Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1913 — C. ROSS DEAN TO BE NEW SUPERINTENDENT [ARTICLE]

C. ROSS DEAN TO BE NEW SUPERINTENDENT

Former Principal to Head Rensselaer Schools—C. M. Sharp Probably the Principal. C. Ross Dean, principal of the Rensselaer schools for the past two years and an instructor in the high school for several years, has been employed by the school board to be the superintendent. It is quite orobablrAhat C. M. Sharp, who has been the science teacher for the past two years, will be chosen principal, although the school board did not bake any action at its meeting Monday night. Mr. Dean is at present taking some special work at Chicago University and will be there for about two weeks more. He is a graduate of the Indiana University and a young man of energy and ability and the fact that he was chosen from a field of seventy applicants shows the high esteem in which the school board holds him. The salary he is to receive has.,not been made public, but it is understood that to begin with he will receive less than was paid Superintendent Clarke last year, which was $1,400. The board is finding it necessary to retrench some financially, owing to the very great expense at which it has been placed in buying equipment for the new high school building, but this is only a temporary retrenchment, as all members of the board are desiious of paying good salaries to the teachers and realize that they must do so to procure the best talent. Mr. Dean’s many friends will be pleased to know that he has been chosen to the important position and will feel that the schools will progress under his management.