The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-08-26
CITY SCHOOLS TO
OPEN MONDAY
MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND PU-
Pills WILL BE ENROLLED
FOR THE YEAR
HIGH SCHOOL TO Be LARGER THAN EVER
Faculty Stronger and Characterized by
~Thoroughness and Refinement-The
Buildings and Grounds Improved

Buildings and Grounds Improved
The Brookings city schools open
next Monday, August the 30th, under
more favorable conditions for effective
work than ever before. The buildings
have been thoroughly renovated and
put in ship shape" order. A number
of the rooms in the central building
have been re-decorated; the high
school library has been installed with
new book cases and shelves and a
number of new books have been added.
The we'll kept grounds and the abun-
dance of fragrant flowers now in full
bloom makes school an attractive
place. The board of education are
entitled to the credit justly belonging
to them for the excellent businesslike
n they are handling the affairs
of the school until today the ~Brookings
schools rank with the leading schools
of the big cities of the United States.
The qualifications of the teachers for
the coming year justify us in saying
that the Brookings schools have the
a les and best balanced teaching
force that can be found in the North
west. Being acquainted with these
conditions one ceases to wonder why
the schools are making such wonder
full advancement and to possess such
a wide reputation for it's excellence.
Prof. Paul S. Gillespie
High School Principal and Athletic
Coach
Prof. Paul S. Gillespie of Cambridge,
Ohio, who is to fill the important office
of high school principal, m highly
recommended for the important posi-
ton and the board of education is to
be congratulated on securing his SER
vices.
Mr.. Gillespie graduated with honors
from the Cambridge high school in
1909. The following year he taught in
the Cambridge public schools. In the
fall of 1910, he entered the Muskingum
College at New Concord, Ohio, from
which institution he graduated in 1914.
receiving a bachelors degree. He has
also had Normal training at the Ohio
university. During his college course
at New Concord, he taught geometry
in the Academy and was laboratory in
-. c,O-l,aa oIn,,,;fr1, md
physics and the college authorities
speak in the highest terms of his abil-
ity as an instructor. Last year Mr..
was assistant principal of the county
high school of Montrose, Colorado,
where he made an enviable record
in that part of the country as
science. Mr.. Gillespie has the distinc-
ton of organizing a football team out
of raw material and coaching them
into a champion team in the one year
he was at Montrose. He also had a
= winning team in basketball as we'll as
directing a most excellent high school
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learning that Mr.. Gillespie was con-
sidering the Brookings position offered
him special inducements in the way of
salary to remain with them but he
preferred coming to Bookings. Mr..
Gillespie is an all round man. His
qualifications and ability as a teacher
and athletic coach; his personality
and high ideals; his social character
istics and refinement will add to the
strength and dignity of the high
school faculty. Mrs. Gillespie is an
accomplished vocalist and has taught
music for the past four years. She
was assistant vocal instructor at the
Girls Seminary at Washington, Pa.
Then assistant vocal instructor at the
Wallace School for Girls at c. lumbus,
Orio. For the past two years h had
charge of the Muskingum Conserva-
tory of Music holding at the same time
a paid choir position in the End United
States Presbyterian church of Cam
bridge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gillespie arrived in
Brookings last Saturday and are pleas
antly located in the Mrs. Aldrich cot
tage at 623, 9th avenue.
Miss Meta Louise Wilhelm
Instructor in Latin
Miss Wilhelm received her high
school education in the New
Harmony. Indiana, high school
She then entered the Indiana