Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-14
Number of Changes In Iowa
Education System Are
Alarming
STATE OF CHAOS PREDICTED
Those Interested Say the Movement
Just Beginning Is Bound to Prove
Detrimental to the Best Interests of
the Hawkeye Educational System
List of Transfers and Other Changes.

Cedar Falls, Aug. 14.-When the pub
| Tic schools of the state are opened for
the reception of pupils. the first of next
month patrons, pupils and teachers
alike in many Of the towns and villages
thruout the state, will find new execu-
tives at the heads of their respective
school systems. Many of the pedagogs
who have been engaged In teaching in
Iowa for the past twenty-five years,
or more, and have close tab on the ed
ucational interests of the state, claim
the number of changes that have oc-
Cured this year is something alarming,
and many say While it is the wors
that has taken place for many wears,
they are fearful from present indica-
| tons that it is just the beginning of a
state of choas in the educational circles
OF the state, which in the end is going 20
prove detrimental to the best interests
of the Hawkeye educational system.
Among the many changes which have
occurred in the state this year, few Of
the more important ones are as fol-
lows:
Professor George S. Dick, after four
teen years of the most successful serv-
ice as superintendent of the Charles
City schools, becomes the new execu-
tive of the Red Oak schools, succeeding
q. w. Bryan. The call to the Red Oak
position came to Professor Dick en-
ttrely unsolicited. as he was not aware
of the vacancy until he was invited by
the directors to visit Red Oak. On ar
irving there he found that the board
had at a previous session elected him
superintendent at a salary of s1,700 per
year, and had sent for him to go clear
across the state, that they might in
form him of the fact, and talk over the
plans of the new year with him. The
Charles City board, after duly consider
ing the applications of $50 candidates,
selected Charles A. Kent, OF Chicago.
for superintendent. Professor Kent
was born and reared in Mahaska couu-
ty. and served two years as county SUI
perntendent previous to going to Chi
cage. Professor Dick was principal at
ScE. Sharon in the same county Thus
ii would seem that Mahaska county is
proving something of a feeder for
Floyd county. Q. r. Smith, after five
years successful service at Shenandoah
goes to Indianola. Smith is graduate
of Simpson College, and is among the
best school men in Iowa. II. a. Wheeler
is to go from Clarinda, where he has
had three years successful experience.
to Shenandoah. w. L. Salisbury, of
Greenfield Will come to Clarinda, at
salary Of $1,400 per year.
r. B. Crone. of Upton, will be at
Washington. c. Ray Aurney will be at
Upton. Probably the most important
j. Hiatt from the superintendency of
the East Des Moines schools. after
eighteen years OF good service. r. j.
Hartung, for the past two years at the
head of the Capital Park schools, will
succeed to the East Des Mones posi-
ton.
Superintendent Paul Voelker, for the
past two years in charge of the Ackley
schools, will be at the helm in Ida
Grove. Professor Noelker is regarded
as one of the coming lights in the Iowa
educational circles, and so anxious were
the citizens of Ida Grove to procure his
services that the school board OF that
place would willingly have given Sl,500
and moving expenses rather than lose
his services.
w. II. Lancelot of Lineville, Mo, will
go to Ackley. Luther c. Bryan. for the
past three years in charge of the Day
ton schools. succeeds Superintendent
William +. Schregardus at Rockwell
City. Professor Schregardus will at
tend school at Yale. w. j. Dean of
New Sharon, will preside over the Belle
PLANE schools, succeeding f. b. Law
renee. J. w. Mcpherson of Parkers-
burg will go to New Sharon. l.. III.
Maus, for the past three years at Sid
ney. will succeed Miss Jessie G. Nut
ting, who has been one of the most
successful women principals in the
state, but who has now gone to teach
ing a school OF one pupil. j. c. Will
hanson, for the past dozen years at the
head of the Fairfield schools, goes 10
the state of Idaho at a very great in
crease in salary. S. A Powers, for the
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