Smyrna times., 1948-09-09
SCHOOL OPENED
YESTERDAY
Complete Staff of Teachers
For Beginning of An
other School Term
NEW FACULTY MEMBERS

lowing a day devoted to teachers
meetings and the orientation of
new teachers into the school sys-
tenn on Tuesday. The staff follows:
George w. Wright, superintendent;
Glenn S. King, English and high
school principal; Evelyn Smith,
Natural Science; Margaret O'Neill,
Social Science; Elizabeth M. Arndt,
Latin and French; Miriam F.
Brown Mathematics; Ruth Webb,
English; Charles V. Williams, Eng
lish; Alberta Cornelius, Mathemat-
les; Jane Rupert, Social Science;
Gwendolyn M. Smack, Commercial;
Frank R. Stellatella, Industrial
Arts; Robert L. Everett, Physical
Education; Jane A. Reed, Physical
Education; Viola B. McGill, Home
Economics; Bert P. Osbon, Music;
Marian E. Burkert, Librarian; Vir-
gle M. Bauer, Guidance and Eng
lish; Eve Lynn Everett, Remedial
Reading and Elementary; Bess c.
Matthews, sixth grade, section L;
Doris T. Smith, section 2; Helen
Scout, fifth grade, section 1; Bar
bara Gee, section 2; Ruth M. Piper,
fourth grade, section 1; Julia w.
Slaughter, section 2; Pauline Mat
thews, third grade, section 1; Nell
Jarman, section 2; Lulu V. R. Ric-
ards, second grade, section /; Mil
dred L. King, section 2; Caroline
E. Staats, first grade, section 1;
Ethel N. Powell, section 2; Lillian
S. Billeb, school secretary; Rachel
F. Burris, clerk; Clara E. Sparr,
school nurse; Marie Downes, cafe
terra manager. Custodians at the
school are Benjamin Scorah, Will
liam Sullivan, and William Elburn.
Thomas ID. Clayton School Faculty
The faculty of the Thomas d.
Clayton School includes Grafton I.
Russell, grades 7-8-9 and principal;
Harley F. Taylor, Agriculture; Vir-
ginia Hazard, Home Economics;
Geneva T. Wood, grades 81; I.
Inez Burton, grades As; Elizabeth
Richardson, grades 2-3; Lorraine J.
Simmons, grade 1.
Six New Faculty Members
There are six new faculty men,
bers, including five requirements,
and one new post. Miss Elizabeth
Arndt, in the foreign language de-
partment, whose home is in Pitts
burgh, received an A. B. degree at
the University of Pittsburgh IN
1884 and masters degree this
year at the same institution. She
has also attended Boyd Business
College. and Columbia University,
New York City. She has taught
at the Duquesne, Pa. Junior High
Shool for IL years. The new phys
ical education instructor is Miss
Jane A. Reed, a resident of Will
mington, who was graduated from
the University of Delaware in 194S,
and whose interest at college in
cluded the Women's Athletic Asso-
citation. the choir, and the Y. w,
c. A. Frank r. Stellatella, of
Newark, N. ]. and graduate of La
fayette College in 1910, has been
employed at the Walter Kidd Cor
poration, Belleville, N. J., and at
the American Precision Instrument
Co., East Orange, N. ]. He will be
in charge in the industrial arts
course. Miss Marian E. Burkert,
who will fill the post of librarian
and teach social studies, lives in
Wilkes-Barre, Pa. where she was
graduated from Bucknell Univers-
ity, Lewisburg, Pa. in 1948, and
had been a graduate of Bucknell
University Junior College, Wilkes
Barre in 1916. She has acted as
part time librarian at Wilkes Col
lege, and her interests cover the
varied fields of dramatics, sociol-
ogy and philosophy clubs; the
radio workshop, inter-relations
club, the choral group, and the
Christian Association. Miss Vir-
gle M. Bauer, filling the guidance
and English post, lives in Stating
ton, Pa. was graduated from Key
stone State Normal School; Buck
nell University, B. S. in Education;
Middlebury College, Vermont, MA.
in French; also Drexel Technolog-
ical Institute, B. S. in Library Sci
ence; the University of Pennsyl-
vania, remedial reading, psychol-
ogy-guidance testing. She has had
experience at Slatington, Pa,
Frenchtown, N. J., Newtown, Pa,
Woodstown, N. J., Upper Merton,
Pa; Veterans Guidance Center,
Swarthmore, Pa, as psychometrist,
and Matawan, N. ]. Mrs. Eve
Lynn Everett, remedial reading
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