Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11
FISHER Is THE MAN
Elected President OF the Board
of Education
IN A VERY CLOSE CONTEST
Secretary Stein Was Re Elected Without
OppoSition-A Motion for Commit
tee on Manual Training.

All the members OF the board or
education with the exception OF
Trustee CrOssman were present last
night for the FIRST meeting OF the new
board. The increase IN number OF
trustees had made i necessary 10 re-
arrange the seats. Trustees BisndfOrd,
Brinkman, Chllyer. Fuller. Palm and
RASson tried TO look natural and as
they sank INTO the upholstered chairs.
Several women were present and all
wore buttOnaires which were presented
by Secretary Stein and distributed by
ms daughters Jessie and Beatrice.
Trustee Blair called the board to or
der and called Trustee Houseman 70
the cnair. Trustee Stein was made
temporary secretary. Trustees Clark
and Felker were appointed teilers, and
ballot was immediately taken for
president, no speeches or nominations
having been made. The ballot result
ed as follows: 23 votes cast; blank,
Houseman /, Hustled /. Bradtield l,
Re ker 3. Blair and Fisher ..
Felker withdrew and Mr.. Hustled
earnestly protested that he did not
AacS bilAl fObC RNetA Tx iAto AA1iAAO-
A second ballot resulted as follows:
Blair 10, Fisher 3, Hustled 2, Bradheld
/ blank l.
MIR Blslr's Motion.
This brought Mr.. Blair to his feet.
He had, by the earnest request of his
friends, consented TO run, but he
thought he saw that he was not the
choice of the board. He made mo-
ton that roll-cali be taken and each
member respond with the name of his
candidate The motion WAS lost. The
third ballot resulted: Blair, 10; Fisher,
IL; Felker, /; Bradtield, l. Still no
choice. and another ballot was taken.
The result was: Blair, 10; Fisher, y;
Felker, l.
Twelve votes were necessary for an
election, and Mr.. Fisher was called TO
the chair.
He said" have q sense of the arduous
labor that the duties entalled upon me
call for. | also know the difficulties
that are in the way of succeeding SO
excellent president. There may be
older and wiser friends of the schools,
but none moro ardent IN the admlra-
ton of our public schools or Jealous
in their endeavor to serve them. Gen
tleinen, lnanK you.
Only one ballot was necessary to de-
eide the election of secretary. Mr..
Stein received % votes, blank l.
Mr.. Fisher then called Mr.. Blair to
the chair and presented plan for the
appointment of committees. He de-
sired to have each member on two
committees. He desired to have q
committee of five members for the
manual training school and kinder.
garten.
Approved of the Idea.
The idea of q new committee met
with the appreciation of Trustee Wag-
ner, who spoke in favor of it. Trustee
Locher moved that the rules be sus-
| pended to give Trustee Hustled a chance
| to make motion that the bylaws be
amended 80 as TO read eleven commit
| tees instead of ten. Trustees Felker
and Stein thought it well to defer the
| question, as 1t would III no way dis
| comode the president, as such training
| school would not be ready until Janu-
| airy /. The motion was carried by a
unanimous vote.
Trustees Stevens, Locher and Blair
were appointed committee TO revise
| the rules.
ucbCC Vial n OidAAAAl1 vi tilC NOhi-
mittee on text hooks, asked for q sus-
| pension of the rules that he might
make a report. The report was as fol-
| lows:
Your committee on text books re-
commend that Montgomery Ameri-
can history, published by CHM q Co.,
be added to the list of text books no "
| in use in our public schools.
Trustee Houseman objected to the
adoption of the report, as he did not
| know anything about the book, never
saw 1t and never heard about 1t.
superintendent Chalmers and Trus-
tee Stevens favored the adoption OF the
| book.
| President Fisher then instructed Sec
rotary Stein TO read rule l3, which
states that no text book can be adopted
unless sample copy of the book be
| placed in the hands of the members of
| the board, and change could not be
made without 1t having been proposed
at least one week in advance.
On motion of Trustee Bradfield the
report was LAID on the table and the
board adjourned.
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Il BEAnX EOD CrHnnI