Thirty-Ninth
Annual Meeting 579
is
evidenced by the registration list, which has been as follows,
for
the year ending Sept. 1st, 1924, viz.:
September
..... 1147 April .......... 175
October
....... 413 May .......... 1173
November
..... 169 June .......... 1092
December
...... 128 July .......... 1522
January ....... 35 August ........ 2108
February ...... 14
March
......... 177
Total .... 8153
The
Maximum Sunday attendance was ........ 245
The
maximum week day attendance was........ 160
The
average daily attendance was..............
24
The
maximum monthly attendance was......... 2108
The
average monthly attendance was........... 679
It is
proper to call attention to the fact that there are many
visitors
who do not register, so that the total attendance is much
greater
than that shown above.
We
wish here to record our acknowledgment to the Fremont
Federation
of Women's Clubs for their voluntary services in
connection
with our "open house" on every Sunday afternoon
during
the summer season.
Accompanying
this report is the budget for the fiscal years
ending
June 30th, 1926 and 1927 as prepared and recommended
by
your Committee.
Respectfully
submitted,
(Signed)
W. J. SHERMAN,
Chairman.
On
motion the report was approved and ordered
placed
on file.
EARLY
OHIO SCHOOL BOOKS.
The
Chairman of the Committee, Mr. John R. Horst,
read
the report as follows:
Your
committee on "Early Ohio School Books" beg to re-
port
progress made by the committee as follows: --
At
the call of the chairman of the committee, the commit-
tee
met at the office of the chairman, Eight East Broad Street,
in
the city of Columbus, on the eighth day of May, 1924, at the
hour
of two o'clock in the afternoon.
On
motion, Jerry Dennis was chosen secretary of the com-
mittee,
with duties such as usually pertain to that office,
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Thereupon, the scope of the work of the
committee was dis-
cussed informally. The ends to be attained and the
methods to
be pursued to attain these ends, too,
received attention. How-
ever, no definite conclusions were
reached, or plan, or plans,
adopted, it being the opinion of the
members present that time
would aid in the determination of these
matters.
Your chairman appointed Miss Alice
Boardman, of the com-
mittee, to look up and make memoranda of
the material to be
found in the Ohio State Library relating
to descriptions of the
exterior and interior of the school
houses of the pioneers of the
state, including descriptions of the
furnishings, decorations, and
contents of such school houses.
The Honorable D. M. Massie, of the
committee, was ap-
pointed to make a collection of the
works, particularly of the
school text books, of Dr. Thomas C.
Mendenhall, deemed by
your committee to be worthy of
preservation by the Society.
To Mr. Jerry Dennis, of the committee,
was assigned the
work of collecting text books on
arithmetic and grammar that
were in use in the schools of the early
settlements of the state.
He already has an interesting collection
of these books; but
your committee has not passed on them
finally, and they are
therefore not yet in place in the Museum
of the Society.
Judge David Davis, of Cincinnati, Ohio,
has been solicited to
make a collection of the text books
written and published by Dr.
Alfred Holbrook of the National Normal
University of
Lebanon, Ohio. Judge Davis accepted this
task and has been
actively at work. He has forwarded to
your committee a num-
ber of these text books, the copies
being in excellent condition.
Your chairman, not only as chairman of
your committee
but also as chairman of the McGuffey
Memorial Alcove Com-
mittee of the McGuffey Society of
Columbus, Ohio, is persist-
ing in his efforts to collect a complete
set, all copyrights, of the
McGuffey Readers. These McGuffey Readers
are to be pre-
sented by the McGuffey Society, with
appropriate ceremonies, to
this Society. He has, at the date
hereof, about sixty volumes
for this purpose, many of them old and
rare, difficult to find.
The work of your committee has only just
begun. Your
chairman is of the opinion that it will
take long and persistent
efforts to make even a fair collection
of "Early Ohio School
Books". However, the work is
fascinating and there will al-
ways be some one to carry it on.
Respectfully submitted,
(Signed) JOHN R. HORST,
Chairman."
The report was received and ordered
placed on file.