The times., 1898-07-06
PUBLIC SCHOOL TRUSTEES.
The Quota of CoIored Normal School
Scholars fs Increased.

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An important meeting of the board of
trustees of the public schools was held
yesterday afternoon at the Franklin
| Building. The appointments of teachers
for the next school year were announced
and a change was made in the school
regulations by which the cofored normal
school viii have nearly two dozen more
pupils than heretofore.
Those present at the meeting We're:
President ]. w Wheipey, Secretary ]. G..
Falck, Job Barnard. Jesse Wilson, T. H
Wright, DR.. G. II. Richardson, Sterling
n. Brown, Mrs. Tulloch and Mrs. Ter
rell and Superintendents Powell and
Cook
The list of appointments, as announced,
| shows few changes from the regular list
The following designations were accept
ed: E. G. Brosius and Margarita Spauld-
ing, High School; first division, Z. Z. Ri
ley second division, Flora A. Reeves;
fourth division, Alice c. McDade; sew
enth division, NJ. Blanche Shafter, eighth
division, Z. A Zeigler, and tenth division,
Daisy B. Coleman.
The following appointments were
made: Central High School. Cora Sta
EAtSs btciI4Ati All I-ASlASlAs - Via
ham, history; Mary r. Phillips physical
culture; Eastern High School, ]. Philip
Gerry; Western High School Margaret
Bayly, English, and Andre Fontaine,
French; Business High School. Alice p.
Gannett
1t was decided to select the first twen-
ty-one normal school graduates for pro-
visional appointment as supernumerary
teachers at 500 per year. They are:
& Sadie / Xnatypi
Edna H. Baier. Inez p. Carusi, Alma L.
Hendry, Florence s. Lyddane. Emma w.
McKenna, Beulah NJ. Price, Edna Nj.
Bell. Ella NJ Clapp, NJ. Ethel Glenn,
Christine c. Holzberg, Geneva r. John
ston, LYDIA T. Priest, Lillian E Carpen-
ter, Josephine g. Fernald, Elizabeth
OHara, Miriam Bangs, L. Landon, c.
Blackford, Marcella Nj. Eckels, Ethel w.
Tracy.
Leaves of absence were granted TO Ellen
Golden and ". p. Huntington.
New janitors selected are Thomas Low,
Monroe School; J. p Hamer. Marshall
/ Street School, in course of erection and
Thomas Cissel, vice W. w. Chunn, at
Twining City.
After the transaction of routine busi-
ness there was a spirited discussion upon
a proposition TO increase the quota of
the colored normal school The matter
was brought TO the attention Of the board
by Trustee Wright, who explained the
advantages 20 be gained by not limiting
the number of pupils TO be admitted each
year. He argued that the rule provided
for the admission of but twenty-siX pupils
TO the normal school for colored persons,
while the white schools got a quota of
fifty. He then presented the following
resolution:
That so much Of rule forty-eight as
relates 10 the normal school for the ninth.
tenth and eleventh divisions be suspended
and the number 10 be admitted into the
normal school for said divisions, for the
current year, be increased so as to en-
| brace all high school pupils whose per-
| centage, as shown by their high school
| record and normal school examination,
Is not less than 50 per cent"
Many of the trustees desired TO know
how the additional pupils would be taught
with limited supply OF teachers. There
was no direct opposition 10 the resolution,
but many inquiries Were made both of
Superintendent Powell and Superintend-
| ent Cook, as 10 the advisability of its
adoption. Finally it was decided TO try
il and the resolution was adopted unani-
mOusly by the board.
This will mean an addition TO the coll
| ored normal school in the next year of
| twenty-one pupils, bringing the number
up to forty-seveu, nearly the quota Of the
white schools.