Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1912-11-13
SCHOOL BOARD MEETS
IN MONTHLY SESSION
Board to Give Stanton ColOred
School Advantages of In
dustrial Training.
MISS STOTLER RESIGNS.
Anne AruDdelians Want School NeaI
Linthicum Heights More Centrally
Located.


The Board of County School Com
missioners met yesterday in regular
session, and after hearing and ap-
proving the minutes of the previous
meeting transacted the following
business:
On tAe request of the trustees IF
colored schoo! 81 for a stove for
said school the Board granted them an
alright stove.
On motion Of Mr.. Melvin the treas
urer was authorized to pay to Mr..
Fritz Sanner the sum of 1926. IL on ac-
count of the new school building near
Woodwardsville.
Mr.. Henry Heller, trustee Of the
Eastport white school, asked for cer-
tain necessary repairs to the school.
The Board granted the request.
Miss Ruth Feldmeyer, school 1872
having having raised $40 for school
library, a like sum was voted by the
Board.
A delegation of citizens and tax
payers from the vicinity of Linthi-
cum heights, Shipley's, Woodlawn,
Humphreys and Ferndale. having a
appeared before the Board and rep
resented that those communities ars
in need of a public school centrally
located, and having presented large
ly signed petition asking for the es-
t4blishment of such q school. IL is
resolved that the application be re-
ferred to the PresideAt of the Board
with power to make a selection of a
site for such a school.
A letter from Miss Linthicum with
reference TO pupils unprepared to do
the work of the digh School was re-
fered to the Superintendent and Miss
Linthicum to consider and report to
the Board.
Miss Blanche Donaldson was ap-
pointed an assistant in the Brooklyn
school to begin her duties on Decem-
Der /.
On the recommendation of the
trustees of the Annapolis Grammar
School, Miss Edith Woodward was APP
pointed an assistant in said school,
vice Miss Stotler, resigned.
Miss Mildred Phelps was appoint
ed assistant in the Admiral school,
while the school is too overcrowded
to make it manageable for one teach
er, her duties to begin on Novem-
Der 1S.
The Board voted to close the schools
on Friday, December 20 for the
Christmas holidays instead of the
following Monday.
The resignation of Miss BERTHE
Stoll as assistant in the Brooklyn
school was accepted to take effect on
December 1.
Mr.. j Frank Lee, janitor of the
Brooklyn school, was allowed So per
month to employ someone to assist
him during the months when the fires
are kept up.
The Board voted a teachers desk
and chair for colored school 8-3 to be
sent to John Fl. H. Carroll, Severn,
Md. The request for repairs for said
school was refused.
The request Of Miss Riordan.
principal of the Grammar school for
certain maps. was not granted.
The resignation of Miss Stotler
from the Annapolis Grammar School
was accepted to take effect Eovem-
Der Is.
The resignation of Miss Ruth Re.
dsker, principal of the Dorsey echool.
was accepted to take effect on De-
cember s.
The Board decided to employ
William Butler to give instruction
in carpentry at the Stanton school,
he to receive $40 a month extra
salary from the colored Industrial
fund.
The Superintendent was dire cted
to send an alright (cast ironl
stove, five joints of pipe and one
elbow, to Henry Blake, West River.
for colored school III.
The Board directed the Superin-
tendent to inform the teachers thru
a circular letter that the portion of
his last circular letter referring to
Miss Drury's relations to the school
system was disapproved by them.
A large number of bills were passed
and the Board adjourned to meet
again on Tuesday, December 10.