Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-31
PROMOTION Of PUPILS
Action by Superintendent Of
Public Schools.
UP EDUCATIONAL LADDER
Necessary to Name Several Additional
Teachers.
APPOINTMENTS TO BE RATIFIED
Names Of the Students Who Move On
ward and Upward-From
Eighth Grade.
APPOINTMENTS TO BE RATIFIED

Superintendent Chancellor Of the public
schools is issuing the formal order for the
mfdyear promotion Of pupils which marks
| radical change in local school admins
| tration methods. The list of pupils pro-
| NOTED from the various eighth grades to
| the various high schools is complete. and
| the superintendent Is about to appoint tenn
porarily, or until the board of education
can ratify his action, two new high school
| teachers to aid in taking care Of the influx
| of pupils.
Miss Sarah Agnes Wallace, a graded
school teacher Of the first division. is Sc
| lected for the position of teacher Of Eng
| fish. having passed successfully the re-
quired examination last fall. To q similar
position Miss Alice L. Wood Of Martins
vile. Va. graduate Of the Woman's Col
| lege Of Baltimore, will be appointed. She
! also passed the examination in the fall.
An extra English teacher will be REQUIRED
! at the Eastern High School when the pro-
| NOTED pupils enter there, and to meet the
| demand Mr.. J. L. Brooks of the Business
| Will be transferred. The vacancy thus Gre
ated IN the Business will be Allied by one
OF the newly appointed teachers, the other
| going to the Western, where an extra
teacher will also be required.
| List Of Pupils Promoted.
| The following is the list Of eigth grade
pupils promoted to the various high
| schools:
To the Central High School-John Creel.
Myrtle Eugene Burgess, Elizabeth Mar
| guerite Meninger, Eleanor Gregory, Flor
ence soper. Stuart L. EstH Lewis A.
De Wolf Ralph Thompson. Beatrice Ward,
| Edward Bell. Frank Morgan, Katherine
Emma Deutermann, Carolyn Gibson, Lydia
! Elizabeth Keefer, Ethel Marie Parker, Ruth
| Casner Shelton, Thelma Esther Ullman,
Lena Williams, Pauline Henrietta worch,
Grace D. Odell, Gladys Falt. Grace John
ston, Henry French. Max Lewis, Bertram
Hedebower. Julian Simpson. Duncan James
Maclean, Grace Macintosh, Susie Edwards,
Leslie Dayton, Frank OBrien, Clarence
Everett. Matte Brennan. Elizabeth Corridor.
L~Armstrong Puntenney, Irene Ruth Ffes-
| ter, Nellie Grace Morrison, Henry B. Hoff-
man. Esther Galbraith.
To the Eastern High School-Mabel Bo-
| teller. Virginia L. Bu1ger, Helen Litchfield,
Thomas Bernard Mccormick. William T.
| Irdell. Estelle Latchford.
| To the Western High School-James Au-
! gustine Cahill, Anne Bryan. Mildred Mar
shall Koonce: Mary Nellie Ryder, Edwin
Alvord Gore, Clarlne r. Hunter, Julia A.
Littell, Donald M McRae, Louise M. Rob-
erss, Kathleen Bitter, Janet MHnday. Anna
Purcell. WILDER jerry! Davidson. Mildred
Crawford Sitter, Charlotte Bowie Dorsey.
| Mildred Moore, Morris Albion Paris.
Frances McConihe. Harry Cullen Blanton,
Charlotte o. Byrne Saunders. Juanita
To the Mckinley Manual Training School
Willis Lueius Hurd. Harry Henry, Charles
H. Stewart. Talma Tanner, Janet Meetze,
Joseph Goldsmith, Dudley Browne, Ed
ray, James Jacob Faye. Philip Cyrus
Gunion. Henry Huntmann Jerome Handy
ans. Gertrude Elsie Shaffer, Loretta
! Cecilia West, Lewis Flemer, Frederick In
helmina Rodier. Shirley Bronte Lewis.
John Leroy Elliott. Dorothy Davis, Henry
Green, Bessie Bradbury, John Wexford
Payne, Irwin Thompson, Leo Quad, John
Baugh. Willis Warne Blaine, Lewis Boss,
Elmer Seton Frazier and John Kelly
To the Business High School-Blanche
Camille Triebler. Alfred K. Winner. Edna
Dorothea Stieger, Edward S. Poston. J.
William Waugh, Lewis A. Weigle. Atha
Dulaney Franklin, Anna Marguerite GUM
don, Ada Solean, Emil Christiana Court
Franklin Hutches Pierce. Karl Theodore
Pitt. William Jerome Ryan, James Ross
Tilford, Ethel Marie Adams, Florence An
nette Baker. Marie Rumel Bischoff Helen
Louise Budd, Anna Josephine Cullinan,
Beulah Davis. Paulie Mary Johnson, Louise
Adelaide Henderson. Catherine Louise
Lowrey. Martha Catherine Nordhoff. Mabel
Irene Prescott. Sadie Warren VIII
Leonhart. Geo. E. Dement,. Mary B. Norris.
Louis E. Stern. Francis M. Jacobsen. Lor-
eta E. Spaight, Frank Barrett Pearl Eng
lish, Arianne Estelle Wood. Vernon Alden
Dorsey. Grace Virginia Gooding. Amelia
Laurette Hunter. Corine May Kendrick.
Robert Edmiston Morrison. Benjamin
fred Marie Reilly, May Brown Roberts.
Ella Ruth Totten, Miriam ]. Austin. Ward
Burdine. Lena Boyce. Edgar Baker, Elmer
Dyer. Bernard Chairman Crane. Charlotte
fyaA <1xr HtvsSp,.
Ives Ford, Marion Henrietta Gates, VIII
liam Koran, Celia Kisseleff, Fanny Means,
Gertrude Shelly. Lille Walters, Herbert
Besley. Edward sauer. Thomas Small. Hat
tie Schaeffer, Blanche Sill.
To the Business High School. Eastern
High School buiiding-Walter Marion, Lii
liam Mccain. Mary Westnedge, Florence
Yates, Raymond William Potter.
Legal Question Of Interest.
Another legal question has recently stag
gered the school authorities. and made them
call upon the attorney of the board of edu-
cation for an opinion Even yet there is
some doubt in the minds Of the superintend-
ent and others as to how the auditor for the
District and the controller of the treasury
are going to view 1t.
Miss Elizabeth KaIb. normal school prac-
tice teacher of the second grade at the
Seaton school, married and left the service
about Christmas time.
It then became necessary to supply an
other practice teacher, who Of course. had
to be familiar with local customs and able
to teach the normal school students the
proper pedagogical methods to pursue. Miss
Mary Rosetta Parkman, the model teacher
of the second grade in the eighth division.
was chosen after conferences. To put her
In the normal school would be to promote
her. The question arose at once whether
such could be done under the school law
without an examination.
Attorney Stuart Mcnamara rendered an
opinion about ten days ago that It could be
done; that an examination was not neces-
sary under the law when q teacher In the
service was to be transferred or promoted
within the school system. Therefore after
several weeks delay during which time
the Seaton second grade was taught sue
cessfully by two normal students. without
a practiced teachers assistant. Miss Park
man was installed In her new position.
The pay rolls for January have not yet
reached the hands Of the auditor for the
District. The superintendent Of schools and
others have heard rumors that there Is dam
ger of a double construction of the law, and
therefore they are awaiting to hear what