Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-12-17
TEACHERS START
FIGHT FOR RAISE
Perth AmbOy Plays Leading Part
In Campaign

The new School and Teachers Cam
paign has been launched with great
enthusiasm and everywhere teachers
are meeting with hearty support from
the public as soon as the aims of the
campaign are explained.
Perth Amboy is putting forth ex-
ceptional effort and is helping greatly
to put through the program which
has been arranged. The teachers,
who are seeking increases in salary,
say they are particularly pleased with
the support given their cause by in
fuential men and women all over the
state. They point out that a score
In the financial industrial and pro-
fessional circles have volunteered to
serve on a general campaign commit
tee made up entirely of layrnen.
Among those who have already
agreed to serve on this committee are
many from this city, including Isaac
Alpern, president of the Perth Am
Clark, president of the Woman's
Club; Mrs. Frank Dorsey. secretary
of the Perth Amboy Chapter of the
Red Cross; Adrian Lyon, president of
the Y. NJ. c.. A, and +. II. Madison,
president of the local Chamber Of
Commerce.
Every county and city are being or
boill6Cu toDlIllIlIScS vi hlSlt ibulluils
information, schedule, speakers and
transportation have either been form
ed or are in process of formation.
Newspapers began an active cam
paign last Saturday with the state
ment OF Governor William Runyon.
All educational circles Of the state are
taking up the fight and are daily en-
listing a greater number of laymen
to their cause.
Very gratifying reports have been
made of Perth Amboy's part in the
activities and this city is known to
be doing the greatest work in the
entire county. Four representatives
have places on the state committees.
They are: J. f. Walker, chairman
of the finance committee; Miss Kath-
crime l.. Mccormick on the finance
committee; Henry Hulse. on the leg
islative committee, and NJ. r.. Leffler
on the speakers committee.
The officers and committees of the
Perth Amboy Teachers Association
are: President, j. F. Walker; vice
president, Glenworth Sturgis; score
tary, Edith Sofeld: treasurer, Henry
s. Hulse, Jr.
Executive committees: Katherine
Mccormick, Kathryn Herbert. Alice
johnson, Esther Beckhoff. Bertha
Oxenford, Agnes Hardiman, Phtlo-
mena Martin, Nellie Sheehan, Mark
r. LETTER, Myrtle Warren, Wealthy
Heinzelman and Rose Mccormick.
Publication committee: Joseph +.
Walker, Katherine Mccormick; fl
nance and auditing, Henry Hulse.
Philomena Martin. Myrtle Warren;
legislative committee. Mark r. Left
Ter. Glenworth sturgis, Henry Hulse,
Wealthy Heinzelman; transportation
committee, Kathryn Herbert, Helen
Bechtel. Jane Warren. Rose Blume
Agnes Brown, Lydia Olsen; speakers
committee, Glenworth Sturgis, JOS
eph Walker, Edith Sofeld, Henry
Hulse. Mark r. LETTER; t~ransporta-
tion committee, Nellie Sheehan, L. j.;
bartlett. Glenworth Sturgis, Paul
Stiel. Jennie Pemberton, Pauline
Philo; schedule committee. Rose NC
Cormick, r.. Predmore; Emma Mac
William, Agnes Hardiman, Myrtle
Warren, Agnes Brown, Herbert Ran
kin, Miss Byrnes, Edgar
Glenworth Sturgis, j. F. Walker;
publicity committee, Rufus b. Allen,
Mary p. Meade, S. j. Henry, Belie
Dorsey. Philomena Martin; distribu-
ton committee. Kathryn Herbert
Esther Beckhoff, Bertha Oxenford'
Agnes Hardiman, Rose Mccormick;
citizens advisory committee, Isaac
Alpern, I. II. Madsen. Adrian Lyon,
"A M. Cannon, Mrs. A. G. Clark, MIS-
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