Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-03-17
new SUPT.. !. FOR
CITY SCHOOLS
School Board Wants q Chief
Of More Experience
Than MIR. Tanner
Balance Of Teachers, Except
for Music and Drawing,
Are Retained

At q meeting of the school board
Tuesday night it was decided to make
q change in the superintendeney and
the teachers committee was instruct
ed to ask for applications for thar po-
sition and for the position of music
and drawing teachers. The balance
OF the corps Of teachers will be re-
tanned.
The meeting was most harmonious
all the members OF the board being
unit on the action taken, save that
Mr.. Falconer stated that when the
time came he would vote for the
retention of Prof. Tanner, should the
latter make application which he had
not as yet done.
This action was taken upon the
presentation of the following report
by the teachers committee.
To the President and the Board Of
Education, Bismarck, N. D.
We, your committee on teachers.
beg leave to submit the following re-
port, and hereby recommend that Mr..
R. A. Petrie, The principal Of the high
school, and Miss Brennecke and Miss
Smith, be retained in the high school,
and that Miss Pauline Sorenson, Of
Madison, Wis, be selected as an adj
ditional teacher in the high school,
and we further recommend that Mrs-
Ella Cassleman be retained as prin-
tcipal Of the- Will school, and. that AL
the teachers in the grades be retain
ed for the ensuing year, and we sug-
gest that the classification of the
teachers be referred to the superin-
tendent when he shall be elected.
We would recommend that applica-
tions be called for for the following
positions, viz: Superintendent, and
music, and drawing teachers.
Dated at Bismarck, y. D., March
16, 1909.
H. w. RICHHOLT,
G. C. WACHTER,
w. F. COCHRANE,
Committee.
In speaking to the report Messrs.
Cochrane and Richholt expressed the
kindliest feelings for Mr.. Tanner as
man and a teacher in his chosen
line of work, but thev both felt that
he had not had the experience neces-
sary to successfully superintend
schools as large as those in this city;
that Bismarck had now reached a
point, educationally, where the best
talent was demanded, regardless OF
the cost, and that when such talent
had been secured that the entire
charge of the schools, such as the
classification of the teachers to OBJ
tain the best results, and in fact all
matters pertaining to the immediate
direction of the schools be placed ia
his hands. the board merely furnish
ing the means to make the schools
the best in the state. These express
ions were approved by the other mem
bers of the board. President Falconer
dissenting only upon the proposition
to dispense with the services of Mr..
Tanner.
The minutes of the last meeting
were read and approved. this meet
ing having been adjourned from the
regular meeting when there was not
a quorum.
The clerk reported number OF
applications for places as teachers
but they were all referred TO the
teachers committee without being
examined.
The old matter of payment for the
Hess patent chalk dust catcher for the
blackboards at the high school which
had been put in the building year
ago without the permission of the
board. came up again when bin OF
eighty some dollars was presented
by the G. w. Wolbert Hardware Co.
All admitted that they seemed good
thing, but there was dissatisfaction
because they were put in without the
sanction of the board and finally the
matter was referred to the building
committee for audit. and final dispO-
sition. q. -, u, =. x
The matter of the doors to the reci-
tation rooms at the Will school.