Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1919 — RECORD YEAR ANTICIPATED [ARTICLE]

RECORD YEAR ANTICIPATED

FOR CITY SCHOOLS DURING THE COMING TERM FACULTY PERSONNEL CHANGED. A record breaking school year for the term 1919-t2O, both in the matter of attendance and in efficiency of service rendered, is the prediction of C. R. Dean, head of the public schools of this city. Surrounded by an able corps of instructors in all branches, Mr. Dean feels that the school patrons of the city and country have a school system that will meet educational demands in every respect and which will insure them that the best of service 4s being rendered, and is extremely enthusiastic as the time approaches for the launching of another term. During the term of 1918-19, a year crowded with adverse conditions and with a dearth of capable iinstrUctors, the school prospered and the close of the term marked ah epoch when a class shattering all records in the matter of number was graduated. With the obstacles of the war days removed, Superintendent Dean feels confident that the city schools are to continue on their march to be recognized as among the leading schools in a state which bears the reputation of having the most efficient school system in the entire country today. Mr. Dean has secured a wealth of high-class instructors, • and the faculty personnel as it is comprised at present shoWs that the high school will again 'practically revert to masculine control, a. condition which has not been true for the past several years. Bht one position remains to be filled, that of science instructor in the high school, but it is expected that within a short time the teaching roster Will be completed. In the high schools will hf employed Arthur Shepler, C. T. Hadley and Ralph Schaupp, all of whom saw service in the late war. Mr. Shepler was an officer and saw service in Europe. Mr. Hadley was in the war zone for eighteen months and Mr. Schaupp was with the army of occupation in Germany. The schools will open Monday. September 8, and the school board urges that all students who contemplate attending school in this city register on that date. The following is a list of the teachers to be employed and the departments they will have : Superintendent—C. R. Dean. High School. Arthur Shepler—Science, principal. Blanche Merry—English. Grace Norris —Latin. Anna Younger—History. C. T. Hadley—French and English.

Ralph Schaupp—Mathematics. Jesse Merry—Commercial. Not Supplied—Science. Grammar Building. D. S. Nave—Principal. Ethel English. —-si— — Ora Sage. Mary Miles. Primary Building. Helen Lamson —First grade. Alice Jennings—First grade. Minnie Hemphill (principal)—Second grade: Josephine O’Dell —Second and Third grades. Bertha Bostick —Third grade. Tillie Malchow —Fourth grade. Ellis Coffin —Fourth and Fifth grades. Vera Woods —'Fifth grade. Supervisors in Grades And High School. Mabel Atwood —Domestic science. Frank WoSrner —'Manual training and Agriculture. —— - Geraldine WaHace—Music and” Drawing.