Milford chronicle., 1958-08-29
GEORGETOWN
Mrs. Constance Brown
Phone: Georgetown $3.50


according to George H. Keen, super
intendent of schools.
This is so more than the 1,2OO
enrolment of last year. It will
justify SIS teacher units, with SIS
teachers already under contract.
The addition of an art instructor
to the staff will be deferred until
supporting enrolment is establish
ed.
Mr.. Keen has also announced
that the board of education has
designated classification as s'un-
classified" for pupils who have
been determined to be making no
effort to pass a full program of
four subjects and physical edu-
cation" Any pupil placed on this
list will be denied participation in
any sch0ol-sponsOred activities and
will be further restricted to attend
ing specifically designated classes
Methods of making up work fol-
lowing failure in high school were
set as follows: Repeat course in
recognized summer school; repeat
course in accepted correspondence
school or by tutoring and examin-
alton. the teacher to submit a writ
ten program to the State Dept
of Public Instruction, followed by
an examination in September.
designations were received from
Mrs. Hazel Mears and Mrs. Nancy
Quesada, members of the cafeteria
staff. Appointments include Mrs.
lVerOnica Nelson and the reassign-
lment of Mrs Oleta Smith to fill the
Vacancies.
Attention was directed as in
other school districts, to the fact
that the federal reimbursement for
the school lunch program has been
reduced from four to three cents.
! The board has approved the fol-
| lowing:
School board dinner for staff and
guests, December IT; early dis
missal for the Bridgeville football
game on Friday, November 7, un-
less the game is transferred to Sat
urday. November g.; Lions Club
sponsored donkey baseball game
on the athletic field, Sept. II, and
continuation of the pupil accident
insurance plan with the Reliance
1iHUtssal Insurance Co., of Illinois at
! z pupil cost of $1.75.
The Georgetown schools will re-
open on Thursday, Sept. 4. Usually
they have begun the school year on
the Wednesday following Labor
Day but this year Thursday was set
in order to balance out the school
calendar.
There will be 10 new teachers
this year, most noteworthy of whom
lis Richard ID. Blaner, who will
teach instrumental music and have
charge of the school band. He will
Itake the place of Phillip Taylor
who was associated with the local
school system for nine years and
resigned this summer to teach in
the Newark schools.
A new business education teacher
has been appointed, Howard II.
Hess, but he's still in military SER
vice and won't be able to start his
duties until after the first of 1859.
Mrs. Grace r. Owen, wife of James
B. Owen, principal of the Georges
town High School, will fill this post
until Mr. Hess arrives.
Mr.. Hess wife, Mrs. Joyce. M.
Hess, of Lewes, will teach the
fourth grade beginning with the
opening of school.
Other new teachers are Miss
Mary G. Boylan, high school Eng
Elish; Miss Hilda M. Schmidt, lang
uages; Mrs. Virginia Lee Short,
homemaking; Mrs. Elsie NJ Truitt,
counselor; Miss Kay F. wilkins,
homemaking; Mrs. Mary e. Far
low, fourth grade and Mrs. Thelma
Hazard! sixth grade.
Thomas B. Pepper, 800 North
Bedford ST., Georgetown, will have
been a member of the Georgetown
Volunteer Fire Co., for 20 years on
September 4th.
He holds the record for active
membership in fire department
in Delaware and perhaps for the
entire Eastern Shore, or for much
wider territory.
He was large for his age and
assisted so well in hustling the old
leather buckets used at that time
in fighting fires, that the group with
whom he worked induced him into
membership on Sept. 4, 1888. though
he was at that time only Is years
old.
4 Mr.. Pepper was IS years old on
June IL, and though he no longer
dashes to fires on the truck, he at
tends meetings and otherwise full
4 fills his membership obligations.
| He has been out of the state,
too, for varying periods, such as
when he went to college at Carlisle,
Pa, but returned home to George
town often enough to retain his fire
department membership.
Mr.. Pepper is a surveyor by pro-
lfession and has walked over most
Of Sussex County in his work He
has been a witness at several of
the so-called "squatters' rights"
cases in the Sussex County court
house where knowledge of old
boundaries and documents were
vital
| He studied surveying under a
man whom he calls the best sur
Iveyor he ever knew-the late John