Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-06-05
plan NEW FIRST
!. WARD BUILDING
BOARD WILL CONVERT JOHN
cHiLps SCHOOL INTO CITY
JUNIOR HIGH,
GRADED SCHOOL TO Be ..
ON NEARBY NEW SITE
Buildina and Grounds Committee Re-
ports Proposed Building, Also Re-
modelling Of High School and Gymna-
SUM to Provide More Room-N'ne
New Teacher. Are Employed.

h room, the aOlnuonHlehs Va NV 'N
Chilts building as a graded schooi
and its conversion into junior high
school, the erection OF 4 new grade
school for the First ward and the en-
largement and remodeling OF the
gymnasium we're outlined in a report
by the building and grounds committee
at the meeting of the school board
held wednesday night The commit
tee, composed OF u. ". Lawrence and
L |, y. kemble, now is in correspondence
with an architect who speciallzcs IN
school buildings.
The committee expects to employ
this architect % p.eparc plans for the
work of remodelins and TOR the new
building How sool any OF all of this
, work is done depends Ola when plans
= will be available. The remodeling OF
the high school and gymnasium must
I in the summer.
More Room rs Demanded.
All of this rerIUivhns and building,
! hiCh centers N the high school and
rst ward, is 20 prJy.le more room that
is needed badly. The enrolment OF
the high school TINS year has been $50.
/ IL is expected 20 Idn :TCm $50 10 700
next year. Nearly 100 .upils will go
out by graduation and by stopping
| school but there are lsi to enter the
eighth grade reXI fail. Some of these
/ Will not enter, put the additions are
| expected TO oe larger IN number tnan
those who leave the high school.
! The TS:5ioac!!as plans for the high
school will be 10 provide more reCita-
! ton rooms by setting up partitions in
the larger looms especially room No.
and the use OF me IanitOr's room in
/ the basement fJr a class room.
To Establish Junior High.
! To relieve the crOwdIng in the high
, school it is proposed t. convert the
John Childs building INTO a junior
! high school for the eighth and per-
, haps the ninth Grade. The building
, has a capacity Of go &c 300 pupils.
| The eighth grade alone has close TO zoo
! but if the grade should be as small
! as about $50 next year probably both
the eighth am ninth grades could be
] accommodated in the building. Some
remodeling II II would be necessary.
Il was the plan IF the school board
at the time the John ChiIds building
vas erected 10 conEert 1t some time
into a junior high school. This con-
| version would have been undertaken
! before now had it not been for the
\ war.
1 Have Site For School.
The site for d graded school for the
trict, owns two los l20XlS0 north OF
the school prop erty and fronting Sec
ond avenue. it can purchase at any
time the Charles Deuel. property ad-
joining the lots already owned on the
north. The addition OF this third lot
would give the board d quarter block
for a site.
The gymnasium is to be enlarged to
have a seating capacity of 200 to 500,
where it now seats about 500 without
crowding Other changes are to be
made in the building to meet the de-
mands of gymnasium work for boys
and girls, military training and ath-
lctiCs.
Nine Teachers Employed.
Contracts for four high school ani
|
the board. The new high school teach.
ors are:
Miss Mary Benson, Gladbrook. wht
is now .eaching at Twin Falls, Idaho
Miss Benson is a graduate of S. L.
She took work at Iowa State Teachers
College anA has taught at Twin FALL
for six years. Miss R>nson will teacl
| ma thematics.
Miss Mabel Heller, Waterloo. nov
teaching history at Lohrvillc. She wa
graduated from West Waterloo higl
school and Iowa State Teachers Col
lege and has been teaching at Lohr
Vile for four years.
Miss Hannah Anderson. SHea City
who is now teaching mathematics il
the high school Of Mankato. Mimi Sh
vas graduated from Gustavus Adol
phies College. st. Peter. Mimi, and tool
york at the University Of Minnesota
She caught at New Richland Mimi
for two years and at Mankato for twt
ycGrs.
Miss Bonnie B. Boardman city. TIT
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. c. II. Il
Boardman. Miss Boardmar graduated
here in 1911 and offended Grinnel
College two years but was graduated
from the University of Minnesota IL
1915. She taught here one year, a
Mason City two years and at Colorado
Springs, where she now is, one year
Miss Boardman is an English teacher
Graded School Teachers.
The teachers for graded schools en-
ployed are:
Mrs. Florence X. Emonr. city, fo
primary grade. Mrs. Emery ATTENDED
the Minneapolis Kindergarten Norma
and Minnesota States Normal. She ha:
taught ct Hayfield, Owatoona and 9TH
cr Minnesota cities and has been sub
stituting here.
Miss Gladys M. Lynch Mt Ayr {
primary teacher. She wa: graduate,
from the special primary course at Ce
dar Falls and she has been teaching a,
Mt. Ayr for three years.
Miss Martha Klindt, Montezuma. an
intermediate grade teacher. She at.
tended Iowa State Teachers College
and has been teaching for five years
at present at Walla Walla, Wash.
Miss Mildred Spence Indianapolis
Ind, kindergarten teacher. Mis-.
Spence graduated from the Teachers
College OF Indianapolis and has been
director Of kindergarten work at o.
kaloosa for two years.
Miss Luora Weber, AckIey, fnterme.
date grade teacher. Miss Weber at.
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