The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-09-03
GERMAN COURSE
FOR HIGH SCHOOL
0. K.'DBY BOARD
Prof. Croker Announces
Miss Clara Drusch Will
Be in Charge.
TEACHERS ASSIGNED
FOR COMING TERM
Committee to be Named to Select
German Text Books
For School.

The Board of Education last night
approved Superintendent J. n. Crok-
er's plans to introduce a course in
German in the High School this fall
and likewise approved his assignment
Of the various instructors to the
schools.
The German course is being intro
duced on account of the great demand
there has been for that language
course in the High School, Superin-
tendent Croker declared.
The new course will be taught in the
High School by Miss Clara Drusch,
who likewise will be given classes in
the upper grades in the Lorimier
school.
The opening date for school this fall
has been set for September -, when
enrolment in all schools will be con-
Quoted, with the exception, of course,
of the new High School.
Until the new High School building
has been completed, the high school
students will occupy the rooms of the
Lorimier school in the morning, the
high school sessions closing at noon
In the afternoon, the Lorimier school
building will be used for the grades
there.
Within a few days complete infor-
nation concerning the enrolment of
pupils will be published in The
Tribune.
This fall all the seventh grade pu-
pills in the city will be directed to the
Lorimier school. The Lorimier school
will have all grades from one to seven.
The jefferson school will have
grades through the fifth grade; Wash
ington school through the sixth grade;
and the Broadway school will have
grades through the sixth grade.
The complete assignment of teach
ers to the various schools in the city is
as follows:
Broadway school: First grade, Flor
ence Ref; second grade, Mildred Tur-
ner; third grade, Edna Hannah; fourth
grade, Edith Sebastian; fifth grade,
Pansy King; principal and sixth grade,
Jean Caldwell.
jefferson school: Principal and first
grade, Alma Schrader; first grade,
Helen Mueller; second grade, Helen
Carol and Kitty Hall; third grade,
Carolyn Atkins; third and fourth
grade, BERTHE Wilson; fifth grade,
Puline Beckman.
Lorimier school: Fifth, sixth and
seventh grades, departmental work by
the following: Mary Green, principal;
Blanche Rice, Elma Wolter, Clara
Barrett, Clara Drusch Miss Drusch to
be relieved of one class in grades to
teach German in the High SCHOOL,.
Fourth grade, Erna Linxwiler; third
grade, Wathena Ranney; second grade,
Fay Champion; first grade, Virginia
Willer.
Washington school: Principal and
first grade, Alice Carroll; second
grade, Floy Miller; third grade, Grace
Norvell; fourth grade, Irma Huters;
fifth grade Ruth Crosser; sixth grade,
Linda Williams.
High school and eighth grade and
special teachers: Principal, William T.
Doherty; science, Arthur McGinnis;
mathematics, Alvin Harnes; manuel
training, H. H. Ranney; history and
English, Fredonia Ringo and Eliza
beth Davis; Latin and English, Avis
Baker; commercial subjects, Emma
Altheide; domestic science, Emily T.
| Evans; librarian, Emma ]. Wilson;
music and drawing, Lucille Douglass;
attendance officer, Lucille Settle.
Lincoln school: o. o. Nance, prin-
cipal of the High School and manuel
training; Fannie B. Nichols, High
school and domestic science; j. S.
Cobb, grade teacher; Kitsy Townsend,
Bertha White and Leona Williams,
grade teachers.
In making the recommendation for
the course in German, Croker recon-
mended that the principal of the High
School, together with the teacher of
German and the superintendent of
schools, be made a committee to select
text book and prescribe the qualifi-
cations for admission to the course.
This was approved.
The board also approved scheme
for admonishing students failing in
any courses they may be taking in the
High School.
Whenever the work of any of the
High School students is unsatisfac-
tory, the principal is authorized to
mail to the parents statement of the
grades of such student and sugges-