Married Women Not Allowed to Teach in Bellevue

KUCHEMAN, PATTERSON, BARTLEY, SCHELL, ANDERSON, HENNY, OCONNOR, SCHWIRTZ, HANNAH, LENZ, WIRTH, SUTHERLAND

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 2/10/2011 at 07:34:58

Jackson Sentinel, April 27, 1934

MARRIED WOMEN NOT ALLOWED TO TEACH IN BELLEVUE

Bellevue- (Special)

The Board of Education at a meeting Monday, re-elected all the teachers except Mrs. L. E. Kucheman, as married women are not eligible. Those re-elected were: Misses Gail Patterson, Frances Bartley, Henrietta Schell, H. W. Anderson, and L. W. Henney, high school; Miss Anna O’Connor, seventh and eighth grade; Miss Mary Swirtz, fourth grade;; Miss Hazel Hannah, third grade and high school music; Miss Emma Lenz, second grade; and Miss Elizabeth Wirth, first grade. O. C. Sutherland was re-elected superintendent at a previou meeting.