The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-08-26
TWENTY-ONE
new TEACHERS
THIS YEAR
Only Five Former Grade and
Two High School Teachers :.
Back This Year.
MONDAY IS OPENING DAY
To House Grades in Lutheran Build
ing and Basement of Congrega-
tiOnal Church.

When the doors of Kennewck's pub
lie schools open next Monday morning
the boys and girls of the district will
face new superintendent and 81 new
teachers. Of last years teaching
staff only five will be back this year
while Mrs. G. R. Washburn will again
be back in the grades after an abb
sence Of several years. The high
school faculty will be entirely new to
Kennewick with the exception of Miss
Mcbride and Miss Eckerty.
Lynn H. Smith, the new superin-
tendent who comes to Kennewick
from the Yakima high school, has
been here for several weeks working
with the board in outlining and or
ganizing this years work. Both he
and members of the board express sat
isfaction with the personnel of the
teaching staff and predict one of. the
most successful school years the dis
trict has ever had.
In view of the fact that so many
of the teachers are new the school
board has planned a public reception
for the teachers next Friday evening
and urge that as many parents as
possible attend. In announcing the
reception, Clerk F. L. Fraser says:
"It is the honest desire of the
school board that the people of Ken
newick and surrounding district give
more consideration to our schools
than has been given for some years
past.
'"The Woman's club have offered to
cooperate and plans have been made
for reception our teachers at the
beginning of the school term. The
reception will be given in the high
school building Friday evening, Sep
tember 8, at o'clock, and everybody
is asked to attend and get acquainted
with the teachers who are to have
the overseeing of our children for the
coming year. Only good can come OF
such a get-together meeting. Moth
ing so quickly dispels fancied griev-
ances and misconceptions as a meet
ing of this kind where patrons and
teachers meet with a hearty hand
shake.
The interests of Kennewick and oul
public schools are closely linked. Wher
one prospers the other prospers; wher
one lags behind the other of necessity
lags behind, too. We have this year
splendid corps of twenty-seven teach
ers under capable and obliging su
perintendent. The board of education
is anxious for the success OF thu
schools and gladly give their time
and thought to this end, and to have
the best results there must be a re
sponse on the part of the patrons
Let every parent from town and tn
country attend the reception a weei
from Friday, meet the teachers ant
get acquainted and we will have bet
ter results than we have had for SOM
years past"
The attendance will far evceed tn
capacity of the two buildings and un
til the new grade building can b
erected it will be necessary to hous
three grades away from the schoo
plant. For this purpose the Luthera
parochial school building and the base
ment of the Congregational churc
have been leased for the district.
Following is list of the teacher
and the grades they will teach:
Grades Washington Building:
Principal and 9th grade, Lydia .
Mccormack; 4th, Minnie Bird; 4tf
Kate Larson; 3rd, Lily Albin; 3rt
Zela Hazen; End, Frances Colds
worthy; End, Ruth Huntington; Is
Thora Anderson; 1st, Gertrud
Thompson.
Grades Congregational Church:
Sixth grade, Ethel Mayes; otl
Zada Tinker.
Grades-Annex Lutheran Church:
Fifth grade, Mrs. G. R. Washburl
Grades-High School Building:
Seventh grade Gertrude Stonemal
7th, Nora Mangan; Sth, Mrs. r.
Dietrich; 9Th, l.. Vera Lamson.
High School.
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