The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1922-08-18
LOCAL
SCHOOLS TO
OPEN SEPT. 5

The Leavenworth Public Schools
will open for the 1929 session at
900 a. m. Tuesday morning. Septem-
Der the Fifth. Because Monday is
Labor Day, and school holiday. the
schools will not be opened on that day.
The Board of Directors and superin-
tendent have been alert to the needs
of the school during the summer and
expect to have the plant in readiness
so that there will be the least friction
and disorder possible when the bell
calls the children together again.
Such cleaning and repairing as has
been found necessary will have been
done, old and worn out books will
have been replaced, some of the
rooms will have been reseated accord
ing TO rearrangements incident to
promotions, and major schedules have
already been worked out for the new
term as far as it is possible to do so.
In fact all adjustments will be made
before school opens, except in few
cases where it is impossible to do so
due to uncertainty as to the number
of high school students who will elect
certain courses.
Parents of children of kindergarten
or primary age are asked to remem-
Der that little folks who will be six
years of age after the first of
January, 1923, may not be admitted
to school during the present term.
Children who are six years of age,
or who will be six before the first of
January, may be admitted provided
they enroll at the beginning of school.
In primary work the teacher can do
very little with pupil who enters
after the opening of the term.
A twenty-page pamphlet featuring
the advantages of education. and of
the Leavenworth schools in particular,
will soon be in the hands of high
school and prospective high school
students in this end of the valley
This year an attempt has been made
to arrange for high school physical
training, which is compulsory by law,
to be given twice a week during school
hours in the afternoon. In order to
do this it will be necessary that
seventh and eighth grade manual
training be given only once a week
each, instead of twice as heretofore.
However, each section will still get
about an hour and a quarter of manu-
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study requires only one hour.
Mrs. Van Tassel, principal of the
high school, has written that she will
be prepared to give as much time as
necessary, during the week before
school opens, to enrolling students
and assisting them to choose their
courses. Students whose courses are
irregular, should be particularly in
terested in taking advantage of this
opportunity, because time for individ-
ual counsel is limited after the ses-
sions begin. Further announcement
will he made as to exact time when
Mrs. Van Tassel will be ready to meet
students for enrolment.
The board of directors has found it
necessary to employ five new teachers
TO fill vacancies caused by resigna
tons. These five were selected from
among more than one hundred and
fifty applicants. The complete list is
here given:
First grade-Miss Lulu A. Nelson,
Plummer, Idaho.
First grade-Miss Mayme Conrad of
Colfax, Wash, has taught in Leaven-
worth three years.
Second grade-Mrs. Genevieve Bar
kee- Mercer of Leavenworth, has
taught in Leavenworth three years.
Second grade-Mrs. Norma Vans
hrough-Laws of Leavenworth, has
taught here three years.
Third grade-Miss Merle Green Of
Leavenworth, has taught here two
years.
Third grade-Miss Lille G. Becken
Of Bcllingham.
Fourth grade-Mrs. Minnie &. Nc
Claim of Leavenworth, has taught
here two and half years.
Fifth grade-Miss Ferne Lindley of
Leavenworth, has taught here two
years.
Sixth grade--Mss Bertha Myer Of
Lokota, n. D., has taught here three
years.
Seventh grade-Miss Anna Nj.
Lang of Spokane, has taught in Leav-
enworth two years.
Eighth grade-Stanley P. Freeman
of Leavenworth, principal of the
grade building, has taught in Leaven-
worth one year.
Mrs. Anna D. Van Tassel of Wen
atchee, principal of the high school, Is
graduate of Vassar college, holds q
haccalaureate degree and teacher
life certificate and is an experienced
teacher. She is a member of the
national honorary fraternity of Phi
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