The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-08-17
Changes Made for the Season
Soon to Open Have Been
Most Radical, Especially at
High School.
NEW TEACHERS ADDED
AND A NEW BUILDING
New Grade Added to Garfield
School, Which Will, in the
Future, Be the Old High
School Building.

With the opening of schools, Mon
day. September 10. Richmond will
have an educational system equal to
any city In the United States. of the
same size. according to Superintendent
r. A. Mott. The new high school
building At Ninth and North B streets
20 which is attached the Garfield
building. and the old high school
building rearranged for the Seventh
and Eighth grades. will be the big
changes In the system.
All buildings In the city have been
repainted. repaired and otherwise i'm
proved. New teachers have been add.
Cd both to the high school and Gar
Geld faculties and the courses OF both
schools made broader than last year.
Superintendent Mott will announce
the complete list Of teachers In . few
weeks.
Principal I. A. Ns6 has opened his
ohices In the once Of the superintend.
ent. This morning Mr.. NeR stated the
new high school building II already
for occupancy. w. 8. Hissy. who was
supervisor Of manual training At the
Garfield school. will have charge Of
the high school manual work. A sps-
cial teacher will supervise mechanical
drawing. This course. Principal NefI
states 10 Q unique one. and really .
preparatory course IN mechanical or
electrical engineering. "It 10 easily the
best course Of the kind In the STATE" /"
he said.
To Ds strengthened.
Both the mathematics and English
departments will be strengthened with
the addition Of . new teacher to each.
These have not been chosen. Miss
Kiturah Parsons Of Richmond. who
has been attending . domestic science
school In New York City, will have
charge of cooking. and Miss Emma
Bond. formerly Of the Garfield faculty
will have'the sewing department. Miss
Caroline Stahl, who 10 one Of the old
est teachers on the high school faculty
will not be able to NIL her position a.
head of the German department on &C.
count Of illness. Miss Constance Fos-
Ter. orsanist at the Reid Memorial
church. will teach German. The ath-
letic director has not yet been chosen.
In regard to athletics Mr.. Neff stat
ed there would probably be . football
and basket ball team. Tho class of
sports depends entirely on the stu
dents" he said. He favors = monthly
publication and an annual.
Six teachers will be added to the
Garfield faculty. Hugh Larrance, q
senior at Earlham, will take charge Of
athletics and also assist In arithmetic.
g. II. Blose, formerly principal OF
Centerville high school. will teach his
tory and English. 8. H. Norman of
Indiana State Normal. will assist in
history and geography and Miss Anna
Wilson, formerly assistant principal at
Fairview and Finley schools will b
added.
AZ Garfield School.
The manual training department
will be greatly enlarged. Miss Electa
Henley. . graduate OF the high school.
will take charge OF sewing and cook
lng and A. d. Roy. Of Chicago Nor.
. NAL school will supervise In the wood
working department.
In addition to the IA. S-B and S-A
grades, the 7.B will be added this year
making about seventy-nve new pupils.
The old high school building will be
used for these grades. The chapel has
been converted into = gymnasium.
making the largest In Richmond. ex.
cepting the Coliseum. II will be lifted
up for indoor baseball. track and has
Eet ball.
superintendent Mott said there are
no important changes In the grade
schools. No principals have been
changed.