St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-01-14
Superintendent's Field Re-
port and Financial
Statement
MISS LOIS CHAPLIN
LATIN, MATHEMATICS
Schools of Parish In Gen
eral Reported To Be In
Good Condition
Covington; La; Jan. 6, 1922.

Covington; La; Jan. 6, 1922.
The st. Tammany Parish Schoo,
Board met in the office of the Sup
erintendent on the above date with
President N. H. FitzSimons in the
chair and the following members
present: T. J. Okee1e, ward 4; ~
H. FitzSimons, ward 3; H. II. Levy,
ward 4; W. w. Talley, ward 5; Dave
Evans ward s; Geo. F. Bancks, war1
g.; W. L. Ellis, ward 8; w. Oswald.
ward 10. Absent: Stanford Behr-
ems, ward /; l. H. Keller, ward 7.
A quorum was present.
On motion by Mr.. Levy, seconded
by Mr.. Talley, the minutes of the
preceding meeting were approved as
printed in The ST. Tammany Farmer
The Superintendent read the folT
lowing report and financial state
ment:
Covington, La, Jan. 6, 1922.
Honorable President and Members OF
St. Tammany Parish School Board,
Covington, Louisiana.
Gent.emen:-P lease accept fol-
lowing as my report as to the conui-
ton OF the public schools of this
parish at the present time.
Schools of the First Ward are IN
good condition. A change in teach
ers in the second grade OF the Madi
sonville school was caused by the
sudden resignation of Miss sauls. l
have been successful, however, in Sc
curing Mrs. Claude Adams to fill the
vacancy. You will remember Mrs.
Adams had this work last year and
is, therefore, familiar with condi-
tiOns.
The Savannah Branch school has
been operated now for about two
months. Everything is going nicely,
But | am compelled to report very
low attendance. Where we used to-
have an enrolment of 48 or so, it
has now dropped to 35, and during
the month ending December there
was an attendance Of 81. Under
these conditions l doubt if they will
be abe to maintain the required av
erage of 80 during the rainy season.
The other schools Of the Second
Ward have been running smoothly,
but l regret to report that the Pill
grim Rest school was broken into
one night during he month of Decem
ber and ali OF lne window Shades in
one room were stolen.
In the Covington school there has
been change in the teaching force
caused by the resignation of Miss
Buford Gi41is as Latin and mathe-
matics teacher. l was especially for
tunate in securing Miss Lois Chaplin
of Tang!pahoa parish to succeed Miss
Gillis, and this work is now being
done as we'll as is possible under the
crowded conditions. | wish to i'm
press upon you the crowded condi-
tion of the Covington High School,
and explain that it is absolutely i'm
possible for the teachers Of this
school to do satisfactory work. ]he
eighth grade botany class has 45
pupils, the eighth grade English 40,
the eighth grade Latin 48, the eighth
: grade commercial arithmetic "a, the
ninth grade algebra 33. The eighth
grade English has been divided into
two divisions, and this Should be
. done with each of the classes listed
above. You are aware that the
u maximum allowed by the Committee
on Accredited Southern Schools is 80
for each teacher, and here we have
as high as SIS. We need in this
school one additional teacher to be-
gin as soon as possible. The science
classes. such as physics, have in their
laboratory periods twice as many as
can work at one time. This necessi-
tates the teacher allowing part to
work by themselves without her sup
ervlsion, and also the reducing of the
number of periods Of each week be-
low what it should be. Thers, is
grave danger II this condition was
appreciated by the State Department
OF their removing the school from
the approved list unless changes
were made. Were We to secure an
other teacher, it would necessitate
the using of the auditorium for
class room, but I can see no other
way or means Of remedying the con-
dltlon. There are between 20 and
So more pupils in the high school de-
partment this year than last.
The Vaudeville High School ia do
ing perhaps the best work of any
school in the parish when we con-
many of them.
The Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Ward
schools have maintained their aver
age quality of work.
In the Eighth Ward complaint
mas come to me from the patrons of
the Robert school regarding the work
being done by their principal. / am
expecting the trustees to appear ba-
Tore you today.
In the Ninth Ward repairs have
Deen made upon the toilets Of the
shdell High School, New furniture
installed in the Bonfouca or Bayou
/ Liberty school, and new furniture
mas also been placed in the Abi:a
springs school in the Tenth Ward.
On December 13, Mr.. Ta1ley, Mr.
FltzSimons and myself opened the
o1ds for the construction of the Sun
negro school, and found them to be
as follows: Geo. Sticker $150480;
Erlnest TT c. Jones, $3.50; S. R. Wilt
ans, $220S.20. On motion by Mr.
1ailey. seconded by Mr.. FitzSimons,