Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-08
name TEACHERS
FOR FALL TERM
Organization of Teaching Corps for
Moline Schools Completed
Many New Members.

Students of the Moline schools
will be greeted by many new faces
when they return to their studies
Tuesday, Sept. 3, for war condi-
lions have caused numerous va
cancies in the teaching stats and
L. ~ Mahoney, superintendent Of
schools, has been a busy man this
summer attempting 20 fill the posi-
tiODs so that no delay will be eX-
perienced next month. Especially
has the war taken its toll in the
high school Five vacancies have &C
CURED, three for which the draft is
responsible.
4 complete teaching corps is now
prepared 10 take up the work, how
ever. is the announcement coming
from the superintendent office to-
day. L. R Harris will be succeed
ed in the commercial department Of
the high school by Robert Schade
OF Lima, Ohio. Mr. Harris resigned
to take a position in the account
ing department of Williams, White
& Co. His successor has served as
principal of a public school at
Houston. Ohio.
Carl Sagen, former economics in
structor. will be succeeded by Miss
Faye Simmon of Wichita, Kan. She
has been an instructor in the Medi-
cine Hat, kan, and Marion, Kan,
public schools. Mr.. Sagen is now a
member of the faculty at Culver
Military academy. Miss Vivian
Simpson of Boston, Mass, will take
the place of c. r. Crakes, former
commercial instructor, now in
training at Camp Bradley, Peoria.
Miss Simpson is a graduate of the
woman's department of Harvard
and for some time has been identi-
fed with the commercial depart
ment OF the West Hammond, Ill,
high school
The vacancy caused by the resiG-
nation of o. J. Gabel, biology teach
er, now in service, Will be filed by
Gladys Tucker of Aurora, I'll. Miss
Tucker has been instructor in the
Aurora schools.
In the manual arts department
John A Williams, formerly bench
work instructor in the department
has been selected to succeed How
ara Z. Carr as mechanical drawing
teacher. Mr.. Williams has been in
the Dixon, Ill. schools since leaving
Moline John Arndt, until recently
principal of the BarstCw school, viii
replace F. d. Limo in service, as
grade school manual training super
visor. c. l.. Cox, 1884 Eleventh
avenue c, will take the position in
the machine shop vacated by For
rest Grower.
Mrs. Mabel Walker Edel of Bur
lington, Iowa, has been chosen for
the position OF school nurse, replac-
ing Miss Maude Morse.
In many cases in the grade.
schools teachers in the utility de-
partment have been engaged to
teach in regular positions. Six va
cancies have been filled. Those who
resigned last spring were: Edith
Moody, willard; Rose Holland, VIII
lard; Hannah Kneberg, Willard;
Mrs. Georgia Porter, Willard; Mar
ian Strickland, Grant, and Clara
Seilmer.
New teachers have been contract
ed with, and they will be definitely
assigned shortly before the com
are the added instructors:
Ruth Johnson, 1926 Twelfth ave
nue.. Moline, a graduate of the De
Kalb normal school. NIilda John
son of Minneapolis. Miss Johnson
formerly taught in the Moline
schools, but left in 1908 to accept a
position in the Minneapolis schools.
Edith Owens OF Elgin, a graduate of
the De Kalb normal school. with q
years experience in the Algonquin,
Ill. schools Miss Dorothy Peter
son of Moline. Miss Peterson is a
graduate of the Moline high school,
and last wear attended the Angus
tana college. Sarah Sundine OF Mo-
line. Miss Sundine is a graduate
of the Moline high school as well as
the Chicago kindergarten college.