Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-05-14
SECRET SESSIONS
CONE REGULARLY
SCHOOL BOARD AGAIN RENDERS
ITSELF ODlOJS 10 PUBLIC
~ ms PRIV hfI,
AXES ALL ON THE ms. DE
strong suspicious Aroused that Board
J. Attempting 10 slip something
ANor-lhc Reelected Teachers.

Two Attlc reporters standing In tho
hall. one cot hred and took fan
one lttleh ei,ur lett all clone.
lie got dlsgustfu ana beat II for
home
Two newspapermon, ono treasurer
n s"hool board, one principal Of a
high school, one superintendent # a
nearby cltys school, and one Janitoi
of "a school building were refused ad-
mttancc TO the room at the tulsa
High school building last night in
which the Tulsa school board was
holding an important meeting.
10 begin with. however. everything
was lovely. The reporters and tho
other spectators occupied chairs in
the sacred Quarters. Some one asl,ra
the board to allow girl TO graduate
from the high school, ON the grounds
that she had been graded too low,
ana 1t was then up to the board 70
hold a secret conference. No dun
geons were available, 80 they did the
next best thing. They went into eN-
eCutiVe session.
1T will take just "A minute 10 decide
this-kind Of embarrassing to vote on
it while the applicants are IN the
room" explained one board member,
as he followed "A reporter in the cold
and dismal hallway Then he quickly
ducked back to his secretlve COM
patriots.
After about ten minutes had elapsed
"A member Of the august board stuck
his head out the door and announced
that the girl in question would be al
lowed to graduate.
But the executive session continued
10 execute The door was locked and
nobody had an axe, unless there was
one To grind on the inside.
The treasurer of the board, after 4
patient wait of about an hour. lu,Hk-
ed ON the door. It finally opened and
ne was permitted TO get his hat and
leave. Door again locked. After a
couple Of hours of the locked door,
star-chamber business, the last re-
porter decided that he had better
leave. lie left
What the board really did will
probably never be known. The peO-
pie Of Tulsa-'Who pay for the support
of the schools, and who elected the
school board TO office, will have TO
wait until the board members get
ready to falkland If they never talk,
well, they'll never talk, that's all.
Never heard Of a school board po-
ing into executive session in nay life.
commented the out-of
town school man. after an hours de-
lay on the outside,
It is rumored that big fight is on
in the board-perhaps something deep, .
dark and devIish enough to cause
locked doors, anyhow
1t is rumorcd that Scott Glenn OF
Shawnee. who was last week gently
asked by Governor Cruce to resign as
a member of the state board Of edu-
'ation, is TO * made superintendent
IF the Tulsa schools. and chat r. T..
Downing. who the board resolutcd
about in no uncertain terms. that they
will not re-elcct him 20 that office,
Is To take Glenns place at the head
Of the Shawnee schools Thc polite
ians are trying to put the deal over,
and already the school patrons Of the
city are rising up in protest against
such traVesly Of so-callcd mon -parti-
san" administration Of the city school
affairs.
At 1880 o'clock last night tho
board adjourned. All that they gavo
,ut for In information Of the anN-
Gus public was list of TEACHERS and
written on piece OF pa-
.er aud graciously brought to The
World by o. II. =. Mcdowell. re-
member Of the hoarG Here
: the list Of those who will hold over
rs teachers for next term.
l.. j. l<atz. A. j Keeling. William
.lackcndorf II. -. Maxwell, ]. H.
Brown, Mamie Bryant. r.. Il. Short,
Pearl Maze Ethel Snldow. Effle
'tephens. Iunice Rewards Mamie
Brady, Edna Biddison. Olga Smith,
Wary Jane Bennett. Katherine Price.
George MacCurdy Nellie Bullet. Effie
Lillian Sifferd. Mrs. w. \.
rites. Mrs. Ada Stwart. Josephine
Prentice. Sophie FORBADE. Mabel
ichaeffcr Maud Morris, Jessie Mitch
~, Laola Reed, Emma Wyatt. Alberta
Swans. Mary Whiteside. Sadie Lee
)rr Ethel steele, Bess DESIGN Web
,ie Dodd. Lottie Washington Mabel
Wtson Mrs. A. Mcdonald. Mrs. Anna
iaworth. A. J Watkins. Mrs. clara ,
Adams, Mabel Butts. Dencic stcbhius ,
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