TEACHERS’ SUMMER SCHOOL.
By A. S. Kellogg
At a meeting of the California Conference Committee, held April 14, 1904, it was arranged that a teachers’ summer school be held at St. Helena, Cal., beginning Wednesday, June 15, at 9 A.M. The following committee on attendance and general arrangements was appointed: A. S. Kellogg, M. E. Cady, J. S. Osborne, C. L. Taylor, and M. H. Brown. This committee held a meeting at Healdsburg, April 25, and partly completed its work as follows:— Prof. E. D. Sharpe: Methods of teaching the common branches, such as arithmetic, grammar, etc., according to Christian education. Miss S. E. Peck: Industrial education in the church school. Mrs. Alma McKibbin: Bible and methods of Bible teaching. Prof. W. E. Howell: Language and methods of teaching same. Prof. M. E. Cady, Pacific Union Conference educational secretary, is expected to be present during the entire time of the school, to give instruction in various branches and to aid in the organization of the church-school work. Other instructors will be arranged for and selected at a later date. The following committee on program was selected: Prof. M. E. Cady, Miss Katie Hale, Prof. E. D. Sharpe. Committee on arrangements and location: L. M. Bowen, Miss S. E. Peck, and C. L. Taylor. All teachers attending the summer school will receive the following financial aid from the conference: Tent, railroad fare from Oakland to St. Helena, and allowance of $2.00 per week for board. The managers of the St. Helena Sanitarium will arrange to board the teachers at a rate not exceeding the above amount. The school will be held in a choice location in the woods, where all nature will be blooming and shedding forth its fragrance to add to the many benefits to be derived from such a school. It is expected that all who attend will provide themselves with a bed and such equipments as they may deem necessary. All teachers expecting to attend the school should make application to J. S. Osborne, secretary of the committee.