S. Laughlin, Harry M. Rimer.

Committee On Buildings and Grounds -- J. T. Maffett, A. M. Neely, S. F. Brush, Harry M. Rimer, James A. Haven.

Committee On Printing -- W. Day Wilson, J. M. Fitzgerald, S. S. Laughlin, S. F. Brush, J. W. Greenland.

Committee On Library -- Ed. M. Wilson, J. B. Patrick, S. K. Clarke, James A. Haven, Harry M. Rimer.

Sanitary Committee -- J. T. Rimer, J. M. Fitzgerald, J. W. Greenland, James A. Haven.

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Faculty Of Instruction
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J. George Becht, M. S., Sc. D., Principal, Psychology and Pedagogy.
John Ballentine, A. M., Ph. D., Vice Principal, Latin and Greek.
Mary Lorena Givan, History and Drawing.
Willis Yardley Welch, Science and Nature Study.
J. W. F. Wilkinson, A. B., A. M., Higher Mathematics.
Katharine Hoge McIntyre, Piano and Voice -- Director of Music Department.
Minnie Isabel Liggett, Methods of Teaching -- Principal of Model School.
Alice Ross, A. B., English Language and Literature.
Ethel V. Morrison, Director of Physical Training for Ladies.
B. W. Griffith, A. B., A. M., German and French.
J. Harry Shoemaker, Arithmetic and Algebra.
R. M. McNeal, A. M., Civics and Psychology.
Wm. Calvin McKean, Director of Physical Training for Men.
Nettie Bisel Campbell, Assistant in Piano.

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Faculty -- Other Officers --State Board of Examiners.
E. L. Bowman, Instructor in Manual Training and Penmanship.
Leda Rosina Liggett, Kindergarten.
Esther Winifred Fowles, Principal's Secretary, Instructor in Stenography and Typewriting.
Lawrence Herman, Instructor in Violin.
James Pinks, Registrar and Librarian.
John T. Shirley, Assistant in Library.
Lora Goodrowe Welch, Laboratory Assistant.

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Other Officers Of The School:
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Elliott Forest Yingling, Superintendent of Boarding Department and of Grounds and Buildings.
Mrs. E. F. Yingling, Matron.
John A. Fagley, Engineer.

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State Board of Examiners, 1905.
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N. C. Schaeffer, Superintendent of Public Instruction.
T. B. Noss, Principal, State Normal School, California.
G. B. Milnor, Superintendent, Lycoming County.
E. M. Rapp, Superintendent, Berks County.
W. W. Evans, Superintendent, Columbia County.
John A. Gibson, Superintendent, Butler.
J. G. Dell, Superintendent, Huntington County.
R. T. Adams, Superintendent, Lebanon City.

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Calendar.
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1905.
Examination by the State Board of Examiners, June 19, 20.
Annual Meeting of Literary Societies, Saturday, June 24, 8 p.m.
Baccalaureate Sermon by the Rev. Charles R. Williamson, Ph. D., West Chester, Pa., Sunday, June 25, 11 a.m.
Joint Meeting of the Christian Associations, 4 p.m., Sunday, June 25.
Field Day Exercises, 9:30 a.m., Monday, June 26.
Campus Pageant, 2 p.m., Monday, June 26, by Young Ladies of Physical Training Classes.
Annual Concert by the Music Department, Monday, June 26, 8 p.m.
Senior Class Day Exercises, 10 a.m., Tuesday, June 27.
Alumni Business Meeting, 4 p.m., Tuesday, June 27.
Alumni Reunion and Banquets, 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 27.
Seventeenth Annual Commencement, 10 a.m., Wednesday, June 27. Address by Dr. Arthur Staples, President of Beaver College.

Fall Term -- Fifteen Weeks.
Fall Term begins Tuesday, September 5.
Fall Term ends Thursday, December 14.

1906.
Winter Term--Twelve Weeks
Winter Term begins Tuesday, January 2.
Winter Term ends Wednesday, March 21.

Spring Term -- Fourteen Weeks.
Spring Term begins Tuesday, March 27.
Spring Term ends Wednesday, June 27.

Commencement Exercises, Saturday, June 23, to Wednesday, June 27.
 

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Historical Statement.
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By an act 3 of the Pennsylvania State Legislature, passed in the year 1886, the counties of Clarion, Forest, Jefferson, McKean and Warren were separated from the Eighth Normal School District and were constituted as the Thirteenth District. The necessary steps were at once taken to organize a Normal School. Contributions and pledges of money, amounting to forty thousand dollars, were obtained for the purpose of securing a suitable site and erecting the necessary buildings. This amount was supplemented by a legislative appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars. The grounds and building which had belonged to the Carrier Seminary were purchased from the Erie Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Additional land adjoining the original purchase was obtained from the Arnold estate, and in the fall of 1886 work was begun on the erection of two commodious dormitories. These buildings were completed before the middle of February. A committee representing the State officially approved the provision thus made for carrying on the work of a Normal School, and the institution was formally opened on the twelfth day of April, 1887.

The enrollment during the first term was 140. The enrollment for the year 1887-1888, the first full year of the existence of the school, was 364. The first graduating class numbered 10 young men and 2 young women. In all 293 young men and 588 young women have been regularly graduated, while 19 others have received diplomas of various kinds, but the number of graduates does not represent the usefulness of the school, inasmuch as a very large number of young people who were never graduated have studied for a time at Clarion and have gone from there to do excellent work as teachers, or to engage successfully in other occupations.

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Location.
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The State Normal School of the Thirteenth District is located at Clarion, the county seat of Clarion county, Pennsylvania. The town is situated on an eminence some 1400 feet above sea level and overlooking the Clarion River. The natural scenery of the vicinity is picturesque and the healthfulness of the situation is unexcelled. The Borough, which has a population of about 2000, is supplied with an abundance of natural gas, and of pure filtered water, and the streets are lighted by electricity. The churches are excellent and the people are intelligent and refined. In fact, Clarion is an ideal place for an institution of learning.
 

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Railroad Facilities.
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The School may be reached by means of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Pittsburg and Western Division, which has a station at Clarion Junction, from which a line of hacks runs to Clarion and the Normal School. The Pittsburg, Summerville and Clarion Railroad connects Clarion with Summerville, a station on the Low Grade Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. By means of this road Clarion may be reached from the Allegheny Valley Railroad via Redbank Junction and Summerville, from the Philadelphia & Erie Railroad via Driftwood and Summerville. The Clarion station is located within a half square of the boys' dormitory just across the street from the Normal laundry and power house.
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Grounds and Buildings.
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The grounds comprise ten acres, within the Borough limits, and about five minutes walk from the Post Office. They have been laid out with care and are kept in excellent condition. The buildings all front upon a handsome lawn ornamented with shade trees and evergreens. The buildings include Seminary Hall, a three story brick structure, which was originally occupied by the Carrier Seminary, from which it derives its name; a three-story dormitory for young men; a three-story dormitory for young ladies with a kitchen and general dining room on the first floor; Music
 

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Hall, which provides instruction halls and practice rooms on the first floor and living rooms on the second; Science Hall with accommodations for the Model School on the first floor, and for the Science Department on the second; and the new Chapel and Gymnasium Building, with gymnasium in the basement and a chapel with a normal seating capacity of 1000 on the main floor. These buildings are all heated by steam supplied from a separate boiler house on the upper floor of which the Normal School Steam Laundry is located.

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Equipment.
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Laboratories. The Science Department is provided with a large and well appointed chemical laboratory, a physical laboratory with apparatus of the latest and most approved type, a biological laboratory with an adequate supply of compound microscopes and materials for study, and a demonstration and lecture room.
Libraries. These consist of the Text-Book Library and the General Reference and Loan Library. These libraries are both located in Seminary Hall. The General Reference and Loan Library occupies a large hall at the south side of the building on the first floor. The hall is well lighted and is supplied wtih tables for reading and study. It is open from 8:30 a.m. to 12, and from 1 to 4:30 p.m. each day, and is in charge of a competent Librarian. Students have access to the reference shelves and they may obtain books from the Librarian, to be read or studied at their rooms, subject to the regulations commonly adopted in well-conducted libraries. The reading tables are supplied with daily and weekly papers and the principal magazines and educational journals of the country.

For the purpose of ready reference, the General Library has been arranged and catalogued according to the Dewey system of classification.

The Text-Book Library is in charge of the Registrar. It contains a supply of all the text-books used in the school, in sufficient numbers to meet the demands of the students for text-books to be used in preparing for recitations. A nominal rental is charged for the use of text-books.

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The Gymnasium is provided with dressing rooms, lockers, shower baths, Indian clubs, dumb-bells, wands, horizontal bars, traveling rings, & c.

The Music Department is supplied with nine upright pianos, one grand piano, one organ and other necessary instruments, besides charts and other facilities for instruction.
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CHARACTER AND PURPOSE OF THE SCHOOL.
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Normal Department. -- The specific purpose of the Normal Schools of the State of Pennsylvania according to the statutes by which they were constituted state institutions, is "the professional training of young men and women as teachers for the common schools of the State." The Normal Schools are therefore professional shools. In framing the course of study, however, recognition has been given to the fact that the teacher needs a substantial basis of intellectual training and scholastic attainments. It is self evident that a teacher must have a thorough knowledge of the subjects which he is expected to teach. He should be able to examine the studies of the school curriculum in the light of more advanced knowledge. He must not only know the relation of what he teaches to the more elementary knowledge which preceded, but he should understand how to arrange the material of instruction so that there may be a proper progression from the lower to the higher.
Nor is it sufficient that one who aspires to teach should have acquired a certain amount of knowledge in school. He must be able to continue his acquisitions, to add to his store of knowledge by his own efforts, after he has assumed the responsibilities of his profession. The teacher should, therefore, possess at least the power to acquire and to assimilate knowledge, power to think and to systematize his acquisitions according to logical relations, and power to give appropriate expression to his thoughts and opinions. To attain such power, intellectual training more extensive and thorough than that which is given in the elementary public school, or the ordinary high school, is required. It is to be hoped that the day will soon come when at least the equivalent of a normal school training will be required of all candidates for certificates of qualification to teach.

But scholarship alone does not suffice to make a teacher. Professional training is essential. Accordingly the Normal Schools make provision for instruction in the principles which underlie all good teaching, and for practical training in the art of teaching. The course of study includes Psychology, or science of mind, with reference especially to the growth of mental capacity in children. Principles of Method as based on Psychology, History of Education, and specific methods which should be followed in the teaching of the common school branches. These branches are also reviewed with special reference to their organization as material for instruction for the elementary school. Practical training in the art of teaching is provided for in the Model or Training School. All students who expect to be graduated in the Normal Course are required to teach forty-five minutes daily, for at least twenty weeks, under the observation of a training teacher.

College Preparatory Department. -- To a large extent the scholastic studies of the Normal Department are identical with those which are taught in the preparatory schools, high schools and academies which prepare boys and girls to enter college. With its trained faculty and its superior equipment, the Clarion State Normal School offers much better facilities for this academic training than the majority of schools which profess to make a specialty of such work. Classes are formed in all the College Preparatory subjects which are not included in the Normal School curriculum and the certificate of the Clarion State Normal School is accepted as evidence of fitness to enter the best colleges of the State. Some of these colleges have indeed offered scholarships for the purpose of attracting to them graduates from Clarion.

High School Department -- Many young persons, who intend neither to teach nor to enter college, desire to extend their education
 

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equivalent of a normal school training will be required of all candidates for certificates of qualification to teach.

But scholarship alone does not suffice to make a teacher. Professional training is essential. Accordingly the Normal Schools make provision for instruction in the principles which underlie all good teaching, and for practical training in the art of teaching. The course of study includes Psychology, or science of mind, with reference especially to the growth of mental capacity in children. Principles of Method as based on Psychology, History of Education, and specific methods which should be followed in the teaching of the common school branches. These branches are also reviewed with special reference to their organization as material of instruction for the elementary school. Practical training in the art of teaching is provided for in the Model or Training School. All students who expect to be graduated in the Normal Course are required to teach forty-five minutes daily, for at least weeks, under the observation of a training teacher.

College Preparatory Department -- To a large extent the scholastic studies of the Normal Department are identical with those which are taught in the preparatory schools, high schools and academies which prepare boys and girls to enter college. With its trained faculty and its superior equipment, the Clarion State Normal School offers much better facilities for this academic training than the majority of schools which profess to make a specialty of such work. Classes are formed in all the College Preparatory subjects which are not included in the Normal School curriculum and the certificate of the Clarion State Normal School is accepted as evidence of fitness to enter the best colleges of the State. Some of these colleges have indeed offered scholarships for the purpose of attracting to them graduates from Clarion.

High School Department -- Many young persons, who intend neither to teach nor to enter college, desire to extend their education beyond the limits of the curriculum in the schools to which they have access near their homes. A general education which prepares for citizenship, or lays the foundation for business success, is very desirable. Experience has proved that in both business and professional life a high degree of intellectual training
 

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tion is given, not only to the logical relation of the material of knowledge comprehended within any subject, but also to the relation of the subject to all other branches of instruction in the curriculum, and to the proper psychological order of progress in imparting knowledge of the subject to pupils. Students are frequently required to prepare sample lessons on different parts of the subjects which they are themselves studying, in order that they may form the habit of thinking and learning from the pupil's point of view. By thus learning to study always from the pupil's point of view, the student in training for the profession of teaching gradually acquires a professional spirit and a professional habit of thought. He is prepared for his work as a teacher in a manner and to a degree not possible in a non-professional school.
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REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION.
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Any young person of good character, who has satisfactorily completed the course of study in a good common school, may be admitted as a student in the Clarion State Normal School. Preparatory classes are arranged for those who are not prepared to enter upon the regular Normal Course. It is better for a student to complete his preparatory studies here than to waste time in a school which is not properly equipped for thorough instruction. Many parents are tempted to continue to send their children to some home school of inferior grade merely to save expense. They do their children an injustice. What is saved in money, and much more, may be lost in time. In a poor school, moreover, students are liable to lose their interest in study, but a good school is a constant inspiration.

Students who hold certificates of qualification to teach, or who have had the privilege of attending a good high school for one or more years, will be given the standing in the regular work of the School for which their preparatory studies have fitted them. Their class standing at the end of the year will be determined by the rules adopted for the classification and promotion of students in the Normal Schools of Pennsylvania. These rules will be found on page 14.
 

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COURSES OF STUDY FOR PENNSYLVANIA STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS.
[As Revised and Adopted November 8, 1900.]
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REGULAR COURSE.
(Studies marked with an (*) are to be reviewed in Senior Year.)
JUNIOR YEAR
Pedogogics. -- School Management
Language -- English Grammar*, Reading and Orthography, Latin to Caesar.
Mathematics -- Arithmetic*, Algebra.
Natural Science -- Physiology, Botany.
Historical Science -- Geography*, U. S. History, Civil Government of the United States and Pennsylvania.
Arts -- Penmanship (an approved system, with a fair handwriting), Drawing (daily lessons for at least 20 weeks), Vocal Music (elementary principles and daily exercises for at least 10 weeks), Bookkeeping (single entry, with a knowledge of common business papers).
Physical Culture.

MIDDLE YEAR.
Pedagogics. -- Psychology, Methods of Teaching.
Language -- Rhetoric and Composition, with Elocutionary Exercises; three Books of Caesar.
Mathematics -- Plane Geometry.
Natural Science -- Elements of Chemistry, Elements of Zoology, Elements of Geology.
Historical Science -- General History.
Arts. -- Manual Training.
Physical Culture.

SENIOR YEAR.
Pedagogics -- History of Education, Methods of Teaching, Practice of Teaching in Model School (at least 20 weeks, forty-five minutes daily), Thesis.
Language -- Literature and Classics, three Orations of Cicero, three Books of Virgil, Review of English Grammar.
Mathematics. -- Plane Trigonometry and Surveying, Review of Arithmetic.
Natural Science -- Physics, Review of Geography.
Historical Science -- Review of U. S. History.
Physical Culture.

SUBSTITUTIONS.
The following substitutions may be made:
Middle Year -- Additional Chemistry and Descriptive Astronomy for Latin; Greek, German or French for Chemistry.
Senior Year -- English History, Ethics and Logic for Latin; Greek, German or French for Solid Geometry, Trigonometry and Surveying.
 

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NORMAL COURSE OF STUDY ARRANGED BY TERMS.
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REGULAR COURSE.
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SENIOR YEAR.

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Classical.
First Year.
Required:--Latin, Reading and Elocution, Grammar and Composition, Arithmetic, Algebra, Physiology, Physical Geography, American History, English Literature, Civics, Drawing.
 

Second year.
Required:--Latin--4 Books of Caesear, Greek, Algebra completed, Geometry, Literature and Composition, Botany.
Substitutions: --German or French for Greek.
 

Third Year.
Required:--Latin.--6 Orations of Cicero, Latin Prose Composition, Greek.--4 Books of Anabasia, Greek Prose Composition, Rhetoric, English Literature, Geometry completed, General History.
Substitutions.--German or French or Greek.
Optional.--Zoology, Chemistry, or Geology.
 

Fourth Year.
Required.--Latin,--6 Books of Vergil, Latin Prose Composition, Review of Latin Grammar, Homer's Iliad, Greek Prose Composition, Review of Greek Grammar, Literature, Physics, Greek History, Roman History, English History.
Substitutions -- German or French for Greek.
 

Latin Scientific.
This course is the same as the Classical course, except that German or French is substituted for Greek, and that Chemistry and Zoology are required.

Scientific.
The Scientific course omits Greek and substitutes German or French for Latin in the 3rd and 4th years, and requires two years' work in Chemistry and one in Biology or Geology.
Students who have the ability to complete the College Preparatory course in three years without the sacrifice of thoroughness and without injury to their health are permitted to do so.
 

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Roll of Alumni.
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*The places named in the following list are in Pennsylvania except as otherwise designated.
 

Class of 1889 - Normal Course.
Allen, Alice E., (Sister Juliana), Rock Castle, Va., Nun
Baker, L. T., Ridgway, Merchant
Blair, Ella, Leatherwood, Teacher
Henry, U. S. G., Teacher
Hill, Caroline E., 5th Ward School, Allegheny, Teacher
McFeaters, Emma (Whitmer), Clarion.
Rankin, Mary (Apple), Deceased.

Academic Course.
Travis, J. M., Johnsonburg, Minister
 

Class of 1891 -- Normal Course.
Baum, Mabel V., Kittanning
Cooper, Avis (Brenner), Zelienople
Esch, J. I., LaFarge, Wis.
Evans, John A., 101 N. Carey St., Baltimore, Md., Physician
Firth, Anna, Deceased.
Fuller, Mildred, Deceased.
Hall, Ida (Sayers), Hawthorn,
Houghtaling, Alice G., Wilcox, Teacher
Jamison, G. T., Woodland
Kelso, J. S., Woodland, Physician
Klingensmith, Maggie, Freeport, Teacher
McClure, W. A., Johnsonburg, Attorney
McCullough, H. B., Brockwayville, Attorney
McKinney, O. R.,
Reed, W. A., R. R. No. 1, Wilkinsburg, Minister
Richards, J. D., Manorville, Teacher
Sayers, Clement Emerson, Hawthorn, Physician
Scott, W. B., Callery, Painter
Thounhurst, William S., Wilkinsburg, Book Agent
Trezise, W. M., 324 Knarr St., DuBois, Mail Carrier
Whitehill, Geo. B., Clarion, Editor Clarion Republican
Wilkinson, Bertha (Brenneman) Arthurs
Williams, E. G., 123 Centre Ave., Ridgway, Treasurer Elk Tanning Company

State Certificate.
Geary, A. A., Clarion, Attorney

Academic Course.
Cowan, D. C., 312 Hanson Ave., Canon City, Colo., S. S. Missionary
Crawford, W. A., Carmel, N. Y., Minister
Foster, C. S., Allegheny, Physician
Reimer, G. C., Lewisburg, Prof. Bucknell University
 

Class of 1893--Normal Course.
Alt, E. M., Teacher
Baker, E. D., Butler, U. S. Postal Clerk
Bennett, Flora, Deceased,
Bootes, Jennie (Ferguson), Modesto, Cal.
Brown, W. M., Bockwayville, Prin. Twp. High School
Brown, Ward F., Bell's Mills, Lumberman
Cole, Emma, Teacher
Cook, Jennie, Menominee, Wis.
Corbett, Nannie, Corsica, Teacher
Daniels, Alice Baker,
Dauchey, Elva, Springboro, Teacher
DAvison, S. T., West Springfield, Minister
Dickey, Jennie (Perrine), Independence, Col.
Dickey, Sallie, Baxter, Missionary Sialkote, India
Doloff, Lena (Barkas), 71 Summer St., Bradford, Pa.
Donald, Jennie, Haffey, Teacher,
Eldred, Maye, Titusville, Teacher
Fitzgerald, Mildred (Knapp), Marienville,
Freeman, Dilla (Weller), Springboro.
Greenhalgh, Ella, Emlenton, Cashier
Harley, Grace, 712 Thorne St., Youngstown, O., Teacher

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Harrison, Minnie (Loehr), Deceased.
Howard, Bessie, 243 4th Ave., Homestead.
Irvin, Cora, Coon's Corners, Teacher
Klechner, Minnie (Morris), Fayette City,
Lamb, Delma, Bakersfield, Ca., Teacher
Lamb, Mary (Wentzel), R. F. D. No. 1, Emlenton
Lawson, E. E., Kittanning, Attorney
Latshaw, Phoebe, Clarion, Teacher
Lenkerd, G. W., Reynoldsville, Secy. Brick & Tile Co.
Luther, E. I., DuBois, Teacher
Miller, Clinton, Teacher
Mong, Carrie, Knox, Teacher
Mumford, A. W., Sheffield, Prin. Public Schools
McKallip, Edna, Reu, Teacher
McKnight, Ella, Buena Vista, Teacher,
McNaughton, C. M., Foxburg, Prin. Public Schools
Nolph, J. G., Punxsutawney, Merchant
Ongley, Jessie
Pittinger, J. S., Portersville, Minister
Reagle, Angus, Franklin, Conductor
Roble, Cora, Rasselas.
Schmuck, Elizabeth (McComb), Emlenton.
Simpson, A. J., Summerville, Physician
Sloan, Edith, Limestone, Student Wooster Univ.
Southwick, Pearl
Spaulding, Garner P., Albion, Physician
Stewart, Ida, Spartansburg, Teacher
Summerson, Elizabeth, Pittsburg, Teacher
Thompson, Laura, Long Beach, Cal.
VanNaten, B. K., Franklin, Physician
Walker, Florence (Gibson), Greenwood Ave., Wyncate.
Washburn, O. B., Franklin's Corners, Merchant
West, J. H., Warren, Lumber Merchant
Young, M. T., Room 11 Busch Bldg. Washington, D. C.