Texas School for the Deaf. FELIX B. SHUFORD, M. D., SUPERINTENDENT. The Texas School for the Deaf was established in 1857, for the education and training of children too deaf to receive instruction in the regular public schools. It is essentially an educational institution, and not an "asylum" for all classes of the deaf, as none are received into this school who have not capacity for a high degree of moral, mental and physical culture. The Institution is situated on a beautiful height on the south bank of the Colorado river, on South Congress Avenue, about a mile south. of the main business center of the city of Austin. It has large, picturesque, well-shaded campuses in grand panoramic view of the heights along the river above the city. The land belonging to the school embraces sixty-three and one-half acres, about seventeen acres of same being tillable. The enrollment of pupils for the year ending August 31, 1920, was: Boys Total 223 250 473 MRS. LOUISE RICHARDSON. MRS. MARY L. THORNBERY MISS LU EMMA RAYMOND. MRS. NANNIE HUDDLE, Art. JAS. W. HORNSBY, Blacksmithing. Girls' Gymnastics. MISS M. F. HOLT, Primary Handicraft. WALTER COVEY, Foreman of Laundry. ALBERT PETERSON, Painting. MRS. W. A. MAYNE, Sewing. MRS. SALLIE PERRY, Advanced Sewing. MISS SALLIE CROCKETT, Elementary Sewing. W. J. WOOD, Shoemaking. ENGINEER'S DEPARTMENT. P. P. COTTNER, Engineer. CLIFFORD JONES, Assistant. O. A. Ross, Second Asst. OFFICERS PRIMARY ORAL SCHOOL. MISS EMMA PIRTLE, Matron and Housekeeper. MRS. SALLIE KEEVIL, Supervisor. MRS. ETHEL PARKER, Supervisor. DORMITORY MISS ANNA WHIPPLE, Supervisor Large Girls. MRS. EMILY FARROW, Supervisor Small Girls. MRS. R. BERRY, Supervisor Small Boys. MISS EVANS, Supervisor. NOLA JOHNSON, Supervisor. MISS EMMA KRAMER, Nurse. OFFICERS. PAUL JOHNSON, Supervisor Large Boys. Supervisor Small Girls. B. A. DAVIS, Supervisor and Janitor. T. A. HOLLAND, Instructor in Military Tactics. Texas School for the Deaf. REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT. Hon. W. P. Hobby, Governor, Austin, Texas. DEAR SIR: I have the honor of submitting my report of the Texas School for the Deaf for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1920, same being the Sixty-fourth Annual Report of this Institution. The report of Professor T. V. Archer, Principal of the Educational Department, which covers the school attendance and recommendations which I endorse, is included and made a part of this report. The health of the pupils and general sanitary conditions are fully set forth in the reports of the various physicians connected with the Institution, which are a part hereof. In common with the regular schools of the country, we have experienced considerable difficulty in procuring teachers, due to the fact that the general demand for teachers is exceeding the supply. We are endeavoring to have our teaching force the equal of any of the best schools of this character in the United States, by demanding as the minimum qualifications of those who seek to teach in this Institution the following requirements: First. A high school education. Second. One year's training in a deaf school, supplemented by six or eight weeks of normal training in Central College, St. Louis, Missouri, or Clark School, Northampton, Massachusetts. The department of Adult Lip-Reading was added to the curriculum last year. The primary object in establishing this department was to teach soldiers who became deaf from casualties in the World War and those who lost their hearing in civil life, after reaching adult age. We have found that classes formed from the upper school grades, who have had sufficient training in English, are greatly helped by the instruction given in this course. It supplements the instruction of the teachers in the grades and makes for greater thoroughness. The daily per capita maintenance cost of only forty-five cents, in view of the prevailing high cost of the necessaries of life throughout the year, evidences the careful buying for the Institution and the economy used in consumption. Attention is directed to the statement of the storekeeper and accountant, which is made a part of this report. I think I should make acknowledgment of your interest and valuable co-operation with all authorities in control of this Institution, and say, also, that the State Board of Control has been in close touch with the Institution's needs at all times, and has given valuable advice and assistance in its management. Respectfully submitted, FELIX B. SHUFORD, M. D., REPORT OF EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT. Felix B. Shuford, M. D., Superintendent. DEAR SIR: I hand you herewith a brief report of the educational department of this school for the scholastic year 1919-20. CHANGES. Before the opening of school in September, 1919, the following changes took place: Mrs. Bickler resigned the headship of the primary school to devote her time to her family. Miss Shillady relinquished the position of teacher of musical rhythm to accept a like position in the Rhode Island School. Mrs. Davis resigned on account of ill health. Mrs. McGeehan and Miss Nagel resigned to teach in the Iowa school. Mr. Tucker resigned to go to the Washington school, and Mr. Billingsley was transferred from the literary department to the position of military instructor. In the industrial department Miss Maurine Taylor retired from the position of domestic science teacher, and Miss Mary Woolslayer from that of girls' physical culture teacher. To fill these vacancies the following were appointed: Miss Sudie Hancock, for a number of years a valued and efficient teacher in the school, was made supervising teacher of the primary building. Miss Lillian Capron, another of our efficient teachers, took up the musical rhythm work after having spent the summer in New York in preparation for it. Mr. Fred C. Numbers, Jr., returned after two years' service with the American expeditionary force in France, and Miss Bertha Eifler returned after a year in the Houston day school. Miss Annie E. Dunn of the South Carolina school, Miss Margaret McCall of the Louisiana sehool, Miss Dathene Shaw and Miss Noma Hornsby of last year's training class, Miss Mary Clancy, a graduate of this school, and Miss Lu Emma Raymond and Miss Irma Johnson, former teachers in the school, were appointed in the literary department. As domestic science teacher, Miss Hetty Bell Terry, a graduate of the College of Industrial Arts at Denton, Texas, and with post graduate work at Columbia University to her credit, was appointed. Miss Grace Hornady, another of Denton's graduates, became physical culture director of girls, and Mr. W. W. Turner, a graduate of Washington and Jefferson College, took a like position with the boys. |