The record-union., 1898-09-30
NEW CLASS FOR MISS AIKEN.
MISS TITHERINGTON ELECTED
A SUBSTITUTE.
Resolutions Of Respect for Former
School Director
Whitbeck.

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regular monthly meeting last night,
| Directors Driver. Panabaker, Perkins,
Atkinson, Johnson, Ransom, Stack,
Elliott and Sherburn being present.
| Director Johnson for the Finance
| Committee reported salaries and vari-
Gus bills as correct and they We're al
| lowed
| Director Atkinson, for the Building
and Repairs Committee, reported that
the work on the building was progress
| ing very slowly and would perhaps be
done in a couple of weeks The roofs
of the Perry Seminary, Sacramento
Grammar School, Seventh and G., Tenth
and P street schools are in bad condi-
ton and need to be painted before the
rains set in. He gave estimates for the
painting and recommended that the
work be done.
Director Atkinson was authorized to
| let the contract, at a cost not to eX-
ceed $175.
There was considerable discussion on
! the subject of heaters for the Sacra-
mento Grammar School and it was de-
cided that the Committee on Furniture
and Supplies investigate the subject
| with power to act.
The Committee on Course of Study
reported, favoring that Books 1, 2, 3
and 4, of the new Course in Drawing
| be placed in the first four grades, re-
spectively, 3, 6 and in the fifth grade
and and 3 in the sixth grade.
superintendent Erlewine said that all
| the manuals had not yet been pub
lished, and he recommended that when
they are, enough should be purchased
| to supply each teacher with one. The
| teacher that was to be furnished by
| the company publishing the course to
| instruct the teachers cannot be here, he
understood, for from one to two
months.
Several of the members had under
stood that the teacher was to be sent
when the schools opened and that the
contract should be lived up to.
| Superintendent Erlewine thought that
| if the teachers were furnished with
manuals and had an opportunity to
study them, they would then be able
| to find out what help they needed. The
contract showed that the teacher should
be furnished during the fall.
The motion was withdrawn and the
matter went over, for the present, until
the preliminary manuals arrive.
Director Johnson offered the follow
| ing resolution which was adopted
unanimously.
The death of D. D. Whitbeck, which
occurred in this city on the 10Th instant,
calls for an expression of regret from
the members of this board, some OF
whom served with him on former
boards and all knew and admired him.
Mr.. Whitbeck served this city on the
Board of Education from 1894 to 1898.
He performed his official duties with
conscientious regard for the welfare of
the public schools.
In respect to his memory, and in re-
cognition of the services rendered by
him to the School Department Of this
city, be it
Resolved, That this memorial be
| adopted by this board, and same Is
hereby adopted and spread in full upon
the minutes.
Superintendent Er1ewine recommend
ed that the second grade class at Twen-
tv-fourth and n streets, being too large,
| be divided into two classes, and
| teacher assigned to the new class. So
| ordered
Miss Aiken was assigned to the new
| class and Mrs. Long was transferred
to take the class left by Miss Aiken.
Mrs. Wurst, being the first substitute,
was placed in the vacancy caused by
Mrs. Longs promotion.
Applications We're received for teach
er's position by Miss Mary DoWar ana
Mrs. Fogarty.
Miss Amanda Titherington was unan-
| imcusly elected as a substitute.
The board decided to continue the
services of the Truant Officer during
| the month of October.
Director Driver moved that the board
proceed to elect a department carpen-
| fer. The motion received no second.
| The Committee on Course of Study
recommended that the Board of Educa-
ton adopt the Natural Course of Music
for the public schools of the city.
| The recommendation of the commit
| tee was adopted.