The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-08-29
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPEN
NEXT TUESDAY MORNING
All Students Urged to Enroll On the
Opening Day-Much Difficulty in
Securing Teachers

The Leavenworth Public Schools
will open at 9 o'clock next Tuesday
morning, Monday being legal school
holiday in this state since it is Labor
Day. Every student or prospective
student should enroll on the first day
if at all possible Late entry means
work to be made up before the pupil
is abreast of his class, which in many
instances is a serious handicap. A
law of the state forbids Boards of
Education or Superintendents to admit
children who have not yet become six
years of age. Hence any who will
not be six until some time in the fall
after school opens may be enrolled at
the beginning of the second semester
in January, or at what ever date
the second semester opens. lnasmuch
as all work in the beginning grade is
oral it is impossible for the teacher
to admit children even a week after
the class starts work without con-
siderable time taken from the ma
jority of the class.
1t is worthy of notice that at the
same time the young people in and
about Leavnworth of school age put
their books under their arm and start
again for the halls of learning there
will be a number of the graduates of
the class of 1919 of the Leavenworth
High School who will be further pre-
pairing themselves for life by at
tendance at higher institutions of
learning. Alvin Morton, Goethert
Schubert, Bruce Smith, Edward Rit
chic, John Coppock, Theodore Kuch,
will attend the state college at Pull
man. Agnes Davis will attend a
nurses training school at Chautauqua
N. Y, Olive Blankenship will go to
the Wenatchee Business College. Emil
Schneider and Deryl Motteler will at
tend the University of Washington at
Seattle.
A great deal of difficulty has been
experienced in getting the teaching
corp this year. In fact up to Thurs
day of this week there still remained
two vacancies to be filled The prob
liability is, however, that teachers
will have been secured for all positions
by the time for school to start Fol-
lowing is the list.
Miss Barkee, Receiving grade; Miss
Conrad, Primary; Miss Wansbrough,
Second Grade; Miss Erickson, Third
Grade; Miss Bickford, Fourth Grade;
Miss Ward, Fifth Grade; Miss Myer,
Sixth Grade; Miss Flemming, Seventh
Grade; Miss Brynes, Eighth Grade;
N. H. Bake, principal Grade school;
Miss Grue, History, Expression, and
French in the High School; now va
cant, Science and coach for boys, ath-
letics; Miss Day, Mathematics; Now
Vacant, English; Miss Anderson,
Home Economics; w. Foster Bickel,
Manual Training; A. T. Sutton, Sup
erintendent.
The arrangement for work of the
several teachers as given above is not
strictly correct, for the work is par
TALLY departmentalized in the upper
grammar grades as well as in the
high school. Miss Barkee, Miss Con-
rad and Miss Brynes will meet their
classes in the rooms of the high
school building which have previously
been used for these grades. Other
grades will meet n the grade build
ing. Until the arrival of Mr.. Bake,
who is at present in Alaskan waters
in the service of the Navy, Miss
Flemming will act as the grade prin-
cipal and a substitute will be secured
to assist in the vacant position.