The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-10-23
pERFECTING THE SCHOOLS =!
Special Meeting of the School Board
Held Last Night.
MORE NIGHT SCHOOL TEACHERS
The Total Enrolment Reaches Nearly Five
Hundred and Fifty and the Schools
Have Become overcrowded-Addi
tional Teachers Selected.

A special meeting of the School Board was
held last night to act ON matters bearing upon
the evening schools and was attended by
Messrs Ogden Trezse, Hooks, Edwards,
Manley, Hanna, Conry, James, Connors,
Baugh, Price, Morgan and Dewitt.
Mr.. Conry, the chairman of the committee
on evening schools, stated that the committee,
upon finding that the schools had become
over crowded, decided to have the Board
meet to take action towards relieving the
condition by electing an additional teacher
for the girls school, one for Union street and
one for the Lloyd street building.
Superintendent Whitaker read report
showing the attendance and enrolment at
the evening Schools up to and including the
21st inst, as follows: Present on the first
night 375; second, 367; third, 400; fourth,
456; fifth, 394 SIXTH 374. Average atten-
dance of boys 1852; girls, A; total average,
1896. Total enrolment of boys, Az; girls,
6s; grand total, 545. The above shows the
largest attendance ever recorded at the even
ing schools in this borough and indicates
disposition on the part of the people to take
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schools. Although the attendance has been
very large it has not been as regular as the
Superintendent and School Board would like
to have it. The attendance at the girls
school has been very gratifying. To i'm
prove the schools the Superintendent recon-
mended the employment of an additional
teacher for the girls school, that steps be
| t,lya T., raf ian, nf in,
order to secure more regular attendance, and
that additional teachers be employed for the
boys schools, provided that they be dropped
again as soon as the attendance decreases
After the adoption of the reports there was
some discussion as to the average attendance
at each school, some Of the Directors express
ing the opinion that if pupils were trans
ferred from one school to another the average
would not be high enough to require addi-
tional teachers. Superintendent Whitaker
stated that there were many reasons why a
teacher of an evening school cannot success
| fully handle as many pupils as day school
teacher can, among them the fact that the
schools embrace pupils Of several grades and
the teachers employed have not had the ad-
! vantage VI tAptlltutt JlldI udJ SCuOOl
teachers have had,
1t was finally decided to proceed to elect
three additional teachers and they were
selected from the following list ON the roll OF
substitute teachers: Misses Martha Shields
Fannie D. Gruhler, Sallie Roche, Hattie w
Jones, Katie Brogan, John McGowan, Katie
c. Dougherty Mary d. Griffitbs, Lizzie
North, Mary f. Mulhean, Annie Flaherty
Katie Connolly, Libbie Cavanaugh, Tessi(
Harnett and Katie Burns.
1t required three ballots to effect the elec
ton. On the first ballot Miss Jones wa.
elected; on the second Miss Roche, and OF
the third Miss Gruhler. The Superinten
dent will assign the teachers to their re
spective positions and they will begin work
tonight.
The Board then discussed the poor gas ligh
that is furnished in some of the evening
schools and in the Directors room. Thr
committee on building and repairs was in
structed to give the matter attention,