Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1917 — Fair Oaks School Notes. [ARTICLE]

Fair Oaks School Notes.

Thursday was exemption day at Fair Oaks in the high school. A very large number of the high school pupils were able to keep their interest and deportment pages clear of offenses. The folowing pupils are entitled to honorable mention: Evelyn Abell, Mary Abell, Olive Burch, Russel Burroughs, Irene Ballenger, Warren Burroughs, Anna Erwin, Beulah Geary, Olive Erwin, Bessie Faylor, Gladys Hammerton, Opal Hoile, Mae Halleck, Myrtle Hall, Dorcas Karr, Goldie Kessinger, Oleda Myers, Glenn Ogle, Gladys Ogle, Ivah Petty, Rosa Reed, Herbert Rude, Mildred Rude, Aleece Stanley, Harold Stephenson, Landis Wood, Elsie Zellers, and Jessie Zeller. The sixth, seventh and eighth grades are also included in above report. Nineteen of the twenty-nine pupils in the high school were able to keep a clean page. Parents are earnestly solicited to give their children’s grades careful consideration. They will represent the fairest index to department and progress in mental development that the combined judgment of the teachers can give. A fine large Christmas tree was the chief attraction last Friday afternoon. All rooms met in the primary and rendered an excellent program in the presence of the school and a number of visitors. The basket ball team is undergoing some.rather strenous practice so as to compete with the large school teams after the holidays. Mr. Gundy has given them a very fair adjustment in the hall. The line-up stands' as follows: Cecil Gundy, center; Paul Barber, captain, right forward; James McKay, left forward; Hale Norman, right guard; Orren Gourley, left guard; Jennings Winslow and Orvall Rowan are substitutes.

The teachers have all left Fair Oaks to spend their holiday vacation at their- homes. Mrs. Petty and Miss Rodgers went to Bloomfield-' This is the county seat of Greene county, southeast of Indianapolis. Miss Lena Ray went to Rockfield a small station east of Delphi in Carroll county. Mr. May went to his home near Woolcott in White county. Mrs. Sterrett returned to her home in Rensselaer. Fair Oaks high school is aspiring to a commission. This status will be due them next year if the school is able to qualify. They will have a senior class next year, who has had the thirty-two months work in the high school work. They must have at least two teachers or the equivalent who devote entire tim? to high school work. One of the high school teaching corps must be a college graduate or its equivalent. The teaching corps in the school possess the necessary qualifications from that angle. The school will need laboratory and library equipment before it can hope to get the standing it desires. After the new building is completed the necessary equipment will be installed. Every man, woman and child in the Fair Oaks community should aid in securing the school, they can have if all join in crystallizing a genuine school spirit Opal Hoile, Gladys Ogle and Elsie Zellers were exempt in all subjects last itaonth.