The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-05-24
SCHOOL BOARD PROCEEDINGS.
Special Election Called for GaIvez
School District No. z, to Vote s.
Mill, Ten-Year Tax-Hish Schools
to Have Nine-Month Session.
e.. (OfficiaI.)
Donaldsonville, La, May ID. 1918.


Donaldsonville, La, May IA, 1918.
The School Board of the parish
of Ascension met this day in ad-
journed session, with President w.
B. Stuart in the chair and the follow
ing members present: Emile Lee
Boeuf, Henry Dugas, J. F. Saxon,
Walter Lemann, Louis Bourgeois, f.
E. Babin and George Bergeron.
The reading of the minutes of the
last meeting was dispensed with and
the minutes approved.
The superintendent submitted the
following report:
DonaldsonVille, La, May IA, N913.
To the President and Members of
the School Board:
Gentlemen:-On account of the
short time which has elapsed since
your last meeting, there is very
little to report. My time since then
has been engaged in preparing the
minutes of the last meeting for. pub
lication, with office work and CORE
spondence and the preparation of a
budget as per your request at your
lsst meeting. I spent one afternoon
IN the Donaldsonville high school.
| beg to submit a budget which has
been carefully prepared in accard-
ance with your wishes. and WithsGhe
view of securing for our parish school
system the greatest possible effici-
ency at a minimum cost to the tax
payers of the parish
On Saturday last, at the Calbasse
school at Dup1essis, I gave the ex-
animation to those teachers who de-
sired it on the Institute Reading
Course books. This examination was
given at the high school in Donald
sonville on the same date by Prof.
Vickers.
The returns from the spelling con-
parish are coming in, and shall re-
port on same at the earliest op-
portunity.
The state examina on questions
have been received and distributed
among the schools, and these exam
nations are now in progress and will
assist the teachers in determining
the promotions for next session.
Proper certificates Of promotion
from the grammar school 10 the nigh
school will be awarded in all schools,
upon the recommendation of the
teachers in charge. State diplomas
will be awarded on graduation night
il the Donaldso nvdl1e, DutchtoWn
Oak Grove and Gonzales high
schools.
On account of the large amount OF
money invested in the Donaldsonvllle
high school building and in the other
school buildings OF the parish; on
account of the convenient LOCATION
and the splendid facilities ofs.sred
by most of our school buildings for
the assemblage of large audiences,
and in line with the best educational
thought of the day, I believe the
school building in Donald:sonyille and
in every school commun ity of the
parish should be made the. center OF
thought, of enlightenment, of cul-
ture and refinement, the great SO
cial center that reaches out and
touches the lives and homes Of the
citizenship.
I believe that with proper safe
guards as to the care of the build
ings and equipment our schooI6nplants
can be made to serve the community
in a larger way than they hap e in
the past, and I therefore recommend
to your honorable body for consider
alton the passage of a resolution or
set of resolutions defining or limit
ing the purposes for which our pa r.
ish school buildings might be util
lied
recommend that, in the instance
of the Donaldsonville high school,
the principal of the school, the
school board member for the third
ward and the superintendent be ap-
pointed a committee with authority
to grant permission for the use of the
building; and that in the instance
Of the country schools, the school
board member from that ward and
the local trustees of the school in
each case be appointed a committee
with similar authority
/ have been unable to com ply with
your request relative to obtaa ming the
advice of the state superb ltendent
the introduction of tele-
graphy into the course of Study, be-
cause of the absence of that official
from the state. | hope to he able to
report at your next meetins;-
I have made continuous efforts to
fill positions held by threee. teachers
who are now serving as Substitutes,
and have SO far failed. I desire
to know the pleasure Of the board
concerning these POSITIONS.
beg to report the resi- .gnations of
Dodd and Guirau d, and the
of Misses Daniels and
Williams. subject to you r approval.
The following CIRCULAR letter has
been mailed to all tes lcfers in the
parish:
Dear Teacher:-In the event that
we shall be in a POSITION to offer you