Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1912 — PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO OPEN SEPTEMBER 2. [ARTICLE]

PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO OPEN SEPTEMBER 2.

Excellent Corps of Instrnctors Is Selected—Successful School Year Anticipated. The public schools of Rensselaer will open for work on Monday, September 2. The new high school building is not nearly completed and will not be for several weeks after school starts. The delay of work and in construction was caused by the non-ar-rival of steel and finishing brick. Although the high school will he somewhat crowded for a while, it was decided inadvisable by the members of the school board and others concerned to delay the starting of school on that account. The board of education has about completed the corps of teachers for the coming year. It will be as follows: High school instructors: Wm. F. Clarke, superintendent. C. Rioss Dean, principal of high school, history. C. M. Sharp, physics, chemistry and mathematics. Ira Coe, botany, zoology and mathematics. Miss Ethel Perkins, English and mathematics. Miss Alice Shedd, English and Latin. M,iss Naomi Gregg, German, one English class. Grade school instructors: Grace E. Stover, supervisor of music and drawing. O. L. Mitchell, eighth grade. Clara Holmes, seventh grade. Ethel Sharp, fifth grade. Tillie Malchow, fourth, grade. Edith VanArsdel, fourth and fifth grades. Minnia Hemphill, third grade. , Cora Dexter, second grade. Myra Watson, second and third grades. Helen Lamson, first grade. Edith Adams, first grade. Two teachers are yet to be provided, one for the grades and one for the high school, the latter to teach Latin and advanced arithmetic. Several of the above corps will be new in the work at Rensselaer. Mr. Clarke, the new superintendent, has just completed a year’s work in the University of Chicago. Previous to this lje had studied at the Indiana state normal school and at Butler College, Indianapolis, Ind. He has been in public school work for a number of years, both in Indiana and Montana, the last five years of his work having been done in the latter state. Mr. Ira Coe comes from the state university at Bloomington. He is a young man, but comes highly recommended as a capable school man. His work wjll be in the science department. His Instruction in Botany will be directed toward agriculture. Mr. O. L. Mitchell is a recent graduate of the Indiana state normal school. The authorities at the normai school speak well of his Work at that institution. He will have charge of the eighth - grade and also serve as principal of the high school building. Miss Grace E. Stover is from Downer’s Grove, near Chicago. She has had several years’ experience in this work, having served as instructor in these subjects at the state normal school of Mississippi last year, and is warmly commended by the president of that institution. Miss Holmes is a graduate of DePauw University and has had several years’ experience in grade Work. Her home is at Brookville, Ind. Miss VanArsdel comes from Monon. She is a graduate of the high school at that place and has taken a year of training in primary work at Indianapolis. She has had several years’ experience in the rural schools. Miss Watson Is a graduate of the Rensselaer high school. She has also studied one year at Northwestern and a year at Birmingham. She has had four years’ experience, the last two having been at North Berwyn, 111. Miss Lamson is also a graduate of the Rensselaer high school. In addition she has studied one year at Northwestern. She has had three years’ experience in rural schools.