9. Teachers are well paid, in no case less than $500.00 for 9 months, and are required to take special training in some large University, New York or Chicago usually, in the particular line to which they are assigned here.  They are selected, too, with reference to their native refinements, culture and manners, as well as to their educational attainments, for the personality of the teacher means as much to the child--more we are inclined to think--than her educational attainments and skills.  No local or state "pulls" (if we may use this valuar term) are tolerated in the selection of teachers.  We ignore every consideration and influence save alone the fitness of the teacher to d what we want done, and we go to every part of the country to find them..
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10.  The supervisior is selected for her special fitness and training to handle teachers and pupils.  She is paid $1,200.00 per year for giving her entire time to the supervision of the Model School.  One such supervisor was Mrs. Harriet Lyon, who was selected because of her exceptionally fine work in, and training for, this position. Mrs. Lyon, exhibited at the St. Louis Exposition, and her work was the only work critically examined and copied by the Japanese--a "rare compliment to her skill in the works of the grades".  She was an institute instructor of ability and had been called to Pennsylvania for several successive summers to lecture on the work she has been trained to do. She is a lady of maturity--had two children of her own--and is enthusiastically and thoroughly conserated to her work.

 

11.  At the head of the Department of Education, the occupant of which position is also Superintendent of the Model School, has been elected to succeed Miss Cummings, Dr. I. Estelle Appleton, and graduate of the Vermont State Normal School, who afterward graduated from the celebrated Oswego, N.Y. State Normal, then took her A.B. degree at Oberlin College, later a second A.B. and mer A. M. degree at Chicago University, and finally her Ph. D. degree at Clark University.  Miss Appleton is a mature woman, past 40 years of age, has had unusually fine training and experience both as student and as teacher, and comes to her work as the offical head of our Model School fully epecting to make it her life work, now that she has taken her highest collegiate honors.

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The following was the outline of the organization of the school:

 

Dr. L. Estelle Appleton, A.B., A.M.,Ph.D., Superintendent (salary $1,500.00)

Mrs. Harriet Lyon, B.E., M. Ed., Supervisor (salary $1,200.00)

Miss Emma Parker, of North Carolina, Principal of the Second Preparator: grades 6,7,and 8 (salary $800.00)

Miss Ethel Wall, A. B., of Virginia, assistant (salary $800.00)

Miss Addie Moore, Principal teacher of grades 4 and 5 (salary $500.00)

Miss  Ullman, Principal teacher (salary $500.00)

Miss Lillian Isbell, grade one (salary $500.00)

Miss Harriet Ferguson, teacher of Kindergarten (salary $500.00)