The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
BUS|LY PLANNING
 SCHOOL OPENING Several Important Changes
 Are Announced
OVERFLOW IS LARGH
About Three Hundred High School Students Will be Accommodated at Paul Hayne Building-COr-
 leux Physical Director

Dr. J H. Phillips, superintendent or city schools said yesterday that he is working day and night to get things in readiness for the opening of the schools on the 18th of this month. The combined city and county institute for teachers will be held during the preceding week, and all of the teachers in the city schools will be present at the institute, as they are required by law to attend.
 Several changes will be made in the va rious schools of the city, both in faculty and in physical arrangements. The board of education has decided, in order to re- lieve the congestion that has existed at the Central high school, to open one di- vision of the high school in the Paul Hayne building on South Twentieth street. The division that will be trans ferred will consist of the pupils of the first semester who would attend the Cen tral high school, about 300 in number. The courses of study and the work plan ned for the junior division, as those who are tc be transferred to the Paul Hayne school will be called, will be precisely the same as they would have had in the high school building. The graduates from the schools of the western division of the city, including the Wylam, Pratt City, Ensley, and Fairview schools. will enter the western high school at Ensley. It is expected that a large class of begin ners will enter that school.
 The J. B. Cunningham school at East Birmingham. which has just been com pleted. will be opened with a full corps of teachers. Prof J. C. Blackwell, former principal of the Bush school at Ensley will be at the head of the Cunningham school. The new building is a fine one, and completely equipped in every par ticular.
 number of changes in the faculties of the city schools have been announced. In the place of Prof. Blackwell, trans ferred to the new school at East Bir- mingham, T. w. Smith, formerly of the Vivian school, will be principal of the Bush school. c. J. Ussery recent grad uate of the University of Alabama, will take Prof. Smiths place at Wylam. J. V Pogue, formerly principal of the King ston school. will become principal of the Gibson school at Woodlawn. J. R. Oben- chain will be transferred from East Br- n1ingham to the Kennedy school, and c. A Young of the Gibson school will teach this session in the Seventeenth avenue school. ..s.
 The new director of physical training
 
 the city during the coming week. Mir Corleux is a graduate of several of the best schools of physical training in the country, and has had three years exper- fence in gymnasium instruction. He has also made a reputation as an athlete in football, baseball and other athletic sports.
 In the faculty of the Central high school several changes will be made. Prof. c. c. Certain, a graduate student of the Alabama Polytechnic institute at Au- burn, will become the head of the de- partment of English. D. G. Chase, a graduate of the University of Mississippi and a Ph b from the University of Chi cago. will take charge of the department of history. The department of French will be under the. direction of Miss Mar guerrite Prendergast. who was educated at McGill university Montreal, Canada, and the University of Chicago. Additional in- structors have also been provided for the Central high school.
 In the Ensley high school the following instructors have been named: Miss Louise Dyer of Washington university, St Louis, instructor in French and German; Ray Meade, of the Alabama Polytechnic insti- ute. instructor in physics and chemistry; ]. L Orr of the Alabama Polytechnic institute, instructor in manual training.