Cook School Teachers Records, 1903-1947
Byron Township, Kent County, Michigan

YEAR

#Male-#Female=Total

VALUE

TEACHER

SALARY

EXPENSE

SUBJECTS

1903

    20          20     =   40

$1,200

Grace Chambers

$295

$383.91

 

1904

   20           20     =   40

$1,500

Grace Chambers

$295

$382.00

*Botany and Algebra

1905

   20           25     =   45

$1,500

Ola Irwin

$295

$347.78

 

1906

   21           26     =   47

$1,800

Janet Hunsberger

$315

$830.35

 

1907

   19           27     =   46

$1,200

Janet Hunsberger

$360

$941.00

 

1908

Omitted

 

 

 

 

 

1909

   11           22     =   33

$ 800

Edith M. Loomis

$405

$440.00

Algebra

1909

 

 

Jennie Meyering

$360

 

General History

1910

   26          21      =   47

$1,200

Jennie Meyering

$378

$600.00

Botany

1911

   24          21      =   45

$1,200

Ida Snyder

$405

$513.75

Algebra

1912

   24          30      =   44

$1,500

Fred Clute

$510

$470.00

General History

1912

 

 

Anna B. Cuddidy

$450

 

Botany

1913

Omitted

 

 

 

 

 

1914

   27          22      =   49

$2,500

Anna B. Cuddidy

$540

$605.09

 

1914

2 rooms

 

Hazel M. Rawlings

$300

 

General History

1915

   23         21       =   44

$2,500

Anna B. Cuddidy

$540

$730.00

Geography

1915

 

 

Ida Warner

$315

 

Physical

1916

Omitted

 

 

 

 

Rhetonia

1917

   25         20       =   45

$3,000

Adelaide MacHattie

$495

$1,543

Botany

1917

 

 

Bernice Underhill

$146

(4 mos.)

Algebra

1917

 

 

Gladys Joppa

$175

(5 mos.)

Taught six pupils

1918

   25         23       =   48

$3,000

Anna Cuddidy

$255

$1,459.10

(4 1/2 mos.)

1918

 

 

Gladys Joppa

$160

 

(4 mos.)

1918

 

 

Mrs. Blanch Careyle

$270

 

(4 mos.)

1918

 

 

Anne Cone

$200

 

(5 1/2 mos.)

1919

   15         23       =   38

$3,000

Katherine McCarty

$585

$1,500

 

1919

 

 

Rebecca Irwin

$495

 

 

1920

   21         20        =   41

$3,000

Margie Pike

$630

$1,700

 

1920

 

 

Rebecca Irwin

$530

 

 

1921

   16         20       =   36

$3,000

Margie Pike

$400

$1,841

(4 mos.)

1921

 

 

Mildred Herrick

$465

 

(4 mos.)

1921

 

 

Locile Loring

$720

 

(9 mos.)

1922

   17         15       =   32

$3,000

Anastasia Carmody

$1,125

$2,210.13

 

1923

   15         23       =   38

$3,000

Violet McLenthean

$900

$2,100.17

 

1923

 

 

Lucy Slagter

$720

 

 

1924

   18         24       =   42

$3,000

Vivian Byrne

$990

$1,365.17

 

1925-1934

 

 

'Were Filmed'

 

 

 

1935-36

 

 

Loretta Hanna

$540

 

 

1936-37

 

 

Loretta Hanna

$630

 

 

1936-37

 

 

Mae Groenveld

$528.06

 

 

1937-38

 

 

Loretta Hanna

$720

 

 

1937-38

 

 

Ruth M. Ward

$585

 

 

1938-39

 

 

Loretta Hanna Blough

$765

 

 

1938-39

 

 

Ruth Ward

$675

 

 

1939-40

 

 

Loretta Hanna Blough

$765

 

 

1939-40

 

 

Ruth Ward (replaced by)

$675

 

 

1939-40

 

 

Harriet DeBlaay

 

 

(replaced R. Ward)

1940-41

 

 

Loretta Hanna Blough

$792

 

 

1940-41

 

 

Harriet DeBlaay

$720

 

 

1941-42

 

 

Loretta Hanna Blough

$792

 

 

1941-42

 

 

Harriet DeBlaay

$792

 

 

1942-43

 

 

Ethel Cudaback (replaced)

$295

 

 

1942-43

 

 

Esther Simpson

$571

 

(replaced E. Cudaback

1942-43

 

 

Betty Schantz

$855

 

 

1943-44

 

 

Mary Hoffmaster

$1,125

 

 

1943-44

 

 

Mary K. Baker

$1,100

 

 

1944-45

 

 

Mary K. Baker

$1,215

 

 

1944-45

 

 

Mary Hoffmaster

$1,215

 

 

1945-46

 

 

Mary Hoffmaster

$1,350

 

 

1945-46

 

 

Mary K. Baker

$1,350

 

 

1946-47

 

 

Mary Hoffmaster

$1,440

 

 

1946-47

 

 

Pauline DeBruyn

$1,440

 

 

Location: From the Byron Center Historical Museum records

Transcriber: Evelyn M. Sawyer
Created: 7 April 2003