Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-22
Supervision of the
Washington Schools
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its public schools He is graduate of
Storer College, West Virginia, and the In
stitute for Colored Youth of Philadelphia
Pa. His experience as a teacher covers a
period of nineteen years. Returning home
from school in 1856 he passed the exami-
nation for teachers and was assigned to
the primary grades at Benning, ID. &. Re
naming there two years. he was promoted
and transferred to Brightwood. ID. c., where
he taught for five years the grades from
the first to the seventh. inclusive, He was
then transferred by Mr.. B. K Bruce. who
was at that time trustee of public schools
to the princ1palship of the largest school in
the city, the Stevens School. where he
taught for seven years. In 1900 Mr.. Clark
was appointed supervising prime pal OF the
thirteenth division. and at the death Of E.
w. Brown was transferred to the tenth d.
vision.
DR.. Henry L. Bailey.
DR.. Henry L. Bailey, who is just learning
the rudiments of supervision. having been
appointed only this fall, was prepared for
college in the public schools of Cambridge,
Mass. He received his A. B. degree at
Harvard in 1889 and was graduated at the
Howard Medical School In 1896. DR.. Bailey
taught at Tuskegee, Ala. after leaving
Harvard but came to Washington in 1890
to teach in the NJ Street High School.
Mathematics. history, English German,
French, Latin and Greek have at various
times fallen to Dr. Bailey but for the last
five years he has taught Greek and French
exclusively. DIR. Bailey has charge of the
eleventh division.
Twelfth Division.
The twelfth division has recently come
under the direction of Mr. John c. Male
who since 1902 has had charce>of the elev-
enth. Mr.. Male was born in Virginia. but
was educated In the local District schools,
and al Howard University. He was appoint
ed teacher of the graded school, in which
were all seven grades in September 1874
His rapid promotion soon put him in ex-
elusive charge of the eighth grade from
which he gained the place In the minds of
all ambitious grade teachers,
Native of South Carolina.
+. l. Cardozo was born in Columbia,
8. c.. October 1B, 1870. He attended the
public schools of the District of Columbia,
graduating from Miner Normal School in
June. 1890. Since graduation he has stud
led languages and other subjects under
Mrs Mary C. Terrell and Dr. H. L. Bailey.
both at that time teachers of the Miner
Normal High School. Mr. Cardozo at
tended the Spencerian Business College
Hampton Summer Institute, and university
extension course, University of Pennsyl
vania Gwo summers). He was associated
with Mr.. Raymond Riordan in night and
vacation school work. After experience as
principal of Mount Pleasant Montello.
Grant Road, Wilson and Stevens schools
he was appointed in May, 1904 to the super
vising principalship of the thirteenth divis-
ion, which Is the largest of the school dis
trictS.
These thirteen men-no woman has ever
been supervising principal-are the eyes
and ears of the superintendent for the
graded schools Each now receives 81 600
as salary, the position, not the years OF
service, determining.
Apart from the superintendent, his two
assistants and the directors of high schools
manual training schools and special depart
ments, in all large number, these men are
the immediate directors of the grade activ-
tiles Washington teachers wonder how
other places get along without this system