The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-08-17
Two TEACHERS
ARE APPOINTED
SCHOOL BOARD HOLDS BRIEF
MEETING TO ACT ON MAT
TER OF IMPROVING THE
! SCHOOL GROUNDS.

The board of education of Hancock
held a special session last evening for
the purpose of considering plans for
the Improvement of the grounds of the
Il, l.. Wright school in west Hancock.
Drawings and sketches and specifica-
lions were submitted by Engineer
Craig, but no definite action was
taken, and the board adjourned to
meet this morning and pay per-
sonal visit to the school grounds to
see just what was needed. The pro-
posed Improvement comprises a wall
about three feet i'm height, either of
concrete or stone, and also sidewalks
and cutters.
A number OF minor improvements
are being made to the high school
building, including the providing of
an additional room on the second floor.
adjoining the commercial room, to be
used as typewriting department.
Two cloak rooms are being thrown in
to one by the removal of a partition
and the necessary desks and other APP
paratus will be installed
In the assembly room the platform
has been enlarged and raised to
height of thirty inches, so as to give
room upon 1t for the piano and to
make 1t more adaptable for use by the
students for entertainment purposes
and for the debates and rhetoricals of
the Eclectic club.
The new manual training department
will be located in a room on the ground
floor 90 the high school building, there
being two available. either one of
which will answer the purpose. being
large and well lighted. A decision as
to which will be used will be made
at once and will be prepared to re-
ceive the benches, tools and other APP
paratus that have been ordered by Su-
pcrintendent LaRowe. James II. Ryan
of Wausau. Wis, who has been en-
gagged as instructor Of the new de-
partment, will arrive here next week
to prepare for the opening and in
sttuting of the new department at the
opening of the schools for the fall term,
one week from next Monday morning.
August 30.
Two other new teachers have been
appointed since the closing of school,
to fill vacancies caused by designations.
Miss Anna Copeland of Hancock has
been rendered the appointment as
teacher of Room Three of the Il. l..
Wright school to take the place of
Miss Edna Willard of Marquette, who
resigned upon the recent death OF her
mother and grandmother. and Miss
Alice Robinson of Chicago has been
engaged as an eighth grade teacher
Miss Robinson is a graduate of the
University of Michigan and has also
taken postgraduate course at the
Chicago Normal school, and comes well
recommended.
Two hundred new volumes have been
ordered for the school library. of which
about one hundred are to replace old
ones that have become worn out or
mutilated.
1t has been decided to make me-
chanical drawing a feature of the cur
riculum i'm the new manual training
department. The amount expended
for material and apparatus of the man
ual training department is about $500,
which will provide for instruction in
carpentry and similar branches to
limited extent. Glasses of twelve will
be organized to receive instruction at
one time. and arrangements will be
made for forming several classes, and
dividing the time in such manner
as may be deemed advisable.