Dover-Foxcroft 1928 - University of Maine

54 ANNUAL REPORT
is a registered nurse with special training in public
health work at Simmons. She has had considerable
training and experience in public health and school
nurse work.
Near the close of the fall term Miss Gilbert was
obliged to resign! her position at South Dover. At about
the same time several families moved from the vicinity
of Norton Hill. It, therefore, seemed wise to combine
these two schools, at least for the present. This was
done with Mrs. Doris Hathorn serving as teacher of
the combined schools at South Dover.
The school at Macomber's Corner was unable to
maintain the legal average of attendance during the
fall term and there was no prospect that, it would be
able to do so during the winter. This school was accordingly
closed and its pupils conveyed, some to Bear
Hill and some to Brockway.
Summer
Study
There was a time when the possession of a Normal
School diploma or a College degree was looked upon as
the symbol of a completed education. A teacher who
possessed one of these was supposed to be adequately
trained for his work. With an increased study of the
science of education there has also been an increasing
conviction among those engaged in educational work
that a diploma or degree is not a sufficient guarantee
of adequate training for a life time of teaching. While
they form the basis of training, there must be abundant
opportunity for contact with and instruction in new
methods and procedures. This need has been met upon
the part of normal schools, colleges, and universities
all over the country, by the establishment of summer
schools designed especially for teachers. During the
last decade attendance at these summer sessions has
increased by leaps and bounds.
During the last few years there has been no summer
but that several teachers from both the elementary
schools and the academy have been in attendance at
some school of education or have widened their vision
and improved their usefulness by travel or attendance
at some of the great national educational meetings.