The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-08-24
CITY SCHOOLS
TO OPEN NEXT
MONDAY MORN
Enrolment in High School is
Expected to be Larger than
Ever Before =.
SIX NEW TEACHERS ON STAFF
Superintendent Lewis Returns From
Vacation and is Busy with the
.H.-~ Preliminary Details

Unless the youngsters are too busy
on the farms it is likely that when
school opens next Monday all former
enrolment records will be broken.
Last year set new high mark in the
high school when 153 pupils enrolled
the first day. Judging from the num-
Der of eighth grade graduates in the
district next Mondays enrolment
should be even greater. This years
school census indicates that the en-
rollmeEt in the grades will exceed last
year.
Superintendent M. S. Lewis return
ed today from his summers vacation
and is already busy getting things in
readiness for the opening day. There
will be but two changes in the high
school faculty, while there are four
new teachers in the grades. VIM.
Meikle will give up the principalship
of the high school and devote his en-
tire time to the agricultural depart
ment. The duties of the principal will
fall upon Superintendent Lewis.
Frank Green has resigned as head
of the manual training department
and will be succeeded by Jas. r. Nc
Kim, who taught in the manual train
ing department Of the Puyallup high
school last year. Mr.. McKim studied
at both the State College and the
State University and has 3k years
teaching experience.
The other new teacher in the high
school is Miss Vera Bonsall, who is
graduate of the State University. She
has had three years teaching exper-
fence and taught, last year in the
Waitsburg high school. She will have
charge of the history and English
classes. Her sister, Miss Opal Bon
sail, will give up her history classes
to handle the new work that has been
added to the commercial department.
Stenography, typewriting and adj
vanced bookkeeping will be taught in
this department this year.
Otherwise the high school faculty
will be the same as last year, with
the, following teachers: Miss Morris,
domestic science; Miss Spencer, Eng
lish; Miss Pearl, mathematics; Miss
Nelson, Latin and German; Miss Shier
music and drawing. Miss Nelson has
undergone two surgical operations
during the summer vacation and altho
out of the hospital she may be unable
to meet her classes the first week.
The grades will be taught as fol-
lows: Miss Jorgensen, first primary;
Miss Marion Morgan, second primary;
Miss Brown, second; Miss Fylpa,
third; Miss Clara Berg, fourth; Miss
Williams and Miss Pinkerton, fifth;
Mrs. Minnie T. Bone, sixth.
The higher grades will be taught in
the high school building again under
the departmental plan. Miss Ella
Berg will have the sixth-A, Miss Ma
kens, the seventh; and Miss Frieda
Thompson, the eighth.
Mrs. Bone, who is a normal gradu-
ate, with many years teaching ex-
perience, will have the principalship
of the grade building formerly held
by Mrs. E. c. Trip. Mrs. Bones
home is at Walnut Grove near Pros
ser. Miss Morgan, altho new teach
er this year, is not stranger in the
Kennewick schools as she taught here
three years ago. Miss Ella Berg is
from North Yakima and is a sister Of
Miss Clara Berg, of last years teach
ing staff. Miss Thompson is an Ell
lensburg Normal graduate. She has
had five years teaching experience in
the advance grades and taught last
year in the state training school at
Chehalis.