[sideways text] Karl G. Maeser 17 Dec 1891 [end sideways text] WILFORD WOODRUFF, PRESIDENT, KARL G. MAESER, D. L. D. GEN. SUPERINTENDENT, GEO. REYNOLDS, SECRETARY. Office of the GENERAL BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS. Provo, December 17th 1891 President Wilford Woodruff. Dear Brother, In conformity with the program of travel submitted to you in my letter of the 11th ult., I left Provo, Wednesday, November 18 with the D. & RG. Ry ...

and 3 consultations with Faculties, atten conducted 1 ex- amination of a churchschoolteacher for the Intermediate Grade, and conducted several class exercises by special request of the teachers, to illustrate some methods in teaching. In every place in Arizona that I have visited I have found former students of the B. Y. Academy, who as a rule were pronounced by their presiding Priesthood active workers in the cause of the Latterday Work. Snowflake. Bro. Levi Savage, who ...

OFFICE OF THE GENERAL BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS. WILFORD WOODRUFF, PRESIDENT, KARL G. MAESER, D. L. D., GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT, GEO. REYNOLDS, SECRETARY. Readergrades, divided into two departments. A large increase is expected after the holidays. Bro. Webb promised me to recon- sider his intention of quitting teaching, if the prospects should brighten up a little more financially. This Academy has not yet received its appropriation fot this year, as the Board had failed to report to Secretary

will all the appliances of improved education, alongside of which facilities our poor churchschools make but a sorry show. St. Johns. Arrived here on Thanksgiving Day, and addressed a special meeting of the Students that same evening. The Academy is located in the Tithing office, occupying three rooms, two of which are fitted up already with new desks, etc. etc. and the third room will be furnished during the holidays. Bro. John W. Brown is the Principal, having conducted thus far ...

OFFICE OF THE GENERAL BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS. WILFORD WOODRUFF, PRESIDENT, KARL G. MAESER, D., L., D., GEN. SUPERINTENDENT. GEO. REYNOLDS, SECRETARY. should visit three meetings in a year should be honor- ably excused and their places be filled by men that can attend to the work. The increasing interest in our educational system manifested by the people of St. Johns by their attendance at each of the succeeding meetings en- courages me to predict a ...

St. Joseph. Arrived at Thatcher Thursday, Dec. 3 where I was kindly re- ceived at the family of Pres. Layton. Visited the Academy during the following day. Bro. Geo. Cluff, former Normal Student of the B. Y. Academy, Principal, with Bro. Charles Borduo, as Assistant. The Academy has been late in star- ting this season, on account of not getting a Principal until the arrival of Bro. Geo. Cluff. Bro. Cluff had only come to pay a ...

OFFICE OF THE GENERAL BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS. WILFORD WOODRUFF, PRESIDENT, KARL G. MAESER, D. L. D., GEN SUPERINTENDENT, GEO. REYNOLDS, SECRETARY. There are about 60 students now in attendance of the V. IV. & III Readgrades, but comparitavely very far behind in their studies for want of opportunities to have an education. The Records of all the churchschools in Arizona have been kept in a rather lose manner thus far, but as I ...

cleared it all up. In the evening two Pima bretheren called on me and presented to me their grievances in regard to the removal of the Academy to Thatcher, claiming that Pima was the place for it. There has been quite a contention on the subject, running even among the Stake Board. I did not like the spirit of these two bretheren at first, but in a three hours' conversation the temperature of their feelings changed entirely, and they became reconciled, if ...

OFFICE OF THE GENERAL BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS. WILFORD WOODRUFF, PRESIDENT, KARL G. MAESER, D. L. D. GEN. SUPERINTENDENT. GEO. REYNOLDS, SECRETARY me an opportunity to form an opinion, and I found the lady well qualified for the position. All the Arizona Churchschool Teachers are either licensed al- ready or will become so before New Year. I had a very interesting meeting with the Local Board in the af- ternoon, which was also attended by the Stake Presidency, and ...

our churchschool-teachers taking part in dramatic per- formances, I have consented that Bro. Geo. Cluff may finish his contract with the Dramatic Association of Thatcher, which he had made before he had entered the Churchschool Services. He has only three more performances to give. I have succeeded to cure Bro. Cluff of his dramatic and elecutionary craze, so that he will settle down now for a more steady course in life. There is a glorious opportunity for him to do a great work there.