60 years ago, January 7, 1960
School Board Employs Two New Teachers;
Will Begin At Mid-Term, January 25
The board of education this week approved teaching contracts for a home economics instructor and a teacher of junior high social sciences and English, effective January 25.
The positions were created by the recent resignations of Mrs.
Sandra Hudack and Mrs. Dorothy Smith, effective at the end of the semester.
Employed by the board in the home economics position was
Mrs. Elouise Frudy Scheirman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Schley
Frudy of Tonkawa. She is a graduate of Tonkawa High school, class of 1950, and received her bachelor’s degree in home economics from Oklahoma State university in 1954.
Mrs. Scheirman taught home economics in Lamont high school in the 1954-55 school term and in 1955-56 taught the subjects at Cheyenne River Boarding school at Cheyenne Agency, S. D. where her husband, James R. Scheirman was doing soil conservation work.
For the past two years she has been employed as a substitute teacher for the Oklahoma City school system and is the treasurer of the Oklahoma City Home Economics association. She is a member of the First Presbyterian church of Oklahoma City.
Replacing Mrs. Dorothy Smith is Jack Smith (no relation) who will graduate at mid-term from Central State college in Edmond.
He graduated in 1952 from Depew High school of Depew, Okla. and served in the U. S. Army from 1953 to 1956.
He graduates this month with a bachelor’s degree in education with a major in history. While in college he has been a member of the Historical society and the Dean’s honor roll.
Bank of Commerce Adds Two
Members To Director Board
The election of Lin Trueblood and Robert R. Boone to the board of directors of the Bank of Commerce was announced today by J.
W. Boone, president. The action took place at the monthly board meeting of the bank, and increases the membership on the board from five to seven, Boone said.
Trueblood is an area farmer and manager of the Federal Land
Bank of Ponca City. He is a native of this area and received his education here and is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma.
Boone is cashier of the bank. Prior to coming to Tonkawa he was in the Army for a period of two and one-half years and came here from Atoka. He is also a graduate of the University of Oklahoma, a member of the school board and superintendent of the Sunday ...
