The record-union., 1895-04-25
Hiss LIZZIE BERNARD BXONBRAPRD
By Unanimous Vote of the Board Of
Education.
No Action on the Halliday Session
Propositlon-J. c. Pelton Thanks
the Board.

Inc City bOarQ OF EGuCaLlOn met last
/ evening, Directors Davis, Diilman, Whit
! beck, Sherburn, Crouch, Driver, DoIan
and Buchanan being present.
| Invitations were accepted to attend the
/ exercises to be held at the Union High
School on next Friday afternoon, and
! the exercises ut the Sutter Grammar
School on Memorial Day.
| Director Dillman of the Committee on
! Course of Study, to which was referred
/ the matter OF halliday classes, said the
committee had come to the conclusion
! that the subject was one which should be
| laid before the whole board.
/ 1t is the opinion of the committee. he
said, that there should be no more half
| day classes The Committee on Build
/ ings and Repairs were instructed to CO.
/ operate with the Committee on Course Of
/ Study and submit to the board at the
next meeting report as to the expense
| which would be incurred in making the
/ change.
DENIED THE REQUEST,
| An agent for a combination map asked
| permission to attend the schools at recess
time to get the addresses of the pupils in
| order that he may call upon their parents
to present TO them the usefulness OF the
map.
The request was refused, on the ground
that the time OF the children should not
be taken up with matters of that kind.
Twelve copies Of the Century Book for
1oung Americans were ordered pur-
chased for the eighth grades.
KINDERGARTEN MATTERS.
| Director DiIlmRn said that Miss Mary
/ F. Ledyard, Principal Of the San Jose
! kindergarten Training School, contem-
| plates establishing class in this city,
and she wants the board to allow her
pupils to attend the kindergartens to OBJ
! serve how the teachers perform their
/ duties, and il allowed to do so to assist
/ the latter.
! The request was granted, the matter
/ to be under the supervision OF the Com
mittee on Course Of Study and Superin-
/ tendent Erlewine.
Director Dillman said a kindergarten
should be established on o street. be-
/ tween Ninth and Tenth, as the little chill
dren IN That neighbOrhOod have to travel
q considerable distance in order to attend
| the other hndergartens. The matter
went over until the next meeting of the
board,
DR.. HARNESS PICTURE.
director Dillman was appointed a COM
mlttee OF one to present TO the Hardness
/ Grammar School large sized photo
! graph or DR.. Harkness, which the latter
/ presented to the board and which he de-
+ sired should be hung in the school.
MISS BERNARD EXONERATED.
( President Davis then asked the COM
! mlttee which investigated the allegations
/ Of misconduct Of Miss Lizzie NJ, Barnard
! II 1t had any further report to make in
/ the matter. Director Driver of the COM
/ mlttee said the matter had been thor
Oughly Investigated as per the commit
/ tees report, which was published in the
( RECORD l MON on the 18th inst
/ President Davis said the article in the
/ Iruckee ttepubtlcGH charging Miss Ber-
/ nard with misconduct bore upon its face
/ evidence Of gross exaggeration: that vha,
( the committee first asked the editor of
the paper who his informant was he re-
fused 10 toll, but did so later on Mr.
( Davis said that his experience in the
principles OF journalism convinced him
! that the publication of the article in the
/ Irucke paper was q cOnteunDtjhl rro-
/ ceeding. lie said he did not consider that
/ there IS an editor in this city who would
! cause to be published a similar article
/ who would refuse to disclose the mama Of
( the person giving the information upOn
/ which the article would be based. The
/ com mlttee had asked others in reforanna
! to the charges, and they did not substan-
| tIate the charges made by the editor Of
the Republican.
The report Of the committee was uDani-
mously adopted, as was also the following
preamble aud resolution, offered hy
President Davis:
IN THE MATTER or MISS LIZZIE NJ.
BERNARD.
On April 9, 1895, Miss Lizzie NJ. Ber
nard, Principal Of the Lincoln Primary
School, addressed a letter to the President
OF this board calling attention to an
article that was published in the Truckae
Republican newspaper on March Both,
charging her with misconduct. In the
letter she requested the board to institute
an investigation, with view TO deter
mine If the statements contained in the
article concerning her were true,
special meeting Of the board was immedi-
atey called for the evening of ADriI Q
1898, when committee of investigation
was appointed, consisting OF Directors
Driver, DOian and SherDurn and Suner-
intendent ErIewne. At another special
meeting held on the evening of april is.
1888, the committee submitted a lengthy
! report in writing, which contained de-
tailed statements of persons in Sacra-
mento and Iruckee who were in position
to know If the published charges ware
true. The board received the report but
| deferred action upon it and continued the
com mittee in existence. The report was
printed in full in the DAILY RECORD
UNION on April II, 1895,
Now az this time, the committe having
advised the board that no additional
d
/ those contained in their report of April
I6, 1895, and the board being satisfied that
said report contains all the facts with re-
gard to the matter that can be obtained. if
is, therefore,
RsSotUed BY the Board of Education of
( the city OF Sacramento, that the report of
! the Committee of Investigation be ac-
cepted and the committe discharged; that
( the conclusion found by the committee
be ratified by the board: ''phat from all
I the evidence that we could gather, we
! lind nothing whatever to substantiate the
/ charges made by the Truckee Republican
/ against Miss Lizzie NJ. Bernard"
The resolution was unanimously
adoped.
PROFESSOR PELTON THANKFUL.
! Professor J. c. Peiton, in an impressive
manner, thanked the board for its labors
/ IN ms behalf in recommending to the
I legislature tho passage OF the bill for
/ ms relief but which failed to receive the
/ Governors signature. He said leading
/ men oil the state did all in their power 10
successfully convince the members of the
/ legislature OF the business of his claim.
/ Eie also referred to the assistance he had
/ received by selling his little book. and
+ that among the most prominently known
/ men VINO had strived to alueIiorate bis
condition was G. i. Huutngton. who
/ about year ago, hearing of his uhfertu-
/ nate condition, sent him a chep}, for a
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