New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-01-06
Schools Occupy
New Apartments
CONTRACTORS SUCCEED IN
COMPLETING WORK AHEAD
OF TIME.
UPPER GRADE TEACHERS WILL
BE GIVEN DEPARTMENTAL
WORK.

Congratulations are due to the men,
bers of the New Ulm School Board for
the manner in which they have ex-
pended the funds voted them for the
construction of the new high school
building which was completed in time
for the beginning of school Monday
morning of this week. The contractors
evidently worked in good luck and to
good purpose as it was not expected
that they would be able to complete
the work so that the building could be
used much before the first of March,
and Sunday things we're in good con-
dition for work all over the building with
the exception of the rooms that will not
be occupied this year. Not anticipating
the space to do the manual training and
the domestic science work in, no place
was made for these subjects in the
curriculum of 191415 and these rooms
will be finished off as the carpenters
get to them. Teachers will be engaged
for these courses next year.
Monday morning saw grand moving
day. High school pupils, teachers and
Superintendent left the Emerson build
ing bag and baggage for their new quar-
tiers. And into the Emerson building
poured the crowds of grade students
coming from the various buildings all
over town where they have been scatter
ed since the old Union Building was torn
down to make room for the new High
School. From the Methodist Church
Basement, from the Lutheran school,
from the Washing ton am sI Lincoln boal.
Buildings they came, loaded with books
and other implements of schoolroom
warfare, the mighty army going into
new headquarters for the spring campaign
against ignorance.
The entire plan Of upper grade work
has been changed by the new housing
of the pupils. All seventh and eighth
grade pupils are now located in the CEN
trail school and occupy the assembly
room formerly occupied by the High
School. Their class rooms will be the
former science class rooms on the same
floor so that there will be no necessity
for their passing up and down stairs on
their way to and from classes. The
teachers who formerly had straight
for orI
grades will now have department work
and this is the greatest of the changes
made in the conduct of the schools.
Heretofore each grade had it's own
special teacher for all subjects with the
exception of German. Now there will
! be an instructor in History, one for
4 Grammar, one for Arithmetic and one
5sSssfor Geography. This gives teachers a
I chance to specialize and improve in
their methods of handling the subject
for which they are cast.
The assembly room of the seventh
and eighth grades will be in charge of
Miss Sauter who will be principal of the
Emerson building. Miss Sauter will
have her hands full taking care Of the big
room and hearing classes every hour of
the day as we'll. Her subjects will be
Arithmetic and Spelling while she also
docs a part of the work in drawing and
penmanship. Miss Schwanke has been
assigned the History and Geography
and MissPagel the Reading and Grammar
besides taking the other classes in draw
ing and penmanship.
On the lower floors of the Emerson
School are now located the First and
Second Grade taught by Miss Louise
! Meile, the third and fourth in charge
of Miss Eunice Starr, Miss Bertha
Pfeiffer with the Union Building Fifth
and Miss Marie Lunde with the Union
Building Sixth.
The Normal Department is housed in
room of the NewBuilding. At theWash-
ton School Miss Sommerstad and Miss
Schaull are in charge of the two first
grades and Miss Borchert and Miss
johnson occupy the two upper rooms
with the four intermediate grades. Miss
johnson will be principal of this build
ing. There are only three rooms in use
"a the Lincoln building this year, Miss
lloyd being principal and teacher of
? the Fifth and Sixth Grades. The other
teachers are Miss Schmidt, First and
Second and Miss Ruemke, Third and
Fourth.
After the High School pupils had es-
tablished themselves in the new building
Monday morning an hour was given to