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Resolutions

Edmund Atkinson

Edmund Atkinson, chief Assistant Corporation Counsel, and attorney for the Board of Education, died suddenly June 12. While working at his desk he was stricken with a heart attack and died within a few minutes.

The Board of Education, at its June 14 meeting, adopted the following resolutions: "WHEREAS, it has pleased Providence to remove from our midst Edmund Atkinson, late Assistant Corporation Counsel of the City of Detroit,

"AND WHEREAS, during his long and useful career he had held various civic offices in our city and in later years the office of Assistant Corporation Counsel, confining his activities principally to the legal work of the Board of Education of Detroit,

"AND WHEREAS in all of his duties and particularly in connection with this Board he demonstrated at all times a masterly and profound legal learning, coupled with an unswerving sense of justice, fearless at all times to do right, condoning at no time any wrong,

"AND WHEREAS this Board, by his untimely death, loses a faithful and valuable counselor whose work and whose worth was so commendatory and whose loss will be so keenly felt.

"NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by this Board that while it bows to the inevitable, yet it grieves deeply upon the passing of this splendid gentleman.

"AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that it tender to his family its sincere sympathy in the loss of a true father and a devoted husband, and that this resolution be spread upon our records and a copy be sent to his family, and that out of respect to the memory of Mr. Atkinson, the Board do now adjourn."

Beatrice B. Biddle

Miss Beatrice B. Biddle, the only daughter of Inspector Andrew P. Biddle, died after a short illness, on August 7. She had returned from New York, where she had been studying art and design, to spend her vacation with her parents, when she suffered an attack of pneumonia. Severe complications, setting in after she was apparently recovering, caused her death.

The Board of Education, at the meeting of August 9, adopted the following resolutions:

"WHEREAS, It has pleased Divine Provi

dence to call to her Heavenly Home Miss Beatrice Biddle, only child of Dr. and Mrs. Andrew P. Biddle, in the very springtime of her life, a life full of lovely promise and rare gifts, on whose continuance her parents' fondest hopes were centered, and whose loss leaves them now bowed down with almost unendurable grief,

"BE IT RESOLVED: That this Board extend to our fellow member, Dr. Biddle and to Mrs. Biddle our most heartfelt sympathy, and that we express the earnest hope that they may be sustained in this desolating hour by the belief that they will be a reunited family when earth's journey is ended,

"BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That this resolution be spread upon the minutes of the Board, and a copy of this resolution be sent to Dr. and Mrs. Biddle, and that as a mark of respect the Board do now adjourn."

Health Scholarships

Two Detroit Teachers Recognized by National Association

The American Child Health Association awarded 25 scholarships and fellowships to teachers who had won distinction in the field of health education through the achievement of some outstanding results. The scholarships were offered in an attempt to develop trained leaders in the field of health education, and were in the form of five cash scholarships of one thousand dollars each, five of $500.00, and 15 summer school scholarships. Two of them were won by Detroit elementary school principals.

Miss May R. Pringle, principal of the Beard school, was the recipient of one of the $500.00 scholarships. Her constructive work for the development of health education in her school, and her helpful suggestions in that field merited the recognition they received.

Miss Alice V. Drouin, principal of the Hubbard school, likewise deserved credit for the valuable work she has done in her school along this line. She was awarded a summer school scholarship by the committee.

Detroit Journal Discontinued

The publication of the Detroit Journal of Education was discontinued with the June, 1923, issue. The Board of Education published the first volume of the Journal, of which there have been three volumes, in December, 1920. Volume I and Volume II were issued in quarterly numbers, while Volume III was issued monthly.

Detroit Teachers Leave

Death, Retirement, and Resignations Take Many Teachers From Schools

During the summer, the Detroit schools have lost the valued services of many teachers. Five have retired, and death has taken five more.

Janet Mackenzie, Helen McKerrow, Sarah J. Levens, Caroline Levens, and Elizabeth Aylward have retired.

Miss Janet Mackenzie was graduated from Detroit high school and from the University of Michigan. She began to teach in Detroit in the Campbell school. After six years' service in the elementary schools she was promoted to a principalship, and assigned to the Field school. At the time of her retirement she was principal of that school.

Miss Helen McKerrow, principal of the Tappan and Bagley schools, was born in Scotland, but was educated and began her teaching career in Detroit. She taught at the Tappan school from 1876 to 1890, and in that year was made principal. She retires from the school where she began to teach.

Sarah and Caroline Levens were born in Jonesville, Michigan. Caroline Levens was graduated from Michigan State Normal School in 1884, while Sarah Levens was granted a Detroit certificate in 1893. Both have taken work at Harvard, and at the University of Chicago, and both began to teach at the Jefferson school. In 1906 Miss Sarah was transferred to Cass high school, and was made a grade principal. Miss Caroline was appointed to a position at Central high in 1911.

Elizabeth Aylward was graduated from Detroit normal school in 1882, and the next year was appointed to a teaching position at the Tappan school. She has taught at Cass, the Burton, and the Smith schools.

Central high school has lost two teachers through death.

On May 21, Miss May Hadley, a teacher of English, died of typhoid fever. She had been at Central for over 12 years, coming there in 1911 from Adrian high school. Her strong character and pleasing personality made her a favorite whose loss will be keenly felt by pupils and teachers.

The other Central high teacher to be taken through death was Agnes H. Mac kenzie, domestic science teacher, who passed away on July 13. She has established herself permanently in the regard of her associates who mourn her loss.

H. Dora Harrington, who died June 28, was born in Chelsea, Michigan, on Novem

ber 2, 1860. She was graduated from Chelsea high school, and secured a county certificate. For 27 years she taught in the schools of Michigan, and then came to Detroit as a teacher in the Beard school in 1906. She was transferred to the Rose school, from which she was on a leave of absence at the time of her death.

Jessie M. Caldwell, a teacher at the High School of Commerce, died on June 5. She had taught commercial subjects in Detroit for five years, having previously followed her profession for almost 20 years in Illinois. The profession, through her death, loses a loyal and worthy member.

Clara L. Cooney, teacher of music at the Capron school, died July 6. She had been appointed to the music department in November, 1920, and was transferred to the Capron only a year ago.

The loss to the community and to the schools in the retirement and death of these noble women is deep and will be keenly felt.

Complete Your Records

Teachers who have taken summer and extension work in the past few years are requested to enter records of such completed activities on their permanent record card in the division of Teachers' Records. This should be done during September and October.

The Potter

M. Louise Mizen

I am a potter

And fine is the clay of my working. True and smooth-running must be my wheel,

Pure and glowing my fire.
Plastic, the clay in my hands
Receives in itself every impress;
Strange, the clay in my hands
Makes impress ineffaceable ever.
Finely, carefully, lovingly

My hands must fashion this vessel;
Gently, gently, delicately

Must the turning wheel smooth it;
Deeply, warmly, not searing,

My fire must burn it to glazing.

I am a potter:
My clay is the mind of a child.

New Courses of Study

During the summer the Board of Education has published several new courses of study and pupils' manuals. These publications are the work of Detroit teachers and supervisors.

Mr. Edgerton's series of vocational guidance monographs, Opportunities and Requirements in Local Occupations, has been completed by Volume III, which was prepared by him before his resignation, and printed during the summer. This third volume treats of the telephone and telegraph occupations, clerical positions, stenography, dentistry, and laundry work, giving the qualifications, training, remuneration, hours of work, advantages and disadvantages of these types of work.

The Teachers' Manual in the Picture Story Reading Method has been revised by Miss Nila B. Smith, Assistant Supervisor of Research, and reprinted. It contains the material of the first edition brought up to date.

Arthur Dondineau and his staff of social science teachers have prepared a course of study in the social sciences which will fill a need long felt by Detroit teachers. It will be supplemented in the lower grades by the course of study in nature study, but for the upper grades is complete in itself. Besides outlining the course, type lessons and suggested projects are included in the book, and the work is blocked off in a very helpful

way.

With the help of a staff of primary teachers, Miss Eliza Oglesby, Assistant Supervisor of Reading has prepared for publication a teacher's manual and pupils' textbook in Phonics Method.

A series of Primary Arithmetic Games has been arranged by Miss Nila B. Smith and published in the form of a course of study to help teachers vitalize the teaching of arithmetic.

Miss Alice A. Kelley, Assistant Supervisor of Spelling, and Miss Lena A. Shaw, Supervisor of Penmanship have collaborated in the preparation of Progressive Lessons in Spelling-Handwriting for 1-A and 2-B

Grades.

The Manual of Technical English for Sight Conservation Classes will greatly aid in the teaching of grammar to those children with defective sight who have been assigned to special classes. Miss Fannie

Fletcher, first assistant in charge of such classes, is responsible for its publication.

The Art department has compiled a course in art for intermediate schools. Such a course will improve art education in the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades.

Two volumes of a Practice Teaching course of study will be ready for the opening of Teachers College. They are the work of the practice teaching department at Detroit Teachers College.

The Student's Manual in Boys' Construction, published last year, has been revised by Miss Broegger and reissued. A new course, Direct Current Electrical Course for Technical High Schools, by Mr. Joseph G. Wolber, head of the electrical department of Cass Tech., has been prepared by the Vocational department.

Detroit College Re-named

In accordance with the act of the 1923 State Legislature, which provided for third and fourth year instruction in the college units in cities of over 250,000 inhabitants, the Board of Education has changed the name of the Detroit Junior College to The College of the City of Detroit. Upon the recommendation of Superintendent Frank Cody work for the third and fourth years in both that college and Detroit Teachers College has been authorized.

A fee of $60.00 per academic year, or $2.00 per credit hour, will be charged resident students registered in the last two years.

Coursault Resigns

Dean of Missouri School of Education to Teach

Dr. Jesse H. Coursault, Dean of the School of Education at the University of Missouri, has been relieved of his administrative duties, at his own request, that he may spend more of his time in research, writing, and teaching. He has been a member of the Faculty of Education since 1905, and Dean of the School of Education for the past six years. His book, Principles of Education, is well known in Detroit. He will be succeeded in office by Dr. Neale, of the University of Minnesota.

-James G. Carter.