The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-04-16
POWELL AGAIN
HEADS BOARD
Lewis Powell Reelected
President of Board of
Education Tuesday.
OLD BOARD PASSES OUT
Finish Up Business of Old
Term Just Ended as New
School Board Comes In.

Lewis Powell was reelected presi-
dent of the board of education for the
1925-26 term at the first meeting of
the school board held in the admins
tration building on Tuesday evening.
The meeting marked the passing out
of the old board and the taking of
Office of the new board, which will
have several new faces on it. The
new members who begin their first
experience on the board are A. B.
Mccall, first ward, who succeeds j. 7.
Wilson; DR.. j. F. Hastings, fourth
ward, who defeated Peter Tacki at the
election; Mrs. Emma Haubrich, fifth
ward, who succeeds Alfred G. Sonnen-
berg, and William Doerfler, eighth
ward, who displaces James T. Blair
on the board.
At Tuesdays meeting Miss Ella
Powers was unanimously reelected
secretary of the school board for an
other term. A committee on COM
mites was also elected which con-
sists of Commissioners George Klotz,
Harry Whitbeck, George Cook, Elmer
Swartz and William Threinen. This
committee will meet before the next
meeting Of the board, which has been
called for. next Tuesday evening, and
make the appointment for the stand
ing committees.
Eefore the old board adjourned
considerable business was discussed.
Much of this matter that occupied the
attention of the commissioners was
purely routine work rushed to com
pletion in order that the board may
leave for the incoming board clean
slate. Among other things $4,000 in
bills from contractors on the new
high school building were ordered paid,
and a report from the boards con-
struction superintendent A. p Koehl,
told of the rapid progress being made
in the construction of the new school
building.
The Wisconsin Iron and Wire
Works of Milwaukee was awarded a
fence around the Waiskopf school pro-
perry to be eight feet high, and to
consist Of 267 lineal feet of fence.
The matter of fencing other schools
has been up for discussion before the
board on a number of occasions and
attempts are being made to provide
satisfactory protection to school chill
dren playing on school grounds which
front on busy streets.
The request Of the junior high
school principals for an increase in
salary presented to the board at its
last meeting was ordered held in
allegiance for discussion at some flu
ture meeting of the new board. A
change in the policy Of the board in
letting out the use of school build
ings for school activities was adopted
by the board Hereafter in case of
parties desiring the use of school
buildings for entertainments which
are direct outgrowths or presenta-
tions of school activities no charge
will be made for the use of the school
halls. And when the entertainment is
purely social or for the purpose of
raising money for some cause, the
board will demand the minimum fee.
Superintendent Guy LOOMS report
ed the resignation of Edison Valen-
tine, of the high school faculty, which
was accepted by the board. The SUI
perintendent also presented his finan-
cial report for the month ending
February 20, which showed that the
total cost of operating the city schools
for the month amounted to $56,036.96,
a figure which represents decrease
of $1,111.16 under the expenditures
for the same month last year. And
with a few other business matters
disposed of the board adjourned, and
its swan song was over.
Two Women On New Beard.
The new school board which Lewis
Powell will lead, and which will have
its second meeting next Tuesday even
ing, now has two women on it. Mrs.
Emma Haubrich is the newcomer,
while Mrs. Rose McClusky has been
reelected for another term of two
years. The complete school board as
it is now constituted is as follows:
First ward-George H. Cook, A. B.
Mccall; second ward-Harry o. Whit
beck, o. A. Mcneil; third ward
Lewis w. Powell, Henry Yonk; fourth
ward-William Silcock, DR.. ]. F. Hast
ings; fifth ward, Fred B. Surerus, Mrs.
Emma Haubrich; sixth ward-Jay B.
Glerum, Bruce Eastman; seventh ward
William j. ThTeinen, George Klotz;
Eighth ward-Fred F. Joerndt, Will
liam Doerfler; ninth ward Elmer
Swartz and Mrs. Rose B. McClusky.