The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-06-06
BOARD FILLS VACANCIES
AND ANNOUNCES,
LIST.
NEW TEACHER S
Faculty Is Regarded AS One OF
the Strongest In the
State - Budget
is Approved.

At an important session OF the
school trustees held the past week a
number of vacancies in the city school
faculties were filled and other mat
ters Of Importance were acted upon.
There are many changes in the per-
sonnel of the schools and the faculty
for the coming session is regarded as
one Of the strongest in the public
school of the State, according to Sup
erintendent J. C. Meadows.
The board fixed September 13 as
the opening date for the 1920-21 ses-
sion.
1t was decided to make payment
of teacher salaries in twelve annual
payments monthly instead of nine
payments as heretofore. This effects
no change in the amount Of salary
paid, but the plan was adopted as a
matter of convenience for the teach
ers.
The budget for the forthcoming
session was approved.
The most important change in the
faculty for next year will be that Of
Principal of the High School. Prof.
T. A. Middleton for the past session
superintendent of the city schools at
West Point will be principal of the
High School, succeeding Prof. Craw-
ley, who resigned.
Miss Douglas Olsen will be head of
the English der ---'ent of the High
School. Miss las been trans
ferred from the Junior High School
to the High School and will teach
English.
Miss Myrtle Roberts has been trans
ferred from the Barrow grammer
school To txass. Latin in the High
School. Miss Mary Dobbins, a grad
uate of the NJ. S. C. W. this year, will
teach French and Spanish in the
High School, and Miss Lucy Howard,
a Columbus girl who has been teach
ing in Hattiesburg the past session,
will be in the High School.
Miss Sarah Davis, a graduate of
Agnes Scott, comes to teach mathe-
mates in the High School, succeeding
Mrs. John Stinson who goes to Phil
adclphia the coming session. Miss
Tillie Webb has been transferred
from the Junior High School to the
High School faculty.
Miss Barbara Hill, graduate of
the M. S. C. w. this year and whose
home is in Bonneville, will teach
Science and Modern Languages in the
Franklin Junior High School. Miss
Mary Eckford has been transferred
from the grammar school to the High
School and will teach History. Miss
Lydi A. MCGOWAN who has been
studying at Johns-Hopkins for two
years will teach English and History
in the Junior High School. Miss Mary
Agnes Gordon, another NJ S. c. w
graduate this year, will teach Science
in the Junior High.
Miss Grace Hornsby, graduate OF
Randolph Macon, and whose home is
in Virginia, will teach Mathematics
in the Junior High School.
There will be only one change ii
the Franklin elementary school. Miss
Maize McLane will have charge Of
the primary work.
At the Barrow School there arc
four new teachers. Miss Daphne
Ransom og Mento, Ca, will teach The
Sixth grade. She is graduate o.
one of the Georgia State colleges
Miss Virginia Barnett is Virgins
Ransom of Mento, Ga, will teach tn,
Miss Josephine Senter who has beer
teaching in Athens, Ga, the past ses
sion and Miss Ada Watson, grad
uate of M. S. C. W. this year, are thu
other new teachers.
Following is full list of the schoo
faculties:
Lee High School.
T. A. Middleton, Principal, Science
c. N. Brandon, Phys. Education
and Science.
Miss Douglass Olsen, English.
Miss Pauline Rouse, English.
Miss Myrtle Roberts, Latin.
Miss Mary Dobbins, French an
Spanish.
Miss Bessie Weaver, History.
Miss Lucy Howard, History, Span
ish, Hall.
Miss Sarah Davis, Mathematics.
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