Evening star., 1922-01-03
RS T0GA|N BY BILL
+ f0RfX-TEAcHERS
Retirement Law Extension Is
Now Pending Before Sen
ate Committee.

Extension of the retirement law for
teachers Of the public school system,
as proposed in the bin now pending
before the Senate District committee,
would affect twenty-eight teachers,
the names Of whom were received by
the committee today from the Board
Of District Commissioners.
Special legislation by Congress is
necessary to include these twenty
eight former teachers in the benefit Of
the retirement law. because they were
not on the pay ron when the retire.
mont law became effective a year ago.
In giving their approval Of the bill,
the Commissioners expressed the be-
lief that a definite date should be
! fixed beyond which the proposed
amendment should not extend. This
date they suggest be flxed as June 20.
1906, which Is the date of approval of
the present organic act of the school
system.
They further express the belief that
annuittes under the proposed bill
should be limited to the minimum al
lowance of $42O per annum. fixed by
existing law. and that these annuities
should be operative from the date Of
the approval Of the teachers retire.
ment law. January Is. 1920.
Teachers Affected.
The teachers who would be affected
Z. l. Duvall appointed September,
1877. resigned June. 1898; NJ. {. A.
l-azenby. appointed May, 1877. re
| signed March, 1900; +. W. Dyer. ap-
pointed September. 1881, resigned
April. 1901; Nj. G. Kelly. appointed
September, 1863, resigned october,
1906; NJ. A. Tate. appointed July,
1865, resigned October, 1906: NJ. R.
resigned April. 1909; E. A. voorhees,.
appointed September. 1866. granted
perpetual leave October, 1910; C. l..
Wilson, = appointed September, 1872,
granted perpetual leave May, 1911;
Phoebe Holmes. appointed September.
1897, resigned June. 1911; NJ. P. VIII
son, appointed November, 1876, grant
ed perpetual leave January, 1912: S.
b. Brown. appointed September, 1876.
granted perpetual leave October, 1912.
f. J. Young. appointed October.
hsr. 1918; A. NJ. Dutton, appointed
July. 1875. granted perpetual leave
October, 1918; NJ. c. Garst, appointed
July. 1875. granted perpetual leave
October. 1913: NJ NJ. Dyer, appointed
October, 1918: F. G. whitney. ap-
pointed March. 1888. resigned Febru-
airy, 1914: NJ. V. Slater. appointed Oc-
tober. 1899. resigned November. 1914 !:
G. NJ Parker. appointed July. 1887.
granted perpetual leave January.
1915: f. L. Cooley. appointed Septem-
her. 1869, granted leave October, 1916:
A. A. Cheshey, appointed September.
1887. granted perpetual leave Feb
ruary. 1916; Leonora Merritt, appoint
ed July. 1888. resigned October. 1918;
Francis Schweinhaut, appointed Octo-
ber. 1888. granted leave October,
1916.
NJ. F. Barker. appointed September.
1877. granted perpetual leave, June,
1919; l.. V. Fisher, appointed Septem-
ber, 1857: A. T. Howard. appointed
March, 1868. granted perpetual leave
January. 1918: II. p. Spencer. ap-
pointed January. 1863: E. ". George,
perpetual leave March l, 1919:- A. l..
Lotion. appointed November, 1900;
granted perpetual leave. September.
1918.
special Cases Cited.
1t will be noted. Gays the. Commits
sioners' letter, in one case fhe teacher
resigned from the school service June.
1898; another. MArch. 1900: another.
April 1901. and another. October.
1905 These separations, therefore,
occurred prior to the passage of the
present organic act Of the schools on
June 20, 1906. The several other
teachers resigned or were granted
perpetual leave following that date.
Difficulty will arise in the considera-
tion of the cases of the TEACHERS who
resigned prior to June 20. 1906. un-
less some definite provision be con-
tanned in the law extending the
amount of annuity to which they
shall severaliy be entitled. or new
basis established for determining the
respective annuities. as the provisions
of the present retirement law cannot
be applied to their cases.
This statement also holds good re-
garding teachers who resigned or
were granted perpetual leave after
the passage Of the act of June 90,
1906. and who were not assigned by
the board of education to one of the
sa la ries prescribed by that act