The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-08-30
ALL READY FOR
SCHOOL WORK
TEACHERS ARE ARRIVING AND
NETTING W:iL BE HELD TO-
MORROW AT HIGH SCHOOL.

Everything is in readiness for the
beginning of the schools next Tuesday
morning" said Superintendent O. S.
that Monday is Labor Day there will
be no exercises of any kind upon that
day, but school will begin for the year
Tuesday and will begin in earnest.
Buildings have been thoroughly
cleaned and remodeled wherever nee
essary. Repairs have been added in
many places and furniture has been
added and arrangements completed for
the additional rooms and teachers.
"A general teachers meeting for ali
teachers, regular and special, will be
held at the high school tomorrow at
p. m. At this meeting the super
intendent will outline his policy for
the year and will give the necessary
instructions to make the work move
harmony and unison.
Mr.. Klemme, principal of the high
school, will be in his office tomor-
row forenoon and would like to meet
all new pupils, and such others as de-
sire any change in the courses they
have previously elected At least 100
new pupils are expected in the nigh
school this year.
Many of the teachers have already
arrived in the city to take charge of
their departments and others are eX-
pected today and tomorrow.
Miss Edith Lovejoy will take the
place of Miss Florence Weber in the
drawing department. Miss Lovejoy is
a graduate of the Ferris Institute OF
Big Rapids Mich. of the Chicago Art
school and has taken work at Oberlin
She comes here from Middletown and
is highly recommended. She has had
six years experience in drawing in
struction in public schools and will
teach all the drawing in all the city
schools except mechanical drawing,
which will be under the direction of
the manual training instructor.
Manual Training Department.
John l.. StenQuist of Ellensdale.
North Dakota, will be the instructor
in the manual training department.
He is graduate of the North Dakota
Manual Training school and has been
Manual Training school in Wisconsin,
He has had six years experience in
teaching this work and will teach the
work in all it's forns-hand and wood
work lathe work, turning, ironWorK
blacksmithing and forging.
'In the music department Miss
Edith r. Lee of Spencer, Iowa. will
be the instructor. Miss Lee is a grad
uate of the Iowa state normal college,
and from the Oberlin conservatory Of
music. She has had eight years of eX-
perience and has the reputation of be-
ing a first class teacher.
y. DeasOn, who is a graduate of the
Valparaiso University of Indiana, will
take charge of the department Of phys
les and chemistry this year. He took
three degrees from that school and was
an assistant in the science courses
there. For three years he was at GU
ray Colo, where he did both teaching
and practical assay work. He is thor
oughly up on this subject and will
bring the laboratory courses up to the
high standard of the rest of the school.
eve have several other new teach
ers and the outlook this year is more
tendance will be larger and will be
more closely watched than ever ebfOrc.
"Our Legislature has provided by law
that all pupils under the age of -
years shall attend school for the full
time the schools are in session and
penalty is put on parents who fail to
keep their children in school.
Children Must Attend.
''The new law also prohibits the en-
ployment of such children by any per
son and requires the board of directors
to enforce the law. putting them I'M
der severe penalty TO do SO. The city
is required to furnish school buildings
and teachers, this because the common
good demands education for everyone. |
Therefor everyone is required to take
that which is offered.
Again. as the money received by
the district from the state is appCrtiOn
ed in accordance with the number of
days attendance, it will readily be
seen that every day a pupil remains
out of school he is reducing the reve-
nue. of the district, without in any
measure reducing the expenses. les,
year, Walla Walla lost nearly $4,000 |
by reason of the absence of pupils
regularly enrolled in schools. This
money loss, however. is the least of
the losses. BY reason of absence the
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