Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1920 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL. NOTES. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL. NOTES.

The Jasper county board of education met in regular session in the office of the county superintendent last Monday. The regular routine business of the month was attended to and attention then given to a tabulation of teachers. The following tabulation revealed vacancies in the townships as follows: Barkley, one; Carpenter, none; Gillam, none; Hanging Grove, none; Jordan, two; Keener, none; Kankakee, one high school teacherMarion, none; Milroy, one; Newton, one; Union, two college graduates for high school; Walker, two; Wheatfield, none; Wheatfield Town, four high school teachers. No representative of the Remington school was present but it is understood that Remington has a full corps of teachers. No Representative from the Rensselaer schools was present but it is understood that the- city schools are well supplied. Two applicants received employment from Trustee Davisson of Barkley township after a personal interview today. Trustee LeFevre of Gillam was also fortunate in securing two teachers from Pulaski county tofill out his necessary corps today. Trustee Fairchild of Keener reported the following faculty for DeMotte: Margaret Marshall, principal; Lottie Porter, high school; George Hammerton, high school; W. F. Templin, high school; Grace Knapp, 6th and sth grades; Margaret Delahanty, 4th and 3rd grades- Chanty M. Wolfe, 2nd and Ist grades. This represents the teachers who will conduct the schools in DeMotte next year. Miss Msrsiisll and W. y • Templin are college graduates m the high school faculty who are eligible to hold the commission for the school. Mr. Hammerton and Miss Porter are qualified” to teach in the school with the seventy-two weeks minimum professional training, ah of the grade teachers have had at least thirty-six weeks of professional training. Trustee Fairchild has a faculty qualified from every angle tOsmeet the standards set by the state board of education for commissioned schools in Indiana. It is nossible that another teacher will be used in the faculty to relieve the congestion in Miss Delahanty and Miss Knapp’s rooms. If this is done Mr. Fairchild has a properly qualified teacher in readiness to take the position. Trustee Duggleby of Kankakee township reported the following faculty to pilot his commissioned school through a successful year: Miss Addie Harris, principal; Miss Celia Steifel, high school; Miff Delehanty, grades; Miss Bertha Stalbaum, grades Miss Grace Poole, primary. The two college graduates upon whom the issuance and retention of the commission depends are Miss Harris and Miss Steifel. Mr. Duggleby is still on the markets for another high school teacher. He feels quite confident’ that he can employ a lady who is in her junior year in Indiana University at this time. If so then it will represent

healthy school competition to one who notes the educational progress in these two north end township commissioned schools. It is rather expensive to maintain high schools nowadays but the genuine spirit of the patrons in the two north end townships endorses the actions of their trustees in securing strong leaders in the faculties. The schools are just the size of the teachers and these "two townships have secured teachers whose qualifications are satisfactory to state officials. There need be no apologies from that angle and now the patrons have a perfect right to demand every whit of energy from these teachers to give their schools the prestige they deserve. Trustee Harrington of Union has re-employed Prof. A. C. Campbell as. principal. Professor Campbell is welcomed back to Fair Oaks by the patrons who are as much interested in the preservation of their commissioned school as the patrons of Keener and Kankakee townships. Prof. Campbell is attending Indiana University at the present time. Miss Eleanor Murphy of Indianapolis has been employed by Mr. Harrington to assist in the high school. Mass Murphy will handle the Latin in the school. Mrs. Fae Petty Browhard will return in the primary. Miss Esther Wiseman will also return in the intermediate room. Mr. Harrington is making diligent effort to secure two college graduates to supplement his high school faculty. Teachers who are college graduates are very difficult to find nowadays. Most of the men and women with such qualifications are already engaged in lines of work far more remunerative than teaching. •