The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-06-09
INSTRUCTORS FOR
NEW HIGH SCHOOL
Faculty Appointed at Last Nights Meet.
ing Of School Board.
PROF. J. c. LANCE WILL BE PRINCIPAL
Prof LOOmis, of Keystone Academy,
vice.Principal; Wells, ,OfLafayette,
Friedwald and Miss Heath, Of This
City, and a Nebraska Woman Named
Matte ii. Gregg Are the Others.

Here is the faculty of the new high
school, as recommended by the high
and training school committee. and APP
proved by the board OF control at the
regular meeting last night:
j. c. LANCE, principal and instructor in
mathematics; salary. $1,000.
+. E. LOOMS, vice-principal and profess
sor of Latin and Greek; salary, $500.
A. II. WELLS, professor Of chemistry and
botany; salary. sl,5oO.
s. FRIEDWALD, professor of modern
languages; salary, $1,000.
MISS LEAH HEATH, professor of litera-
ture and elocution; salary, $1,000.
MISS MATTE H. GREGG professor of
English and Mathematics; salary. $1,000.
Professor Lange is the present eff
cient principal of the high school. Pro-
fessor Loomis is principal of Keystone
academy, Factoryville. Professor Wells
Is an instructor at Lafayette. s. Fried
wald Is an instructor in the John Ray
mond institute. Miss Leah Heath is a
Scrantonian, best known as a lecturer
on art and literature. Miss Gregg is an
instructor in state college in Nebras-
ka and comes highly recommended.
Superintendent Howelps judgment was
considered more than anything else in
the selection of the corps of teachers,
censure as the case may be. The COM
mittee expresses itself as very well sat
isfid with its selection and confidently
expects that the public will be.
The following recommendation, which
was also approved, was part Of the COM
mittee's report:
RECOMMENDATIONS MADE.
Your committee, believing that the best
results on the part Of teachers can only be
secured by an entire and exclusive devo-
| tion to the profession in which they en-
gagged recommend that all teachers ap-
| pointed to a position in the high school be
| prohibited from engaging in any other
| occupation whatever while in the employ
| of the Scranton board Of control; and we
hereby recommend that this rule be made
a part of the contract between the board
and said teachers.
A contract amounting to about $17,-
900 was awarded to Conrad Schroeder
on the recommendation of the high
school committee. OF this, $4,000 Is Tor
putting the grounds In shape. which
work includes enclosure walls, side
| W
like; 1912 Is for an asphalt floor in the
chemical laboratory; s4S5 for six drink
ing fountains; $3,361.6O for lockers in
the exercise room and $l,S15 for black
boards.
The pay roll showing the following
items was approved: Teachers. s1l, ,9O2
IL; substitutes, $523.35; janitors, ST.
1880.
BIDS FOR OLD BUILDING.
Two bids for the old Phillips building
on the addition to the proposed site foI
new No. 10 building We're received
August John offered $3.50 and John
Murray, SIS. Peter Stipp offered to at
tend to the necessary repairs on the
retaining wall at No. 10 for $3.50 pei
perch. The bids were referred to the
building committee.
The president and secretary were au-
thorized to sign the applications Of Bes-
sic Williams and Anna L. Corbett fol
state normal school certificates.