The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-12-08
MEDICAL EXAMS.
IN FARGO SCHOOLS
AT SESSION LAST EVENING PLAN
FOR MEDICAL EXAMINATION IN
THE CITY SCHOOLS WAS
ADOPTED - HAssELoulsT IS
NEW ASSISTANT.

At an important meeting of the
Fargo city school board held last even.
ing at Superintendent Hoovers Office
the board decided to adopt a system OF
thorough medical examination Of al
the pupils in the city schools. A corps
of physicians will be employed and
every child in the Fargo public schools
will have health examination at least
once each year
The question of health examination
for the students of the schools has
been before the board for some time
and at the meeting last night a com
mittee proposed a medical examina-
1 ton. The physicians will examine all
the teachers from time to time and
with the assistance Of the teachers
and the building principals, it is ex-
pected that the local public schools
will be placed on the highest possible
| sanitary basis.
HasseIquist Assistant.
The board also decided to adopt the
report of the school bettermenf com
mittee and to that end the resignation
Of Col. f. c. Gearey as secretary of the
board was accepted. This resignation
has been in the hands of the board
for over year and was taken over at
the meeting last evening.
II. A. Hasselquist was named as the
successor of Colonel Gearey and the
new educational worker will act as
an assistant superintendent and look
after buildings, supplies and other
paraphernalia connected with the
Il 1t.
direct supervision of the board and
will act according to the direction of
the governing body.
Mr.. Hasselquist has been employed
for number of years in the office Of
the county school superintendent and
is well versed in educational affairs
The salary OF the position will be 500
per month, according to the decision of
the board
The building committee was in
structed to look after number of de-
tail matters This committee was del
egated to care for the repairing of
blackbOards at the Longfellow build
ing, and the outcome of the present
breaking of the boards win probably
mean the establishment of a more
complete system of permanent boards
in the different buildings. The COM
mittee was also ordered to see that
the damaged coal shutes were repaired
and put in order as well as care for
the repairing of the furnace in the
central building.
Playground Movement.
The city playground movement re-
ceived a new impetus last evening
considered the proposition of equipping
Fairgrounds at. the various schools.
The question of equipping the different
Fairgrounds with the proper parapher-
MALTA was taken up and turned over
to the buildings and grounds commit
tee, which win further, consider the
matter and report on the proposition
at some future meeting
The proposed swimming pool at the
Washington school building was again
discussed. 1t seems that some men,
bers of the board were rather dubious
about the proposition, but the school
officials ordered the building commit
tee to proceed with the matter of put
ting in the natatorium.
The girls of the high school mailed
in a request that they be allowed to
play basketball games before the stu
dent body of the school. The board
decided that 1t was not altogether
proper for the basketball girls to APP
pear in public, and the request was
denied.
Miss Ina Johnson secretary to Su-
perintendent Hoover, handed in her
resignation to take effect the evening
of Dec. 20, The resignation was accept
ed. The teachers committee reported
that Miss Marion Sherman had been
employed to teach at the Roosevelt
building at an acceptable salary.
The question Of a Christmas vaca.
ton for the pupils of the city schools
was discussed at some length and