The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-31


 Teachers Appointed and Transferred
 Preparations for the Annual Election
 Visitors From Dayton, ohio--The zunder
 Building.
 A meeting of the board of education was held last evening in the rooms on Center street, all the members being present except Messrs. Betts and Whit ney. After the reading of minutes by Secretary Day reports of committees were submitted
 The committee on special instruction recommended the adoption of the fol- lowing text books for the Hillhouse and the Boardman Manual Training High schools:
 In Hillhouse High school-Haw- thorne's Twice-Told Tales. Defoe's His tory of the Plague in London, Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, Mead's Elementa- ry Composition and Rhetoric, Old Greek Life, Heath's German Dictionary, Ro- man Antiquities and Kingsley's Old Greek Heroes. For Boardman school-Storer & Lind says Manual of Chemistry, Guests Lec- lures on English History, Das Deutsche Buch fur Anfanger Ripper on Steam, and Hilfs Geometry for Beginners. The committee recommended the pur- chase of apparatus for the chemical lab oratory of the Hillhouse High school, as per requisition, to the amount of $233. .15 and for the physical laboratory to the amount of $1S640.
 The committee recommended the pur- chase of thirty-five sets of Flesher's Dressmaking System at $5 per set, and three dress forms for $16.15, and report ed the resignation of Charles l.. Kirsch- ner, teacher of mechanical drawing in the Boardman Manual Training school and recommended its acceptance. It was recommended; also that these books be placed in the scheels for the beginning of the fall term. The report wassaccepted, and it was voted that the rulesregarding the putting over of mat terst pertaining to text books for week be suspended and that the committee on supplies see that the books are pur- chased
 The committee on schools then report ed and recommended that as Winches- ter school cannot be completed by the time of the opening of schools the rooms to inclusive and rooms Il and F be not opened until Monday, September 16. It was also recommended that the fol- lowing teachers who have been recom- mended by the state board of education for positions in Weleh and Dwight schools, be appointed:'
 Tn Dwight school-Edith w. Todd, grade 6, salary to be determined; Miss Ellen A. Kerney, grade 4, transferred from the Welch school. same salary. | $545
 | In Welch school-Miss Ellen Quinlan, room 1, salary to be determined, Miss Lillian Brooks, second grade, taken from | substitute i1st, same salary; Miss Clara M. Dowd, room f. taken from substitute | list, same salary
 | The committee also recommended the | following transfers:
 | Miss l. Maude Tisdale, from room 1b | Webster school to position as extra in | said district at same salary l Miss Helen c. Doolittle, from the sub stitute teachers list to position as extra l in the Eaton district.
 | Miss Ida J. Goodhue, from substitute | list to room 1b Webster at the same | salary.
 Miss Teresa A. Whalen, from the sub stitute list to assistant in room 5 Skin
 her school, same salary. l Another recommendation of the com- mittee was that Superintendent Ken
 dan be given authority to open one or more new rooms, as he deems necessary, | in St. Francis orphan asylum and to
 provide teachers for the same. | The report was accepted and it was voted that the recommendations be re- ferred to the proper committees for full fillment.
 l The committee on school buildings re- ported that Winchester school would be ready to open about October b, that
 work on the George street school is pro- gressing slowly, but that superior
 class of work is being done, and that the Strong school will certainly be ready by February l. The other schools of the city are in fine condition. On motion of MT. Moran the finance committee was instructed to make prep arations for the annual election to be held September 16 and to prepare list of appropriations to be acted on at the district meeting.
 letter was read from Maier Zunder thanking the board for the honor done him in naming the George street school | the "Zunder SchooP'
 communication was also read from resident of East Haven regarding the erection of a school there A letter from the state superintendent of public instruction was read, in which he requests that sufficient money be de- posited with the proper state officials so that the teachers in state schools may be paid all their salary at once and not in two parts, one by the state I and one by the city, as heretofore. The Communications were ordered placed on | file.
 The board then adjourned. Colonel W. J. White, superintendent of schools, and B. F. Hirschey, chair man of the committee on education, of Dayton, O., were present at the meet | ing. They are in New Haven looking for principal for new. high school | just completed. The gentlemen have conferred with Malcolm Booth, now as- sistant principal at Boardman school, and he will probably be recommended to the Dayton board of education for ap-
 pointment to the position. The new Dayton school has thirty-six rooms and