Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-16
WOMEN SEEK JOB
OF SCHOOL VISITOR
Twenty-nine Candidates From
n Wards Announced by
Civic Club
MANY ARE EX-TEACHERS

Women are to take a greater interest
than ever in school affairs this fall
This is indicated by the list of candi-
dates for schLol visitors obtained to
date by the joint committee under the
direction of the Civic Club. Already
there are twenty nine candidates repre-
senting twenty one wards of the city.
These candidates have all indicated
their willingness to go on more than
one political party ballot. In the past,
candidates for school visitors have
frequently been placed on as many as
four ballots.
The committee for placing women on
school boards is as follows: Miss Eliz-
abeth r. Kirkbride, chairman. Civic
Club: Mrs. John 1hlder. Civic Club:
Mrs. William r. Lingelbach, New
Century Club; Bruce NJ. Watson. Pub
lie Education Association: Miss Ella
Robb, secretary. Civic Club.
The committee has also had the as
sistance Of Miss Rebekah Davis, OF the
Community Service Alliance.
Following are the candidates as an
nounced by the committee:
Third ward-Mrs Elizabeth c. Oar
by Grolle, 416 Queen street, associ-
ate headworkcr at Settlement Music
School
Seventh ward-Miss Helen Irene
Duncan. 26O1 Lombard street; head
worker at University House and grad
rtnr n
In 1905.
Twelfth ward-Miss Louise Marie
Iawton. 634 North Orianna street So
cial worker.
Thirteenth ward-Mrs. Maurice II.
Levitt. 625 Green street: settlement
worker. Fifth Street NJ. r. Church.
Eighteenth ward-Mrs. Harry w.
MYERS. 1851 East Montgomery avenue.
president women's section of Parents
Association, Kensington High School
for Girls.
Nineteenth ward-Miss Marion Har-
bison. 151 West Susquehanna avenue :;
Mrs. Charles T. Mercer, 1854 North
Eighth street. teacher in public schools
for number of years, supervising
principal previous to marriage.
Twentieth ward--Mrs. Albert Nose
bach. 1889 Girard avenue, member
Parents Association, School of Prac :
tice: Mrs. David Wood, 1713 North
Park avenue. interested in school, mu :
sic and charitable organizations, par
ticularly in work for blind
Twenty second ward--Mrs. Frederic
Landstreet, 81 Benezet street. social
welfare and community worker; Mrs.
SILL.
Germantown, present member of Twen-
ty- second ward school board, member
OF Society of Friends.
Twenty fourth ward-Miss Mildred
W. Wilson, $40 North Thirty second
strert, Smith College B. A., 1908
Mrs. John H. Neal, 65S North Thirty
third street.
Twenty fifth ward--Mrs. George W.
jacket, 2022 East Allegheny avenue,
graduate Of Girls High School, Phila :
delphia Normal School, and teacher in
Philadelphia public schools for several
years: Mrs. Harry b. Hutchinson
2949 Frankford avenue.
Twenty sixth ward-Mrs. Andrew f
Lippi, 1927 South Broad street, phar
macist.
Twenty seventh ward - Miss Ida
Katzenstein, Tho Stonehurst, Forty
fifth and Usage avenue.
Twenty eighth ward-Joseph T. VI
man. 2629 North Twenty ninth street
member of r. S. Walton Home anC
School Association, of Whittier Home
and School Association secretary Home
and School League of Philadelphia
graduate of Philadelphia normal school
IL IL. H. IL. e., e.,
years.
Thirty first ward-Mrs. John Don
aldson, PIP East Susquehanna avenue
High school graduate.
Thirty second ward-Mrs. Florence
Baillie Fitzpatrick, 1887 North Twelfth
street; graduate of Girls High Schol
taught in public schools; had long ex
perience as oral teacher of deaf.
Thirty fourth ward-Mrs. Mary M
Manship, COB Wynnewood road; taught
ungraded schools in central Pennsyl-
vania for a number of years.
Thirty fifth ward-Miss Anna Rich
ardson, Byberry, Torresdale station
manufacturer, completed two years
work at the Woman's Medical College
In Philadelphia. Mrs. Horace w. Cas-
tor, 7347 Oxford pike, education, higt
school and business college.
Thirty seventh ward-Nlrs. William
Armstrong Graves, 1920 Allegheny
avenue, graduate of high and norma
schools, taught third, fifth, sixth anC
seventh grades under II. J. Gideon
now of Bureau of Compulsory Edu
cation.
Fortieth ward-Mrs. John J. Dull
1858 Willows avenue, president o.
Longstreth Home and School Associa
tion, graduate of Philadelphia Higt
School for Girls, taught school in Phia
delphia for eleven years. Miss Annt
E.. Kunkle, 1924 Bonnafon street, for
merly high school teacher, education
Wyoming Seminary, National and Bos
ton Schools of Oratory, Vanderbilt Uni
Versity, year of study in Paris.
Forty fifth ward-Miss Helen NJ
Oliver, 4751 Richmond street, Brides
burg, graduate of Girls High and Nor
NAL Schools.
Forty sixth ward-Mrs. Ada Storm
CapWell, 1921 Hazel avenue, educated
In public schools Of Pennsylvania, grad
uate of National School of Elocutior
and Oratory. Miss Helen NJ. FOgg
1915 South Forty-sevcnth street.
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