The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-09-08
USUAL CROWDED CONDITIONS
Some New Teachers on Hand TO Greet
Students in the Different Departments
"A Sketch of the New Teachers This
Yeare
(From TUESDAYS Dailyl

AEIOm u6oudy bdlly
Three thousand Kenosha school child
rem with clean faces and decked out in
their best bib and tucker started this
morning for school with the opening of
the new year Of the city schools and
Notwithstanding the fact that it was
the largest crowd of school children
ever entering the Kenosha schools the
Board of Education is going to be able
to take care of all of them. There will
of course be crowded conditions in
some of the schools and~the board has
opened three basement rooms but the
arrangements will insure the comfort
of the children and it is certain that
none Of them VIII be turned away. For
the past three weeks Superintendent
Mary D. Bradford, has been preparing
the parents and the children for the
opening day and things moved like
clock work this morning. Every room
was in readiness for the coming Of the
children and most Of them went to the
buildings with books and equipment
to begin work without further delay.
So much preliminary work had been
done that it is expected that the rooms
will be fully organized and down to
work by Wednesday morning. The at
tendance at all of the schools shows
an increase over the previous year and
the attendance at the High School sets
a new high record. There is the usual
large number of students from the
country districts at the High School A
meeting of the principals and teachers
is being held this afternoon to com
plete the arrangements for the opening
of the routine work on Wednesday
morning.
The public school teaching force of
Kenosha consisting now of eighty-two
men and women has a. number of new
members this fall. Believing that the
public will be interested in learning
something about those who are to en-
gage in the important service Of teach
ing their children, a brief account is
given of the professional preparation,
and the teaching experience of these
teachers.
Oliver S. Thompson, the new principal
of the high school, has made careful
preparation for his work along both
academic and professional lines. With
him teaching is profession, studied
as law or medicine are studied and en-
tered not as stepping stone to some
thing else, but as life work. He is
native of Waukegan, Illinois, and a
graduate of the Lake Forest University.
He has studied year at the Fitchburg
Massachusetts Normal School. and had
fellowship in PHYSIOLOGY and Peda,
gogy at Clark university, Worcester,
Mass. The last named institution is to
the teacher ambitious for good profes-
sional preparation what John Hopkins
University is to Doctor<or Columbia
Law School is to a lawyer. During the
past year, Mr.. Thompson has been at
Madison doing post graduate work in
education and science.
His teaching experience which to
certain extent has alternated with his
study, has included the principalship
of grammar schools in Massachusetts
towns; the teaching in high school of
science and English; teaching of Biol
ogy and Physiology for three years in
the Indiana State Normal at Terre
Haute, and the principalship of the
Hinsdale, Illinois high school, His spe-
cial field is biological science. He has
had experience in all forms of coInpeti-
tive activity entered into by live high
schools, athletics, oratory and debate,
and his leadership will mean much in
these lines for our high school boys and
girls.
William H. Kuntz, who will be at the
head of the commercial department of
the high school, IS a Wisconsin man,
his present home being Poynette, Wis
cousin. He is a graduate of the spen-
Ger Commercial school of Milwaukee
and graduate of the University of
Wisconsin He has taught three years
in Illinois having the direction of the
commercial work in the LaSalle-P Peru
Township high school, Our commercial
course started last spring, promises to do
good service in fitting boys and girls
broadly and thoroughly for business eff
| fciency.
Mr.. Kuntz is ably assisted in the
administration of this course by Miss
Pauline J. Hayes, teacher of stenogra
ply and typewriting. Miss Hayes comes
from Ann Arbor, Michigan, her home
city. She is a graduate of the Univer
slty OF Ann Arbor, and, in preparation
for her special vocation, graduate also
of the Ann Arbor Stenographic Insti-
tute. She has had four wears of ex-
perience, two in Minnesota and two
in CentraIa, Illinois.
Frank NJ. Karnes, who becomes Su-
| pervisor Of Manual Training, and teach
1 es at the Columbus school shop, is