Evening star., 1943-06-17
Teacher Staff
To Be Cut AZ in
Next Budget
Board Acts on Drop in
Enrolment; Group on
Delinquency Named

Delinquency Named
The Board of Education yesterday
voted to eliminate ~ teaching posi-
tions in the public school system in
the preparation of the 1s45 budget
estimates because of decreased en-
rollments.
Acting Supt of Schools Robert l..
Haycock gave no specific figures on
the drop in enrollments, but said
after the meeting there had been a
drop In the elementary schools and
a sharper one in the senior high
schools. He said that as vacancies
occur on the teaching STATS they
will not be filled.
The schools involved in the action
are those in divisions l to 8, which
include all white schools-elemen-
tary, junior and senior high schools.
The estimated salaries of the AZ
teachers is $4,000.
The board approved the names Of
% persons TO serve the board in an
advisory capacity on delinquency
problems. Mrs. Henry Grattan
Doyle, president of the PDard of
Education, was designated chairman
OF the committee, which will be
known as the Advisory Committee
on Wartime and Postwar Problems
of the Child. 1t will hold its first
meeting at pm. Tuesday, June 20,
at the Franklin School Building.
Nomad m rox~ro;kxnn
Those named to serve with Mrs.
Doyle are Mrs Philip Sidney Smith,
Barney Neighborhood House; C.
Melvin Sharpe. member of the board
and the District Recreation Board;
Mrs. James v. Williams, chairman,
Committee on Student Activities,
Board of Education; Mr. Haycock,
DR.. Garnet C. Wilkinson, first assist
ant superintendent Of schools; Law
son j. Cantrell, assistant superin-
tendent of schools; Judge Fay L.
Bentley, Juvenile Court; DR.. James
A. Nolan, managing director, WASH
ington Criminal Justice Association:
Capt. Rhoda j. Milliken, director Of
the Womens Bureau.
Others are Milo F.. Christensen,
superintendent of Recreation De-
partment; John L. Young, assistant
superintendent of Negro recreation,
Recreation Department; Mrs. P. C.
Elicit, president, District Congress Of
Parents and Teachers: Mrs. Alice C.
Hunter, president, Federation of
Parent-Teacher Associations; DR..
Joseph A. Murphy. Health Depart
ment; Msgr. Lawrence J. Shehan,
director, Catholic Charities; Rabbi
Norman Gernstenfeld, Washington
Hebrew Congregation; the Rev. j.
w. Rustin. Mount Vernon Place
Methodist Church; the Rev. A. F.
Elmes, Federation of Churches; Linn
Scouts of America.
! Also Mrs. Robert G MCGUIRE. Dis
trict Council of Girl Scouts; Charles
M. Fyfe, managing director, Boys
Club of Washington; Harry E. Polk,
Metropolitan Police Boys Club; Mrs.
Flake H. Pinkett. executive secre-
tary, Northwest Settlement House:
Miss A. Madorah Donahue, Board
of Public Welfare: Miss Mildred
Terrett, executive secretary of the
Children's Protective Association;
Miss Margaret Pepper, president.
District Education Association, and
Charles S. Lotion, president. Colum-
bian Educational Association of the
1 District.
All Willing to Serve.
Mr.. Haycock informed the board
/ that AL persons nominated for the
committee have expressed willing
! ness to serve" He also said that a
Representative group of officers will
serve with him on central advisory
committee" to study the administra-
tive phase of the problems of de-
linquency. Mr.. Haycock will act as
chairman of this group, which will
include school officials and princi-
pals.
After some debate the board said
it would decide individually on cases
of students who desire their high
school diplomas, although they have
attended private preparatory schools
/ during part of their senior year. The
proposal came up to cover the case
/ of students who attended private
schools to prepare for West Point
and Annapolis.
The board agreed to permit the
instruction of approximately so
student nurses of Garfield Hospital
at Wilson Teachers College for the
school year of 1943-44, but added
an amendment stating that other
training schools for nurses would be
accorded similar privileges in teach
ers colleges.
Retirements Approved.
Informed that the Commissioners
have not yet adopted the regional
metropolitan stabilization plans
set up by the War Manpower Com
mission for positions not subject to
the Civil Service Act and rules or
joint resolutions, the board voted to
follow the example of the city heads.
Mr.. Haycock said there were sew
eral sections that needed "clarifica-
ton"
The retirement of the following
teachers this summer was approved:
Miss Sarah E. Beamer, Corcoran
School; Miss Annie c. Kehher, Cur
tbs School; Miss Marie l.. Sander
son, Janney School; Mrs. Genevieve
T. Staley, John F. Cook School:
Mrs. Florence P. Clark, Margaret
Murray, Washington Vocational
School; Miss Mary E. Randolph,
Shaw Junior High; Miss Alma
Boyd, Central High; Miss Susan C.
Ulrich, Central High; Miss Mary
A. Dilger, administrative principal.
Gales-Seaton School, and Miss Leo