The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-05-22
LIST Of PUBLIC
SCHOOL TEACHERS
TEACHING STAFF OF BROOkINGS
SCHOOL is COMPLETED FOR
THE NEXT YEAR
CORPS WILL Be UNUSUALLY STRONG
There Were Many designations of Old
Teachers and The Board Has Been
Careful in Selecting New Ones

AT a recent meeting of the Board of
Education of the city schools the cleo
ton of teachers for the coming year
vas completed. The board has been
especially careful in their selection and
the best teachers that the country
affords have been secured to fill the
vacancies made by the resignation Of
some of the members of the present
corps, and the success of the school
for the coming year is assured.
Superintendent Browning will be
supported by an exceptionally strong
high school faculty and an excellent
corps of grade teachers.
The efficient high school principal R.
l.. Patty, resigned, will be succeeded
by Prof. c. C. Dillon, a graduate of the
Illinois State Normal and the Illinois
University, who is at present teaching
science and coaching athletics in the
Clinton, Indiana, high school.
Miss Madeline l.. Bird will succeed
Miss Maybelle Boyson resigned, as
head of the English department. Miss
Bird is a graduate of the Detroit Train
ing school and holds a degree from the
University of Michigan.
Miss Beulah Plummer, resigned, of
the science department will be succeed
ed by Miss Ruth Miller a graduate of
the University of Minnesota. Miss Mil
Ter has had experience and comes
highly recommended.
Prof. c. H. Harms will succeed PROF..
G. H. Bishop, resigned in the manual
training department. Prof. Harms is a
graduate Of the manual arts depart
ment of the University Of Chicago, AID
has had two years experience at Lady
smith, Wisconsin.
The popular music teacher, Miss
Cora E. Ostroot, resigned, will be sue
ceeded by Miss Minnie Collins, a grad
uate of the American Conservatory of
Music, Chicago. Miss Collins has had
charge of the music class in a large
settlement in Chicago the past year
and is now training a chorus of 225
children for a May Day festival.
The students and patrons CT the
high school will be pleased to know
that Miss Myra Down of the mathe-
mates department, Miss Lydian U.
Bush of the Latin department, Miss
Wilhelmina Haase of the German de-
partment, Miss Helen Biersdorf of the
history department and Miss Loretta
McElmurry of the household science
department will continue their SER
vices in the Brookings high school for
another year.
There are also a number Of changes
in the grades on acoun of designations.
E. l.. Schaffner has been elected as
principal of the grammar grades to sue
coed Miss Winnifred Gleason, resigned.
Mr.. Schaffner is a graduate Of the
State Normal at La Crosse, Wis, and
has had a years experience as princi-
pal Of a state school at Alma, Wis. Miss
Grace O'Brien will continue her ser
vice as teacher of grammar and read
ing in this department. Miss Mable
Irish who taught the sixth grade the
past year will teach geography and his
tory in the grammar department. Miss
China Evenson of Lanesboro, Mimi,
will succeed Miss Irish in the sixth
grade. Miss Agnes Dixon will again
have charge of sixth grade. Miss
Marie Vahle will continue in her posi-
ton in the fifth grade. Miss Laura
Howard of Elkton will succeed Miss
Agnes Johnson, resigned, in the fifth.
Miss Mable Bennewies and Miss Ruby
Keller will have charge of the fourth
grade again. Miss Carrie Morrison,
of Hitchcock, S. d., will succeed MISS
Mary Boyd, resigned, in the third
grade. Miss Eda Swenson continues
in the third. Miss Helen Christianson
and Miss Jennie V. Larson of Davis, S.
D., who succeeds Miss Winnifred Enos
resigned, will have charge of the Sec
ond grade, Miss Emma Sorenson, prin-
cipal Of primary grades, and Miss May
Button Of Volga, who succeeds Miss
Eleanor Bennett, resigned, will have
the first and second primary grades.
An inspection of the roll of teachers
for the coming year will show that the
Brookings schools are to take no
steps backward, and the Board OF Edu-
cation are to be congratulated on the
fact that they have secured such an
efficient corps OF teachers for the COM
ing year.