The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-08-24
SCHOOL AUTHORITIES
ARE PREPARING FOR
THE COMING SEMESTER

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The inroads made upon the teach.
! ing force of the Canon City public
schools by the Federal authorities in
calling the members of the military
| company here to the mobilization
camp early in the summer with view
of sending them to the Mexican bor-
der disconnected to considerable de-
gree the arrangement of the board of
education for the coming years work.
Vacancies were created that have had
to be temporarily filed by the seIec-
ton of new instructors with whom
the board has not yet been able to
confer, to say nothing of the dis
| arrangement of its plans in other res
poets.
These vacancies. however. have at
last all been supplied and the schools
will open at the usual time and their
mission carried on as if nothing had
happened to mar the even tenor OF
their way. The board has been fortu-
nate in obtaining experienced and
successful teachers to fill the places
of the men called to the colors by
military exigency and the schools will
go on much the same in efficiency this
year as they have in the past
Prof. W. d. Gambill, late of Law
renee. Kansas. has been chosen as act
ing superintendent of the city schools
pending the return here of Prof. c. Z.
Lauterbach to enter upon tnat posi-
ton; task to which he was elected
by the board last spring. Prof Gam
bill. who has recently been living in
Colorado Springs. is already here I'D
has begun preparations for the open
ing Of the schools on September 5th
Mr.. Gambill has established an office
in the high school building and is
actively engaged in drafting an educa-
tional campaign to be prosecuted by
the pupils of the public schools during
the next nine months. Prof. Gambin
has been given a stenographer and
clerk to assist him in his work and
Miss Eva jeffrey has been appointed
to the post and is proving most val
liable help.
Miss Alice Hall has been selected
T. D. Harris in the high school. Thus
far no provision has been, made Tor
commandant OF the. high school
cadet corps
Enos Lauterbach. who last year
taught in the high school at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. has been chosen to take
charge of the commercial department
in the high school here and is ex-
pected to arrive in Canon City about
September first. Mr.. Lauterbach
comes here highly recommended for
his special line of work He is no re
lation to Prof c. E Lauterbaeh. al
though the two We're classmates in an
eastern college.
The place of II. B. Blair in the high
school faculty will be temporarily in
charge of Allen Hogle. who taught
with great acceptability and satisfac-
tion in the high school at Las Animas.
Colorado. last year. Other new men,
bers of the high school teaching force
this year will be Miss Irene Aitkin.
who will succeed Miss Marion Lee.
and Miss Mary l. Taft. who succeeds
Miss Grace Russell Miss Taft comes
from Ann Arbor, Michigan. and is a
graduate of that states university
Miss Carrie Thomas of Trinidad.
Colorado. who formerly resided here.
has been elected as the successor OF
Miss Ruth Dazzling .as instructor in
physical training Miss Thomas is a
sister of ]. p. Thomas Jr-. member OF
the law firm of Waldo. Hunter &
Thomas. Among the new teachers in
the grade schools will be Miss Doro-
thy Wilkin. who will take a place at
the Washington building; o. W. Col
gate. taking Miss Edna NJ. Terry's
grade at the Lincoln building; and
Miss Edith Burton who will teach
the school on Eight Mile park.
The commercial department in the
high school will be made prominent
this year and will include in its cur
riculum of study bookkeeping. steno-
graphy. typewriting and commercial
law. with penmanship and spelling as
incidentais. Two attractively arrang-
ed and appointed rooms on the third
floor of the high school building have
been fitted up for the use of the COM
mercial department.
A very great interest has been
manifested in the work of the domes-
tic science department by the pupils
and patrons of the schools and It will