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Missouri Normal Schools The Missouri Normal Schools are somewhat unique in American history. Since the early 1870s, the Boards of Education in Missouri relied upon the Normal Schools to furnish teachers, principals, and superintendents for all grades and kinds of public schools. Not a college in the ordinary sense, the Normal School offered courses of instruction for all kinds of teachers: rural school teachers; elementary teachers of villages, towns and cities; high school teachers of all kinds; and supervisors, principals and superintendents. The demand for qualified education professionals kept the Missouri Normal Schools in the forefront of the institutions for preparing teachers. In other parts of the country, similar institutions were commonly designated as Teachers Colleges or Normal Universities. The Normal School at Kirksville in Adair County offered combined academic and pedagogic courses extending three, four and five years above the high school curriculum. Here is a list of Monroe County
Students and Teachers in the Kirksville Normal School’s Summer term of
1912: Effie Beals Edna Blanton Eunice Boyd Vivian Clark R.S. Clough Carson Cowherd Eva Dawson Gertrude Delaney Lillian Delaney Marie Dixon Alta Dusendschon Mary Garnett Frances Glascock Frozy Griffith Mary Grubbs Wille Lee Hampton Paul Hardesty Lucile Humble Rena Jenkins Agnes Johnson Marguerite Kelly Vena Laytham Erma Lipp Fred Luttrell James McCreery Bertha Meyer Mrs. Lizzie Moore T.J. Moore D.E. Neale Mary Nolen Kathleen Stone Blanche Stephens C.E. Stephens Kathleen Stone Emma Lee Timbrook Alice Vaughn Alma Vaughn Mabel Vaughn Alice Waller Sue Whitesides Anna Lee Woods Flora Woodson Rolla Wybrant The following link takes you to a photo of this Monroe County group and provides additional information on the Kirksville Normal School: http://www.rootsweb.com/~moadair/NormalSchool/5-County-Students.htm Source: Extracted from the 1912 Normal School Bulletin, Kirksville, Missouri, transcribed by Charlotte Belden. LPP |
