Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-11
TEACHERS Are
ELECTED FOR
COMING YEAR
School Board Elects
IS Staff Members;
Irvine Is General;
Athletics Head

Eighty-three teachers were eIarted
10 positions in the Brownsville indie
pendent school district bv the school
board at a meeting held Thursday
night. A large majority Of the pres
emit teaching personnel of the system
were reelected. There we're a num-
Der Of teachers vho for various per-
sonal reasons did noe choose to ap-
ply for reelection, who would have
been reelected had they applied, ac-
cording to members Of the board.
New teachers elected numbered il.
The below listed are new teachers.
Webb Connolly will teach mathe-
MATES in the eighth AID ninth grades
n will be coach of Iunior high. He
attended the University Of Texas and
has had eight years Of teaching ex-
perience.
Raymond Plato is % teach three
sections Of senior high history and
will coach football and basketball in
the junior college and senior high.
he has a M. A. degree from Columbia
and has had four years Of teaching
experience.
Douglas Fessenden Will coach foot
ball and track in the senior high and
VIII teach three sections Of English,
he has A B. A. degree from the Uni
versity Of Illinois and has had five
years Of teaching experience.
Miss katheryn Cook, to he as
signed to junior high, has a y. a.
degree from the University or Texas
and has had two years of teaching
experience.
Miss linda Benway will teach first
year Spanish in the junior high. She
has n r. A. degree from {. /. A.
and has had one year Of teaching e
perience.
Miss Nell Rutledge will teach the
first grade, Spanish section in West
Brownsville. She has rad two years
of college work and two years Of ex
perience as a teacher.
Miss Consuela CavaZos is 10 teach
the first grade in the fourth ward.
She has had two years Of college
work and two years teaching ex-
perience.
Miss BERTHE Bartlett is to teach a
first grade, as yet unassigned. Two
years OF college work and two years
teaching experience are her q%ualifi-
cations.
Miss Melba Gross viii teach a first
grade at fourth ward. She has had
two years college work and three
years of teaching experience.
Miss Zela Benton is TO teach first
grade at Grammar school. She has
had five years Of experience and two
years Of college work.
Miss Alene Stephens will leach the
third grade at the first ward. She
has had three years az college work
and five years Of terehing expert
ence.
Among the new positions assigned
TO present teachers is the appoint
ment of Jew. Irvine as physical di-
rector for the entire school district.
Mrs. G. z. Watkins has been elected
principal Of the Victoria Heights
school. Mrs. Amelia Campbell was
elected assistant principal Of the
same school.
Present personnel reelected to old
positions include the following list
ings:
Administrative Staff
Thomas J. Voc. superintendent
Perrie Wygal. primary supervisor;
Mrs. W. J. Truss, music supervisor.
Emily Lannon's. school nurse.
Junior College Staff
S. A. Caldwell, dean Of junior coll
leee and principal Of senior high:
Rose Sharp Brewer. English; Estelle
s. Moore. history; Mary McGill,
Spanish; Irene Kehoe, biology, 20
ology; John Gragg, business admin
istration; Ralph Webb, science;
Margaret Richardson, librarian.
High School Staff
L. VI. FertscA assistant dean and
head of mathematics department in
junior college and senior high; Mrs.
L. c. Perkins. dean Of girls and his