Evening star., 1947-01-16
Teachers 10 Get
Pay Proposal Of
Corning Tuesday
Board to Consider
Recommendations of
School Head Next Duy

get the teachers reactions. He viii
talk to colored teachers at Arm.
strong High School at 3:45 pm. ant
white teachers at Mckinley High
School at 8 pm. on Tuesday.
The board also agreed to meet a.
$3.50 pm. Wednesday at the Frank
lin Building to act on the pay pro.
posals. Under the Teachers Pa,
Act which granted the local teacher
a $3.50 pay raise last summer, tn,
board must submit new salary pro.
posals to the chairmen of the Hous,
and Senate District Committees be.
fore February /. The act itself ex.
pires June 80.
Terms Not Divulged.
Although DR.. Corning's proposal.
are based on a report submitted b,
the schools Joint Legislative Coun.
Gil, which includes many teachers
the superintendent said he wantee
to give all of the systems 3,20t
teachers a chance to be heard befor,
committing himself.
With teachers pay a live issu,
throughout the Nation as a result O.
thinning teachers ranks, DR.. Corn.
ing said he expects large turnou
at both sessions. He declined to di
vulge the nature of his proposal.
before the meetings.
Other actions of the board yester.
day included approving the retire
ment of two veteran school teachers
They are Miss Eta H. Matthews
81, of 2001 Sixteenth street NV.
teacher of English and socia
science at Langley Junior Higt
School, and Miss E. Grace Deal
62, of 1885 Phelps place NV.
teacher of mathematics and geog'
raphy at Hine Junior High School
Began 48 Years Ago.
Miss Matthews, graduate O.
Washington Normal School ane
George Washington University, be-
gan teaching here more than 4.
years ago in the elementary grades
A past president of the Junior
High School Teachers Association
she also acted as faculty adviser tt
the Pilot, Langley school news
paper.
Miss Deal also began her teaching
career in the elementary grades
entering the District school system
80 years ago. A graduate of John!
Hopkins University, she also at
tended George Washington Univer'
sity, Maryland State Teachers Col
lege, Columbia University, the Uni
versity of Chicago and took classes
at Harvard University. She, too, i
a past president of the Junio
High School Teachers Association
and was a member of the City Text
book Committee for 10 years.
The board also:
l. Approved drawings of thre'
proposed schools submitted b,
Municipal Architect Merrel A. Coe
These were the Kelly Miller ant
Sousa Junior High Schools ans
Nalle Elementary School, for all o
which funds are available.
r. G. Williamson Promoted.
2. Made permanent the appoint
ment of Mrs. Josephine c. Smith
1948 Second street NV, as directo'
of Division 10.
8. Promoted Robert G. William
son, 1877 Kearney street NV, from
teaching at Kramer Junior Higf
School to instructing science at VII
son Teachers College.
4. Transferred Mrs. Agnes 7
Beckwith, 2115 F street NV, from
instructing at Wilson Teachers Col
lege to teaching at Anacostia Higl
School.
S. Accepted the resignation of Dr.
Harold B. Buckley, 5000 Hamilton
street, Hyattsville, Md, as head O
the Department. of Business Educa
ton in the white schools, after
years probationary service.
6. Approved daylight saving tim
for the District by unanimous vote
7. Accepted the resignation a.
head of the colored Girls Cade
Corps of 1t. Col. Madeline Bridge
and appointed to succeed her 1t
Col. Dolores Mcdaniel of Dunba
High School. Miss Bridges, it wa
explained, was forced to leave schoo
in order to support herself.