Boone, June 28—The Appalachian State Normal is being taxed to its capacity with an enrollment of 916 teachers who are taking professional courses. Sixty-six counties and seven states are represented in this enrollment. There are five from Wilson County. Their names follow: Willie Taylor, Mittie Wiggins, Elizabeth Wiggins, Maude Davis, Esther Cobb. The Appalachian State Normal has a plant of 500 acres of land, 12 modern school buildings, a dairy, teams, water system and power plant. The plant is valued at more than a million dollars.
The school makes a specialty of training teachers for elementary schools. According to Mrs. T.E. Johnston, supervisor of high school training. “The Appalachian State Normal is the largest school in North Carolina bent on training teachers for elementary schools.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, June 29, 1926
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