Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1906-12-07
A True Bill Found.


women who have had the welfare of
the pupils in their immediate charges
Chloe b. Jones, May u, 1891, to
May 20, 1892.
Mrs S. A. Moore, May 20, 1892, to
November l, 1892.
Miss Minnie King, Nov. l, 1892 to
December l, 1892.
Miss Jessie DeWolte, Dec. l, 1892. to
January s, 1895.
Miss Vesta A. olmstead, Jan. 8,
1895, to September l, 1896,
Ellen j.. Wilson, Sept. l, 1896, to
Nov IL, 1896.
Mrs NJ. +. ThreIkeld, Nov. 1896, to
February l, 1898.
Miss Mary O'Hara, Feb. l. 1898, to
June l, 1901.
Mrs M. l.. Davis, June 9, 1901, to
October Is, 1902.
Miss Jennie Wall, Nov. l, 1909 to
January Is, 1906,
Mrs Eva Founders, January 10,
1906, to April l, 1906.
Mrs Lottie G. Sinnard, April l,
1906, to October ID, 1906.
The thirteenth principal, in little
more than fifteen and one-haIf years,
was Installed November 1st of this
year and have not her name.
Reformation a Life Work.
The fitness or untitness of these
twelve women to perform the services
for which they we're employed is not
here In Issue. | have not the re-
quisite knowledge of the facts in each
case to warrant the bestowal of praise
or blame, but / do affirm that there
should have been no such history of
rotation in the office Of principal of
the girls school at Whittier. There
is nothing and can be nothing worth
while in such school without con-
tinuity of management.
The work of formation or re-forma-
tion of character is lite work, and
especially is this true of the reforma.
ton of Maynard girls. 1t should be
entered upon by woman, mature in
years, in full command of herself,
yet with an open and growing mind,
who undertakes the work as a devoted
service and not as Job. A woman
fit to be principal of such school is
worthy of generous salary, not a
measleY $40 per month, while there
are two men in the institution draw
ing $3.50 each per month-none too
much either-enough to enable the
devoted worker to provide for her
wants when her work shall have worn
her out. as it inevitably will in 10 or
% years. l should say $500 year,
and found, for the woman big enough
to fill the position.
One Will Supreme.
Given the right woman for the
place, her will, in the management of
the school, should be supreme. Not
even her board of trustees should
venture to interfere in the manage
ment of the school or do more than
to advise and aid and so control the
purse strings that the institution may
not get into financial deep water.
And especially there should be no
wife of the superintendent of the
boys department holding per
functory position of superintendent
over the principal of the girls school,
but without any real responsibility
or burdensome duty to perform.
Happily that condition does not Cow
exist at Whittier.
The work of reformation of crooked
human characters is one that must
be grown into. An apprenticeship in
a we'll ordered institution engaged in
similar work would prove helpful,
but it cannot make up for the want
of the requisite personality. On
the other hand, the requisite per-
sonality can make up for the want of
a previous institution training.
1t was up to the several boards OF
trustees, and the superinten dents of
the larger institution, to find the
right woman for the place of superin-
tendent. or principal, of the girls
school at Whittier, and then keep her
until she IS wore out. Either they
have not found the right woman, or
they have not kept her when they
have found her, and substantial
failure has been scored.
Divorce a Vinculo.
Two years ago 1 became convinced
that the state of California should
either go out of the girls reformation
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