Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-06-23
CHANGES IN TEACHERS
Several New Ones Will Join Dis
trict Staff Next Term
Miss Rallion, Miss Brewer, Miss MI
gent and Miss Ransom Going Else
where-Male Manual Instructor.


Several changes in the personnel of
the teaching force in the incorporated
school district have been made for the
coming school year, some of the teach
ers in both the graded schools and the
high school having secured positions
elsewhere, either at a larger salary or
nearer some large city. With one ex-
ception teachers have been engaged to
fill the vacancies, and continuance of
the high standard of work done in the
past is assured
Miss Harriet f. Rallon of Norwich,
Conn, teacher of German and Spanish
in the high school, will take similar
position in the high school in Engle
wood, N. j. She has taught here nine
years. Her successor will be Miss
Jeanette +. Sears of Holyokc, Mass,
graduate of Nassar college in 1912.
She was n classmatc of Mrs. George f.
Tomkinson of this village.
Miss Lulu d. Brewer, head of the
commercial department, will take po-
sition in the Amcs high school in North
Easton, Mass. Her successor has not
been engaged.
The school board has decided to give
up for this year the idea of having a
made to secure 10 persons to take the
course, which would have insured the
payment of the teachers salary by the
state, but only about half that number
were found who would enroll them
selves. Moreover to establish the
course would mean that two or three
of those now in the course at Leland
and Gray seminary in Townshend
would withdraw and come to Brattle-
borO, which nigh mean the breaking
up of the course there. The situation
was gone over thoroughly by the pru-
Dental committee in conference with
the superintendent in Townshend and
DIR. II. ID. Holton of this town, repre-
senting the seminary trustees, and it
was decided to drop the matter for this
year.
Miss Ethel A. Eddy, who has taught
several years in the eighth grade in
the Main street building, will have
charge next year of the ungraded room
which will be started as a new school
This school will be in the room known
as the studio, on the third floor of the
Main street building. Miss Eddy will
take teachers course in Columbia
university, New York, this summer to
fit herself for the work. Miss Eddy has
taught history and English, and these
studies will be taught by Miss Sadie
f. Winchester, who has taught arith-
metic and geography in the same
grade. Miss Nellie j. Fem, now in
the sixth grade, Main street, will teach
arithmetic and geography in the eighth
grade. She will be succeeded in the
sixth grade by Miss Martina Phil, now
assistant in the grammar grades in
Brattleboro academy in West Brattle-
boro. Miss Phil is a graduate of the
howell, Mass., high school and the
Lowell normal school.
Miss Grace M. Nugent of the fourth
grade, Main street, will take position
in the fourth grade in East Orange. n.
j. Her successor will be Miss Susie
Clark of West Brattleboro, who has not
taught the past year. Miss Clark is a
graduate of the Fitchburg normal
school and did a years work in the
University of Michigan. She has
taught in Springfield, Mass.
Miss Jessie Ransom, who has taught
the Canal street fourth grade, will take
the fourth grade in Montclair, n. j.
Miss Leona Wright of Middlebury, who
has taught the fourth, fifth and sixth
grades in West Brattleboro, will sue
coed Miss Ransom. She is graduate
the Middlebury training course.
A new course to be introduced next
term is the household economies course,
for which the physical laboratory in
the high school building may be used
Miss Rosamond Ashley will have
charge and besides her work in the
high school she will teach sewing to
the girls of grades 6 to 8, inclusive,
and cooking to the girls of grades 7
to O. inclusive, of both the Main street
and Canal street buildings. The girls
in grade 6 will have q Commute period
each week and the girls in grades 7
through 9 will have a Commute period
each week. Miss Ashley is a graduate
Of the New Bedford, Mass. high school
and of Simmons college, Boston, four
years course. She had two eyars of
practical training in Boston and for
the past two years she has taught
household economies in Walpolc, n. H.
For the first time a man has been
engaged to teach manual training,
succeeding Mrs. Harold L. Whitney,
resigned. Edwin NJ. Feeney of Ok
ford, o., will teach grades 6 through
and the boys of the high school in
manual training and some other lines
of work in the wcll-equipped sloyd
room and will teach drawing in all the
grades. Mr.. Feeney is a graduate of
Miami university, Oxford, o., and for
several years worked as a skilled ma
chinist. The past year he has spent in
New York specializing in manual
training and drawing.
Miss Ruth Anderson of Westfeld,
Mass, will succeed Miss Phil in Brat
tleboro academy. She is a graduate Of
the Westfeld high school and the
Westfield normal school and has spec
ialized in music, which is taught by
the assistant in the academy. Miss
Wright of Brattleboro academy will
be succeeded by Miss Emeline Web
ster of Hartford (Vt.) Miss Webster
is a graduate of the Woodstock high
school and the Westfeld normal school
and has taught three years in Hart.
ford.
Miss Pauline Morris has resigned as
teacher in the Centerville school,
grades through g. and will be sue
ceeded by Miss Florence Holden of
Centerville, who has taught several
years near Brattleboro.