The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-08-18
SCHOOL OPENS
p AUGUST 20
LIST OF TEACHERS IS ANNOUNCED
Buildings We're Renovated this Summer
and Are Ready for Scholars
Large Attendance Predicted.

In a little more than ten days the
school bells will be ringing and the
youngsters will be strapping up their
books and starting off for another lap
of the race in pursuit of knowledge,
1t will still be summer and they may
hate to start SO .a.. it is only by
starting early thai may be turned
loose in the good strawberry spring.
time. The Hood River schools will
open Monday, August 20.
The list of teachers is complete and
the buildings have all been thoroughly
renovated inside and out and are ready
to receive the boys and girls, Prof,
+. f. Coad, superintendent of the
city schools, says that the constant
influx of people into the community
and the shifting about between town
and valley makes it rather difficult to
forecast the numbers which they will
have to deal with. He says that there
is change of more than 20 per cent
of the student body of the schools
from year to year. Last year there
were go scholars in the schools and the
prospects are that there will be a
larger attendance this year.
The teachers in the High School will
be j. o. Mclaughlin, principal mathe,
MATES, Jesse W. Critics, science and
history, in charge of athletes; Mary
Barton, German and Junior and Senior
English; Hattie Louise Brunquist,
Latin and Freshman and Sophomore
English. All of the teachers are new
except Prof. Mclaughlin, who was
here last year and is we'll known. Mr..
Critics comes here highly recommended
from the state of Delaware and is
college graduate. Miss Barton is
graduate of Ohio State University and
is teacher of many years experience.
She has spent the last year in Ger
many. Miss Brunquist. who arrived in
Hood River a few days ago, is a
graduate of Wellesley College and last
year was the principal Of an academy
in West Virginia.
At the Park street building the
teachers and grades they will have as
follows Ida Turney, eighth principal;
EVELYN Turney, seventh, Maude
Howard, sixth; Pearl Eby, fifth; Viva
Clapp, fourth; Frances Evans, third;
Grace Turney, second; Alta Pool
first. Misses EVELYN Turney, Howard
and Clapp are the new teachers in this
building. The first named is a sister
of Miss Turner, who was in the
schools last year and she comes from
Wisconsin, where she has been a
teacher. Miss Howard comes to Hood
River from Greeley, Colorado, where
she took a Ecourse in the State Normal
School. Miss Clapp was teacher in
the Frankton school last year and has
spent the summer taking normal
course in the State University at
Eugene. The teachers at the PLEASE ant
View building were all here last year
and are well known to the school pa
irons. They are Vara Stewart, sixth,
principal; Lula Tidd fifth Lulu Hicks
fourth; Mabel Claxton, third; Anna
Vannett, first. The list of teachers
has one less than last year caused by
the fact that from the present prospect
it will only be necessary to have one
second grade. So many of the schol-
ars of the first grades of last year have
shifted about that Prof. Coad believes
one teacher will be able to handle the
scholars Of that grade He said that
if the present indications failed to be
borne out, he would find it necessary to
get another teacher for the second
grade and give the work at the Pleas
ant View building. The prospects are
that there will be a large entering
class in the high school, number of
students coming in from the valley and
it is possible that division of the first
year classes will be necessary. If this
is the case another teacher will be Sc
cured and is desired by the authorities
to get teacher who can handle do
mestic science work as we'll as some
other courses.
The first grade for the pupils on the
Heights will be in the High School
building and not in the Pleasant View
building. Miss Merle Blinn, who
taught the second grade last year at
the Park school was retained by the
school authorities but she has asked
for years leave of absence which
has been granted her. She has been
visiting in the east and will remain in
Cincinnati this winter where she has a
position in the primary department Of
the schools of that city. She expects
to return to Hood River year from
now.