The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-14
|COMP ROM|sE MADE
| IN DANCE REQUEST
school Board Wants All Funetiohs
Under Faculty supervision to
b Held In High
School.
NOT SANCTION OTHERS
hoard Approves Plans for Lincoln
Addltion-keokuk Material 10 to
be Used Wherever
Possible.

a special meeting Of the board Of
Education was held last night to con
kider the question whether or not
bancing would be allowed at the jun
Tors banquet for the seniors. in the
Eigh school, or whether the board
would sanction the party given else
where where there could be dancing.
h'he result was that the board passed
compromise resolution, which
kvades the dancing question and de-
Flares that all functions under super
tision Of the faculty must take place
I n the high school. The resolution
has carried to 2, and only after
'nuch discussion. superintendent
Aldrich acted AZ secretary pro tenn.
Dr.. r. L. Reid, principal OF the high
chool said he came before the board
ask their help in solving two prob
ems for him He said one was a
question OF expense, the other social
Question. The expense OF the ban
net was pretty well regulated,
ut now the question had come as to
neither the class would be allowed
go outside Of the high school and
ent a hall. In such action he said
ancing was implied.
Manager Woolley thought 1t was
Iime that the board threw off it's old
(ogey ideas. He said he believed In
The young people having good time.
Ind he thought If they wanted to go
ahead and rent hall and pay for 1t,
they should be given the privilege.
He said the board members mustn't
'orget that they we're young once, and
had liked to have good time.
Member Hamill said he wanted to
10 on record as being absolutely op
)Osed to the proposition.
Member Lutz said II they wanted to-
nave dance he didn't see why It
asn't best to have the dance in the
high school. It could then be under
he chaperonage Of the high school
|aculty. Member Roberts suggested
perhaps he should say censorship"
Couldn't Be Sanctioned.
President Hughes said that the
board members as a. board could not
(fford to sanction any such changes.
outside Of school time it was an right
Is the board had nothing to do with
h then.
Member Boyd said not all the pu-
pills who would be at the Banquet
sould dance. 1t would be displeasing
% them to be wall flowers. Virtually
Ill the churches including the Ca
holic churches, put a ban on dancing,
lie said. He didn't believe as board
t would ever do to sanction dancing.
He favored program Of music and
'peeches. as 1t was school function.
Member Roberts suggested that
when 1t came to wall flowers, those |
Who were wall flowers at dance !
would be wall flowers anywhere. He /
suggested that they have the banquet !
n the high school and then dance at
afterwards II they wanted to.
Resolution 10 Passed.
A suggestion was made to defer ac- !
Fon. but DR.. Reid said the pupils |
lere asking for an answer as soon as |
possible as the banquet Is only foul /
feeks off.
Member Roberts then proposed this |
esolution: Resolved that all high
ehol functions under the patronage
the high school faculty must take !
ace In the high school building, and |
AT this board does not and Will not
notion or approve of any social |
motions on the part OF high school
pills taking place outside Of the high
fhool building"
ms carried Ave to two. A propos-
from Member Lutz to let the Jun
RS govern in the matter Of dancing
las not seconded. Dr.. Reid said the
Pard's action had not cleared up the