The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-07-30
The Leon Schools.

The school board completed the
election of teachers for the ensuing
year at their meeting held Monday
evening by selecting Miss Athena
Crawford to fill the vacancy in the
3rd and 4th grades of the north
school, 2
o. NJ Gass, superintendent.
Frances Sears, principal of high
school.
Margaret Hurst, English.
Grace Phillips, assistant English
and science
Doris Lake, mathematics and
physics
Hattie Whitney, assistant mathe-
matics and German.
>Himena Hoffman, history, civics.
Halle Moore, 8th grade.
Nellie Mullin, 7th grade.
Olive Gwinn, 9Th grade.
Winnie Cash, 4th and 5th grades,
north school.
Ella, Grogan, 4th and 5th grades,
principal, south school.
Athena Crawford, 3rd and 4th
grades, north school.
Grace Beavers, 3rd and 4th grades,
south school.
Nita Cherry, LIST and End grades,
north school.
LYDIA Epperley, LIST and End grades,
south school.
Adaline Crawford, primary, north
school.
Helen Deck, primary, south school.
Clara Barnes, domestic science.
Mida Bradley, music and penman-
ship.
Fred Ehrhardt, manual training.
During the past year domestic
science was one of the most popular
courses in the High School and ac-
cording to law enacted in March,
1918 by the General Assembly of the
state of Iowa, the teaching of agri-
culture, domestic science and manu-
al training will be required in all
the public schools of the state after
July 1915. Elementary agriculture
and domestic science are also to be
included among the subjects requir-
ed in the examination of applicants
for teachers certificates so, to meet
these requirements and to preserve
the high standard Of the Leon schools
the board has decided to place manu-
al training and domestic science in
the curriculum of the 9Th, 7th and
8th grades as we'll as the high school.
Manual training has never before
been taught in our schools and for
the superintendence of this work an
additional teacher, Fred Ehrhardt, of
Elkader, was added to the corps of
teachers. Mr. Ehrhardt has received
his training in the Elkader High
School, Iowa State College at Ames,
and the Iowa State Teachers College
at Cedar Falls.
III For many years the Leon High
s;ohool has=lacked courses in foreign
To make up this defci-
ency German has been placed on the
schedule for the following year and
will be taught by Miss Hattie Whit
ney of Rudd, Iowa, who is graduate
from the Maquoketa high school and
from the Upper Iowa University. An
other improvement has been the ad-
dition of an assistant teacher in the
department of English and mathemat-
les, as these two branches have been
over crowded. Hereafter there will
be more classes in each. Miss Whit
ney and Miss Phillips are both ex-
perienced teachers. Miss Phillips is
graduate of the State University,
majoring. in English and science, her
college credits showing her to be an
excellent scholar. Miss Lake comes
very highly recommended as teach
er in mathematics. She graduated
from the high school of Iowa City
with honors and Is also a graduate
of the State University, having major
ed in mathematics.
With these improvements in the
high school it is certainty that Leon
will have better and a bigger school
thar ever before.
The secretary reports the school
census for 1914, 56S. This last year
there was 1877 enrolled in the high
school. Taking into consideration the
population of the town the Leon high
school stands fourth in number in
the state