Digital Bob Archive

MAY 1918 - PART 2:

With the school year coming to an end, the Juneau School Board re-engaged nine teachers and the superintendent for the 1918-19 school year. The superintendent was A.M. Mathews. The teachers were Margaret Scott, Gertrude Hellenthal, Marie Dresser, Marie Nelson, Ruth Seelan, Mamie Wheeler, Harriett Case, Blanche Dyer and V.C. Genn. Teachers who did not apply for the next school year were Jane Brenneman, Evelyn Sullivan, Fay Wenk and Dorothy Gilcrest. Teachers were scarce, at least partly due to the war and better paying jobs elsewhere than the schoolroom, and the School Board reported that it had received far fewer applications than usual.

Girls from the gymnasium classes of the Junior and Senior High Schools gave a special exhibition before a large crowd. The program included figure marching, dumbbell exercises and a number of dances. Taking part were Xenia Christensen, Anita Garnick, Helmi Janiksela, Legia Kashevaroff, Lena Korhonen, Lillian Oja, Venetia Pugh, Margaret Shattuck, Iloe Slade, Luella Smith, Florence Casey, Marjorie Clark, Ideal Hendrickson, Lulu Koskey, Laura McCloskey, Frances Nowell, Vivian Spaulding, Marian Summers, Carol Webster, Frances Morris, Sybil Campbell, Roberta Coryell, Laura Giard, Belle Hood, Ada Irish, Myrtle Jorgenson, Mary Kashevaroff, Rose McLaughlin, Mary Monagle, Emma Perelle, Leila Ptack, Doreen Ross and Dorothy Troy.

Father A.P. Kashevaroff was appointed Customs Inspector and was stationed at Hidden Inlet for the summer. In his absence the Russian Church property was in charge of Archie Bielich.

Miss Esther Oliver, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Oliver of Douglas and a graduate of the Douglas High School, was hired as the teacher for the Perseverance school in Silver Bow Basin for the 1918-19 school year. Since finishing high school she had been at Bellingham attending the Normal School. Miss Thelma Ninnis, the teacher at Perseverance the previous year, had gone south to California to join her parents who had previously lived in Douglas.

Harry Willard of Juneau was examined by the District Court and was granted his papers as a full American citizen. More and more Southeastern Alaska Natives were applying to the court for citizenship, having certified that they had severed their tribal relationships and were now conforming to the laws of the land.

George B. Morgan came in from his ranch in the Taku Valley and went on to Fort William H. Seward to join the Army. He said there were more geese and other birds on the Taku than he had ever seen before.

Word was received that J. Simpson MacKinnon had been elected the president of his class at Annapolis. He had graduated from the Juneau High School with the class of 1916 and was appointed to the Naval Academy the following year.