The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-05-05
SCHOOL ITEMS OF
UNUSUAL INTEREST
Commencement Next Week
Teachers Elected for En-
suing Term.

There will be a recital at the pub
| lie school auditorium at two o'clock
Wednesday afternoon, May 18th, by
expression students of Miss Fanna
Mai Kees, and grade students in sing
ing. Also there will be choruses by
advanced students. Miss Kees is
teacher Of Expression and Misses Lu-
J cile Harris and Margaret Franklin
are supervisors of the public school
music work.
After the above recital Wednes-
day afternoon, there will be an ex-
hibit of sewing and other work of
the Home Science department, in
charge Of Miss Katherine Wilson,
teacher of that department,
The Class Day exercises Of the gra-
duating class will be held in the high
school auditorium at ten O'Clock
Thursday morning, May 18th. A de-
lightful program has been arranged.
The public is cordially invited to
all these exercises of the schools.
which end with graduation Friday
night.
The graduation exercises will be
/ held in the Hampton Auditorium Fri
| day night, May 14th, at 8:15 O'Clock.
This years class is composed of thirty
young people.
Examinations are to begin in few
days, as usual.
Friday of the present week, May
7th, the schools will be dismissed one
day for the teachers to attend the
State Teachers Association in Jack
son. All the force will go for this
important educational meeting.
Miss Margaret Franklin, head of
the Primary department of the Brook
haven schools, will address the teach
ers in the Department Of Elementary
Schools, at the State Association, on
''The Duties of the Teacher in the
Normal and in the Freely Organized
kindergarten and Primary School,"
Supt. Byrd is on the program for
an address in the department of Su-
pervision, joint meeting of princi-
pals and county superintendents, at
the State Association. He is also
Chairman of the English Section in
the Department of High Schools and
Colleges and has succeeded in secur-
Ing Harris Dickson, DR.. McBryde OF
Tulane, Prof. Painter of Mississippi
State College for Women, DR.. Kern
Of Millsaps, and several others of un-
usual note for his program. He is
also Chairman Of the committee on
the Interscholastic Debating League
for the state.
All the present teachers of the
Brookhaven schools who applied were
reelected at a meeting of the school
board April 29. These were Princi-
pal ]. W., Ward, Misses Eunice And
ing, Mamie Harris, Isabel Lund, Lu-
cile Harris, Katherine Wilson, Ma
mie Martin, Emmie Greer, Jessie
Greer, Mrs. Vera Ross, Mrs. Mary
Farris, Misses Ruby Newman, Ruth
Jones, Annie Burns, Sarah William.
son, Lula Sasser, Anne Decelle, Mar.
garet Franklin, Myrtle Blue, and
Mrs. Rosa Lee Leggett., Mrs. Henry
Flowers and Mrs. M. Dunning die
not apply for reelection and for the
places thus left vacant in the force
the board elected Mrs. Robert w
Bee, of Hazlehurst, and Mrs. Henry
Legett, Of Brookhaven. These two
splendid ladies are well known IL
Brookhaven and In addition to beins
excellent teachers they are acceptable
in every relation Mrs. Legett Rra
duated at the /. I. & C. and taught fol
three years in the jackson schools
Mrs. Bee was educated at the T. /
& G. and has taught at her hom,
town.