New Britain herald., 1928-01-05
PMinuiM News
COMMITTEE ADOPTS JUNIOR HIGH PLAN '6SS School System Will Go
 Into Effect in September
 DOROTHY JACOBS RESIGNS

Popular Teacher Leaving PlainvtlIc Parking Ordinance Enfored-
 James Tierncy Marric,l-Pythian Sisters Whist-Bowling.
 The proposal of Superintendent Leon c. Staples to create a junior high school in Plainville was ac- cepted by the school committee at its regular monthly meeting last night. It will go into effect in Sep- tember. when the seventh grade will be moved into the high school build ing.
 The 6-S-3 system. which will come into force at that time. is now being adopted by many cities and towns. It limits the primary grades to six 1 and the high school to three years, placing between them a junior high school course of three years. This enables the pupil to break himself into high school methods more grad ! ually and also allows special courses | and choices of subjects besides en- abling the pupil to better find the field for which he Is best adapted. In Plainville 1t will have further advantages. By using all available room. the high and junior high schools can be accommodated in the one building. This will relieve the | pressure of overcrowding in the primary schools and will allow Plainville to escape the necessity of building a new school for at least two or three years.
 Mir. Staples plan was approved by the teaching staff recently and met with no opposition from the school committee last night. No argu- ments were offered against 1t and the plan was adopted unanimously n Miss Jacobs Resigns
 The resignation of Miss Dorothy Jacobs as a teacher in the local pub lie schools was accepted by the com- mittee. Miss Jacobs has taught in the second grade at the Broad street school for the past two years She came here after graduating from the Gorham Normal school at Gorham, Me. Her resignation will take ef- feet on January 20, when she will leave to assume position as second grade teacher in a New Britain school.
 Miss Jacobs will receive a higher salary in the Hardware City. and Superintendent Staples said that he was happy to have her obtain this promotion. She has been a very satisfactory teacher. he stated. Her sister, Miss Helen Jacobs, is teach ing at the Central Junior high school in New Britain.
 Miss Jacobs will be succeeded hero by Miss Esther A. Merrill of Bristol Miss Merrill has been teaching for the past II years at the Hartford County home at Warehouse Point. Those present at the committed meeting were Chairman Joseph Nc Carthy, Frank J. O'Brien. Arthur Ryder. Frederick Bullen, Henry & Washburn. Superintendent Staples, and Miss Natalie Case, secretary. Ttcfney-OMara
 James Tierney. son of Mir. and Mrs. William Tierney of Church street, and Miss Leonora O'Mara, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Patrick O'Mara of Torrington. were married at St. Francis church in Torrington at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning. They were attended by Al Magnell ot Hartford and Miss Anna OMara sister of the bride. After the we'd ding breakfast was served to mem- bers of the two families at the Phelps tavern in Litchfeld. and then the couple left for wedding trip to New York city.
 They will reside in New York city where Mir. Tierney is employed by the New York Evening Journal He was formerly associated with the New Britain Herald" and other papers in this vicinity. His bride was employed by the firm of Gilman and Marks in Hartford until g month ago.
 ! Pytl,ian Sisters Whist
 The Pythian Sisters opened their 1928 series of whists in suspicious fashion last evening, q large crowd