The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1909-01-16
PARISH SCHOOLS


On Monday the School Board o
this parish met in special session
with Or. Paul n. Cyr, President
IN the chair and the fOlIowin.
members in their seats: DR.. Per
ret, GonsOulin, Valet, Murray
Eckart, and Minvielle. Absent
Duboin, Leblanc and Guillot
Mr.. Murray acted as Secretary
pro TEN. The minutes of the pre-
vious meeting were read, discuss
ed, correced and approved.
The resignation Of Poi. A. w.
Bittle as Parish School Superin
tendent and Secretary was then
read and accepted without opoo.
siti6.i.
The President then ANNOUNCED
that it was in order to elect asuc'
cessOr to Prof, Bitt:e, and 70
quested the Secretary to read
the applications. Applications
were read from Profs. X. l..
Rochester, Edgar d. Burgess
&. A. Matthews, Ward Anderson.
Il. Ii. Fisher, w. j. Avery, A NJ
Smith aud A ID Peters. At this
juncture Prof Louis A. Valet adj
dressed the Board and orally pre-
sented his application for the Pc
sitlon. He said. in part:
NJ. President and Members of
the Board OF School Directors:
Just about a month ago l was
elected to tho position of Superin
tendent of Education of Iberia.
My election was contested by
Mr.. Dupuy, who had been elect
ed to the same position by the
Board Of School Directors whose
term expired on the very day of
my election.
In order to avoid a long legal
controversy controversy which
gould have tied up to a consider
able extent the School system Of
ibis Parish. resigned the posi-
lion Of Parish superintendent of
Education, but the fact that re
'ignod in order to avoid a coEtrO
7ersy, which would have been de
rlmental to our school system,
loes not debar me from being an
applicant for the position now that
dr. Bittle's resignation leaves the
ielI open to all; on the contrary
think it should enhance nv
hances of election.
When resigned the position of
superintendent, l sacrificed All
mbition which l had cherished
Or q long while-an ambition
hitch had stimulated me in INV
forts to render myself eligible
. that important and responsible
but, gentlemen, far great
was your sacrifice of the right {
} choose your own employee r
le man who was to keep your
OOks-the man for the successful 4
ischarge Of whose duties, you are {
a large measure held account. I
lie. u
This was q great concession.
1T you did not stop there; you
sde q fu, Their concession. You =
emitted the State Superinten- r
mt to select for you limited list :,
eligible men, and out of this list .
~ chose Mr.. Bittle, and elected r
m your Superintendent. Mr. 4
tile accepted the position, but r.
nded 10 his resignation q few :,
rs later thus leaving the field -
en- to I'LL applicants. -
In your treatment of the State !,
perintendent, you, who repre- .,
At the majority on this Board n
'ablished . great record in self
scement. That the STATE Su :,
ntendent's plan failed Of sue !,
10 is no fault Of youM. He has !,
one but himself to blame for =
, failure of his enterprise. e.
Indeed, gentlemen, and l am
II addressing myself to those "
the majority: your conduct can "a
fail to meet with the appro- he
OF the citizens of the Parish. oA
ID the possible exception of Va
petty politicians. The peo r.,
, | believe, realize tina. ron al,
70 conceded enough. 1t is now te,
to the minority to exhibit q p,