The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-05-25
COUNTY SCHOOL BUSINESS

President; DR.. T. B. Moore. Vice
President, and Mr.. j. E. Crothers.
The reorganization of the Board
was then in order The County
Superintendent took the chair to re-
ceiye the nominations for President.
DR.. T. B. Moore was nominated and
elected President of the Board OF
Education. Mr.. Fred Lewis was
nominated and elected Vice-Presi-
dent of the Board.
The Board then assembled under
the Presidency of DR.. T. B. Moore.
A resolution authorizing that checks
be signed both by the President and
Vice-President was passed. This
resolution was necessary because the
President, who lives in Rising Sun,
would not be available at all times.
The president, who lives in
Elkton, was therefore, given author
ity so to act at times of pressing ne
cessity.
The minutes of the regular meet
ing of April 10th were read and
adopted with the following correc-
tion-namely, that students who
attend games must have excuses to
go home; they must then &c home
and attend the games from there
Sundry bills were ordered paid.
The County Superintendent nomi-
mated the following officials: Miss
Olive L. Reynolds, Supervisor OF
Schools, Mr. E. B. Fockler, Super
visor OF Colored Schools and AT
tendance officer, and Miss Idle d..
Sager, Clerk.
The Board of Education then took
up the matter of determining upon
policy for placing insurance on
schools. The following determine
ton was reached unanimously,
namely. that the two local Mutual
Insurance Comprehensive Farmers
and Mechanics Mutual Insurance
Company of Cecil County and the
Mutual Fire Insurance Company OF
Cecil County were to be given 1nsur-
ance to the total amount that these
Individual companies would carry
without re-insuring in other com
panies. That after this, The re-
mainder of the insurance up to an
amount to 500 of the value OF the
school property should be placed
with the Federal Hardware & I'm
plement Mutuals. Valuation of the
school properties were TO be deter
mined upon by the County Super1n-
tendent and submitted by him to
the Board for it's approval.
A letter from Charles R. Shifiett
concerning the Shawnah Sch Dol was
read to the Board of Education.
The Board requested the Superin-
tendent to inform Mr.. Shifett that
the rent of Shawnah school would
continue at the rate of $3.50 per
month, payable in advance. His re-
quest that past rentals would be
credited to any bid that he might
make at some future time when the
school property was advertised for
sale, was denied.
The County superintendent, too,
informed the Board that Mr. G. L.
Wiley had not met the terms of the
Board of Education laid down by
them for the purchase of the Row.
landville Colored School.
In view of the increased enroll
ment at the Cecilton Elementary
School and the need for an addi-
tional teacher at that school, the
Board of Education visited the
Cecilton Elementary School in
order that they might determine
Just what action to take to provide
additional room at that place for an
additional teacher. Tentative plans
were suggested for the use of the
basement and the remodeling of the
heating system necessary fcr the
proper heating of that room and re-
mainder of the building. These
were decided upon.
Trustees for the schools of Cecil
County were continued as before
with the following changes made
Warwick School, Mr.. Richard
Aiken; Cherry Hill School, Miss
Mary Evans Harlan; New Bridge
School, Mr.. David j. Farmer.
Bus routes for transporting
children to the elementary and high
schools of Cecil County, whose con-
tracts expired this year, were or
dered to be advertised.
A list of the prospective high
school graduates submitted to the
Board of Education by the County
Superintendent and by him recon-
ynandod for pradua tion conditional