The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-07
IMOYLE Is AGAIN
MADE PRESIDENT
Reelected Head of the Board
of Education.
KINDERGARTEN TO START
NIGHT SCHOOL MAY BE TURNED
OVER TO CITY.

The board OF education eneiQ It's III
meeting of the year 1905 last night, and
reorganized by admitting the three new
members elected in November and re-
eIecting Oscar w. Moyle TO the presi-
Gency of the board. AS now constitut-
ed the board membership is: Oscar w.
Moyle, president; Byron Cummings. {.
s. Martin, NJ. j. Cheesman, Arnold G.
| Giauque, William j. Newman, Matho-
nihah Thomas. H. c. Edwards, II. 7.
| Henderson and Joseph Oberndorfer.
The men who have retired to make way
for the three new members OF the
| board are l. Frank Branting, joseph
| Geoghegan and w. A. Nelden.
After reading and approving the min
utes of the final meeting of 1904, Presi-
| dent Moyle said the life of the board
as then constituted was al an end and
| il had become necessary to organize for
| the future All of the members of the
board had. he said, worked in harmony
| in the past, and he hoped they would
| do so i'm the future The three retiring
| members had always been found active
and vigilant in promoting the welfare
| of the schools. and he regretted to see
| them leave the board. He had only the
best wishes for their future. and he
/ w as sure the other remaining members
| of the board would join with him i'm
| wishing them we'll
| T.
| Mr.. Rranting one of the retiring MEM
bers. who is under quarantine for small
| box in which he extended thanks to
! Superintendent d. H. Christensen. the
| teachers janitors and others for kind
nesses, courtesies and attention TO duty
during his term as m, mber OF the
board.
( President Moyle said that. although
| chosen as president for two years a
| year ago, he felt he ought TO vacate
the chair because his term of Office as
| member of the board had expired at
the end of the past year and with IL
his term as president of the board had
come to an end. He then vacated the
| chair and Mr.. Newman was chosen
temporary president
Moyle Is Reelected.
Upon motion of Mr. Thomas, it was
decided to proceed with the nominal
ton and election of a president Mr.,
Thomas then said that there was only
| one name in the minds of the members
of the board, that of Oscar w. Moyle,
and he moved that the secretary be in
! structed 20 cast the unanimous ballot
of those present for him. The motion
| was adopted. In obedience thereto the
| secretary cast the ballot of all the
members of the board except Mr.
| Giauque and Mr.. Henderson, who were
| absent.
Mr. MoyIe then resumed the chair.
and after a brief talk. in which he
thanked his fellow members for the
! confidence and esteem they had shown
for him. he suggested that they at once
! proceed to business, but before this
was done Joseph 'Geoghegan. one of
| the ex-memberss. was given the floor
| TO extend his thanks for courtesies a
the hands of the surviving members.
A vote Of thanks was then given to
the three men who had retired.
Changes in Teachers,
The report OF the committee on
| teachers and schools was read and
! approved, and a resolution embodied
therein adopted. This resolution pro
vided for the appointment of Miss Ruth
| Palmer as teacher At S65 a month; fix
ing the salary OF Miss Anna COrbett,
director of sewing, at $50 a month; pro
! viding for releasing Miss Anna Sven
son and F. b. Haynes from their con-
! tracts with the board; providing for
! appointing Miss Violet Wentworth and
| Miss Minnie X Mum as teachers, at
s45 and $50 per month. respectively.
and for the purchase of l 900 pairs of
scissors for the drawing department of
the schools.
| approval of the expenditure Of $24. 4S1 %
/ Since. the previous meeting of the
| board. as follows: Membership roll.
| second quarter. ending Dec. 81. $3.50:
officers payroll for December. S92S 30:
! teachers payroll for three weeks and
two days, ending Dec. %. 81. 434 90:
ianitors' payroll for December. 81 794:
f. H. Evans. carpenter work. $1,000:
Charles Shupp. S63.45
kindergarten to Be Established
y resolution presented by the COM
! mittee on teachers and schools pledg-
ing the board 10 establish one kinder
| garten at the beginning of the second
semester, was adopted.
Rev. Elmer l. Goshen addressed the
board, by permission, and urged it TO
| assume control of a night school he
has been conducting in Hammond hall.
| which is attended by about 200 pupils.
! In this school, he said. he is teaching,
with the assistance of fifteen or six
| teen volunteer teachers classes in the
fourth, fifth, sixth seventh and eighth
grades, and he coulo speedily in
crease the attendance if he were able
to provide more accommodations. The
boys attending were from 10 10 years
of age, and among the girls he had one
woman who owned up to being SO years
old.
Mr. Martin and Mr.. Thomas spoke in
| favor of accepting Mr.. Goshen's prop
osition TO turn the school over to the
board. The latter moved that a special
! committee of three be appointed To in
vestigate and report upon the propo-
| sition at a special meeting to be called
for the purpose by the president. The
motion was adopted and the president
appointed MeEsrs. Thomas, Cummings
and Edwards. The meeting then ad-
! journed.
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