The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-10
Annual Reports of Commit
tee and Others Nearly
Ready. >.
8O-CENT TAX RATE
is RECOMMENDED
This Provided, Teachers Salary Propos-
al Is Voted-Annual Meeting Next
Tuesday Night-Term Of Rev. E. q. 8.
Osgood Of Committee Expires.

Tuesday NightlTerm Of Rev. E. @. 8.
Osgood Of Committee Expires.
Within a day or two printed copies
of the report of the prudential committee
of school district No. 2, with reports of
the principal, superintendent, supervisors
and other school officials, will be ready
for distribution among the voters of the
district
The annual meeting of the district will
be held in the high school room next
TUESDAY evening at 8 O'Clock, when
member of the committee will be elected
TO succeed Rev. E. Q.S Osgood, chairman,
whose term of three years expires So
Tar as Is known there will be no opposi-
tlon to the reelection of Rev. Mr.. Os-
good. At that time the question will
come up as to increasing the salaries of
teachers.
Interest naturally centers in what the
prudential committee has to say about
various school subjects, but the other re-
ports will prove of value to any person
who reads them
The report of the committee contains
much interesting material The changes
IN the teaching force are stated in de-
tail, which changes have already been
noted IN The Reformer As to the CO.
ordination OF work in the grades and high
school the committee says:
The work in the grades and in the
high school is now being co-ordinated in
such way that the II classes, from the
lowest primary to the senior high, form
/ a With
any two of the classes. This is due in
large measure to the close cooperation of
principal and superintendent. The cours-
es OF study from the ostset are planned
to succeed each other in constant pro-
gresslon, both educators frequently COM
pairing notes, and discussing the advan-
tages or disadvantages of methods of pro-
cedure IN which they have mutual in
terest. We anticipate steady advance,
{ ON the part of the pupils in our schools.
because of this united and enthusiastic
service
With respect to work in the interest
, OF the health of the school pupils the
committees report contains a section be-
ginning with this paragraph:
l As always, the account of what has
been done during the year In preserving
the health of the children in our schools,
and, so far as possible, in preventing the
, spread of disease, is worthy of our care
/ ful consideration. Miss Loomis (now
Mrs. Brown has rendered admirable SER
vice IN this important field, ever since her
/ first appointment as school nurse, and
leaves behind her record of efficiency.
| of faithfulness, and earnest zeal that We
2 are glad to acknowledge. Upon her mar
: riage In the spring, we were fortunate
enough to engage the services of Miss An
ma NJ. johnson, registered nurse, who
performed satisfactorily the duties of the
. position until the close of the school year
!. Beginning with the fall term, or a little
later, Mrs. l.. Lucy Lazell will fill the va
cant place, having been appointed by the
! committee Mrs Lazell is a registered
nurse, with extended experience, and i.
at present taking special training in Mon
h treal, to be followed later by course
I in Philadelphia, in order to fit herself
:. for her new work
3 The committee then records the initial
: effort and recent progress in educational
{. hygiene in the schools In 1913 in the
c annual school meeting q resolution was
carried, with opposition, authorizing the
l, committee to employ a medical inspector.
d such inspector to be female trained
n nurse. The proposition to employ a
d nurse and not a physician was antagon-
y lied actively by the state board of health,
I, whose dictum then was that physician
II must be employed and not q nurse alone
s ''Since that sme," the committee says,
IS ''the work of the school nurse has dem
q onstrated its usefulness in such fashion
J, that no voice is now heard against It's
u continuance" ~
ol There is given the schedule as furnished
/ the Rockefeller Foundation in response
y to an inquiry concerning the educational
system and conditions i'm Vermont, aud
the health section of the report concludes
with these paragraphs:
,e Finally our hope and expectation is to
d improve the work now being done viii,
t. the helpful cooperation of the full time
health officer, DR.. c. s. Leach, and to
link it up with that period of the child's
existence from birth to school age SO po
tential in possibilities
FL 'The Thompson trust has already made
g a good beginning in the use of mater
= nifty nurse giving both prenatal care and
abundant help at the anxious moment Of
birth and the introduction of the new
40 conner to his wonderfully strange environ
IS ment.
t. plans were being thought out witt
er the late Miss Frances NJ. Stellman, r. n.
I'll the able and broad minded superintendent,
It of the Brattleboro Mutual Aid associa
in ton. to cover this beginning period of lif,
of more satisfactorily in the use Of the asso