Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-30
OPENING OF WEST
SHORE SCHOOLS
High Courses at Lemoyne and
New Cumberland Changed
to Four Years

The public schools OF the West
Shore, with the exception of Camp
Hill, will open on Monday morning,
September 8. The Camp Hill school
will open the following morning. The
High school courses at Lemoyne and
New Cumberland have been changed
from a three years course to a four
years course and many improve
ments have been made.
At Camp Hill, Lemoyne. Worm
leysburg and New Cumberland the
boards have spent considerable
money in equipping laboratories.
The Camp Hill public schools will
begin their school year on Tuesday.
Numerous improvements will greet
the eyes of the scholars. The win
dows of all the rooms facing the
west have been weather-stripped,
the auditorium Is being repainted
and a large room Is being fitted up
for science work for the High school.
A $500 chemical laboratory table
has been ordered. This table will
their various experiments, working
independently. The table is to be at
tached to gas and water.
In the High school several new
courses Of study have been installed
and an elective system has been es-
tablished.
The following comprises the corps
of teachers: Prof. Frederick V.
Rockey, supervising principal, Camp
Hill; George Harbold, pillsburg,
High school: Miss M. Ruth Baker,
L feh t-h Ia
Russell, Shippensburg, eighth grade
and seventh grade; Miss Anna
Fleisher, Harrisburg, fifth and sixth
grades; Miss Elizabeth Wentz, New
Cumberland, fourth grade; Miss
Elsie Beck, Camp Hill, second and
third grades; Miss Grace Mickey,
first grade; Miss Dorothy jenkins,
music, drawing and penmanship;
Mrs. Sarah Wormell will again con-
duct kindergarten work. Hiram Dit
low, of Camp Hill, has been re-elect-
ed janitor.
Departmental work will be in or
der in the fifth, sixth, seventh and
eighth grades.
The Lemoyne High school will
open Monday morning on the new
course. The board at the close of last
years term decided to make the
course a four years course. Four
years ago the first class was gradu-
ated in the three-year course and
prior to that the course was two
year. Several hundred dollars have
been spent for additional equipment
to the chemical and physical labora-
tory.
The list of teachers for the ensuing
school year are: Prof. Alfred ].
Ensminger, principal; Miss Edith
r, Mumma, assistant principal; Mrs.
Una C. Wood, music and drawing;
Miss Olga M. Meloy, High school as
sistant; Miss Ethel Clever, eighth
grade; Miss Leila Clever, seventh;
Miss Naoma c. Bentz sixth; Miss
Margaret Bricker, fifth; Miss Nancy
Bentz, fourth; Miss Ruth Reeser,
third; Miss Martha ]. Yencel, sec
ond; Miss Minnie Stambaugh, first.
At Wormleysburg the school board
has purchased a chemical laboratory
including text books at the cost of
$400. The list of teachers are: prin-
cipal, S. H. Hetrick, Selinsgrove;
seventh and eighth grades to be
filled at a meeting of the board in
the next few days; third and fourth
grade, Miss Sadie Zarker, Wormleys-
burg; primary, Miss Marie Sense
man, Shiremanstown.
Through the resignation of Prof.
EuBdF LoWeTp WIN was Te-eleCleu
principal of the West Fairvfew
schools, Clyde Mellinger, a graduate
of the Cumberland Valley State Nor
NAL school, in class of 1915, was
elected principal. Prof. Lower has
enlisted.
Other teachers are: grammar
school, Miss Pearl Killinger, Me-
chanicsburg; sixth grade, Miss Erma
j. Snyder, Carlisle; fourth and fifth
grades, Miss Catherine Crawford.
West Fairview; third grade, Miss
Ada Long, Shippensburg; second
grade, Miss Grace M. Carper, Car
Isle; first grade, Miss Elizabeth Nc
Cune, Shippensburg.
The New Cumberland school
board during the summer laid plans
for improvements and additions to
the school course which when COM
pleted they hope to have the best
High school in this section. The
school has been made a four-year
course and the pupils who were to
graduate next spring with the three
year course will be allowed to do
so or take the final year. If there
are any three-year pupils to gradu-
atenext spring it is likely there will
be two classes as some of those who
graduated last spring are going to
return for the fourth-year work.
Prof. L. D. Crunkleton. of Littles-
town, who was principal at New
Cumberland. two years ago and who
is well liked. has been secured to
teach this year. Other teachers are
as follows: High school. Miss Rob
erta Reiff, Miss Ethel Hoover and
Prof. A. L. Lands; sixth grade, Miss
Grace Shelley; fourth and fifth
grades, Miss Jano L. McCachran;
third, Miss Hilda CONNER; second,
Mrs. Addie Fulton; primary. Miss
Mildred Fogelsonger. Emanuel Dit
low has been elected tanitor.