The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-31
NEW PRINCIPAL APPOINTED
FOR STRONG WOOLsEY DISTRICT BY
 BOARD OF EDUCATION.

FOh hSIhONG-W DISTRICT BY BOARD OF EDUCATION.
 A Special Meeting of the Board Last Eyen- ing-New Assistant Principal of wash- ington school-Tsachers' Salaries Raised Appropriations Reoommended--$lo.- 556 to be Spent in Repairs on School Buildings-Other Business.
 Five members of the board of educa- 1 tion, together with Superintendent Kendall and Secretary Day, last even- ing braved the sweltering heat and held
 a special board meeting. The five in- | trepid members were Messrs. Asher, Moran, Hooker, Manson and O'Connor. With great waving of fans and by
 the aid of fiagons of ice water, the busi-
 ness of the meeting was most expedi- tiously transacted.
 Mr. Moran of the committee on schools read the report of that commit tee. The report recommended the l transfer of Agnes L. Hall from room 6. grade 4, of Skinner school to room IA, | grade 6b, Eaton school, at the same salary she was to have received at Skin- l ner school; the transfer of Miss Grace A. | Unger from room 8, grade 3a, to room ?, grade Pc, of Orchard street school: Jennie l.. Klock, from room ?, grade 2c. l to room 3, grade 3a, of Orchard street 1 school, at a salary of $490 per annum; Mary L. Daniels, from room 4, grade l 4b. of Winchester school to room 4, grade 4b. Orchard street school. at a yearly salary of $530; Edith M. Scran-
 ton, from the substitute list to room 4, grade 3b, of Winchester school; Miss Fannie Holcomb, from room 4, grade 4a, to room 6, grade 4a, of Skinner school, the room made vacant by the l transfer of Miss Hall, at the same sal
 ary; Miss Mary Eagan, from the sub- stitute list to room of Eaton school, at the same salary.
 l The committee also recommended the 1 appointment of Miss Elizabeth Hodg- l don as assistant principal of the Wash
 ington school at a salary of $500 per an- ] mum. < The following increases of salaries I were recommended: Miss F. O. 'Brien of l Whiting street school, from $750 to $500 per year; Jennie E. Coombs, room 3
 Lowell school, from $400 to $500; Ger l trude l.. Cooper, room 10 Strong school, 1 from $500 to $650; Emma L. Tyler, room 4 Quinnipiac street school, from $65O to | s6SO; Mary J. Munson, room 3 Woolsey school, from $450 to s460
 1 It was also recommended that the following young women be placed on l the substitute list as teachers at sal- l ary of $500 per year: Louise Schmal, l Katharine T. Harty, Mabel J. Bromley,
 Mabel F. Rochfort, Jennie M. Campbell, | Gertrude D. Osgood, Julia I. McLaugh- l lin, Augusta M. Scranton.
 I The committee recommended the ap- I pointment of George A. Myrick as prin- cipal of the Strong Woolsey district at a salary of $2,000 per year. All these I recommendations were accepted and l adopted by the board, and it was then recommended that the following books
 be adopted as additions to the text l book list: Foy's Primary Geography. | Southworth's Essentials of Arithmetic. | Part of Welsh's Grammar School Arithmetic, Fiskes Thomas and Mont l gomery's United States History. This recommendation was laid on the table, according to the rules.
 MT. Myrick, who received the ap- | point as principal of the Strong Wbol- sey district, takes the places of former | Principals Abbot of the Strong school and Putnam of the Woolsey school I these two districts having been consol- l idated. Mr. Myrick is graduate of Amherst, of the class. of 1887, and has cfr roI iy,4. adyvo fir.v1xS xSf work. He taught for some time in the | Worcester, Mass, academy and was in | the New Hampshire State Normal
 school for three years For the past l four years he has been superintendent | of schools at Southboro, Northboro, ! Shrewsbury and Berlin, Mass. He late- l ly resigned that position to study ped- agogy at Chicago university, but aban- doned this to come to New Haven H6 I is highly recommended.
 Miss Hodgdon, the newly appointed | assistant principal of Washington
 school, graduated from the Maine state ! normal school. She taught in the Wa l terville, Me-, schools several years and
 was considered one of the best teachers
 at that place.
 1 MT. Manson, of the committee on pubs 1 lie instruction, read the following rec- | concentrations from that committee: That the salary of Miss M Adele Allen, | teacher in Hillhouse high school, be in- | creased from $1,000 to SLIGO year, this l increase being made necessary in order | to retain Miss Allen, who is considered | one of the best teachers of the high school; that the salary of A. H. Morse, 1 teacher in the Boardman school, be in- creased from $1, 100 to $1, 300 year, this 1 increase being made necessary for the same reason as that of Miss Allen; that Miss Edith Porter be appointed a teach- l CT in Skinner school Kindergarten at a. salary of $500 per year; Miss Minnie | F. Mills, teacher in Hamilton school | Kindergarten, at salary of $500 per year; Miss Mary H. Fisk, a teacher in | Quinnipiac kindergarten at a salary of | s400 per year, the name of Miss Fsk | having been inadvertently omitted from the appointment list in June. The | following additional increases of sala- | ries were recommended: Miss Marie L. Warner of the Winchester kinder garten, from $4O0 to $450 per year; Isa- l bel B. Bird of Edwards street kinder garten, from s450 to $500 per year; Re- becca Fleetwood of Edwards street l kindergarten. from S400 to S450 per year.