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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1957
Page
11
A 1957 Alpine inquiry examines candidate quality through a recommenda tion request from another school. Evaluations cover instruction ability discipline loyalty appearance and habits with criteria from excellent to poor and focus on standardized testing results and subject technique.
The piece critiques inquiry into teachers character and health used in job evaluations. It argues districts seek competent loyal ethical, healthy teachers able to work with a faculty and uphold American citizenship, noting such traits reduce heartache and improve schools. It compares the dilemma to a preacher’s rigid expectations.
The piece catalogs common criticisms of pastors covering age experience family appearance study visits preaching and finances. It ends with cartoonish remarks about authority and a concluding thought on self conquest attributed to Napoleon and a note on filmstrip gifts to Alpine Public School from Mobiloil and Mobilgas dealers.
Dr Frank P Matthews a pioneer in West Texas poisonous weeds and animal diseases died in Santa Maria California last week and was buried in Arroyo Grande California He directed the U S Department of Agriculture station at Alpine from 1929 to study livestock poisons and diseases He wrote 18 publications on Trans Pecos livestock issues and resigned in 1945 Survived by wife and son Harvey of Casper Wyoming Blind as a bat is incorrect says a proverb.
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