p. 18 | Cuban School by Mrs. Ida Fischer-Carnahan

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 2, 1909

Cuban School

By Mrs. Ida Fischer-Carnahan

WE opened our school in San Claudio the first of November. We have twelve pupils enrolled, which includes five Cubans. Several parents have made application, which will make an increase in our number of eight or nine.

We not only have this school here, but an afternoon school for the piano, and night-school for English in Cabañas, our post-office town, seven miles away, with an enrollment of twenty-three for English and four for the piano; among these is the Catholic priest.

The secretary of the Spanish Club “Centro,” by verbal petition, requested, for the benefit of the members of their families, that I open such a school, offering me the free use of one of their club rooms and the piano. This includes the lights also. I began my work there the first of the month.

After the close of our school in San Claudio, I ride by saddle horse seven miles to Cabañas, teach my classes, returning in the morning in time for my day-school. It’s hard to gain the confidence of this people, so when one has gained an entrance, one must step in and fill it. Our work is only in its infancy now, but it is making rapid strides.

We do wish some kind-hearted person would loan the school enough money, at a low rate of interest, to erect a good plain building,— one that would give us two recitation rooms, a room for English, and one for Spanish.

MRS. IDA FISCHER-CARNAHAN.