Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1909-02-12
School Board Proceedings.

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The Board of School Commissioners a
their meeting on Tuesday last disposed Of
the following business
The date for the next annual Teachers
Institute was fixed for September Clio
1909.
Contract of Miss Julia Bready as teacher
of Snouffer's school was confirmed.
The Board decided to appoint another
assistant teacher in the Andrew Small
High School at Jamestown.
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.
The fear and anxiety with which this
Board last adjourned by reason of a severe
attack of pneumonia with which one of its
members was then afflicted were not I'M
founded. Notwithstanding the most loving
care and diligent attention on the part of
some of the best physicians of Montgom-
cry and Frederick counties, the ministra-
tons of experienced and painstaking
nurses and the prayers of host of friends
and relations, our noble and efficient assO
ciate on this Board, DIR. j. Harris Stone
street, passed away at the hour of 1920
Wednesday, January IS, 1909, and the
interment took place at the Monocacy
cemetery on Friday afternoon following.
In harmony with arrangements made by
the Secretary of this Board, the County
Superintendent, all of the officers and
members who could yvcrr prescH at the
funeral TO pms proper lUhui especi
and affectionsls csreeH.
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appreciation and tht uoive iiuony
Of exceptional usefulness ,g emily
from hs neighbors. frc.u - roles
sion and from persons Gar 49, who
nave been ministered unto OF heaieu ny
this good. gentle and self-sacrificing physi-
clan, would be enough to demonstrate the
latent potency in the short life of one
country boy whose early ideals embraced
the ideas of duty and benevolence.
1t remains for us who have witnessed
his days of arduous and conscientious at
tention to the interest of the children of
that phase of his unselfish labors which.
as usual in the work of a school official,
is little known and generally underesti-
mated
He appreciated the importance to the
State and potency in the lives of the in
dividual children of public school educa-
ton. In this Board with him the interest
of the children was first. and all other mat
tiers were secondary. In the formulation
and execution of policies. he was always
dominated and controlled by spirit of
justice.
Modest and retiring by nature, deferen-
tial to the conscientious opinions of Others.
prone toward moderation and conservatism
in thought. speech and action, he never
shrank from the assertion and maintenance
of his full power and authority whenever
and wherever a question of principle or
positive duty was involved.
Amid the sad reflection over the mystic
ries of Providence in taking unto Himself
one who to us has been such a good friend
and wise, judicious counsellor to his fam
lily, to his neiehbors and to his profession
such an admirable and useful life. may
we not be inspired by the thought that
the eleemosynary service which brings us
together supplies field of labor in which
the now latent possibilities in the child
life of this county may be ndrtured and
developed so that the generation to follow
us may be more universally Blessed with
such men of sterling character and useful
ness as the one we this day mourn.
Resolued, That in the life of the late DR..
j. Harris Stonestreet was exemplified a
rare development of energy, character and
efficient devotion to duty of every kind
that. in his death. the Board of County
School Commissioners of Montgomery Coun-
ty has lost one of its most conscientious,
efficient and useful members, and the sur
viving members of that Board are bereft
of friend whose memory will long be
cherished and revered.
ResoIUed. That these resolutions be spread
upon the minutes of the Board and copy
thereof be duly engrossed and presented
to the family of the deceased