Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-21
TEACHERS OF CITY URGE
CHANDLER NOT TO QUIT
Adopt Resolutions Pointing Out
Need OF Present School
Superintendent.
MEETINGS HELD THIS WEEK
Faculty Hopes to Induce Its Chief
~ Not to Accept Offer OF Presidency
Offered Him by William and Mary
College.

VoicinE practically unanimity OF
8 opinion that the city schools OF Rich :
.gsnond would suffer irrcparable injury
S through the loss OF DR.. ]. A c. Chand-
{ Ter should nc accept the presidency OF
william and Mary College at Williams
burg. the teaching force OF the schools,
numberinS close to 1000 teachers, In
Guiding principals. supervisors. school
nurses and special teachers. have start
ed a movement 10 bring such pressure
to bear upon Or. Chandler that he will
decline the honor offered him by his
alma mater
this week by the various associations
OF teachers beginning Monday after
Toon with called meeting of the
auditorium OF John Marshall High
School which was attended by almos.
{ tho entire faculty Of the city schools
81 AT this meeting, over which Miss
Bessie 7. Taylor, the president, pre-
sided. committee was appointed to
draw UP resolutions expressing tho
sentiment of the teachers relative to
( Or. Chambers leaving.
COMMITTEE DRAWS UT
SET or RESOLUTIONS
The committee was composed of Miss
py,rimary schools. chairman: Agar Wool
folk. principal of the City NormA;
Miss Lucy Il. Henderson. teacher in
Bellevue Junior High School. and Miss
Gornelia S. Adair, special teacher in
Bellevue. former president of the
league.
mailed to the State Board of Eduea-
zion, the City School Board, the Ro-
tary Club. the Kiwanis Club. tho Rich
mend mend UniHn ths Kish
Club. the Richmond Academy of Med
seine and Surgery, the Richmond
Club. the Council of Jewish Women
the Equal Suffrage League, the Fedora
ton OF Mothers Clubs and Parent
Teachers Associations. and other in
Women in the city.
ASSERT CITY SCHOOLS
NEED CHANDELIERS AID
TIE resolutions follows:
public schools of Richmond. DR.. J: a.
q. Chandler, has been elected president
of William and Mary College; and.
whereas, that institution is TO be CON
State upon the fact that Dr. Chambers
zine abilities will aid in making her,
educational life Of the nation:
changes in all activities cali for the
broadcast vision and kcenest intelli,
gence that can be found in educational
circles to lead in making urgent edu-
cational readjustments: and. whereas,
no government that rests upon popular
action can long endure without hitting
popular education. since the security
of a democracy depends upon how and
an what measure belief in demo-
cratic ideals pcrmeates the schools
thereof; therefore be IL
Resolved. That the League of
Richmond Teachers maintains that the
. teachers and pupils of the public
schools of this growing city Will need
as never before the rare vision and
fearless thought OF their superintend-
cnt, DR.. j. a. c. Chandler; and that
as a school system takes dts tone
largely from it's superintendent that
tho public schools system of this city
can i'll afford TO lose the services of a
man of such fullness of vision. national
training and wide experience
s"That the League OF Rich 10 ond
Tea earnestly trusts that DR..
Chandler will find ii possible to re-
main as superintendent of the Rich
mond public schools"