San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-26
JUNIOR HIGH
SCHOOLS OPEN
] SEPTEMBER z
Enrolment Will Start at
e Noon Of Previous
8. Monday.
COOKING In CHARGE
Teachers Institute Will
{. Precede Start Of New
Term.

Wednesday, September II, all
Junior high schools in the city with
The exception of the Thomas Nelson
Page School, will open for regular
class work, it was announced at the
school board offices Saturday morn
ing. Work will begin at II 80 o'clock.
Enrolment will be started at II 80
Monday, September 10. Pupils of the
public schools signed choice slips at
the end of the school year in June
and subsequently will know to which
. schools they are to report.
Sixth grade pupils will report to
Z their respective schools at u 80
q Monday, Septe Der 10, and will re-
main there until 2 80. Seventh grade
students will report for enrolment
from 2 80 to 4 o'clock and eighth
grade students will report from /
o'clock to 8 o'clock.
There will be no school held on
Tuesday, September IL, it was an
nounced, as this day will be used for
sectioning the programs and arrang-
ing the class work.
Principals and teachers at the re-
spective schools will be announced
sometime next week.
Choose Junior Directors.
The junior high school work of
the city public schools this year will
be under the direction of Walter d.
Cooking, director of junior education.
Mr.. Cooking did graduate work at
the University of Iowa last year,
specializing in junior work. Prior
10 last year, he was superintendent
of the public schools of Storm Lake.
The elementary department of the
schools will be under the direction of
Miss Elma A. Neal, who has been
designated as director of elementary
education. Miss Neal will have
charge of the first five grades of the
schools For the last six months
Miss Neal has been in New York.
She graduated from the teachers col
[. lege at Columbia University in June
of this year. Prior to going to New
York she had charge of the primary
grades of the San Antonio public
q schools for three years.
Institute Opens September 3.
Prior to the opening of the schools
institute week will be held in San
Antonio beginning September 3 and
ending September {. Special subjects
will be treated III detail by numer-
&. GUS well known out-of-town teachers.
The teachers and their respective sub
jects follow:
Alfred l.. Hall-Quest, professor Of
education, University of Cincinnati,
supervised study; Marion S. Hanckel,
primary supervisor of public schools,
Richmond, Va, reading; Helen Her
ron, Normal School, New Orleans,
literature; Willard d. johnson,
specialist, training classes the State
department of Education of the Uni
versity of the State of New York,
rural education; Louis Mohler, teach
er's college, Columbia University,
music; Mary $. Taylor, teacher of
mathematics, Normal School, Neyl
York City, arithmetic; Sherman IN.
-.liams, chief school libraries dries:
Albany, New York, use of Yteller.
Richard Thomas Wyche, s'National
honorary president of 81 America
Story Tellers' Leag-
,. Work Of Lind principals who
= Local teacbsh the institute week
will take QO. Cooking, silent read
,are: Walelling; Marshal Johnston,
ing a9Sof the Breckenridge High
sprine, senior high school problems:
Sef Hofstetter, principal of the
nm Avenue High School, extra cur.
rlcuia activities; W. III. Bowman.
junior high school mathematics Mer,
ril Bishop, junior high school Eng
Ilsn; RAYMOND H. Brewer, physical
education; j. A. Cook, subject not
YET assigned; +. S. Eakeley. educa.
,lonal tests and measurements j. +.
toward, secondary mathematics
aary Huppertz, English; Galen
Jones, community civics: j. o. Loftin.
aeaith education; Kate S. Schenck,
art education: C. A. Arnold. Iitera,
Ilare; Flora Mcneil, geography: r
Gny Rogers, arithmetic: Sarah s
hihg, history: nellie Adams Smith
lrrt; W. A. Thurman, superintendent
' u county schools, rural problems !
VIZ. Madders, English composition
.lr. Swift, rural problems and Mss
lima A. Neal, elementary school