Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-09-14
SCHOOLS OPENED MONDAY
Many Changes in the List of
Teachers.
Various buildings Reprinted and Re-
ralrcd-tverythlng In Flrst Class
shape-List Of Teachers who
VIII Serve.

After the summer vacation Of Owe
two months, the public school children O
the city gathered their respectiv,
buildings Monday morning for another
years study. Since the close Of schoo
last June numerous repairs have beer
made at the various school buildings. Both
the interior and exterior of the Ira Aller
and $. W. Thayer buildings have beer
,"lmintcd The exterior of the PomcroS
building has been repanted and new
plumbing has been installed in the Con
verse building. The usual slight repair,
and renovating have been done in all tn,
buildings and they are in frst-class con,
dition.
During the summer many changes in the
teaching force have been made. In tn,
high school four teachers resigned Miss
Katherine Leonard will this year teach
in n girls school in Winona Park. 1ndi.
ana. Miss May W. Russell will teach
English In the Ware. Mass, high school
while Miss T.. Mabel Brown and Mis-.
Annie r. Smith will not teach any more
for the present.
10 I'll vacancies made by these rcsigna
lions. four new teachers have been APP
pointed by the school board. Miss Mar
garot Purcell. u graduate of Radcliffe
College, who has been teaching In q
FORMAL school in Manila and in other
,laces will be teacher Of English Miss
Mao u. Clifford has been appointed tc
the high school force. She is Il Gr9 dLats
NJ the school and of the University Of
Vermont Leon r. Whitcomt. n Vermont
graliat" last year. will be instructor in
chemistry and physics while Miss Alice
Clark Of Syracuse Cniversit! will be
tnchcr Of German.
Various changes will also take place in
he list of teachers for the other schools.
Miss Mary G. Tewksbury of Randolph
1as been appointed teacher of the b in
.crmediate grade of tire Lawrence Barnes
ich, OIL Mrs. Laura II. Gardiner, who had
:harre Of the kindcrG lrtcn Of this school,
1as gone to Mount Vernon. n. v, and
her place will be taken here by Miss
Hattie Mason Hodge, Il daughter of Or.
5. u. Hodge. the dentist Miss Hodge is
graduate of TIE University of Vermont
and has also taken n course in the kin
i.rSarten department cf Columbia Uni
fersity.
Miss MAude NJ. Weeks, in charge of
.hc y primary grade If the Pomeroy
school. has beer granted n leave of nb-
sencc for the fall term and her place
will he taken by Miss Mildred Peck, "A
graduate of the Salem Normal school.
Miss Weeks expects to spend her leave
Of absence in the West. Miss Ella
Rrnwnell. special assistan. in this school.
Hill be teacher Of music in the Rutland
schools. Her place as special assistant in
this school will he taken by her sister
Miss Roxanna Browncll. who has been
tenching in Williston.
Miss Helen T.. White will succeed
Miss Cora d. Eames as kindergarten
teacher in the Adams school and Miss
Sally Wright Farrar will be an asss-
tant in the Archibald street school.
while its kindergarten will he in
charge of Miss Nina b. Payne.
The primary department on Winoo-
SKI avenue will he discontinued this
year. This department was made
necessary by tho overcrowding of the
schools when the Archibald building
was in process Of constructor last
year Miss Ruth Van Cor. who had
charge of the department. will return
to her former position as assistant in
tho Archibald street primary.
Miss Elizabeth Holmes. who was SUI
pervisor Of music last year. has re-
signed to go West. Her place will be
taken by Franklin Riker.
The full list of teachers Is as fol-
lows:
High school-Principal. Isaac Tho