Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-12
MAINE NEWS IN BRIEF
IN THE SCH00LR0OM.
What 10 Being Done in Maine for thu
Advancement Of Education.

Fred d. Wood has been appointed to fill
the vacancy on the Garland school board.
Rev. George J. Bloomfield has been re-
elected superintendent of the Machias
schools.
Fl. G. Clement of Gorham, has been
engaged as principal of the Buckfieid
high school.
The spring meeting of the Oxforl
county teachers convention will be held
at Bethel on May 10th and 18th.
Samuel w. Clark of Newcastle. has
been elected superintendent of the schools
of Boothbay Harbor and adjacent towns
j. E. Frost who has been principal of
the Phillips village school for the past
year. has resigned to accept position in
Boston.
The spring term of Westbrook Seminar
opened this week with very promisine
prospects. The indications point to tn,
largest attendance in the history of the
school.
Miss Mabel Garcelon of Lewiston. a
graduate of the Lewiston Normal Train
ing school. class Of 80, has been elected
an extra teacher in the Frye grammar
school in that city.
Miss Edna Curtis has been appointed
teacher in the Porter district of schools
South Paris. for the summer term, in the
place of Miss Olive SWEET who was elect
ed and resigned.
Fourteen applicants for positions in the
public schools of Pennington appeared
and took the examination at the May
school building last week. There ar.
eleven places to be filed but the assign
ment of teachers has not yet been fully
decided upon.
The Lincoln Academy Athletic Associa.
ton has chosen the following officers fol
the coming season: Richard Carney
president. Harold Young. treasurer ana
manager of baseball team; Elmer Brad
ley, captain of baseball team; Boyntor
Glidden, manager of track team.
Miss Edna Sawyer of Yarmouth, a re.
cent graduate of the Gorham Norma
| school. has secured position as teache:
at New Gloucester and has entered upon
her her duties les Miss Carrie Humphre has has
| of which Miss Sawyer was the teacher.
The members of the senior class. Mile
| high school, have been awarded honor:
| as follows: Valedictory, Clinton a
| Brown; salutatOry, Byron B. Bishop
Cranmore and Silas Kicker. The gradu
ating exercises will as usual, take plac.
at the Baptist church.
| At a recent meeting of the committee
on teachers. Lewiston. it was voted tt
| grant the Lewiston teachers a day il
! the near future in which to visit out Of
! town schools. In all probability the
! teachers will decide to visit the Portland
and Deering schools, although a part Of
the delegation may go to Bath.
| The spring term of FoXcrOft academy
opened on Monday with a good atten
dance. Miss Mary b. Ford. A. B., tn,
new principal, is a graduate of Bates
| college, class of 1900. The library at the
academy has recently been increased by
the addition of "A number of valuable ref
| erence books presented by the Review
board of last year.
| At a recent meeting of the E,astpor
school committee. Principal Harry f
| Bryant of the Boynton high school was
chosen as superintendent of the city
schools for the balance of the season
which ends in June. Mr.. Bryant is
same meeting A. b. Lewis was elected
principal of the grammar school.
The teachers selected for the Brooks
vile public schools this year are as fol
lows: Dist No. /, primary. Mrs. N. J
SHELTON; grammar, Miss Kate CoOmbs
No. 2 Grace Slower; No. g. Eliza Perkins
No. 4, Ella Bates; No. 5, Jean Condor
No. Z, Louise Bates; No. s. Eva Jones
From district ~ the pupils are to bt
| transported to district No. 3. The ex
pense is about $50 a term, which sum i:
included in the current expenses of thu
town, and does not lessen the school funt
for the year.
At the Bath high school the followins
parts have been assigned by Principa
Cole to the graduating class of 1902: o,
| rank-Stella Augusta Whittam, valedic
tory; Eleanor Adams Percy, salutatory
Alice Louise Corliss, English essay; My
ra Annie Whittam, English essay; Bea
! trice Louise Hinckley, English essay; Reu
ben Hunt burlington, English essay. Or
excellence in writng-Allan Howard
Ramsay; essay, Mollie Pearl Healy. Or
excellence in acknowledgements ElleI
| Young Bessie Phillips Dean