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Show June 15, 1904. <br><br> Mr. Chas. F. Romig, <br> Springville, Utah. <br><br> Dear Mr. Romig:- <br><br> It may be known to you that Mr. Caskey is to give up his school work Spet. 1, and that I am to take his place in the Collegiate Institute. Miss Morgan is to leave at the same time, so for some months we have been on the lookout for a Latin teacher. Mr. Caskey and I had gone into the matter with great care, and recommended to the Board a young lady who is just leaving Oberlin after a year of post-graduate work: I refer to Miss Mable A. Jones, whose home is in the City. But the Board has been fit to refuse to give Miss Jones the appointment, and they have made this suggestion:- that it might be well to transfer to the Collegiate a teacher from some other school. There idea is, I think, that it is only fair to the teachers already in the work to give them the benefit that might come from a change of location and work. This course would combat the idea which so many of the teachers hold that a new teacher from the East can obtain a position that a teacher of year of experience in the work could not get into. <br><br> Now the point of the matter is this. Your Miss Paden would seem one in all ways suited to the position. She has been in Springville for a number of years now, she has seen the school through some its troubles and into a condition of prosperity under a new and, as I am informed, most successful Principal. A change of teachers brings, I believe, a beneficial new life into the school, and, too, acts as a new inspiration to the teacher transferred to the new work and surroundings. Then, too, Miss Paden's brother and a number of her friends are here. Now I have not spoken to Miss Paden concerning this matter, and am not certain that she would consent to make the change; nor have I written to the Board regarding her. So from either side there might come an objection. Also, we have written to them <br> [Continues on next page.] <br><br> |
