, 1884-09-23
. BREEZY GATHERING.
The Board of Education Have a
S0clable Meeting,
In Which Charges of Broken Pledges
Are Openly Made.
Mr.. Stark is Formally Elected High
School Principal.

Slaughter, Snow, Hicks, Voorhees,. Dur
bin and Holt. were in attendance.
The principal object Of the meeting. OF
course was for the election Off Principal
for the High School, although there was a
very considerable amount of routine busi-
ness transacted.
The subject of the principalship, which
has already aroused much discussion, was
approached gingerly, and it was not until
everything Of a routine natur had been
pretty well disposed Of that the matter
was finally laid before the Board.
The matter was introduced by Colonel
Snow, who read what purported to be a
record of the proceedings Of a committee
meeting, at which Messrs. Holt and
Snow appointed Mr.. n. i. Stark tempo
rary Principal of the High School, and
assigned the various other teachers.
Mr.. Durbin thought the Board should
elect a Principal and therefore moved that
the committees action be approved.
This motion was seconded By Colonel
Snow.
Mr.. Hicks, in justice to himself. made
an explanation. AT the meeting of tine
committee of which he is n member. the
chairman said the object WAS to open the
schools. They proposed TO appoint Mr..
Stark Principal until he OIL his successor
could be appointed and to apportion the
teachers. He had then been in favor of
appointing Mr.. Stark until the LIST of
January, but did not think the commit
tee had that power. The other members
OF the committee seeued disposed to do
it that night, and he said he would OPP
pose it then and thereafter. He favored
the appointment of teachers, but wanted
Colonel Shows report to read, that Mr..
Stark was elected until he or his success
sor was appointed.
Mr.. Holt said he had so understood the
matter, and the change in Colonel Snow
record was accordingly made.
On Mr.. Hicks motion it wa decided to
take up the committees action in sections
for adoption.
Mr. Durbin then moved that the action
of the committee in selecting Mr.. Stark
as Principal, until he or his successor was
appointed, be approved.
This was carried, Messrs. Hicks and
Voorhees, voting in the negative, and
Messrs. Snow. Durbin and Holt IN the
affirmative.
Mr.. Hicks moved that the assignment
of teachers be approved, and this was
done.
Mr.. Holt moved to proceed to the cleo
ton Of a Principal for the ensuing year.
This was seconded BY Colonel Snow.
Mr.. Voorhees, inquired what was meant
by the ensuing year and was told that it
was the year which closed in July
He her moved to amend by e%lecting
Mr.. Stark to serve until Janury /.
This Was seconded by Mr.. Hicks and
the question being put he stated that At
the regular meeting, just after the
close of the schools, when an
attempt was made to select teachers, the
election OF Principal was then deferred.
1t wa then agreed that each one would
try to secure other applications. The
gentleman to whom Mr.. Durbin wrote
could not come. Mr.. Hicks co~rresponded
with Mr.. Parrish, Principal of the West
High School in Des Moines, la. Mr.. Par
rish came on here. and before he left four
members of the Board pledged themselves
TO elect him Principal of the High School
after January /. Mr.. Stark being in the
meantime elected Principal until the Holt
day vacation. Whatever any other mem
Der felt as to the moral obligation ufkeep-
ing this pledge he was disposed to do SO
then as now.
Mr.. Voorhees, reiterated the statement
that at an informal meeting, in the pres
ence of Mr.. Parrish, four members Of the
Board pledged themselves to . elect
him Principal after January /. Mr..
Parrish had made arrangements
for disposing of his family
on their arrival here, and left the city on
a full understanding that he was to secure
the position after the first Of the year.
Suppose Mr.. Parrish can't Gomez
suggested Mr.. Holt.
"Thi It has nothing to do with it." re-
piled Mr.. Voorhees, The fact remains
that fur members of the Board pledged
themselves to elect him, an some of them
have failed to do 20. | believed then. as
| do now, that We can get a better man
than Mr.. Stark. and one more up with
the times"
Mr.. Hicks said he had received a letter
from Mr.. Parish, in which that gentleman
said he did not think ii advisable for him
to come here as the Principilship had
resulted in an open fight, which the news
papers had taken up. Still, if elected,
Mr.. Hicks thought, he could be induced
to come here.
Mr.. Durbin said that he proposed to
stand by what he had agreed TO, It was
necessary to elect a Principal, as they
needed one badly.
Mr.. Hicks moved an amendment to
elect a Principal who was to hold the po-
sition until the holiday vacation.
Messrs. Hicks and Voorhees, voted yes,
and Messrs. Holt and Snow no. The
chairman declared the amendment lost.
The original motion to elect a Principal
for the school year then REQUIRED. Messrs.
Durbin, Holt and Snow voted in the af-
frmatiye and Messrs. Hicks and Voorhees,