Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-08-04
Turnover Waterville
Teaching Force Is No
Greater Than Average

With the publication of the names
Of the teachers who will for the COM
ing year be in the public schools of
the city 1t Is of no little interest to
note the many changes that have
been made from the preceding year.
Although the teachers who have re-
signed their positions and who will
be replaced by new teachers this
year are numerous, the number Is no
greater than the average. The fact
that the second grade at the Reding-
ton street school Is to be abandoned
makes one less teacher now than
there was a year ago.
The senior high school will see
three new faces on the faculty in
September. Herbert H. Foster of
Skowhegan will replace Florence
Morris as head Of the commercial
department and the position Of type
writing teacher. left vacant by the
will be filled by Marion Fuller Of
Ha1lowell. belmont Bishop, last
year the teacher of mathematics, has
resigned and the 3ub-master. Ralph
McLeary, who Iast year taught
science, will carry on the work in
this department. Norman L. Ma
thews remains as principal OF the
school and the rest of the faculty
remains as 1t was last year.
At the junior high school six teach
ers have resigned and one has been
transferred to the Myrtle street
school A new position, that Of sub
master, has been created here and 1t
will be filed by Bernard Libby of
Limerick. Miss Doris Dickey of
Clinton, q graduate Of Colby college
two years ago, IL to take the place
OF Miss Hildegarde Drummond as
head of the English department, TAX
ing the place Of Emma Redicker and
the position of Miss Emile Vigue
will be taken by Miss Helen Spring
field. The new teacher Of Latin Is
to be Florence Preble Of Waterviile
who fills the vacancy created by the
of Alice Osgood. Harriet
Eaton of South Gardiner takes the
place of Sadie B. Dearborn as teach
er Of mathematics.
The teaching staff Of the Grove
street school remains the same as
that last year. The Redington street
school Is to be the same except Tor
the fact that the second grade which
was taught by Marion Wentworth
has been dispensed with.
At the South Grammar school the
vacancy in the fifth grade, made by
the resignation of Mary Remission, Is
to be filled by leila Gorham OF King
ston, N. B. Miss Monica O'Sullivan,
teacher of the sixth grade has peen
to the Junior high school.
The teaching staff at the North
Grammar school will likewise under-
20 two changes. In the third grace
Violet Thompson will replace Cnar-
lotte Sawyer and in the NTH grace
the place Of Violet Thompson, VINO
has been transferred to the third Will
be taken by Miss Ella Barrett OF
Houlton.
There are to be no changes at the
Brook street and Western avenue
schools. At the Myrtle street scnooi
one Of the third grade teaching posi-
lions, filled last year by Elizapetn
O'Brien, will be taken by Bessy Cor
don of waterville. and the other, oc-
cupied last year by Avice Haney Is
NOT vet filled, Marjorie Brown will
be- replaced by Idolize Roderick OF
This city as a fifth grade teacher and
Ia the fourth Grade Ella Farwell OF
Augusta will take the position made !
vacant by the resignation of Edna
Reed. Alice Angle has been trans
Ierred to this school from the junior |
nigh.
In the Walnut street school teach
ny staff there Is q vacancy In the
yecond grade made by the resigna-
ion Of Ruth Larsen. Barbara Loom /
r. Of waverly, Mass, will be the I
teacher, taking the /
place Of Kathryn Plummer.
There will be one change among
he special teachers, Ellsworth F.
fillett becoming physical director in
,lace Of George r. Hendricks. Mrs.
Dorothy Marden will be the super
visor Of music, Miss Sara D. Land.
he supervisor of drawing and Miss
DORA Marion Libby, the supervisor Of