The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-28
INelD SLOcur,, School
 Principal Selected
Lehmon A. HoefIer Formally Appointed By Boord; Tr0nsfers of Teachers Announced ot Meetinq

At . meeting of the Board of Ed
 ucation at Crosby high school last
 night, Lehman A. Hoefler, super
 visor of Youth Services for the State Department of Education and for
 mer principal of the Plainville
 school, was appointed principal of
 the Slocum school.
 Thomas r. Nolan, of Randolph
 avenue, was named supervisor of
 evening schools and director of
 adult education for 1945-46, and will
 also act as principal of Duggan
 and webster Evening schools. MT.
 Nolan was graduated from Crosby high school and Holy Cross col- l1ege.
 pr. John c. Gilmartin, recently appointed superintendent of schools, stated that the personnel appoint-
 1nents are the largest in many years. He also said the published statement this morning was er- roneous, to the effect that mo
 teacher in the Waterbury system was qualified for principalship." pr. lGilmartin does state however that ~no male teacher in the high school as qualified at the present time" The post. he says, requires a state , supervisory principals certificate and at least three years of gram
 mar school teaching.
 Mir. Hoeffler, graduate of Crosby high school in 1923, received his l,.A.B. and MA. degrees from the Catholic university, Washington, D. o.. and has taken extension work at Yale university as well as summer courses at Harvard He is presently working for his Ph.D. Taught High School He has taught five years in the Plainville high school where he later became principal, in February of this year taking leave of absence ito assume duties as supervisor of Youth Services. He is chairman of the University of Connecticut Test ing Program, a member of the Council of New England Princi- pals Associations, a member of the Athletic Benefit Fund representing Connecticut, and is secretary-treas- urer of the Connecticut Association of Secondary School Principals, and has written several articles on ed- ucation subjects.
 Grade school appointments effec- tive at the start of the school re- opening next week are as follows: Mary E. Devereaux, Russel lschool, grades 2 and 3; Ethel Shiller, Russell school, grade 5, language; Ann J. Cronin, Duggan school, grade 5, geography.
 Helene w. Miller, Chase school, grades 3 and 4; Marie A. Commer- ford, Slocum school, grade I: Mary T. McElligott, Slocum school, grade s; Mildred Laing, East Farms school, grades and 4; Sara T. Quinn, East Mountain school, grades s. 6, T and 8; Loretta M. Barry, Slocum school, grade I; and Ruth B. Hiding, Bucks Hill school, grades 3, 1 and 5.
 Transfers Approved
 The following transfers of teach CTS is announced:
 Catherine T. Phelan, Merriman school kindergarten head, to be Kindergarten head at Driggs school: Ann c. Martin, Duggan school, grade 5 geography. to grade 6 geog- raphy; Jean Corkindale, Eas. Mountain schol, teacher-in-charge and grades 5, and 2, to Slocum school, grade arithmetic.
 Mary M. O'Connor. East Noun tain school, grades 1, 2, 3 and 4. | to teacher-in-charge and grades l, | 2, 3 and 4: Margaret F. Kelley, Maloney school, grade 8 history, to | Bunker Hill school, principals as- sistant and grade 8 language.
 Jeannette Frechette, Bunker Hill | school. grade 3 to grade l; Ger trude Finnan, Russell school, grades 2 and 3, to Bunker Hin school, grade 2: Sally Suspicion. Maloney school, grade history and language. to grade history; | Josephine Mccormack. Merriman school, grade 8 arithmetic to prin- cipal,s assistant and grade 8 arith- metic; Beatrice L. Shields, Merri- man school, grade 5 history to grade history.
 The board accepted the resigna- TOn or Mary E. MoSkOVltz or the l. Slocum school faculty.
 A one-month leave of absence for supplementary study at tine University of Connecticut from Sept. Is to Oct. IS was granted to Helen Haugh of the Crosby High school faculty.
 Other business of the board was as follows: Bids for grading and oiling school yards and incidental |, work at walsh school were received the Daddona Construction Co. placing the lowest bid, receiving the contract. Other bids received were the Lambo Construction Co, bid- ding $4,957: and the Naugatuck Co, $5,325.
 Approval was given by the com- mittee on schoolhouses for payment of $5.246.62, for work done by T. F. Moran & Sons flor repairs at keavenworth High school; also for payment of partial bill amounting I] to $l,572.50 for work done by James k Corideo, Inc, for painting and re- h pairing the Mary Abbott school. l;