The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-08-14
MARYSVILLE'S
FACULTY FILLED
FOR COMING YEAR
Mrs. Warren Widner
Named to Last Vacancy:
Plan Shortened Noon

Marysville schools last vacancy
was filled by the Board of Edu-
I cation Monday night when it
hired Mrs. Warren Widner as
girls physical education teacher.
She will fill the place vacated by
the resignation of Miss Mary Anne
Davis.
Supt H. w. Carr stated that he
was unsuccessful in finding any
one else from the accepted col
h legs to fill the position. Mrs. Wild
ner has been hired for one year at
) salary of $2050.
Mrs. Widner will handle girls
physical education classes, one
class of eighth grade civics and
and two classes of seventh grade
health.
One of the matters that was
- discussed at length at the meet
! ing, although no action was taken,
was shortening the lunch hour at
noon.
Have Time to Kill
Principal reason for this pro-
posal was the fact that so many
children eat at the school cafeteria
and are through with their lunch
in short time. They then have
Y nothing to do with themselves
the remainder of their lunch per-
iod Very often, for the grade
children, it is a matter of waiting
an hour until school takes up
again.
The plan of the board was not
to take any definite action on it
but to let Mr.. Carr try cutting the
lunch hour down to As minutes
= for the high school, Junior high
and 5th and 9th grades. In doing
SO, it would lengthen the fourth
and eighth school periods to E.
quail other classes.
Revised Schedule
Using this schedule, school
would open as usual at $3.50 a.
m, closing for lunch at 1880 a.
m. Glasses would resume again
at 1915 p. m. and close at 3:15 p.
m. This would let school out l5
minutes earlier than in past
years.
The question on this plan is
whether the children living far
from school could get home and
back in the allotted As minutes at
noon.
This would shorten the lunch
hour for the grade schools, too,
but by getting out earlier than
the high school as they always
have, the smaller children would
have enough extra time.
Diploma Given Kinkade
!. A high school diploma was
granted to Robert Kincaid by the
school board 1t was found that
he had fulfilled the necessary
courses set up by Army requ;r-
/. ments for high school dipolma.
l.. G. Brubaker reported he had
received no bids from the local
filing stations for servicing the
school buses. He was instructed
by the Board to get in touch with
the stations and made the best
arrangements he could. In addition
to finding service for the buses,
the Board must find place for
keeping one bus.
The question of insurance on
E the buses and passengers was also
Y brought UP. Last year, the board
heavily insured the buses but
since the state only allows for
$40 of insurance per bus, the
board decided to cut it down as
much as possible.
This year, insurance on the
buses will include $4,000 and Sl0,-
900 liability, property damage,
fire and theft and persons inJur-
ed. Carrying this insurance will
still probably run over the $3.50 al
lowed by the state for the four
buses.
Proposes night Counse
James Gray, an employee OF
the H. B. Salter Manufacturing
g. co. appeared before the school
board to present an idea for start
ing night machine shop course.
He said he would like to instruct
Nit if the Board could let him use
the school machine shop.
Although members of the board
liked the idea, they did not know
if it could be worked out. No de-
finite action was taken.
Mr.. Gray formerly taught such
a course in the army and thought
it would be very helpful to high
school boys in getting work after
ktheir schooling.
Bills amounting to more than
$500 were passed upon by the
board. The highest of these was
S515.69 for the re-roofing OF the
West grade school and the high
school gymnasium.
Plan Driving Instruction
A short discussion was held on