Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-02
A Number of Changes Have
Been Made in Faculty.
Some Excellent improvements Have
Been Made to School Property
During Vacation.

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is expected to be the most successful
year in the history of the school. An
unusually large attendance is expect
ed. The freshman class of 80 which
enters the high school from the ninth
grades will be swelled considerably
by quite number of country and out
of town students who have announc-
ed their intention of attending the
high school.
A number of changes have been
made in the faculty of the high school
and the grades. The vacancies caused
by the resignation of Miss Emma
Willard, assistant in mathematics
Miss Lillian Sabin, assistant in
English and Miss Clara Stiles, as
sistant in Latin and German will be
filled by Fred W. Trainer, a Beloit
College graduate; Miss Ada Fluekiger,
also graduate of Beloit and Miss
Ethel 3. Sabin, graduate of the state
university. All of these people nave
made special preparation in studies
that they will teach and come well
recommended
The principalship of the North
school left vacant by the resignation
of W. J. Webb will be filled by w.
F. Livingston, a graduate of the
Whitewater Normal. He will Ct
course have charge of the ninth grade
department. Miss Dorothy Ress-
meyer, who last year was an assistant
in the 9Th and 9Th grades on the south
side will take charge of the same
grades in the North school which last
year were taught by Miss Kate Smith.
On the south side bat two changes
have been made in the grades. Miss
Marguerite Bolzell, graduate of tie
Platteville Normal, will teach the Sd
and 4th grades vacated by the resigna-
ton of Miss Rose Braem. The 9TH
and 9Th grades which last year were
in charge of Miss Beth Lowry and
Miss Dorothy Ressmeyer will he
taught the coming year by Miss
Williams, of River Falls Nom al.
During the vacation the school
board has made many improvements.
The North school has been put in
excellent condition by the revarnish
ing and painting of the wood work
of the interior. Improvements have
been made in the basement, and the
building thoroughly cleaned. New
cement sidewalks have been built out
side and inside the grounds. This
improvement adds greatly to the
beauty Of the school yard. At the
High school Improvements of the same
nature have been made, putting that
school in good working condition
Very few towns of this size in the
state have better kept school buildings
and premises than Lancaster.
New text books have been purchased,
and laboratory supplies added, SO that
teachers and pupils will be well sup
piled with these necessary articles.
A list of the teachers, with the
grade and branches they are to teach,
follows:
hlSu SCHOOL
Principal and Superintendent, @.
q Slothower.
Assistant in History and Economics,
Lily Young
Assistant in Literature and Com
position, Clara Barber.
Assistant in Rhetoric and Litera-
ture, Ada Fluekiger.
Assistant in Latin and German,
Ethel E Sabin.
Assistant in Mathematics. Fred w.
Trainer.
Supervisor of Music and Drawing,
Grades and High School Hazel
Andrews.
-. ---.-. Grades, North School.
Principal of North School and
teacher of Ninth Grade, W. F. Liv-
ingston.
Seventh and Eighth Grades, Mrs.
Frank Horton.
Fifth and Sixth Grades, Miss
Dorothy Resslneyer.
Third and Fourth Grades, Miss
Por5ia Showalter.
Primary, Miss Nettie Oswald.
Grades, South School,
Seventh and Eighth Grades, Miss
Mary Smith.
Fifth and Sixth Grades, Miss
Williams.
Third and Fonrth Grades, Miss
Margaret Bolzell.
Primary, Miss Mary War en-.