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Highland Park Press, 29 Aug 1940, p. 7

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Teaching Staffs At Local Schools (Continued from Page 1) rollment at Lincoln and the rapid growth at Braeside has made this change necessary. The kindergarâ€" ten at Braeside will be in charge of Miss Martha Cunningham a graduâ€" ate of National College of Educaâ€" tion. Miss Cunningham will succeed Miss Dorothy Oakes Wwho plans to be married and live in the East. * Few Changes In Mr. Dewey who has had charge of the physical education and manâ€" ual arts in the upper grades at Braeside will give full time this year to Ravinia. His work will be taken over by Mr. Gilbert Veach of Kewanee. Mr. Veach will have charge of the physical education and handicraft programs and give full time at Braeside. Mr, Jack Jerstad who did part time work in these deâ€" partments last year is located perâ€" menently in St. Louis public schools. THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1940 Mr. Veach is a graduate of the State Teachers college at Bloomingâ€" ton where he specialized in both physical education and manual arts. He has been teaching in the Junior High school at Kewanee, Ill., durâ€" ing the past three years. The following is a complete list of the Bradeside teachers: Kindergarten ...._Miss Marths Cunningham First grade .._._.__._....... Mrs. Mary Owen First grade .._.....__Miss Anna Helen Short Second grade ... ..Miss Mabel Siverson Third grade ..._.._Mrs. Winifred W. Swann Fourth grade ... Miss Mildred Swenson Fifth grade ...... ....._.Miss Dorothy Kemp Sixth and Physical Ed‘n.._Mr. Gilbert Veach Seventh and Math ..Miss Florence Siverson Eighth and So. Science .. Mr. Perry Graybill Principal and English Ethel A. Elder (Mrs.) ArE lolllc.............._Miss Laural Stoddard Music. ..... ... Miss Katherine Scherstrom There will be one new teacher at Ravinia school. Miss Martha Watâ€" son who taught first grade last year was married in June and will not reâ€" turn. Her successor will be Miss Anne Anslow, a graduate of Naâ€" tional College of Education, who comes from a successful experience in Dowagiac, Michigan. Mr. Arno Wehle who has been asâ€" sisting in the physical education deâ€" partment will devote full time to teaching in the fifth and sixth grades in Ravinia. or over LABOR DAY Travel on Creditâ€"Ge Now No Money Downâ€"Pay Later TRAINâ€"AUTO Service By tminto des tination â€"at destination an ssto waiting. @ "Your inspection welcomed" ® Write for new booklet today. NORTH SHORE HEALTH RESORT 221 Sheridan Road + Winnetka, Iilinois A complee list of the Ravinia A BEAUTIFUL HEALTH RESORT Lake Washed Air ‘ymasrialne delightful home for elderly people. Fame: Adnguate Prepareduets tos Ustions) drtense ® Complete bath department and speâ€" 8 S. Clark St.. Phone Deartorn 21 Station Phone Demtbere 1064 thke., m every weekday at 7:00 am SnE td m iJ n whinerigg ealp . . . 1 +ss Last Teur Aug. 31 Second grade ... Miss Gertrude Metze Fifth grade ......___....._Miss Mabel Ducker Fifth and Science ......_Miss Steils Dammar Sixth grade ..._..........._Mr. Arno Wehle Sixth and Math. ......_Miss Helen McLeran Seventh 8o. Science..Miss Lorraine Sinkler Righth and English .__Mrs. Virginia Curtis Eighth and Pbysical Edu.Mr. Dudiey Dewey teachers is as follows: Kindergarten .............._Miss Emily Hoaglin Second Music ANE ::( i0nemnoommiccome.~~~« Sn Weetth Rell Manual Arts . .__..._Mr. Walter J. Borg Physical Education ....._Mr. George Ekdzhl Library . ... Miss Virginia Newcomb Mrs. McGrath will continue her work as district nurse; Miss Susan Hunt and Miss Edith Phillips as special reading teacher; Mr. Allen Metcalf as instrument and band teacher, and Clark G. Wright as suâ€" perintendent. There will be a meeting of the enâ€" tire district faculty at 2:30 o‘clock on Wednesday afternoon, Septemâ€" ber 4th, at the Lincoln school, The Elm Place and Greenbay‘ road schools will open at 9 o‘clock on Thursday morning ,September 5. All children who were in school last year should report to their last year‘s home rooms. They will then be assigned to their new home room teachers. _ Kindergarten children should report to the kindergarten teachers, Miss Marks at Elm Place, and Miss Deile at Greenbay road school. Kindergarten pupils must be 5 years of age before January 1. Children who did not register in kindergarten last spring must be accompanied by birth certificates for registration. All other new pupils should regâ€" ister at the office of the principal of the school which they will attend. Registrations of pupils above kinâ€" dergarten may be made on Wednesâ€" day afternoon, September 4. Textbooks will be for sale in the Elementary building of the Elm Place school from 9 until 12 o‘clock and from 1 until 4 o‘clock on Wedâ€" nesday, September 4. First and second grade children of both schools will get their books. from their teachers during the first few days of school. All other children should buy their books at the Elm Place school book store. Miss Joan Dexter of 424 S. Sheriâ€" dan road, Highland Park, will teach 4th grade. She did one year of inâ€" ternship teaching at the Elm Place school. For the past two years she has been teaching in the Lake Villa Public school. During this summer she has been doing graduate work at the University of Colorado. Miss Virginia Sproul of Quincy, IIl., has been employed as music teacher at Elm Place school for this year. Miss Sproul received the Masâ€" ter of Arts degree in Music at the University of Michigan this sumâ€" mer. Her thesis was an operetta which received honors rating. Miss Sproul has taught music at Carthâ€" age college, and in the public schools of Earlville, III.; Preston, Iowa, and Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. . She"comes to Highland Park from Wauwatosa. Miss Alice Beyer has been emâ€" ployed to teach English in the 8th grade. Miss Beyer received her Master of Arts degree from Northâ€" western university this summer, During last year she did internship teaching at Maine Township High school. Miss Alice Meyers, who has been teaching 4th grade at the Elm Place school for the past 21 years, has just resigned. Her resignation was due to the necessity of her goâ€" ing home to Florence Station, IIl., to take care of an invalid sister. Miss Dorothy Roberts of TIola, Kansas, has been secured to take Miss Meyer‘s place. Miss Roberts has attended Kansas City university and the University of Colorado. She has been teaching in the Iola, Kanâ€" sas, public schools for several years. She will be missed greatly by the entire school community. 80 MICKIE SAYSâ€" NO.1 oN our PpEEvB PARADE Is TH‘ GUY WHO TAKES H‘ CITY NEWSPAPER, BUT AINT LOYAL ENUFF T‘ TAKE HIS HOME TOWN PAPER Mr, R. H. Price, superintendent of School District 107, has just reâ€" turned from Boulder, Colorado, where he has been teaching graduâ€" ate courses in school administration at the University of Colorado. _ The buildings and grounds of both the Elm Place and Greenbay woad schools are in excellent condiâ€" tion for the opening of school. The gymnasium, the lunch room, the four 8th grade class rooms, and the teachers‘ rest room in the primary building have been completely and attractively reâ€"decorated. New cabâ€" inets and bulletin boards have been installed in many rooms. New desks have been purchased for one 7th grade room. A new curtain for the auditorâ€" ium, purchased partly by the 1940 8th grade class gift, will be installed by the time school opens. This fine gift of the class will add greatly to the attractiveness of the auditorium. Parents are urged to have their children ready for school on the opening day. These first days are just as important as any others in the school year. High School Science Rooms Transformed During Vacation (Continued from Page 1) at the bottom is finished in a black chemical resistant material. This toeâ€"space makes it comfortable to stand at the table. The chemical resistant finish allows strong mopâ€" ping solutions to be used on the floor without spoiling the tables. All metal ware, books, glassware, and apparatus will be kept in a storage which covers the entire south end of the laboratory. All chemicals will be kept in the storeâ€" room. Pupils will secure thoir chemical from the reagent bottles kept on the reagent shelves in the laboratory. A special acid table is used for the dispensing of strong acids and bases. A steady stream of water flushes off the top of this table at all times when the laboraâ€" tory is in use. A shower bath and several first aid kits are also availâ€" able. THE HIGHLAND PARK PRES 3 By ELMORE M. MURPHY _Ad, A (Continued from Page 1) that work was started this week on the widening and the installation of new sidewalks and curbs in the busiâ€" ness district on Central avenue east of Sheridan road. This improvement is expected to be completed someâ€" time around the 9th or 10th of Sepâ€" tember and when finished should go far towards removing that "down at the heels" completion of this part of the city. With the "dog days" of summer just about over and the beginning of fall only a few weeks away the city council will be about ready to step into high gear when it again conâ€" venes on September 9. While much has been done, there are enough proâ€" jects on the city‘s calendar to keep the City Fathers busy for some time to come. Ralph Pierantoni is to be married soon ... Alda Calbri has received a diamond from Al Thorson of Highâ€" land Park . . . Mrs. Woodward Burâ€" gert and her son Woodward Jr. of this city were guests at Susan Painâ€" ter‘s third birthday party last week ... the Arthur Magnais are in town again visiting . . . Arthur does reâ€" search work at National Analine, a dye company in Buffalo, N. Y, ... they will stay for two weeks. .. Richard L. Sandwick wrote an arâ€" ticle on the Highland Park High school‘s building trade class in the Curriculum Journal . . . republished in the Readers‘ Digest . . . telling that during the last 14 years seven houses, one school building and an addition to a school have been erected by the students ... (Continued from Page 1) ../448”1... Betty McCormack, who went two years to the University of Hawaii . . . she is a hula expert, having perâ€" formed at Glen Flora Country club some time ago .. . Tom Wilder is represented in the Lake County Art League summer exhibit at Waukegan‘s public liâ€" brary . . . the three entries are "Miniatures on Ivory," a pastel, "Fantasy," and "Yellow and Black" .. . he is accused of laughing up his sleeve at the moderns . . . . . , Seen in the college number of Mademoiselle is a Waukegan girl, Marion Gail is on a trip west to South Dakota, Yellowstone Park, and other points of interest with two of her University of llinois classmates . . . while her family has just returned from roaming through Wisconsin . . . Barbara Feilchenfeld‘s grandfathâ€" er used to be acquainted with the late Leon Trotzky . . . having esâ€" caped from Russia himself through the wastelands of Siberia . . . he was employed as a pedagogue in old Russia. The ladies of St. Johns church will give a dessert luncheon folâ€" lowed by cards and bunco in the church dining room, corner Greenâ€" bay and Homewood avenue, Wedâ€" nesday, Sept. 11, at 1 p.m. For resâ€" ervations call H.P: 1985 or H.P. 3225. TYPEWRITERS Mat Heiner is some swell dancer LARSON‘S Stationer Dessert Luncheon Sept. 11 37 South St, Johns Avenue Phone H. P. 567 Workmanship Guaranteed REPAIRED ALL MAKES Niy Y NTE 9p4 One Porson â€" Wihout Both..$f «5 50 Two Persons â€"Wihout Both..$ §50 10 s & One Person=With Shower Both....$ §75 One Person â€"With Tub ldh..........‘! Two Personsâ€"Tub or Shower ut.szfl SPECIAL WEEKLY AND MONTHLY RATES ALWAYS A GREAT FAVORITE COMFORT AND ECONOMY WiITH TRAVELERS ROBT. H. SCHOPS, My:. PAGE SEVEN SEERING

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