Volume 17 , Issue 43

1909 - The Northwestern State Normal School

It was a Thursday, 19 April 1909, page 1, in The Beaver Herald, out of Beaver, Oklahoma, that we found this mention of Alva's Northwestern State Normal School message from its then president, Walter L. Ross, from Alva, Oklahoma. The headlines read: "The Northwestern State Normal School."

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The 1909 session of the Northwestern State Normal, at Alva, Oklahoma had just closed, was by far the most prosperous in the history of the institution. The increase in attendance in the Normal department was more than 40 per cent above the attendance of last year (1908), while the number of counties represented in this school was increased more than 60 per cent. The graduates of this year had secured positions in some of the leading cities of the state, such as Enid, Lawton, Claremore, etc., and others found positions in some of the new institutions of the state.

The course of study of this school had been thoroughly revised and enriched, so that the Northwestern Normal was in the very front rank of the Normals of the United States in the amount and character of work required for graduation. So highly was the work of this institution regarded that its diploma was not only a life certificate to teach in the schools of this state, but such states as California, Minnesota, and a large number of others accepted it as a state teacher's certificate in these states.

The school had a splendid library of more than 7,000 well selected volumes. The United States had designated this library as a depository for government publications. The museum would soon have the largest collection of large specimens of any school in the southwest. Northwestern State Normal school's manual training department took the blue ribbon at the the State Fair at Oklahoma City last year (1908). Their model school was to be better next year than ever before. They had a director, who was one of the strongest public school men in the state, who would give his entire time to the training school' he wold be assisted by four splendid critic teachers and a kindergarten supervisor, all of whom had had the very best training for their work. In fact the student who desires the very best of instruction given by the teachers who were up to date in their lines of work could make no mistake by attending the Northwestern Normal. No tuition or fees of any kind. Fall term began Tuesday, September 14th, 1909.
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