The Topeka state journal., 1910-05-31
Board of Education Names
Teachers for Ensuing Year.
Business Studies to Be Added to
High School Course.
THEIRPAYIS BOOSTED
Instructors Have Salaries Rails
ed by Authorities.
Resolution of Thanks Adopted
by Teaching Body.
THEIR PAYIS BOOSTED

A special meeting of the board OF ed
rcation was held Monday night with
the result that the teaching force for
the ensuing school year was chosen and
i. was decided to install a business
course in the high school. The latter
is something that many OF the parents
Of the city. VINO have children in school
have been demanding, and it is only
putting Topeka in line with other pro-
gressive Giles in this respect
"One thing that appeals to me- said
Mrs. C J. Evans of the board, is that
i will proba bly, hold the students
through the high school 1t seems 20
me that the boys and girls are deprived
OF their rights when they are not given
the opportunity to take these studies
This Is the arrangement of studies as
adopted by the board:
First year-Business English, pen
1.ranship and spelling.
Second year-Commerclal arithmetic
end bookkeeping
Third year-BoOkkeep stenosraphy
and typev vriting; commercial geogra ply
and commercial law. half year each.
Fourth year-Stenography and type
1riting. economics and industrial his
tory.
Next fall the first two years of the
course will be installed.
When il came time TO discuss the
teachers for the next school year Mrs.
c. J. Evans was particularly desirous
that the board go into executive ses-
sion, and her argument finally prevail
ed, and the reporter present was eX-
cluded from the meeting for a short
time. =. H. Anderson said that he was
opposed to executive sessions-that he
would not object to having anything he
fright say published in the papers
Rose r Morgan, Gertrude Lundborg,
RI lie Sr1p-r r7f RiTC7fn CTTRannngn have
resigned as teachers i'll tle high school
Boost Teachers Pay.
Below are some resolutions adopted:
That the salaries of Miss Mary
Bunker and Miss Mildred Hazelrigg,
supervisors respectively of drawing and
music, be $3.50 each for 1s10-1911
That an arrangement be made with
W. H. Greider to serve on one-fourth
TO one-third time as teacher in the
high school. salary to be pro rata.
That the following teachers be elect
ed as teachers in the high school: Lydia
Bolmar. wood carving and clay model
ing, salary s75 per month; Grace NJ
Stelter, German and English. $S5 per
month; c. J. Hilkey, economics and
civics, 800 per month; Stella Olcott,
mathematics. $50 per month; Charles
H. Wilmington, science. S85 per month.
That the following be elected to the
available list for the elementary
schools, subject to appointment in the
order specified: Mabel Pond. Hattie
Tomson, Ethel A Chapman, Ethelyn
Wright, Merle Fowler, Edith Monroe,
Julia E Davis, Edna Avery, Edna
Pearce. Leonore Steele, Lueua Plumb.
Clara Daniels, Olive OLSON. Esther
Peers, Hermoine Pratt, Larua Haynes,
Clara B. Reynolds, Edna Kincaid, Edna
NJ. Jones. Eleanor Voswinkel, Ethel
owen. Minnie E. Jones, Marian A Alt
Supply teacher), Elizabeth Campbell
(supply teacher), Ruth Woodford (sup-
ply teacher).
Manual training-Helen McNeely,
Anna, Davis, Helen Schwartz, Cora
Hepworth, Rachel Kendrick, Jennie
Smith.
Negro Embellishments Green, Ef-
fe Burge. Ada Upshaw.
Manual raining-Jeannette Grant,
Hazel Barton.
In consideration of the advanc4
made by the board in the maximum
salary Of teachers, it is recommended
that the following additions be made in
salary schedule as applied to principals
Of buildings of five. six. or seven rooms
principals Of four rooms, and principals
OF buildings of less than four rooms:
BUILDINGS OF. FIVE, SIX OR
SEVEN ROOMS.
Firth year .....-.---.........$1 81, 100
sixth year .--,.-.-...-..------. 115O
BUILDINGS OF FOUR ROOMS.
F1Tth year --....-..-.....-.... 81 ,050
SIKH year -.....--...---... 100
BUILDINGS OF LESS THAN FOUR
ROOMS
I'm buildings of less than four rooms
the salary of the principal shall be s.
more than that to which he is entitled
a teacher and IS per month for eacn