The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-16
|KANSAN IS NEW SUPERINTENDENT FOR STAMFORD Claire C. Thompson Succeeds William E. Kelsey, Who
 Resigned. TEACHERS SALARY
 LISTS READJUSTED School Board Believes In Bet ter Pay for Instructors
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| Stratford, March 16-Claire C. l Thompson, for four years superin-
 tendent of the public schools, Bonner 1 Springs, Kansas. and at present pur- suing a postgraduate coure at Teachers college, New York, was so. lected to the superintendency of the l Stratford public schools at a special meeting of the town school com mit- | tee held last evening aE the Center school. The appointment of MT. l Thompson was unanimous. He will assume his new duties July, 1. MT Thompson comes highly 1ecolumend- I ed both from the city ill which he last fabored and from the faculty Of Teachers college. He has been an instructor for IA years. Prof. R. Ed- gar Fisher, who has been acting as superintendent pro-tem, will continus in that capacity until the end of th. school year.
 Another important measure which received the unanimous vote of every member was the readjustment of aE the teachers salaries. This new mens. ure will go into effect September 0t the present year. From now on n teachers applying for positions in Stratford will have to be normal school graduates. Normal school graduates who have had two years experience and are fitted to teach in the first, seventh and eighth grades will begin with a salary of $650, in- creasing $50 each year until a lnassi- mum of $850 is reached. Teachers in the second. third, fourth, fifth aud sixth grades will receive $500 for the first year, increasing each year until maximum of $500 is reached,
 Normal school graduates without any experience but who come we'll recommended by the principals of the schools at which they matriculated will receive a salary of $5s0 win a raise of $25 year for the st two years and then $50 each ye.lr until a maxirnum is arrived d at, depending or the grade in which the person is in. structing.
 will start at $7OO and will receive $100 raise each year until a maximum of $I,200 is reached.
 Dr. De Ruyter Rowland chairman of the town school board said today
  salaries had been anticipated for some time and was purely voluntary with the committee. This readjust- ment will promote efficiency and en- able us to procure more competent teachers" he said.
 Miss Mary A. Judd, a teacher at the Franklin school was appointed to fill the vacancy left by the promotion of Miss Gertrude L. Avery to the position of principalship of the Center school. Miss Coad, the former principal, re- signed a. few weeks ago las she pro- cured a better position.
 Plans and specifications for the pro- posed nine room school on Honeyspot road were submitted to the commit tee last evening by Irving Cooper, architect. They were accepted and bids will be asked for in a few days. The new building will cost s50,0
 Capt. Danforth of the field artillery, U. s. A., spoke on universal military training at the Christ church parish house last evening. The hall was we'll filed Many members, of the Mems club of the Fongregational church were also present. MT. Danforth's idea was to show, by reference to the history of all wars engaged in by this country, that the volunteer service was a failure. Not only were the off, cers and men untrained, but after the first enthusiastic wish to enlist, enouEh recruits could not be procured for a prolonged war. He stated that there was one case on r---c-d in the Civil War where one man jumped the bounty g times Following the speak er's talk an informal discussion was held at which many questions were asked and satisfactorily answered.
 Rex De Laeour, who has done duty at the border with the Illinois cav airy. delivered some interesting re- marks on the state troops recent mobilization.
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