The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27
THREE TEACHERS
RESIGN BLUFFT0N
SCHOOL POSITIONS
Sidney Hauenstein, w. A.
Amstutz and Hayden Steiner
to Leave High School
A. c. Burcky New Coach
Marilyn Holmden RAIDER will
Teach First Grade.


together with the hiring of n
athletic coach and an additional first
grade teacher were announced Mon
day night at a meeting of the Bluff
ton board of education, as the faculty
setup for the coming school year
became more definite.
designations accepted by the board
were those of Sidney Hauenstein,
Instructor in orchestra and band; w.
A. Amstutz, instructor in junior high
school and Hayden Steiner, instructor
in manual training. Hauenstein has
been connected with the schools for
"a years; Amstutz for 10 years and
Steiner for two years.
Hired were A. C. Burcky of Bluff
ton college as athletic coach and
instructor in boys physical education
and Mrs. r. B. RAIDER, the former
Miss Marilyn Holmden as instructor
in the first grade.
Coach Part Time
Coach Burcky, head of the physical
education department of Bluffton
college where the athletic program
has been virtually discontinued be-
cause of war conditions, has received
a contract on a part time basis at a
salary of 81 ,282.
He replaces Russell Hasson, form
er coach who resigned earlier in the
summer. Burcky will have charge of
coaching and boys physical education
only. Other classes taught by Has
son will be apportioned among
faculty members.
Addition of Mrs. RAIDER as first
grade teacher was step taken by
the board in anticipation of an en-
rollment of 81 pupils entering school
in September. She will receive a
salary of $3.50.
designations
In accepting the resignation of
Amstutz, the board indicated that
there would be no replacement hired
for this position. In this connection
it was pointed out that decreased
enrolment in the high school would
make this practicable together with
the fact that the incoming Super
intendent Ralph Lanham will teach
seventh or eighth grade arithmetic,
formerly handled by Amstutz, and
other subjects for which he was
l. l. sr4x @saI
the present teachers.
What will be done in the matter
of orchestra and band was not deter
mined by the board after accepting
Hauenstein's resignation. Hauenstein
had been in charge of this work on
a fve-sixths time basis which the
board proposed to reduce to half-time
as an economy measure.
Whether this work will be dropped
or assigned to Miss Harriet Brate,
at present instructor in vocal music,
or another instructor employed on a
part time basis will probably be
taken up at the August meeting of
the board. Hauenstein's work in
the school was in conjunction with
teaching string instruments in the
Bluffton college department of music
which position he still retains.
The manual training department
of which Steiner was the head will
be continued, the board indicated
and plans to fill this vacancy are
already under way.
Hire Bus Drivers
Bus drivers were hired for the
coming year with Aaron Messenger,
Wilford Geiger and Raymond Rose
boom re-employed and Arthur Keiser,
Bluffton college student and substi-
tute driver last year replacing Wal
ter Sommer who was not an ap-
plicant. Elton Beery, Bluffton col
lege student and substitute driver
last year, together with Chris Gratz,
former regular driver were employed
as substitutes. Drivers will receive
pay at the former rate of $47.50
per month for nine months.
Among other changes set up by
the board of education, Miss Theola
Steiner, grade school teacher, will
teach girls physical education classes
at the high school.
Miss Steiner's room at the grade
school will be taken over by Mrs.
Russell Lantz during the time the
former is teaching physical educa-
tion. Mrs. Lantz has been art in
structor on a fve-sixths time basis,
but in the future she will work full
time, half-time as art instructor and
half-time on the grade school staff.