Cullowhee, Mar. 27—The Cullowhee Graded School, used the Cullowhee State Normal as a practice school, closed a few nights ago with a beautiful commencement exercise, and the practice teachers have gone home for a rest, prior to the beginning of Summer School. The practice school was the largest the past session in the history of Cullowhee, the total enrollment in the seven grades being 290. The average attendance for the seven grades being 193. The practice school has been the center of much and varied activity this year. Many projects have been worked out by the various grades, such as building miiaure houses, making furniture for the same, planting shrubs, fitting up a museum and library, and so on. Then, the school has been the meeting place for several group center meetings of Jackson County teachers, to say nothing of its serving as a training station for something like a score of Normal School seniors. Many of the leaders in public education in orth Carolina have visited Cullowhee this session, and their words of praise of the practice school have been gratifying to the Normal School authorities. Dr. Alexander, of the Teachers College, Columbia University, after spending a couple of days at Cullowhee recently, stated that he had visited more than 30 normal schools in the past nine months, but that not a single institution he had visited seemed to have a better practice school than Cullowhee. “In fact,” he said, “if I were on the lookout for teachers would could put over the job of demonstration teaching, I think I should hit for Cullowhee about the first place.”
From the front page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., April 3, 1925
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