The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-15


as leader of the school trustees. His
resignation was reluctantly accepted by
the school board and many were the
expressions of regret from the various
men. Il hate to see Jay CO." Mr.. Wallis
stated. He has been responsible for
the good work of the school board to
great extent"
Gterum Is Paid Tribute.
superintendent of Schools LOOMS
paid Mr.. Glerum tribute when ba
said: I'm all my years of connection
with public education, l have never
found any board president so OMEN
minded, so fair and impartial, or cana
DE IMAM Mr.. Glerum." Mr.. Schwartz
expressed his regret over the resigna-
tlon OF the retiring president by say
ing: The city of Kenosha has lost the
services. of a real educator" Mr.. An
derson made motion that the super-
lnFendent Of schools and Lewis Powell
be authorized to extend to Mr.. Gler1m
? wTseSen Vo5s of rs.e ks. Tha motlon
was seconded and unanimously carried
In resigning, Mr.. Glerum said in
part: Gentlemen, l want to ask a
FAVOR OF you this evening. For five
years l have been on the school board
and In that time have tried to do the
best possible thing for the children.
the school board, the schools and tho
parents OF the students. The teachers
nave had their salaries increased until
. the salaries of Kenosha are on a par
with the rest of the salaries in the
state OF Wisconsin. The city schools
OF Kenosha have acquired a superin-
tendent. Gentlemen, I'm going to ask
you to relieve me of my position. I'm
doing this after considerable thought
and 1t is the best for nv physical.
financial and family needs. In retiring,
want to thank the teachers. the
school board, the janitors and everyone
VINO has been in any measure respon-
sIDie Tor any good that l may have
accomplished in my tenure of office"
Wants Building Program.
Before rendering his resignation, thu
president asked that q committee he
named consisting of some members of
the scR5ol board, the city council and
other public spirited men of Kenosba
to formulate a school building program
for the city. "This program should
run over period of at least ten years
and with the construction of a few
buildings, the needs of the city will be
taken care of. The city has splendid
start In its Mckinley, Lincoln and
Washington schools and all that it
needs is an intelligent building pro-
gram to bring this city out of the
chaos that it has been in," he said. A
committee was named to appoint a
group of men from the city to make
up this building committee.
Free Text Books.
Supt. of Schools LOOMS was given
permission to start his free text book
plan whereby pupils will leave their
school books for the pupils graduating
into that particular grade. That is. /
pupils Of the fourth grade who are
graduating into the fifth will leave
their books for the pupils who are adj
vancing into tn fourth. The gradual
ing sixth grade will leave their books
for the advancing fifth grade, and 50
on. "I&is will take care of the text
book situation and is being tried with
great success in other cities" Mr.. Loo
mis- said in sponsoring his plan. Thisa
new plan will become effective during;
the next semester.
Take Up Building Sites.
A committee consisting Of all the
members of the buildings and groundal
committee and the finance committee
was delegated to go into the matter of
new school site on the west side.
There have been several plots Of
ground suggested, among them beingl
the Tully site, the Allendale site OH
Charles S. Pfennig, the plot in Crook'si
subdivision, and the proposed site of
John Butcher. The newly formed com
mittee will go into the project and hold
a special committee meeting on Thurs |
day night to take up the matter of the
purchase of the school site.
Several new rules were adopted by
the school board, among them being
the rule that high school players in
jured in the school gymnasiums would
not be entitled to any compensation
from the school board. And that no
pupil hurt on the school grounds would
receive any compensation unless 1t
could undisputably be shown that It
was from negligence on the part of the
schoo board Supt. Redstrom of tbs
Washington school was chosen as an
assistant to Coach Gibson with very
nominal sum Of compensation attached.