Milford chronicle., 1959-02-20
Caesav Rodney
School News

CCAlUUA NEWS
The February meeting of the
Caesar Rodney Board of Education
ran into an overtime session due
to the many items of business, in
Guiding the already reported re-
view of integration policy.
The board approved the senior
class trip to New York City on May
IA, Is, 10 subject to the class de-
yeloping a satisfactory set of con-
duct regulations and subject to the
scholastic requirement that all
students making the trip have a
passing average at the end of the
fifth marking period in all subjects
required for graduation. The re-
quest was presented by John. Par
ker, vice president of the class, as
the president, William Pickering.
had basketball game at the time
of the meeting. Parker also pre-
sented request from the local
chapter of the National Honor So
ciety for permission to award
standard school letters to members
of the chapter the second semester
of the senior year. The request was
unanimously approved.
Alex DAILY. president of the jun
i5r class. and Peggy Holland, trea-
surer of the class, presented a re-
quest from the class that the board
modify its policy requiring school
busses to be used for all school
trips not in excess of $50 miles one
way, except the senior trip, to be
changed to include the annual one
day Junior Glass trip to Washing
ton, d. c. This change would en-
able the juniors to hire the more
expensive coaches instead of school
busses for the Washington, ID. c.,
trip. The board approved the re-
quest with the understanding that
the senior trip next year would be
cut by one day if sufficient funds
for a three-day trip were not used
by regular senior activities. The
balance in the junior class fund is
usually about a third of the total
needed for the senior trip. The
juniors later voted to go to Wash
ington, ID. c., by coaches and ex-
pressed confidence in their ability
to raise the necessary cash for the
New York trip.
William r. Brown, Jr., faculty
manager of athletics, asked the
board for policy direction relative
to leagues. The board authorized
Mr.. Brown to participate in such
negotiations hut reserved final ac-
tion pending submission of detail
ed league policy proposals. The
board also approved the securing
of athletic officials from the newly
organized Mid-Del Association of
Officials.
In other action, the board au
thorized the replacement of a dup
licating machine located in the fac
ulty room, accepted an invitation
from the Camden Town Council for
another joint meeting on making
Center Street safer for school pu-
pills, requested that the state fire
marshal be requested to advise as
cSpes should be installed in the or
igillal building, received a report
from the faculty building and
grounds committee recommending
the construction of some additional
high school rooms and the building
of "a room elementary school on
another site instead of 36 room
building as now tentatively pro-.
posed.
In its long range planning the
board has under consideration tie
eventual replacement of the origi-
nal building.
The board directed the secretary
to write a strong letter of protest
to the State Board of Education
about undue delay in certification
reforms.
The board authorized that ex-
penses be paid for any members of
the board or the administrative
staff attending the convention of
the American Association of School
Administrators in Atlantic City.
The secretary reported to the
board that nine seniors had been
denoted to the junior class for
failure to have at midterm pass
ing average in all subjects required
for graduation These students
may be restored to the senior class
if their averages are up by the end
of the fifth marking period.
The board authorized the secre-
tary to notify agencies and teacher
training college placement bureaus
that the district was seeking appli~
cants for two new positions, a jun
ior high principal at Caesar Rod
ney and high school administra-
tor for the Dover Air Force Base
Dependent School.
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