The San Francisco call., 1910-02-03

RIVAL CLUBS CLASH
/. OVER CORNERSTONE
Two Bodies Struggle for Honor
of Conducting Exercises at
Sheridan School
Organization That Invited Mayor
Mccarthy to 0fhCiate Loses
the Ceremony

Diplomacy on the part of the board
Of education appeased the wrath of
four members of the Sheridan i'm
provement club who appeared before
the board yesterday in an effort to
have transferred to them the honor of
laying the cornerstone OF the Sheri-
dan school on Washington's birthday,
which was granted the Ocean View i'm
provement club January IL.
The committee explained that the
two Improvement clubs had originally
been one, but had split on the question
or selecting the site for the school.
The Ocean View club had opposed the
site which was selected therefore the
Sheridan club thought that it should
be accorded the honor of laying the
cornerstone.
PAYOT PLEADS FOR PEACE
One of the women of the COMMITTEES
INFORMED the board that notice had
been served on the Ocean View club of
the sheridan clubs intention of ap-
pearlng before the board, but evidently
the Ocean View club saw no necessity
OF appearing, inasmuch as its petition
had been granted. Expecting to have
charge of the ceremonies, the Sheridan
club had secured the consent of Mayor
McCarfhy to attend, but now it will
nave TO turn over to the Ocean View
club the letter of acceptance.
Director Payot smoothed out the sit
uatlon by suggesting that the Sheridan
CLUB should take charge of the dedica-
ton of the new building when COM
pleted and join hands with the rival
club In boosting the cornerstone cere-
monies.
Mrs. Mary w. Kincaid declined the
proposed honor of having the new
school at 'Nineteenth avenue and 1
streets named after her.
BIRD AND ARBOR DAY WORK
A communication was received from
the California club calling attention to
the fact that Luther Burbank birth
day, March z, was designated by the
last legislature as bird and arbOr day
and asking that the school children
hold appropriate exercises and plant
trees around the schools and wherever
else possible.
Director Payot called attention to the
Increase in the water bills at some of
the schools and asked that steps be
taken to prevent waste.
new standing committee to be
known as the janitorial committee was
created yesterday and Richard l. whe-
Ian was appointed by President Ban
herman as the committee.
CHANGES IN TEACHING STAFF
-
Miss Josephine Cereghino, who is
now teacher in Colma. was appointed
a special teacher of Italian, the ap-
pointment becoming effective Febru-
airy II.
Mrs. Kate Waters was assigned to
the ungraded class at the Bergerot
school.
Miss Alice II. Lalande was declared
to be the senior teacher in the Rich
mond grammar school.
Resolutions were adopted to add
four classrooms at the Washington
Irving school and two classrOoms and
q manual training room at the Fair
mount school.
The designations of Alice E. Folsom
as a teacher and Mary Buckley as jani-
tress of the Peabody school were &C
cepted Mrs. A. Carey was appointed
to succeed Miss Buckley. Miss z. G..
McEwen was assigned from leave Of
absence to the Jean Parker school.
Miss Grace Fitzpatrick was granted a
leave of absence during February on
account of illness and Miss NJ. R. Bley
was granted an extension of leave Of
absence for the same reason.