El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-02
REDUCTION IN
TEACHING.
FORCE
School Board Made Some
Cuts This Year School
Term Opens Monday.
TEACHERS GIVEN
THEIR ASSIGNMENTS

The Ell Paso schools will open for
the scholastic year Of 1911 and 1912 at
s:45 o'clock Tuesday morning. Every
thing is in readiness for the children
of Ell Paso to resume their studies after
three months Of vacation. The teach
ers are returning daily from their va
cations and all will be in the city the
first Of the week There was a meet
ing at the high school Friday between
superintendent Crozier and the teach
ers, at which all received their assign
ments
The school buildings during the sum-
mer have been put through a thorough
overhauling to have them in condition
for the students when they return to
their students. and a, squad of men has
been busy for the last three months
painting and repairing the interior of
the buildings The lawns also have
been put in excellent condition dur
ing the vacation months. while in the
interior of the buildings floors have
been oiled and everything cleaned
There are no great changes to take
place in the different courses in the
schools and nearly all will remain to
great extent as they were last year.
The manual training department will
be improved somewhat and an entire
new corps of instructors has been Sc
cured for this department W. A
Burk will be the new supervisor of
the manual training department. Mr.
Burk comes from Lead. S. D., where
he has had charge of the manual
training department in the Lead schools
and is a graduate of the Bradley Poly
technic institute and the Michigan
CT re- hof
pervisor of the department in the Ell
Paso schools, Mr.. Burk will take charge
of the high school boys shopwork
classes.
The Three Assistants.
The three assistants in the manual
training department will be c. c.
Golden, formerly of the Houston, Texas,
high school. who will take the me-
chanical drafting classes in the high
school and the grade work in the La
mar and Villas schools; G. W. Dauth, of
Columbia university, will have charge
of the grade work. In the San Jacinto
and Alamo schools. and e. C. Beezley,
a graduate of the Kansas state manual
training school, will take charge of the
grade work in the Mesa, Beall and
Sunset schools. The new manual train
ing teachers will make an effort to
have the students do much practical
work in the department during the
year.
There will be three new principals
in the schools this year In the high
school. H H Ransom will replace r. NJ
White, who has resigned. Mr.. Ransom
comes from the Ball high school at
Galveston. Texas Mr.. White has gone
into business in this city. In the
Franklin school, Mrs. Eunice Payne
has been appointed principal for the
coming school year. Mrs. Payne has
been in the employ of the FL Paso
schools for some time and last year
was the mathematics teacher at the
San Jacinto school, Miss Alicia Swan
will take charge as principal of the
Highland Park school to replace Miss
Inez Humphrey. Miss Swan was the
primary supervisor of the schools last
year, but this position has been abo1-
ished
Teachers Reduced.
The number of teachers in the FL
Paso schools has been reduced from
1873, the number last year, to 167.
There have been two teachers dropped
from the music department of the
schools this year; in the art depart
ment one teacher; one teacher in the
primary department, two in the manual
training department and one assistant
principal position will be done away
with. Instead of seven substitute
teachers for the FL Paso schools, the
has been reduced to three The