Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-09-13
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
LARGER THAN EVER
Public and ParochiaI Enroll.
ment in Village I047

Main and Canal Street Buildings crowd.
ed and More Are comine-71 In High
School Freshman Glass.
All the Bratteboro schools. which
opened this week, have a larger enroll
ment than ever before The aggregate
Is 1041, and this figure win be Increased
within few days. The lack of room is
more noticeable than heretofore hut this
condition will be relieved somewhat
when the Oak Grove building is ready
for occupancy. The first day was spent
largely in preliminary work, but the
regular schedules are being worked out
as rapidly as possible.
The high school opened Tuesday
Tuesday morning. Principal E. b.
Smiths corps Of assistants this year in
cludes two men. Frederick d. Hayward,
teacher Of history, and Richard Hughes
teacher Of sciences. The enrolment was
233. The high mark last year was 230
pupils, and it is probable that more than
240 will be enrolled when all those who
are away on their vacations return The
number of pupils in each class is as fol-
lows: Post graduates, 4; seniors, 40;
juniors so; sophomores, 81; freshmen II.
There are 40 girls in the latter class and
81 boys. With the addition of the new
teachers In the school the problem of
arranging the schedule Is presenting diff
hculties as there are now more teachers
than there are rooms, and another diff
nculty Is that some of the recitation
rooms are so small that the larger class
es cannot easily be accommodated in
them.
The graded schools opened Tuesday
morning with an enrolment of 634 pu-
pills. A more than last year, and as the
oak Grove avenue building is not yet
ready for the children the Canal street
htrf1 Inc fr
in the Canal street school As children are
enrolled, while there are seating accom-
modations for but 40. and the room will
have to remain crowded until the new
building is ready. None of the pupils
will be transferred to the Main street
building, as they already live some dis
tance from the school which they now
attend. The fifth grade is filed to it's
capacity and there are no opportunities
for transfers, for the same rea sons.
Many of the new pupils come from the
Fort Dummer Heights district and are
children of the mill operatives. They
will be transferred to the Oak Grove
school as soon as it is ready and with
them will go the other children who live
near the school. 1t is probable that Miss
Edith Douglas will have charge of a
combination third and fourth grade in
the new building, which will have 33
pupils in its two rooms. The new school
building probably will open Monday, Sept
30. The doors and windows have not
been put in place and the interior is
not finished
Miss Florence NJ. Wellman, supervisor
of grades, has been busy this week ar
ranging the coming years work and
planning the transfers that will take
place when the Oak Grove building is
ready. Following is the list of teachers
for the graded schools: Main street build
do
principal, Miss C. Hope Bolton assistant
principal; grade s, Miss Mabel Applin;
grade 8, Miss Ethel Eddy; grade Z, Miss
Nellie Grosvenor; grade 6, Mrs. Jennie
T. Warren; grade 5, Miss Gertrude i.
Marston; grade 4, Miss Sadie E Win
chester. Grove street annex-Grade 8,
Miss Inez C. Akley. Canal street school
Grade Z, Miss Minnie !. Rawson; grade
3, Miss Grace A. Pike; grades 1 and @
Miss May II. Douglas; grade 6, Miss
Nellie A. Prouty; grade 5, Mrs. A. NJ
Harlow; grade 4, Miss Nellie Fem. Es-
teyville school, Miss Mary Croker. Wash
ington street school, Miss Lillian C. New
ton. High street school. MISS Esther L.
Crowell. Chase street school, Miss Eloise
Sanders. Oak Grove school, Miss Edith
Douglas. Miss Georgianna Mexican.
st. Michaefs Parochial school opened
Monday with an attendance of $50, the
largest in the schools history. Changes
have been made in the teaching staff, as
Sister Augusta, who had charge about
four years, has been transferred to Ben
nington, where she will be superior of
the Parochial school. Sister st. Joseph,
who was here 26 years and who left here
four years ago. has returned and will be
the superior. Sister Rogue, who had
been here "a years in charge of the sis
ters' home, also has been transferred
to Bennington. Both the sisters who
have been transferred won their way to
the hearts of the children and they have
the esteem and confidence of the par
ents, whose regret that they have been
sent to another school is only tempered
by the knowledge that another sister,
Sister st. Joseph, who is so well known
and beloved by them, has returned.