The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-05
EAST RAVENS SCHOOLS
MISS RITA P. LORD IS PRINCIPAL IN THE NEW SCHOOL BUILDING.

MISS RITA F. LORD IS PRINCIPAL IN
 THE NEW SCHOOL BUILDING. Miss Eleanor M, Woodruff of East River, in Madison, Win Have Charge of the Next Highest Grade-Miss Mary M. IT, win Is Principal of the Foxon School,
 The schools in Foxon and the center will open for the fall term next Tues day morning, September 8. There will be three teachers for the school in the new $10000 schoolhouse which is on Thompson avenue, few rods south of the historic stone church.
 The site is a beautiful one and located on land that belonged to Eleazer Hem ingway, who kept famous inn one hundred years ago. At this time there was a stage line from New Haven to Saybrook, New London, Stonington, Providence and Boston.
 The following correspon ndence is inter- esting and self explanatory:
 Office of the President and Secretary of
 the Board or ScnOOl NlSlIOrS.
 East Haven, Conn.,, Aug. S1, 1896. Miss Rita E. Lord:
 Madam-It is very honorable pleas ing and satisfactory duty to officially inform you in this manner, and at this time, of the existence of certain facts, and conditions, that are personal to yourself.
 At meeting held by the operation of the school laws the state, at the selectmen's and town clerks room in the town hall in the town of East Ha- ven, on Thursday evening, August 27, 1896, the board of school visitors, con- sisting of Miss Lottie E. Street, Grove J. Futile, H. Walter Chidsey, Ebenezer Gilbert, Charles w. Granniss and Charles w. Bradley; also the district school committee of the Union school district, consisting of William H. Rob- inson, Frederick L. Hawkins and AL bert A. Page, the last named commits sion acting as an advisory, and auxil- iary board; appointed you principal of the three departments of the school in the new school building on Thompson avenue, and belonging to the Union school district, and to be opened Tues day, September 8, 1S96 at o'clock ante meridian,
 In addition to this it can be said that 1t is very pleasing to know, and be as- sured, that there was sufficient war rant for this action, and the important and very responsible, appointment that has been made.
 This guarantee consisted mainly in the unqualified success that you have made as a teacher in the public school the highest grade-that has been un- der your care and direction the last school year. Dignity, correctness and executive ability should characterize superior in rank, and it is believed that you possess all these requisite qualifications in the superlative degree. You will be the first instructor to take charge of the various departments of learning in the new and magnificent building erected partly by the wise munificence of the late J. Woodward Thompson, once a scholar in the public schools in this district.
 There is not the least doubt but that this interesting fact, namely, the first Superintendent of instruction in the new school house, together with many other existing favorable circumstances will be an additional incentive to raise, if possible, the standard of education in this suburban town-and near Yale university, the second greatest institu- tion of learning on the American conti- nent-on Q still higher plane.
 Tn conclusion we congratulate you, the school children who are fortunate in this particular, and the Union school district. May success-by the continual aid of Divine Providence-always att tend your labors in behalf of those who are placed in your care and keep ing for the purpose of acquiring a nec- essary education for a future academic course, or the various active duties of life. We remain with great respect, ! Grove J. Futile, President of the Board
 of School Visitors.
 Charles w. Bradley Secretary of the
 Board of School Visitors.