Evening journal., 1913-09-01
SCHOOL BELL
CALLS PUPILS
in TOMORROW
Army Of Students Prepared
to Enter Upon Fall Course
of Studies
SOME CHANGES IN
THE DIFFERENT FACULTIES

School days begin tomorrow and,
as recently announced by Superin-
tendent George w. Twitmyer, prepar-
ations have been completed for the
opening of the various city schools,
and everything points to a year Of
more splendid efficiency than ever in
the training and instruction of the
army of ten thousand or more school
children. and High School students,
who will answer the call of the school
bell tomorrow.
The new Evan G. Shortlidge school
at Concord avenue and the Boulevard
has been completed and stands ready
for occupancy. With its opening there
will be a general readjustment Of pu-
pills from Schools Nos. 2, 10, "a, 9, Is
and Il.
Miss Sallie Devine and seven as
sistants have been appointed to the
new school. which was thrown open
for injection on Saturday afternoon
and evening. The school also was
open for inspection all day yesterday
and there we're many visitors.
The cost of the building is approxi-
mately s66.OO0 The main building cost
about s54 900 TO erect and the heating
plant about $4,000, The furnishings
cost $1,000 and the paving and walls
around the building about $4,000. The
lot on which il is built is valued at
$4,000. but this was donated by Sam
uel II. Baynard-
Eight schools will continue as last
year under the supervision OF but fonr
/ principals Nos. 6 and in charge OF
Mrs. Elizabeth Webb Pritchetti Nos.
II and 26. in charge of Miss Marie G..
Loney. Nos. 10 and p in charge Of
Miss Sallie G. BYE and Nos. Is and 20
( in charge OF Miss Edwina B. kruse.
! In addition TO the designations Of
+ Miss Craig and Miss Wheeler already
announced from the faculty of the
I Wilmington High school notice is given
of the resignation and retirement OF
/ Miss Sallie Hare, the oldest teacher in
the city.
Miss Hare has been in school work
continuously since 1867. and has been
associated with the department Of
senior mathematics in the Whining
ton High School since 1873.
High tributes to her teaching have
iheen paid by the late Lieutenant Cal
lvin Bertolette and Judge Herbert L.
Rice.
Three others of the regular instruc-
itors VIII not he in their places to-
morrow. Miss jeanette Eckman, of
the German department. is i'll at Will
lliamstown. Mass. Miss Grace n.
Sayers, of the drawing department
and Esau h Loomis. teacher OF
Latin, are also out indefinitely, on
sick leave
AS yet. no appointment has been
made to fill the vacancy in the Latin
iof Rudolph r. FAIRIES.
No provision has yet been made for
Ia new supervisor OF music The
four new members Of the Whining
ton High School faculty are Miss
Minnie Edgar. Miss Lucy Caryin, Miss
Irene Pierce and W. II. ]. Cotton.
Professor Cotton. who will be the
head of the commercial department
has removed his family from Camden
New Jersey. and is living on West
iTwenty-fourth street.
Miss Jane V. Goessling will still re.
main head of the domestic science de.
partment which has been changed &c
meet the demands of the improved
three year course.
The public school exhibit to bi
made at the Wilmington fair has al
been mounted, and is ready TO b'
placed by Director Ronald F. Davis
Mr. Davis at the opening of th'
new term. becomes the head of thu
manual arts work in the city. This
/ now includes the manual training
and drawing at the Wilmington Higl
School.
! In competition for the cup Offered
: by Millard F. Davis. the ward exhibi
of the June civics class has been en-
tered individually by each ward com
{ mittee. consisting of three members
Professor e. L. Cross. superintendent
of the New Castle county schools ha
announced that he has teachers 70
!, all his schools.
/, , DIR. Wagner, state commissioner o
education, has removed to this city an,
is living at No. 1900 North Harriso,
street. In speaking of his vacation, Dr
lTwitmyer said he had spent much tim
p in looking into the problem of voca
f. tional training and had visited the sum
liner schools at the University Of Penn
D sylvania. State College University O
Pittsburgh and University of Chicago IL
order to study organization, genera
management and methods of instruction
e iparticularlv in the matter OF vocationa
guidance and the rural school problem