The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-08-10
FACULTY
IS LARGELY new

.
Punahou Academy on opening in the
latter part of September win have
eighteen new teachers. This is a very
unusually large number but matters
have been 80 arranged that this will
not delay the work The students are
virtually all registered for the coming
school year and will be able to settle
Town to work Immediately, regular les.
sons being assigned for the second
day.
Mr.. L. c. Rowland has made the
Following statement In regard to the
new and old teachers: ...E
An unusual number of vacancies
combined with war conditions has
made the task of securing teachers for
next year u huge one. Including the
new position in school singing, we
nave eighteen vacancies to I'LL Six
ieen of these are now accounted for.
Teachers Who Are Gone .,.... .'.
The following teachers leave Puma
hou this year: .4..s e.
Geraldine l.. Aitken, w. w. Brier,
Harriet Il. Crumpton Ethel n. Damon
Yrs. FREDERICK b. Davis, Agnes T..
Driver, Alice f. Harrison, Mabel ID.
Rowland, Pearl s. Ideler, Hope X.
Lyle, Emily s. Maddux, hhrgafet p.
Merrill, Efhe ID. Nugent, Carl r. Sager,
Helene :. Scott, We're Snyder ...
The following will be away on a
years leave of absence:. ., III. e.. %.
Eda A. Schmutzler, Charles +.
Schmutzler, Claire II. Ueeke. -
4 "Miaa GRIMM ho. Lun. 900 -
our best preparatory teachers. She
did excellent work this year in the
eighth grade as successor to Miss
Breckenridge. ." q 4#
Miss Damon has decided TO leave
PpnahOu so as to devote her time to
ybrk which she has been ambitious to
undertake on her own account. a..
Mrs. Ideler and Mrs. Scott have
taken on other responsibilities in the
shape Of husbands. .lG..
Miss Snyder seemed loath to leave
but stated that she found the climate
roo enervating.
dew Teachers .
The new teachers employed foI
next year and their departments are as
follows: n .
Alice Arnold girls athletics; Alice
Lee Castle, third grade; Lucy Lee
Doggett, fourth grade; Vera Hal
klotz, upper grades; Edith Laurettt
knights, stenography; Elizabeth +
Macomber, French; John H. Rollins
mechanical drawing and mathematics
Jean Perry Severance, science; Heller
g, Spaulding,. matron; GenevievC
Springton, art; Daisy Dean Spry, Ger
i Halan A1oa Gt,.x,. It.a,al -
other academy subjects; Bessie Potti
Walthall, combination first and SECOND
grades; Margaret Way, piano; Iilliar
H. Welch, eighth grade; Owe, Wolf
fifth grade; seventh grade and assist
| ant school singing are not filed. "
Large Enrolment
| Regarding the number of students
expected to enter in September. Mr.
E. T. Chase said: at is impossible TO
MS to tell exactly how many studenti
win be enrolled in the academy. w,
have all of the students register il
he early part of the spring term i
they are planning to return to .schoo
in the fall but outside Of this we hav,
no idea as to how many will ente
from the Coast and from other school
here in Honolulu. Last year the regis
tration Elm the academy was PCS.
presume that it will be approximate,
the same this year. g" ,..N'..
| "FOr the same reasons we canno
tate what the number of students l.
he preparatory will be. Last yea
there were $40 students all told and O
these 257 were in the primary depart
ment and 3l3 in the grammar depart
I -
y-twO over the preceding year. I
the academy there was an increase O
twenty-eisht students last year.