The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-03
School Affairs

The public schools Of Mount Holl
will reopen on Monday, September IL
While this date is later than that c
other schools In the county it has beel
thought inadvisable to have the worl
interrupted by the excitement OF tn
, Mount Holly Fair almost as soon as
had been begun, and the date of tn
opening was therefore delayed unit
, after the fair. The schools will close Oh
June 20, making term of 1874 days
A teachers meeting will be held at thu
high school building on Saturday after
noon, September IA, at 2 p. M, after
which an informal reception will b.
held, thus giving the new teachers
an opportunity to become acquainted
with each other and with the supervis
ing principal and members of the
board. A similar reception was held
last year, and it was very successful.
Supervising principal Edgar F.
Bunce took up his work here last week,
He is at present located at the New
Washington House, as bis residence
on Union street will not be vacated by
its present tenants until the middle OF
September. He has attacked the work
with great vigor and has already held
several conferences with the teachers OF
the upper grades living in Mount
Holly. Mr.. Bunce requests the publi-
cation of the following notices:
! New pupils will be enrolled in the
office of the supervising principal, in
the high school building, on Friday
and Saturday mornings. September 10
and IA, from TO IL o'clock.
On Thursday evening, Septem
Der 10, at 7.30 o'clock, there will be a
meeting of all the high school boys in
the school auditorium. The purpose
of this meeting is to make plans for
having a high school foot ball team.
Pupils below the high school who
have been studying during the sum-
mer with the idea of taking an exam
ination in certain subjects in which
they failed of promotion in June,
should go to the Office of the super
yising principal on Thursday morning,
September IL, at 10 o'clock.
High school examinations for con-
ditioned pupils will be given after
school opens.
The board of education and the re-
Gently appointed committee of the
Mount Holly Business Mems Associa-
ton, are perfecting arrangements for a
public reception to Mr.. Bunce. to be
held in the school auditorium on
Thursday evening, September rs. All
citizens interested in the advancement
of local educational affairs are invited
to be present and become acquainted
with the head of the schools. The
complete program will be announced
later. 1t is expected that an official of
the State Department OF Education
will speak; there will be music, and
Mr.. Bunce will explain his policies and
tell Of his plans aud ambitions for the
Mount Holly schools. The meeting
will close with an informal reception.
Do not make any other arrangement
for that evening. Go to the school
and encourage the supervising princi-
pal and the board of education by
your interest.
The buildings have been thoroughly
renovated and cleaned. The black
boards in the first grade rooms have
been lowered, and modern desks pur-
chased to replace the obsolete double
ones in use in some of the primary
rooms. Owing to congested transport
tation conditions the new desks have
not yet arrived. but it is hoped they
will be in place when the schools open.
1t has been the policy OF the board to
purchase modern desks yearly for at
least one room, and when those order
ed this year have been installed every
room in the system will be properly
Estimates are being re-
ceived for wiring the gymnasium and
when the work is completed 1t is the
intention of the board to rent the
room for dances, etc. The objection
to renting the auditorium for such
a purpose does not apply to the gym
nasium, which is on the ground floor
and can be shut off from the other
parts of the building. There is separ-
ate entrance to this room direct from
the yard. During the year special
effort will be made to secure some
gymnasium equipment.
Considerable needed equipment has
been purchased for the science and bio
logical departments of the high
school. New text books will be used
in a number of studies and the high
school courses have been revised and
simplified.
A number of changes in the teach
ing staff will mark the opening of the
year. A few vacancies still remain,
but the school officials are in COM
munication with number of desira
BILE teachers and the staff will be COM
pleted satisfactorily before the opening
date. Miss Mary L. Flynn, of the
primary department, recently present.
ed her resignation, having decided to
give up teaching and devote her entire
time to Junior Chautauqua work.
Miss Flynn has spent her vacations
on the Chautauqua circuit as Junior
leader for several years. and when she
was offered similar position on the
winter circuit she decided to accept 1t.
This vacancy has already been filled
by transfer. Miss Marion Munce, of
Bristol, Pa, recently elected to the
Samuel Aaron school. was unable to
qualify in New Jersey, and the position
is to be filed.
The board is also obtaining estimates
for printing the recently completed sur
vev of the school in pamphlet form.
These surveys are used as text books
in many of the Teachers Colleges
throughout the country, and there is
considerable demand for them among
educators who keep abreast of modern
ideas and methods. The New Jersey
State College has offered to advertise
the Mount Holly survey in its journal,
and place it on sale there,
and number of requests for copies
have already been received. 1t is felt
that enough copies can be sold to de-
fray the expense of publication. The
local survey will be in great demand
because it is among the first ever made
of school system as small as Mount
Holly. Most Of the published surveys
relate to large cities. and principals and
supervisors of smaller systems viii
have particular interest in the repor
I on the local schools.