The Republican., 1963-08-22
Southern Lists
Six New Teachers
Principal Says No Vacancies
Exist At Present Time

among Ine 1lity-One IedcnerS VINO
will greet students at Southern
High school on Tuesday, Septem-
Der 3, are six new teachers and
one student teacher, according to
Kenneth Johns, principal.
Five of the new teachers will be
replacing designations submitted
during the summer and the sixth
person is an addition to the staff
created because of the increased
enrolment anticipated Estimates
prepared last spring indicated that
the enrolment would be over 1900
pupils.
Mrs. Jean Grose. who formerly
taught at Northern High school,
has been transferred to Southern
to teach mathematics She will re-
place Eugene Finn, who has been
assigned to Driver Education.
Mrs. Grose has attended West Vir-
ginia university and Pennsylvania
State University where she OBJ
tanned her MA. degree. She will
teach eighth grade mathematics
including one class of beginning
algebra and one class of ninth
grade mathematics.
Terry Kerns will teach industrial
arts. He holds a BIS. degree in
Vocational Agriculture from Vir-
ginia Polytechnic Institute More
recently, he has been attending
summer school at California State
Teachers college in Pennsylvania
where he has earned sufficient
credits to be certified in the in
dustrial arts field Mr.. Kerns has
been teaching at Terra Alta High
school.
Southern'S youngest teacher will
be Miss Rosemary Bergman who
has just received her ABB. degree
ffrom the University of West Vir~
ginia She majored in French and
English. Her teaching assignments
will include both of these subjects.
Ebert S. Peters, who will be
teaching social studies in both
junior and senior high school, re-
ceived his ABB degree from Morris
Harvey college and is presently
working on his masters degree at
the University of West Virginia.
Prior to coming here, he was teach
ing at Mt Hope High school, in
Mt Hope, West Virginia.
Miss Carolyn j. Lambert, who
will be teaching general music and
directing the Southern High School
Senior chorus, was graduated from
Davis and Elkins college and later
obtained her masters degree from
Teachers college, Columbia uni
versity. Miss Lambert was also the
recipient of a Fulbright scholar
ship to Italy for two years. She
has had considerable teaching ex-
perience from elementary school
on through to the college level.
Southern's new band teacher,
W. Glenn Patterson, is native
of Paw Paw, West Virginia. A
graduate of the Music School at
the University of West Virginia,
he has had four years experience
at Moorefield High school. His
major instrument is the trumpet
He also does vocal solo work and
has appeared with various dance
bands in the Tri-State area. He is
now performing with the Modern
aires" at the Cumberland Fair
grounds each night
Walter Lee, a senior at Frost
burg State college will gain his
practice teaching experience under
the supervision of James Trickett,
chairman of the social studies de-
partment at the school.
The fact that Southern was able
to locate fully certified teachers
was most unusual according to
Southerns principal With the
lowest salary scale in the state,
the prospects of continuing to find
qualified candidates for vacancies
will become increasingly difficult"