Evening star., 1916-12-07
Mass Meeting of Aliens.

| Use Of new Central High School for a
mass meeting of aliens to be held Sun
day. December 10. was granted Richard
X. Campbell, commissioner of naturai-
zation. Miss Sarah Z. Simons, head OF
schools was granted q four-day leave
of absence to study oral English and
public speaking as taught in Chicago.
| Permission was granted the Dun npar
| High School Alumni Association &C
place a bronze tablet of Dunbar in tne
new high school. provided the design
| was approved by the superintendent o.
| schools and the board of education. A
petition from the school nurses for an
| increase in pay was referred to the
committee on ways and means.
An offer by Miss Martha n. Birnie of
| $25 prize to the student at Eastern
High School who should show the
greatest amount of originality in some
Permission for the use of the Tyler
School rainy Saturday afternoons for
the Little Mothers Club of the Vir-
ginia Avenue Fairgrounds, was granted
to Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes, director of
| municipal Fairgrounds.
Permission was granted the Cornell
Club OF Washington to show motion
pictures of the activities at CorneD to
high school students at the Mckinley
Manual Training School December FL
Action of Board Upheld.
A communication was read from the
corporation counsel upholding the de-
cision of the board of education in the
cases of Miss Bessie Scipio and Miss
Edna Boyd. 1t was held that Miss
Scipio had not been eligible for the
next appointment in the schools at the
time she claimed, and that the board
BOvd
from temporary appointment to make
room for Miss Helen c. Harris. whose
reinstatement had been directed by the
Supreme Court of the District or Co
lumbia Miss Boyd's father spoke
briefly before the board on behalf of
Miss Boyd. Rev. DR.. John Van Schaick.
president of the board. assured him
that the board was sorry it could not
tunity was offered, under the rules
governing appointments. his daughter
would be given a chance.
Action was taken looking to the
amendment of the rules of the board
SO that medical inspectors may be CIV
en- annual leave in the future.
request from the Young Peoples
Literary Society of Ohav Sholom Con-
gregation for the presentation of a
play at Business High School for char
liable purposes was taken under ad-
visement. request that an assem-
bly, hall and room for domestic science
from the Piney Branch Citizens Asso-
citation. was referred to committee.
Appointments.
3. B. Jackson. substitute teacher of
millinery in elementary colored schools.
B. c. Thompson. substitute teacher of
domestic art in vocational schools.
G. B. Clark. substitute teacher of
domestic art in colored schools.
The following as substitute teachers
in the white graded schools: Mrs. L NJ.
Minor. Miss D. r., O'Neil, Mrs C. H.
Davey and Mrs. G. L. Damer.
AS substitute teacher in the kinder
garten, Miss jeanette Baker.
A. c. Norton. as substitute teacher
of English. history Commercial geog-
raphy, stenography and typewriting in
white high schools
Mrs. G. L. Damer. substitute teacher
of English and history in the white
high schools.
B. w! Clayton. as substitute teacher
Of civil government, history and psy-
chology IN the colored high school.
| j. E. Jordan, laborer, Mckinley High.
| william Gates, laborer. Langdon.
| John McLane, fireman, Central High
L. N. Simmons, class 2. Reno.
cial office.
| X. l.. Thompson. temporarily, teacher
Park View, night.
L. A. Duckett. temporarily, class Ga.
Armstrong High.
+. T. Doggett. temporarily, class Ga,
Eastern High.
p. =. Lamsons tempOrartlys Wilson