The Central California Intermediate School by B. L. Howe

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 7, 1909

The Central California Intermediate School

By B. L. Howe

THIS school is located in the richest part of the fruit-producing section of the San Joaquin Valley. From the first, there has been a church-school department connected with the intermediate work.

Oct. 1, 1906, our school, including both departments, opened with twenty pupils. Last year we enrolled seventy-five. At our opening this year, September 29, there were seventy-six present. At the close of the first month, our membership is eighty-seven, and next week we expect it will reach ninety-one. We have added a third room, and each room is crowded with pupils and work.

Last year special instruction was given those who wished to labor in the Master’s vineyard. Eleven of this class spent a portion of the summer vacation in canvassing. They sold over twenty-two hundred dollars’ worth of books. Seven of these students were girls from the intermediate grades.

This year we have already divided a territory ten miles wide and twelve miles long into sections, and hope to be able to say, at the close of this school year, that each family in this district has had an opportunity to hear or read the message. Two pupils take a division of the territory, and visit each house at least once in two weeks, with tracts, papers, or books to loan or sell. This work is under the direction of Mrs. Lenore E. Howe. At our Friday afternoon meetings some very interesting experiences are related.

There is an excellent spirit in the school, and the pupils are making very satisfactory progress in their studies.

B. L. Howe, Principal.