The Spanish American. [volume] (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??, 1919-06-07
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People Of Roy are familiar with
the dissatisfaction in the School
which caused many patrons to
oppose the reelection Of Mr..
Kreigbaum, of the withdrawal
from high school Of several pupils
before the end Of the term, Of
the called meeting Of the tseAool
Board March 18th to re-eIect
him before the new members of
the Board were elected, of the
secrecy which kept this act from
the knowledge of thepublic until
after the School Election, of
the Protest by most of the
patrons of the school made to
the Board which was reported in
this paper two weeks ago and
the promise of the majority Of
the Board to accede to the ex-
pressed wish Of the Patrons and
not re-employ him.
= This chapter of the story deals
with the developements of the
past week.
At the called meeting of the
School Board, held May 10Th a
delegation filling the largest
room in the School Building met
to assure the majority members
of the Board of their support in
refusing to re-elect Mr.. Kreig-
baum. In his presence he was
charged by the spokesman with
general ineficiency and being
not acceptable to a large major
ity of the".patrons. He replied
at great length denying the
charage and taking the occasion
to be rather cautic toward some
parties. A rising vote was
taken by the people present as
to their wish. Over 80 stood
up to signify they did not want
him to return to the schools and
28parents of pupils remained up
when those who had no children
in school were sifted out. On
the showing made of those who
wished to retain him eight per-
sons stood up, three of them
representing two families were
all who had children in school.
The board decided to act on
the matter at the regular meet
ing June End and at that time
decided to send a committe tC
Mr.. Kreigbaum at his home near
Malpi, 60 miles distance and
offer nm an opportunity to with
draw without formal action Of
the board. This was done and
delegation consisting Of DR.. Sell
and J, L. Swain of the Board
and Mayor F. S. Brown and Rev
O. w. HearA went Wednesday tC
see him.
They returned with writer
statement which he asked the
board to sign, commending him
as a Principal and declaring the
objections to him groundless anC
in fact asking the majority OF
the board to subscribe to his
claims, and renounce theil
support of the "Mob" who ask.
ed that he be not returned.
In return for this and its publica
ton in this paper. he gave his
verbal promise to resign" /"
The majority Of the Board
refused to consider such an
action and thus place themselves
in his power absolutely, besides
violating tEeir cVn sense of
right and truth and betrdying
the majority of the patrons of the
school and voted not to do it
A motion then tonot re-elect Mr..
Kreigbaum Was carried 3 to 2
and the matter is left open for
the hiring of another principal.
In the meantime legal advice has
been secured in the matter and
the fear or some that the threats
to collect by law for the so-called
employment carry no terror to
those who have inve estigated.
There are many phases Of the
situation, well known to many,
which we shall not recount here
and we have confined this story
to the briefest possible state
ment Of fact.