The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-09-26
MISS POLLOCK AONORED
After Ten Years Service at Salt Lake
City She Goes to Oklahoma City
as Assistant superlntendent.


Fargo and North Dakota friends of
Miss Rosalie Pollock will be interested
to know that after ten years loyal and
splendid service in the public schools
Of Salt Lake City where she became
supervisor Of primary departments. has
severed her connection there to take
the position Of assistant superintendent
and supervisor Of primary departments
at Oklahoma City.
Owing to a sectarian demand Miss
Pollock was not recommended for re-
election this year, but her popularity
with the teachers and the public at
large Of Salt Lake City, including the
membership Of the several women's
clubs was so great that the biggest
kind Of an opposition storm was rails
ed over the action OF the majority Of
the board Of education. To cover up
their designs Miss Pollock was offered
a years leave of absence with half
pay. Miss Pollock stated that the let
ter and its terms were not only an in
justice to her, but to the schools Of
Salt Lake City and she declined to ac-
cept the terms and the inevitable came.
Under feature headlines and embel-
lished with a well executed picture of
Miss Pollock, The Daily Tribune of
Salt Lake City, printed the following
In reference to Miss Pollock leaving
Salt Lake City:
Miss Rosalie Pollock, who for the
past ten years has been q power for
good in the public schools of Salt Lake
City, has accepted an excellent offer
from Oklahoma City, Okla, and left
yesterday, after a few days visit here
for her new position. Miss Pollock
goes to be assistant superintendent and
primary supervisor there, a position
which In reality she creates. The SUI
perintendent is w. A. Brandenberg, a
man standing high in the N. e. A., and
well known in educational circles
throughout the east
THE schools OF Oklahoma city are
said TO be second to none, and the pop
ulation, numbering over 10000 is made
up OF progressive, UP to date western
people. So far the schools have been
under one head, but the new position
win give a chance to carry out more
definitely the foremost educational
ideas. The offer of the position came
while Miss Pollock was on the coast
attending the N. e. A. meeting and was
entirely unsought. Miss Pollock was
considering some other offers, but as
this is exactly in line with her chosen
work, primary supervision, she decided
to decline them in favor of this work.
Miss Pollock is a college woman OF
high standing, having taken a diploma
and bachelors degree from Columbia
university. While connected with the
city schools she has made a wide cir
Gle of the warmest friends, not alone In
educational circles but among the best
men and women of the intellectual
class AS a teacher she has come in
close contact with the club women
OF the state, and as a cIubwoman she
was foremost as help and an inspira-
ton to the teachers"
Regarding the acceptance OF the re-
sponsible position In the schools Of Ok
lahoma City, by Miss Pollock, The ok
lahoma City Times OF Sept 4, had the
following to say:
"A change in the operation OF the
primary grades of the public schools
OF Oklahoma City will be made DUR
ing the coming year In the appoint
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Lake City as supervisor OF the pri-
mary grades. Superintendent w. Al.
Brandenburg regards this as the most
important addition that has been made
to the city schools during the entire
| year and declares that 1t will result
In uniformity Of methods in primary
grades to a greater extent than has yet
resulted
Miss Pollock for the past ten years
has held a similar position in the pub
lie schools of Salt Lake City, In which
she attained national reputation.
Professor Brandenberg met her In san
Francisco last summer while attending
the convention Of the National Educa-
tional association there and at that
time secured her consent to come to
| Oklahoma City this year.
ION account Of the increase in size
OF the primary grades and the large
number OF teachers employed in them
| 1t was recognized as necessity that
q supervisor for the first four grades
be secured. It is believed that this
addition will result materially in in
creasing the efficiency Of the lower
departments
The papers generally of Salt Lake
| City were extremely laudatory of the
services rendered the city and her
schools by Miss Pollock and in turn
the superintendent and the board Of
education were roasted to rich
brown turn and the way Miss Pollock
and her supporters fayed her critics
was most interesting, Miss Pollock
being quoted fully In one article to
the extent OF nearly three columns IN
The Tribune OF Salt Lake City.
For several years the teachers at
tending the summer schools at the
agricultural college in this city en-
Joyed the privilege or instruction in
| primary work ait the hands of Miss
Pollock who taught in Fargo and Cas-
selton before leaving the state.