The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-08-07
EUREKA HIGH SCHOOL
FACULTY COMPLETED
Corps OF Teachers Secured That
Will Compare Favorably With
Any in Nevada

Word was received by the County
Board of Education on Thursday of
this week from Principal Charles
Priest of the Eureka County High
School that he had succeeded in
selecting his assistants for the CON-
ing year.
The first assistant is j. d. Gold, Jr.,
a graduate of Waynesburg College,
Waynesburg. Penn, holding a B. A..
degree from that institution. Mr..
Gold is a man of experienc in teach
ing, comes well recommended and
at present is taking work in the Uni
versity of California. He taught in
Montana last year.
Miss Mary Ethel Berlin. a gradu-
ate of the University of California,
will have charge of the Commercial
courses, and is we'll equipped for that
work.
Miss Berlin fills the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Miss Lucille
Snyder, who has been engaged to.
teach in the Carson City High School.
Official action will be taken by the
board at its regular meeting this
evening upon the selection of these
additional members of the High
School faculty. School will open on
Tuesday. September Z.
The High School has a faculty for
the coming year which will compare
favorably with any in the State. Mr..
Priest is well known in Eureka. hav-
ing taught here in 1911-12, and is
a man whose attainments, scholar
ship, character and executive ability
are of the best. After leaving here
he was Principal of the Dayton High
School at Dayton, Nevada, and since
has been teaching in the Berkeley
High School and taking graduate
work in the University of California.
Efforts have been made before to
secure his return to Eureka. but not
until both school boards joined in the
appointment of a supervisor for both
schools yer they enabled to pay the
salary that Mr.. Priest could COM
mand elsewhere.
By adopting this method the boards
were enabled to obtain the very best
material for this position, and in Mr..
Priest they feel that they have a man
under whose charge they can place
the two schools with the greatest
confidence in his ability to obtain the
best results.
The High School Board knowing
him as they do, his sincerely of pur-
pose and warm interest in the well
fare of the Eureka schools, have
every reason to believe, with him,
that he has secued strong non-par-
tisan and well equipped teachers.
and that they are going to do their
best to get results.
The policy of leaving the selection
of teachers to the Principal or Super
intendent, though somewhat new in
Eureka, is generally followed else
where and found to be the more
satisfactory. If the head of the
school is to shape the policies and
direct the work of the school he
should be allowed to select as his as
sistants. teachers who are in accord
with his ideas. and thus, in a measure,
avoid the friction which too often de-
velops in the faculty to the detri-
ment of the school.
This is a we'll established principle
in the business world and should be
even more successful in the school
where the work is less ministerial in
it's character. The Board looks to
the Principal for results, and it isl
only fair and natural that he should
have a voice in the selection and
direction of those to whom he must
look for results. Besides. he is on
the ground all the time and the only
one who is in a position to know if
the others are giving results.
Eureka. not unlike other places OF
it's size and circumstances, is fac
tional, and it is a we'll known fact
that when this factionalism finds its
way into the school it always causes
trouble and detriment. And the
efficiency of a teacher can be no more
readily impaired than by being or
allowing himself to become a party