Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1914-02-18
TEACHERS PETITION
NUMEROUSLY SIGNED
Presented to Governor ColdsboE.
ough in Behalf Of School
Commissioner.
TO RETAIN Or. Go. 7. MELVIN.
Has Helped Teachers To Build Up
School system Worthy 81 State.

The following numerously signed
petition has been sent to Governor
Goldsborough
Hon. Phillips Lee Goldsborougb,
Governor 4 Maryland.
Your Excellency:
We. the undersigned, teschers o.
Anne Arundel county, realizing that
I the time 70 appoint q school commits
sioner for our county is near at hand,
and Apr sciating the excellent work
for the schools. including several re-
forms for the improvement Of our syf-
ten. which our present commissioner
from this district, Mr. George T..
Melvin. has effected, we Dc earnestly
/ beg you TO consider faYorably our pc
tition TO reappoint Mr.. Melvin to this
I important post In our educational
system. We know that he is In sym
PATTY with the reforms which you are
advocating for the improvement Of
our schools
he has given a great deal Of tine
TO considering and solving our prob
lens. Tie has always given symDa-
| thetic attention and helpful advice
to us in any and all OF the difficulties
which come up IN o teachers life.
These are only q very few Of the
many ways in which he has helped us,
and has built up a school system wor-
thy Of the state.
Laura a. Sansbury, Mildred Kolb,
Ethel Colinson, Villa NJ Rockhold,
Margaret prout, Irene Prout, Mary
r. Rockhod, Lima Prout, Lei nora
| Owens. Sophia Kolb. Josephine Rior-
dan. Rdth Curry, Ethel McCarty,
Letitia Farrell, Marie r. CAN'T,
Laura r. Robinson, Esther White,
Katherine X ickhold, Mary B. Arnold,
Fannie w. Duvall, Harriet r. Luhn,
Marie Linthicum, Agnes Williams,
Margaret H. Claude Ethel E. John
son, Sara A. Hodges, Lillian H. Shep-
herd, Sadie ~ Rice, Lillian Amos,
Elsie Meade, Helen Hunter, Minnie
Childs. Edith Cbildt. Amy l.. Hop
kins, Irene Harrington, NJ. Lucy Red
mond, Marie A. Brooke, Lillinn
Baker. Edith Woodward. Marguerite
Linthicum, Ruth -. Claude, HedwiR
Schnefer. Helen r. Arnold, Louise
Linthicum, Agnes Himmelheber
Clara b. Kent, Mary b. Bass, Mary
b. Tate. Nellie II. Bass, Nancy
Ridout Emily S. Hopkins, lvon j..
Morton, Ruth H Bauer, Naomi Haw-
kins. Maize lG. Smith, Margaret Ship
ley, Marian v. Thomas, Jane G. Sum
mers, Olive SappinRton, Blanche Don
aldscn, Agnes Revell. Clara McPber-
son, Mildred r. Ray, Sadie Marshall,
Norman Echafd, Jennie Hodges,
Edith G. Bennett, Nancy p. Hopkins,
Grace Upton, Marie Hodges, Sadie
Revell, Edith Moss, Helen {. Schimpf
Mildred u. Tisdale, Ruth Feldmeyer,
Miriam Feldmeyer, Eleanor Nj. Colt
Elizabeth johnson, Anna Claude,
Alice CAN'T, Msgdslen Worthiugton.
/ Mamie G. Lowman, Dallas II. Hig-
gins, Ora l.. Murray, Rhoda Boone,
Edythe Mae Jones, Elizabeth Nj.
Carter, Mary +. Wheatley, Temper
ance Higgins, Lula NJ. Hunt, Lila
V. Boone, Maggie Nj. Glover, Frances
Bennett. Annie T.. Glover, Margaret
r. Stevens, Anna NJ. Gang, Isabel
Dawes, Alta Costen, Il. Lillian Bass
ford, Ruby r. Duval, Annie s. bod.
son. Mamie r. Linthicum, Jessie b..
Suit 4. Bradley Jones, leah r. Eel
lows, Lillian Carr, Isabel Harvey, Ida
Woodfeli.
Among those who wrote letters 10
the Governor favoring School Com
missioner Melvin's re-appointment,
are the following; 4. r. 'Iglehaft,
Principal John p. Burdett, Of Anne
Arundel Academy; former Mayor Cor
don II Claude. DR.. Elihd s. Riley,
the Board Of County COMMISSIONS
two Judges Of the Orphans Court, a
petition from 81. Margaret's signed
by patrons Of the school John Bowie,
Of Annapolis Junction; John M Low
man, Of 0deDton, Clarence N White,
of Annapolis; John Owens, Of Birds
Vile; r. N. Rid0ut, Rev W. NJ. Mil
Ter. Rev. w. G. Mcneil, Rev DR..
George S. Bell, Rev James L. Smiley
and sc others from all parts Of tho
1 county.