The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-12
Members Of Board Of Education
Make Statement to the Public

/ The work of the board is distributed
among standing committees, who are
charged primarily with specific duties.
These committees report to the full
board with their recommendations, and
all official action is taken by the full
board, including action upon reports of
committees. The board, as organized
at present n for the last year, is as
follows:
Standing Committees, 1012-1s1s.
Finance-Smith, Holt, Young.
Buildtngs-Frame, Carpenter, Bolley.
Suppites-Hannaher, Smith, Young.
Ardle.
Textbooks-Young. Carpenter, Han
Betterment-Holt, Young, Hanson.
F1eaith-Carpenter, Young, Hannaher.
Nlsitlng-Hanson, Bolley, Carpenter.
dnition-Smith, Frame, Hannaher.
The superintendent and teachers are
employed for n year only, that be-
ing the limit OF the authority of the
board to contract. The present super
END Is nnder contract until Aug.
l 1918. 1t has been the custom for
years. to- employ a superintendent at
the Feb. ! meeting and to engage
the teachers at the March i meeting.
me subject of teachers n Of SUI
p~erintendent is within h province of
the teachers committee primarily, and
also the school b~etterment committee.
IT was the opinion of the members
OF the committee and also
of the school betterment committee
that an improvement could be made
IN our schools by a change in the SUI
perintendency thereof. All Of the in
dlvldual members of the two commit
tees were Of this opinion, and they
were also agreed that a change should
not be made unless we could get the
services of superintendent OF the SUI
Iperlor qualifications which, in our
Judgment, the Importance of our
schools demanded. Before bringing the
matter before the board, therefore,
some preliminary investigation was
made to find out whether material for
supertntendency such as we would
want could be obtained.
with that end in view we obtained
the names of a number of available
persons. We were also of the opinion
that no man for this important posi-
ton should be either hired or recon-
mended unless we had personally seen
him.
"A trip was made to st, Paul by
three members of the above commit
tees to interview one of these men.
Their judgment was favorable to him.
From their interview with his one
possible candidate the members of
assuring the board that men were
available of the superior qualifications
which our situation, in our Judgment,
demands The trip to st. Paul was on
AT the regular meeting of the
board, which was on Jan. 2, all the
members Of the board were present,
namely: McArdle, Smith, Frame, Han
naher. Holt; Young, Bolley, Carpenter
and Hanson.
"At the conclusion of the other BUSH
ness then before the board an execu-
tive session was called for and the
same was held in the same room, all
members of the board being present,
namely: McArdle, Smith, Frame, Ham
naher, Holt, Young, Bolley Carpenter
and Hanson, and the only persons leav-
ing the room when the executive ses-
sion was held were superintendent
Hoover and Secretary Guthrie, who re-
turned after the executive session was
concluded. The members Of the teach
ers' committee and the school better
ment committee made their report as
to what they had done and gave their
individual views upon the ~desirability
and submitted the correspondence and
gave the full board all the information
they had collected on the subject.
THE question was calmly discussed
as fully as the members desired. A
motion was made and seconded that we
make a change in our SUPPLEMENTARY
at the end of the contract with the
present superintendent; that the presi-
dent of the board be instructed to in
form Mr.. Hoover of the boards action
and that the teachers committee pro-
coed Immediately to secure another SUI
perintendent. ,aa,~-t
THE question arose as to whether
Smith, Carpenter and Hannaher, who
not being members of the committees
having this matter in charge, and who
had therefore not given Ii much consid-
GRAFTON, wished to defer action and
Messrs. Smith and Carpenter both as