Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-06-30
SUPT. GIESSEL'S
OFFICE IS BUSY
REPORTS MAKE HUGE LOT
OF WORK THAT MUST
BE TRANSACTED


Much of the public labors under the
terribly abused belief that the office
of the county superintendent OF
schools. ]. Z. Giessel, is an awfully
quiet and homelike place after the first
week in June when the youngsters oil
Marathon county are allowed to re-
main at home, to swim or TO help
NOV the hay or do whatever else
there is to do. But such is not the
case.
May Move Quickly
Step any day into the corner office
occupied by Mr.. Giessel and you'll
move rapidly because-well, because
there's so much to do that the county
superintendent has just got to greet
YOU in that "Well, what can | do for
you" tone that gives you to under
stand Immediately that here's some
cue who is working and here's an Of
flee in which even hot weather ana
the mythical idea about school teach
ers having nothing to do in summer,
10 not hold true.
OF course neither Mr.. Giessel nor
Miss Mabel Cook, sister of Assembly
man L. H. Cook, who constitute the
summer force would do anything Dut
greet YOU amicably and ask you to be
seated even though they entertain
anywhere from five to twenty-five Wis
itors each day. Some Of them say:
"What've you got to do now anyhow?
And Mr. Giessel tells Us we are as
Stunning altogether too much RESPONSE
bility in trying to tell our readers
what they 10 do.
"RepOrtS" Password
Reports" is the password of all
school institutions. The teachers to
the county superintendent; the town
clerk to the superinteil lent the SUI
perintendent TO a million boards and
individuals. And every report is
bunch of statistics. compiled from pre-
vlous reports from every village and
town school In the county. Supt
Giessel has received reports from 294
teachers in Marathon county and
from 215 town clerks. These are care
fully read and checked and when an
error is discovered, which is not in
frequently the case, the report is re-
turned TO the individual who sent it
in for correction and so the channels
of quick, undelayed work are again
clogged Some reports are returned
altogether correct we are Informed.
The school clerk has an eight page
folder he follows in making his re-
port and the teachers one of four
pages. From these the county super
intendent makes up no less than eigh-
teen huge tabulation sheets to be sub
mitted to Madison.
A Few OF Them
Between the first and the tenth of
July, Mr. Giessel has to submit re-
pert to the state department of pub
lie instruction, as we'll as reports on
the work OF the supervising teachers
In Marathon county, Miss Elsa Miller
and II. o. Paff. The annual report
of the Marathon County Training
school must be completed and for
warded. Institute work Is also a phase
OF county educational activity that
must be carefully recorded and in
clusively reported to Madison. The
teachers retirement fund report is a
task that is almost hopeless at times
but 1t has to be done, too.
Correspondence
Ten to thirty letters a day are no
pleasure but County Supt. j. Il. Gies-
sci writes that many right along
Where, you say? That is easy-to
teachers. to school clerks, to inquirers,
etc. And then there are lots of call
ers and dozens of telephone calls. But
this is not all for institutes are al
ways conducted during the summer
months.