Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1909 — Miss Patrick Resigns Position as German and English Teacher. [ARTICLE]

Miss Patrick Resigns Position as German and English Teacher.

Miss Clara Patrick, teacher of German and English In the Rensselaer schools, tendered her resignation this Saturday morning and left on the 10:55 train for her home at Tell City, Ind. Miss Patrick was employed at the beginning of the present term and her work had proven very satisfactory, but recently she had become very nervous and her hearing became affected, probably the result of adenoid growths. She had expected to undergo an opuration for the removal of these and made a visit to Chicago the first of the week to have it done but after going there decided not to have the operation performed. She returned to the school room Friday and was expecting to go ahead with the work, but her father, John T. Patrick, and her brother-in-law, Louis Zoercher, of Tell City, learning of her illness, decided that she should give up the school and both arrived here this morning and induced her to resign. Miss Patrick was a competent teacher and popular with other teachers and with the school board and her inability to complete the term is much regretted. Steps have already been taken to secure a successor, Mr. Zoercher, her brother-in-law, is the publisher of two democratic newspapers, the Tell City News and the Jasper Herald.