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 the Academy without an Assistant. Bro. Brown,
a Graduate of the University of Deseret, is a worthy man
and able teacher; he passed his examination for the
Intermediate Grade before me during my stay at St.
Johns. Pres. Udall promised me in behalf of the
Board to give Bro. Udall ^JW. Brown^ a lady as Assistant after
the holidays. We could get no boardmeeting of the
members, and Pres. Udall will endeavor to reorganize
the Stake Board at their next Quarterly Conference, so
that the work may be attended to in future more
satisfactorily than in the past. In this connection,
I desire to report, that I am advising every Board
to appoint a "Visiting Committee" of Two from out of
their number, whose duty it shall be to visit their
churchschool at least once every ten weeks for one
whole day, and make a written report of their visit
to their respective Board, and that the full Board
should meet at least once a Term; members that
"Letter from Karl Gottfried Maeser, 17 December 1891," p. 4, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed June 17, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/97pD