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APPROPRIATIONS, LIBRARY COMMISSION, 1901-1921.

	Salary		Maintenance
Years	Secretary and other employes	Number of Officers and Clerks	Institutional Library Fund	Office, Traveling, incidentals	Books, Binding, Printing, Etc	Deficiency	Totals
1901-03	......	2	......	......	$4,000	......	$4,000.00
1903-05	......	2	......	......	6,000	......	6,000.00
1905-07	......	2	......	......	6,000	......	6,000.00
1907-09	......	2	......	......	6,000	......	6,000.00
1909-11	......	2	......	......	8,000	......	8,000.00
1911-13	......	3	$5,000	......	10,000	$150.00	15,150.00
1013-15	$ 6,600	......	3,650	$2,550	3,200	......	16,000.00
1915-17	6,600	......	3,650	2,650	4,000	50.00	16,950.00
1917-19	8,100	4	3,600	3,100	6,700	439.22	21,939.72
1919-21	8,800	4	4,000	3,100	7,100	......	23,000.00
Totals	$30,100	......	$19,900	$11,400	$61,000	$639.22	$123,039.22

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF NORMAL SCHOOLS

W. M. Matzen, State Superintendent	Ex-officio
D. B. Cropsey, State Treasurer	Ex-officio
	Term expires
Dan Morris. Kearney; President	1924
H. E. Reische, Chadron, Secretary	1925
Frank Pilger, Pierce	1921
William Heitzman, Osceola	1922
T. J. Majors, Peru	1922

 

HISTORY.

     This board was created by an act approved June 20, 1867. The treasurer, superintendent of public instruction and five persons appointed by the governor for five-year terms, constitute the board. The legislature of 19W passed an act creating a view board designated as the "Normal board of education." This law was declared by the supreme court to be unconstitutional in a decision rendered November 15, 1909. By a constitutional amendment effective January 1, 1921, the government of the state normal schools was vested in a board of seven, six to be appointed by the governor for six-year terms, and the superintendent of public instruction, ex officio.

DUTIES AND POWERS.

     This board has the control of the four state normal schools - Peru, Kearney, Wayne, Chadron.

PUBLICATIONS.

     Biennial report and financial statement,

 

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APPROPRIATIONS, STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION, 1907-1915.

Years	Maintenance	Deficiency	Total
1905-07	$1,500.00	....	$1,500.00
1907-09	1,900.00	....	1,900.00
1909-11	2,000.00	$500.00	2,500.00
1911-13	5,000.00	428.80	5,428.80
1913-151	....	....	....
Totals	$10,400.00	$928.80	$11,328.80

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     ¹Expenses of Normal Board provided for in the 85 one-hundredth of 1 mill levied for all normal schools.

 

NORMAL SCHOOLS.

PERU.

President E. L. Rouse.

     The territorial legislature in 1860 granted a charter for the establishment of a school of college grade in the village of Peru, a little town that had been laid out in 1856. There was nothing done, however, towards the establishment of this school until in 1865 when Peru had gotten to be a village of thirty or forty families. It is said that Rev. Hiram Burch and Mr. William Dailey had the honor of leading the way to the planting of the state normal school at Peru. The first funds were solicited under the direction of Rev. Hiram Burch. The purpose was to erect a building forty by eighty feet and three stories high to give to the conference of the M. E. church for the purpose of a female seminary. In March, 1865, sufficient funds had been raised to warrant the letting of a contract for the erection of the building. Seventy-two acres of ground was donated to the trustees for it campus. The land was paid for by Dr. J. F. Neal, Rev. Hiram Burch, and Mrs. C. B. McKenzie. Twelve acres were afterwards deeded to Mrs. C. B. McKenzie for her services as a teacher, thus leaving sixty acres of campus.

     Not being willing to wait for the erection of the building, school was opened in a building that was formerly used as a saloon. Dr. J. M. McKenzie was president of the school. This was opened in September, 1866. The new building was completed ready for occupancy in January, 1867. The enrollment the first term numbered 58 students. In the fall of 1867 the school was offered to the M E. conference, but the offer was rejected. The school was therefore offered to the state of Nebraska, and the legislature of 1867 established on the 60-acre campus Nebraska's first state normal school. Dr. J. M. McKenzie was elected its first president.

     The doors and floors of the new building were made of green cottonwood lumber, as were also the door latches and catches. The campus of sixty acres is still covered with the native forest of oak, hickory, elm, linden and birch trees, and is a place of great natural beauty.

      The present faculty includes forty-five full time instructors--seventeen men and twenty-eight women.

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Year	Graduates	Enrollment	Year	Graduates	Enrollment
1867	0	65	1894	35	545
1868	0	67	1895	39	556
1869	0	64	1896	41	548
1870	2	81	1897	53	434
1871	3	80	1898	31	458
1872	2	102	1899	39	657
1873	0	271	19001	29	665
1874	1	357	1901	50	657
1875	4	127	1902	54	641
1876	8	192	1903	54	714
1877	0	265	1904	45	812
1878	7	273	1905	57	982
1879	17	270	1906	90	1,215
1880	7	276	1907	149	1,280
1881	6	274	1908	141	1,370
1882	10	318	1909	164	1,453
1883	14	339	1910	135	1,2122
1884	8	338	1911	173	1,264
1885	11	295	1912	147	1,315
1886	9	476	1913	173	1,365
1887	17	438	1914	182	1298
1888.	11	491	1915	203	1,310
1889	8	572	1916	200	1,363
1890	16	555	1917	184	1,287
1891	12	456	1918	152	1,684
1892	9	435	1919	110	966
1893	26	491	1920	127	1,006

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     ¹Includes 500 study center students.
     ²During the period 1900 to 1910 the enrollment includes the pupils of the training school.
KEARNEY.

President--George E. Martin.

     The conviction that a normal school was needed in the western part of the state having become widespread, the legislature of 1903 provided for such a school. Kearney was selected by the state board of education as the location of this school. In June of 1905 the. school opened for a summer term with 120 students. By the end of the first year 863 students had matriculated. There have been 1,290 graduates. The enrollment for 1917-18 was 1,338. The faculty consisting of forty-two persons, twenty-five men and twenty women.

Years	Graduates	Enrollment	Years	Graduates	Enrollment
1905-06	18	863	1913-14	141	1,217
1906-07	65	1,181	1914-15	115	1,256
1907-08	64	910	1915-16	124	1,333
1908-09	68	940	1916-17	118	3,413
1909-10	57	921	1917-18	102	1,338
1910-11	57	868	1918-19	84	1,243
1911-12	86	1,138	1919-20	78	1,388
1912-13	112	1,285

 

CHADRON.

President--R. I. Elliott.

     The legislature of 1909 provided for the location of a normal school in the northwestern part of the state. The state board of education selected Chadron as this location and accepted a gift of 85 acres of land on which the brick build-

 

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ing of Chadron academy stood. School was opened for the summer term in June, 1911. Two hundred and one students have graduated. The enrollment for 1917-18 was 650. There are thirty-one persons in the faculty.

Years	Graduates		Enrollment
1911		{	109 (Summer school)
1911-12			249
1912-13	54		425
1913-14			443
1914-15	23		300
1915-16	22		350
1916-17	23		475
1917-18	25		650
1918-19	27		599
1919-20	27		640

 

WAYNE.

President--U. S. Conn.

     The legislature of 1909 provided for the purchase of the Nebraska Normal College at Wayne. This was a well established private normal, which went into operation as a state normal on September 19, 1910, with an attendance of nearly 200. The enrollment for 1918-19 was 1,042. There are thirty-two members of the faculty.

Years	Graduates		Enrollment
1019-11 (sic)	3		538
1911-12	25	{ Advanced course	650
1912-13	28		675
1913-14	45		714
1914-15	50		750
1915-16	62		790
1916-17	75		925
1917-18	76		937
1918-19	69		1,042

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