Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-07-31
State Board of Education Votes
Salary Increases for Teachers

salaries at Montana State university
upward to .'predepression levels"
| A 10 percent increase at the mining
school was listed as for this year only.
DR.. Francis A. Thomson, president Of
the school. said it was justified be-
cause OF increased income from land
grants.
DR.. Ernest o. Melby, president of
the university, said the salary adjust
ments there would total about $4,000,
the amount available in his budget.
He characterized salaries in Montana
higher institutions of learning as de
plorable."
Under the new wage schedule, DR..
Melby said, instructors will receive a
minimum of $500 a year, with in
creases of 500 for each year of serv-
ice. Department heads will receive a
maximum of $4,000 a year.
The board approved large number
of new appointments and leaves of
absence, many of them due to in
structors being called into military
service or taking other positions in the
! war effort.
Paid Vacations
Members of the staff of the Mon
tana state orphans home. the board
decided, will receive paid vacations
They were virtually the only state
employees which have not been allowed
vacations with pay.
DR.. G. H. Vande Bogart, president
of the Northern Montana college at
Havre. reported on the schools resi-
dent secretarial training school, OPP
Grated at federal expense. He said the
school had 200 applications for ad-
mission but was able to accept only
so for enrolment. He was authorized
to make minor repairs to buildings.
DR.. A. L. Strand Of Montana State
college told the board of preliminary
nursing work being given at the Great
Falls and Bozeman units at the ex-
pense of the federal government.
He said liz young women are en-
rolled in the courses, which are de-
signed to speed education of registered
nurses by lessening the teaching bur-
den Of the hospitals where they are
trained.
Appointments for the next school
year at the State university included:
Roy Dubisch, part-time mathemat-
les instructor; James L. C. Ford, dean
and professor of journalism; Wayne
Russell Lowell, assistant professor of
geology; Marie Nagovscky, part-time
instructor in home economics, and
Ernest A. Atkinson, director Of the
division of field service and extension
Leaves of absence. without pay, were
granted to Frances E. Coad, assistant
professor Of law, entering the army;
Charles F. Deiss, professor of geology,
to do war work for the United States
geological survey; John A. buffalo,
icto cio{o
the navy: Guy Fox, history and po-
Mason, professor of law; A. P. L. Tur-
ner, associate professor Of economics.
designations were accepted from
Cariline Griffith Duffy, director of
south hall, and Curtis H. Walden, as
sistant professor of pharmacy.
Appointments at Montana State COL
lege included:
Eleanor E. Anderson, acting super
Church, instructor in home economics;
supervisor; Bessie Roger, director of
nursing education; Frances Peters
Macdonald, assistant professor of
nursing arts; Jane McAllister, instruc-
tor of applied arts; Charles Nagel,
instructor in physical education; Mary
Ferne Parr, graduate assistant in
botany and bacteriology; Mildred
Myers Prendergrass, assistant to the
director of nursing; Myrtle Rhoades.
instructing supervisor, medical and
surgical services; Maxwell Sargent, as
sistant instructor of horticulture;
Mary Margaret Sheppard, instructor
Of tuberculosis nursing; Eva Sherwood,
director of nursing; Doris Stoke, as
sistant director of student health serv-
ice; Harold F. Heady, assistant pro-
fessor of animal industry.
designations Accepted
Leaves of absence were granted to
DR.. Harold F. Hollands, professor of
economics, who will take a position in
Washington with the office Of price
administration; Lala Handorf. super
visor of psychiatric nursing; David S.
Halves, English instructor, and A. M.
Stone, assistant professor of physics.
designations were accepted from
Richard Briggs, physical education in
structor, and Martha ]. Burton, secre-
tary to the president.
Changes at the agricultural expert
ment station included the appoint
ment of Jane Harriet Sherman, re-
search assistant in home economics,
and the granting of leave of absence
to Frederick K. Nunns, assistant
agronomist. The contract of William
R. Forsyth, horticulturist, was can
celed
At Montana School of Mines, F..
Emmitt Jacob Jr. was appointed as
sistant professor of chemistry and
Morton c. Smith was named assistant
professor of metallurgy. A leave of alb
sence was granted George L. Shue,
physics professor. Resignation of Ber-
nard D. Guilty, instructor of metal
lurgy, was accepted.
Ruth C. Henning was appointed in
structor in business and secretarial
science at Northern Montana college.
Miss Dorothy Green, secretary of
the Greater University of Montana,
read report on the condition Of bonds
issued for buildings at the various
units. Her report showed that, Of 81
O51 900 worth of bonds issued, $685.
600 was Cancelled by grant, $258, 500