Mountain View Church School by W. E. H.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 3, 1914

Mountain View Church School

By W. E. H.

ONCE before in these columns I had occasion to mention the plan of the Mountain View (Cal.) church for strengthening their local day school. Their plan, which involved some building and the extension of the work to ten grades, has been carried into effect, in harmony, if our understanding is correct, with a resolution passed at the last session of the Pacific Union Conference. That resolution reads as follows:—

“That we advise churches calling for tenth-grade work to secure the approval of the local conference committee, church school superintendent, and union educational secretary, requiring, further, the employment of three or more teachers, the one carrying the tenth grade to bear a professional certificate.”

It is a pleasure to give herewith a picture of their neat, serviceable building, dedicated free of debt a week before school began.

Concerning the school and its opening, the chairman of the school board, Brother C. H. Jones, writes:—

“The Mountain View school opened on September 14, in their new school building, with an enrollment of 67; three have been added since, making a total of 70 pupils. Ten grades are being taught this year, and three teachers are employed. Brother F. A. Lashier, Jr., is principal, and instructor in grades 9 and 10, with eleven pupils. Mrs. Lashier has grades 5 to 8, with nineteen pupils, and Miss Pearl Smith grades 1 to 4, with forty pupils. This is Brother and Sister Lashier’s first year with the Mountain View school. They have taught a very successful school at Healdsburg for the past two or three years. Miss Smith has taught at Mountain View for the past two years.

“The new building has five rooms: three classrooms, two 20 x 27 ft. and one 20 x 33 ft.; a library and experimental room, 8 x 24 ft.; and a domestic science and manual training room, 12 x 24 ft. The latter room will also be used by the ladies of the church as a sewing room in connection with their missionary work. The building is lighted throughout with electricity, and is heated by a hot-air furnace. The building was dedicated free from debt the week before school began. Every pledge had been paid. We pray that the Lord will greatly bless the efforts of this school, not only in holding the children to this truth, but in fitting them for active missionary work.”

W. E. H.