Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-06-15
Removal of the staunton School Board.

Removal Of the Stanton School Board.
On Friday morning last the intelligence
reached here that the State Board of Edu-
cation at Richmond, on the day before,
had determined on the removal of the
present School Board of Staunton.
The members of the Board and the dates
at which their terms will have expired
are as follows: Isaac Witt and Jno. III.
Carroll, Dec. l, 1888 Jos. B. Woodward
and VIM. Wholey. Dec l, 1884; Jno. w
Todd and VIM. j. Nelson. Dec. l, 1885.
The names of the members to be appointed
to their places are DR.. Robt. s. Hamilton.
J. w. Waddy. DIR. T. W. Shelton, Judge j..
Fl. McCue, Jacob Vest, and Col. Thos. A..
Gordon. Ofthe members removed, W.
j. Nelson has served continuously.
we believe, since the Board was
organized by the State Board of Edu-
cation, Oct. 23l, 1870; Isaac WITT and
John W. Todd, since July 10Th, 1878; Jno.
W. Carroll, since Sept. 81, 1873; VIM.
Wholey, since March 18th, 1880. and Jos.
B. Wood ward, since Dec. 1st, 1881. 1t will
be seen that nearly every member Of the
old Board has had long experience in his
position.
Some of the old Board have properly
qualified in the proper time (sixty days.
after their appointment. They will. how
ever, be removed with the others under a
construction put on the following section
~ of the school law:
''School trustees already in office in cit
les, by appointment of the Board of Edu-
cation. and members of any city Board of
Education. created by the municipal au-
thorities thereof. shall constitute the City
School Bard SO far as the number and
locality of these officers respectively meet
the Conditions prescribed in this act. and
any deficiencies which may exist in the
beginning, and all vacancies which may
afterwards occur in the school board, may
be supplied at any time within sixty days
after their occurrence. by appointment
made by the city council, provided, how
ever that as soon as may be after the pas
sage of this act the city council of such
cities shall designate which of the trustees
chen in office shall go out of Office at the
end of one year, which at the end of two,
and which at the end of three years.
Should the city council in any case fail to
the duty of the Board of Education to fill
the vacancy or vacancies without further
delay"
1t is the last clause Of this section under
which the State Board has been enabled to
sezs upon the control of the school boards,
If AttorLe y Blair's construction is further
sustained by the Court of Appeals. The
Attorney General CONSTITUTES the law to
mean, in brief, that the Board of Educa-
tlon Can appoint trustees now to succeed
those appointed by the Board of Educa-
tion some time ago. after the manner that
school superintendents have been ap-
pointed.
The first School Board for Staunton was
appointed by the Board of Education in
1870. and was II. M. Bell for year, P. B.
Hoge for 2 years, and Wm. J. Nelson for
years. In 1872. the council appointed a
full Board Of School Trustees, three from
each ward) retaining the th rec already in,
and adding M. P. Funkhouser, j. B.
Scherer, ST., and j. H. Blackley. There is
norecord that this Board properly qualified
themselves after election by taking the
prescribed oath. This, it is held, makes
illegal ali subsequent elections, (for their
is no pretense that W. J. Nelson and Jno.
W. Todd who were elected last December
did not take the oath within the sixty
days,) and enables the State Coalition
Board to use the local school boards at
their will in the matter of appointing
trustees or ''filling vacancies" as they
claim it to be.
THE APPOINTING Ts MADE.
1t appears from the following paragraph
from the Richmond Whiq of yesterday,
that the ''Old Bourbon Board" is already
supplanted:
The Board of Education met yesterday
and elected the following school trustees
for Stanton /: DR.. Robert S. Hamilton,
DR.. T. W. Shelton, Jacob Yost, J. w.
Waddy, Colonel Thomas Gordon, Judge
J. H. McCue. This board will succeed the
old Bourbon board, and will enter upon
their duties ON the LIST Of July"
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