By Their Deeds Shall Ye Know Them

MR. CHIS. I’IEPER

Born: Raakow, Gerinany, 1885.

A special meeting of the ratepayers oi the village of Gretna was held in the echool house on Monday evening, April 25, 1910, at the hour of 730 pan.

The meeting was called for the: porn pose of discussing the advisability of buildw ing a new :firchool. .

Dr. MoKenty was called to the chair.

Present: The school board in full and, several ratepayers.

A letter from Mr. Eade giving in de— tail the present condition of our school and giving an estimated {3051; oil the building of

Died: Gretna, Manitoba, 1935.

frame or brick house, also plans, were placed before the people present.

After several remarks from the true- tces and ratepayers it was moved by C. Pieper and seconded by C. Walm that the school board build a solid brick school and proceed at once to build and have necesq s‘ary‘ steps taken to have lay—law voted on for the raising of $12,000 by debentures.

Moved tor J. F. Tenant and seconded -

by Godfrey Cohlentz that we adjourn. (Signed) H. L. Sturk, Sam-Treas.

Shades of '92

The undersigned begs permission (:0 respectfully submit the Annual Report as Inspector of Schools.

The Inspectoral Division assigned to me comprises the District Schools within the Mennonite settlements of this Province. I took charge of my office September 151:, 1891. There having been no immediate pre~ decessor in this office; I found no statistics, reports, or any papers of information re— garding the condition of sschools in the Mennonite settlements, except what was furnished me by the Department of Eduoa~ tion. To get a proper insight into the com ditiOn of education in my Dietrich I made. an extended trip through the Mennonite settlements, endeavoring to come into per.- sonal contact with teachers and officers ol Distrist Schools. I found that there had been eight District Schools in operation during the previous yean-four in the settlements» east and four in the settle- ments West of the Red River —— and that these schools had given good satisfaction to the people, and were considered by most of them an improvement on the private schools still maintained by the vast ma} ority of Mennonites. All teachers express.

Shades

The following is respectfully present- ed as my report for 1899:—-—

There are now thirty—four schools with forty-one teachers in my district, two new schools having been organizel and their sehools opened during the past year. In twenty-three districts the population is all German; in the rest there is a larger or smaller sprinkling of English residents. I am pleaoai to chemo that in the districts of mixed population there Seems to be no friction on'aecount of national prejudices. The English appreciate the opportunity their children have for acquiring some

ed themselves much pleased with the proa- pect of having Normal Sessions provided for them, some only regretting that they were not able at the present to spare time and money for attending the same, as they were obliged to supplement their income from their professionul work by outside earnings in order to support their families.

Besides inspecting schools I am com-r missioned by the Department of Education to make arrangements for the training at teacheml To carry out this provision, I asm sinned charge of the Gretna Normal school, an institution built and supported by an Association of Mennonites. I opened a five weeks’ Normal Session on 2151: of Septem- ber. which was: attended by twelve stud- ents, three of whom received permits from the Department of Education to teach in Mennonite Schools. After one week’s vaca— tion, another Session was opened for lease 2d anced students. The enrollment at pne- sent haw reached twentyr—four with pros— pects of an increase after New Years. It is pmpozsed that another Session of three months he opened about the fifteenth of April for the benefit of those now engaged

in teaching. —-H. H, EWERT.

of '99

knowledge of the German language and {lie Germans sea- the importance of letting their children learn English. One reason why the work is these districts goes on so harmoniously, no doubt, lies in. the fact that it i: made a special point to employ only thoroughly competent teachers in these schools.

The teaching force has again susmaiu- ed some loss through the retirement of some of the best teachers from the profes- sion. This is' very deplorable, as it tends to neutralize the gain made otherwise in the advancement and elevation of the whole

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