The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-07-23
County Board
OF Education
Six designations Receiv.
ed And Appoint
ments Made

The Board of Education met in
regular session on Tuesday, July 10
Those present were DR.. T. B. Moore
President; Mr.. Rueben Reynolds
Vice-President; and Mrs. Wallace
Williams.
The minutes of the regular meet
Ign of June s were read and approx
ed, and sundry bills ordered paid.
The following designations were
received and accepted with regret:
Miss Jean B. Ayres, Home Econo-
mics teacher, Calvert and Chesapeake
City High Schools. Mr.. Joseph e
Hudock, Assistant in the Cecilton
High School. Miss Adele Aichelman,
Assistant in the Elkton High School
Miss Margaret A. Pitt, Assistant in
the Elkton High School. Mr.. Hugh
M. Stuart, instrumental Music Tea
cher in the High Schools. Mr.. D.
Vincent Provenza, Assistant in the
Rising Sun High School,
The date for the opening of both
white and colored schools of Cecil
County was set for September 18th
preceded by a teachers meeting on
September 18th, and the closing date
was set for June 8, 1914.
Bids for furnishing bituminous and
anthracite coal to the schools for the
year 1943-44 were received and
opened-contracts for bituminous
coal were awarded as follows:
C. A. Benjamin & Company-First
District-$7.6 per ton; Second Dis
trict-$7.6O per ton; Third District
$3.50 per ton; Fourth District
$40 per ton; Fifth District $77O
per ton; Ninth District-$7.70 pei
ton
Contracts for anthracite coal were
awarded as follows:
The Elkton Supply Company
First District-Stove Coal, $l18O
per ton; Elkton Supply Company
Third District-Stove Coal, $11.55
per ton; Elkton Supply Company
Third District-Pea> Coal, $1,000 per
ton; Elkton Supply Co.,-Third Dis
trict-Buckwheat Coal, $8.15 per
ton; Elkton Supply Co,zEourth
District-Stove Coal. $11.55 per ton
Elkton Supply Co-Fifth District
Stove Coal, $11.55 per ton; G. A.
Benjamain & Co.-Sixth District
Stove Coal, $12.10 per ton; c. A.
Benjamin & Co. Seventh District
Stove Coal, $12.10 per ton; Elkton
Supply Co.-Seventh District-Buck-
wheat Coal, $3.50 per ton; C. A. Ben
jamin & Co.-Eighth District-Stove
Coal, $1210 per ton.
The State Department of Educa-
ton forwarded copy of letter re-
ceived from the Office of Defense
Transportation in Washington call
ing attention to the fact that care
should be taken to see that all school
bus equipment is returned to school
service when schools reopen as re-
quired by General Order ODT 35
which froze such vehicles in their
work on March II, 1943. The letter
also called attention to the fact that
school bus mileage should be reduc-
ed by reorganization of bus SEIZED
ules if and wherever possible.
The Suerintendent informed the
Board that the last Legislature had
passed a bill, which had become
law with the signature of the Cover
nor, changing the fiscal school year
from August 1st to July 31st to
July list to June 30th.
The following appointments and
transfers were approved by the
Board:
Miss G. Barry Wilson, Music tea
cher in the Elkton Elementary
Schools; Miss Beverly j. Starry, Mu4
sic teacher in the North East schools
Miss Virginia Smith, Social Studies
and Music Teacher in the Elkton
High School: Miss Dorothy Mil
bourne, Assistant in the North East
Elementary School; Miss Ada Re-
becca Smith transferred from Perry
vile High School to Elkton High
School: Miss Vernice Parsons from
the closed Rowlandsville school to
the Elkton Elementary School-Hol-
lingsworth Development; Miss Betty
Ia. Shippers from the lakewood School
to Harris School: Mrs. Florence P
Smith from the Kenmore Elementary
S. hool to the Perryville Elementary
School.