New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-03
rrrrRlNs or mr. rUBLIc SCHOOLS.
v6N AND woMFN WHO HAVE SERVED THE CITY
own TnIETY YEARs.

MIN AND woNFN WHO HAVE sERVrD THE CITY
ovrR THETY YEARS
How many principals are there in the pub
lie echo ls over sixty years Of age ~ asked TRIBUNE ~
porter recently Of Guy superintendent Jasper Inc
question was "a tgcted by the r'oorI that Principal Jon"
l. Doanc of Grammar School No 10. who Ia just r.
,rpe after Ionf s,r,ico seventyiwo years DID, al
, ii, soep,. ,o i. only sixty two and had been from
thirty u forty years IN tho service Of the public school
sys.em.
" There are a number ~ principals who have serve"
ION AMI faithfully but doabt Il they would DO wine
fo have their ago announced. % many Of them ar
women =" rcrlcd NY Jasper "Yo1 might, rs you suc
.t tnate them y the length ~ service. but 1t would
, arg ~ guess work there for while under the presen
system a applicant mi. be twenty years or over to be
,pp,in "a "A teacher, under tha od Public
school Society system this was not th'
case sone Of the teachers really entered the service
,,,r vanctd scholar. who did rsrtan duties, SUCH
making hrrs aud sweeping the bui ding besides ie1'ini
bat woro not ~ -niat t%chr.e .e".' tue pay '""H'u
Turning to the records Of the oari OF Education The
ir rrcp tbo pubic schnol Fcryicc a. teachers
Thomas T.. Dixie, assistant prln-ph ln tr mae w az
t.|b mar mind ave. has hecnIn the employ Of th'
school service since May. ls-6 hiss i%y oh'rf'
began in May. ls5ii M, C2TohHe "R 1ls4f.
ia me-. D. Dsmt male department School No. May l.
1877; y T.. Be'ra male depart nout nopl No TO- May,
= VI ~
Ma Z ISl1 Iouah ~ tbrisslr male department rchnD
No 10 iaS T. 1872. Miss Amelia klersted, ieinaio DC
p,rinent school No H. Nay 1879 Jacob =. warner,
ma department school NJ. 7, 1872; H. D.
4. sutherland male department school No. ., ISl3'
Iohr d. Robinson. male de partmeni school NO D. June
1874 .-... -,
William II wood. the principal - male deparmont OF
school No 40 who diei few days ago al TIE age oi
st,v Two entered The pIhic school rotire IA lSlD Ia
mat wear also were Jlmos j. MrCoy, yiccpunclpliO
srnD6 80. H.. in November, ald 4. Dwl-ht MMun,
prnrpll ~ male department Of school No ~, III
bcceu .T Robert H. ri rgIew, principal o. maze de-
par,incnt OF school No 70. was appointed IN 1870 ~
was Mis-. II. a. bowling principal oil tbc primary depart
tt,ut OF ~ctnol No T. aud i. Elias MhitoAod, OF the
ina q department OF school No s.
Mss Mary A NrCosker. principal ~ female
Department of School No. - was ap-
po|ntcI In ISIS. john Boyle, prncipai %
of thr ma department Of SCHOOL n, ~ was appointed
n Istp ana Aiss susan WI2hi, primary department OF
school No. 30, ga l-1i.
Tbee nrc the veterans Of the public school rysiem of
Nss.York who survive the trials Hud tribuaipns OF
guiding Young New i0rk In pruIcr paths Superntc lde'
,-p.r N AZ pupil of thesch Dol 800 tst FORTY -rNrntS
nf winch James M1nt.h. VINO has made fortune nom
bs text hooks. then principal aud the reporter IL
usDd 10 mote that tIc hIghteyci htle woman IN the
slne sclooi who occasionally c1dci MN ana whose
autograph IN a Christmas book he st retains, has not
cCasca in he good work