Milford chronicle., 1955-09-02
CAESAR RODNEY
SCHOOL NEWS

Caesar Rodney School will start
the fall term on Wednesday. Sept
z, with full staff of teachers.
There will be both morning and
afternoon classes for students in
all grades and the cafeteria will
be III operation on the first day.
The five sections OF the third
grade and one section Of the second
grade will be temporarily housed
in the two gymnasiums spending
the compilation of the new six
elementary classrooms. Clute Bro
theirs, the contractors on this wing
estimate that it will be about ten
days after the opening of school
before the new rooms can be made
available for pupils. While the ele-
mentary rooms will not be ready
for school opening, as had been
hoped, they are far in advance of
the contract completion date.
The first group meeting in con-
nection with the first-day plans will
be on Thursday evening, September
l, at 500 p. m, in the school cafe
terra when members of the Student
Council, the Safety Squad. the H. S.
Traffic and Elementary School
Traffic Squad will meet. Later in
the evening the groups will hold
separate planning meetings with
a final get together for refresh
ments and social period. The meet
ing leaders are: Student Council
Wayne Cox, president; sponsor
Mrs. Dorothy B. Townsend; Safety
Squad-Della Ann Case, captain;
sponsors, Horace E. Short and
David L. Williams; High School
Traffic Squad-Ann James, captain:
Miller ]. Gibe, sponsor; Elemen-
tary School Traffic Squad-Lois
Dill, captain; sponsor, Mrs. Edna,
S. Roe.
On Friday morning the teachers
of the Star Hill and P. L. Dunbar
School will hold a planning meet
ing with Elementary School Prin-
cipal, Robert E. Shilling.
On Friday afternoon, September
2, the new staff members of Caesar
Rodney School will meet for an
orientation session with some vet
eran teachers helping to make the
new member acquainted with the
Caesar Rodney program.
There are thirteen teaching and
two non-teaching new staff MEM
bers with five teachers being re-
placements and eight being addi-
tional teachers added on the basis
of the nst June enrolment. The re-
placements are Mrs. Iris Warning
ton, Latin and English, replacing
Mrs. Rita Ryan on leave of alb
sence; Mrs. Winifred Underwood,
vocal music, replacing Frederic w.
Brown, who now has a business
partnership in Dover; Eugene Mas
son, English and other Jr. H. S.
replacing Miss Elizabeth
Roper who resigned to- be married;
Mrs. Winifred Cooper, first grade,
Mrs. Mary Alice McLal
len, a temporary teacher who did
not wish to return. Miss Barbara
Joan Kelly, physical education, re-
placing Miss Adele Feldman who
resigned to teach and study at
Penn State. Richard E. Smigh.
physical education, replacing Flet-
cher Gibson resigned. Thomas
Shaffer. whose transfer to physical
education from social studies has
been approved by the Board of
decided not to trans
fer due to certification difficulties.
The additional staff members are:
grade two-Mrs. Eileen M. Turn
berger; grade three-Mrs. Gladys
P. Hawthorne; grade four-Mrs-
Katherine Branner; grade RUS
sell Perry; grade six-Leon Hart:
Jr. H. S. Mathematics and Com
Jacqueline Hartman;
Farm Shop and Auto Mechanics
Ernest Harshbarger; Miss Lor-
raine Tieman. secretary and Robert
Quillen, custodian.
A staff meeting for all Caesar
Rodney teachers has been sched-
uled for Tuesday, September 6, at
ten O'Clock in the morning.