Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1912 — PUBLIC SCHOOLS WILL OPEN NEXT MONDAY. [ARTICLE]

PUBLIC SCHOOLS WILL OPEN NEXT MONDAY.

Excellent Corps of Teachers Have Been Hired—New High School Building Unfinished. The Rensselaer public schools will open next Monday, September 2. The students will have to accept accommodations for the present in the old quarters as the new high school building has not been completed. The high school will be moved to the new building as soon as it is ready for occupancy, which will probably not be for six weeks. Children who are entering school for the first time will be accommodated at the library auditorium, which has been fitted up for them and which was used for this purpose last year. Superintendent William F. Clarke has called for a meeting of the city teachers at 2 o’clock next Saturday afternoon at his present office in the grade building. The following list of teachers engaged for the ensuing year was submitted by Prof. Clarke. ,The corps of teachers have bean changed slightly since the recent publication of the list in The Republican: iWm. F. Clarke, superintendent. Ross Dean, principal of high school. Grace E. Stover, supervisor music and drawing. Grades: Edith Adams, first grade. Helen Lamson, first grade. Cora Dexter, second grade. Myra Watson, second grade. Minnie Hemphill, third grade. Tillie Malchow, fourth grade. Edith VanArsdel, fourth « and fifth grades. Ethel Sharp, fifth grade. - Bessie L. Wiley, seventh grade. Mildred Vanderburgh, eighth grade. High School: * C. M. Sharpe, physics, chemistry and mathematics. Ira Coe, botany, zoology and agriculture. Ethel Perkins, English. Alice Shedd, English and Latin. Naomi Greegg, English and German. Nora A. Sevison, Latin and mathematics.