| Description | 9/12/1899-16/2/1900
To: Thomas Hector, Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: P.G. Allan – 24 January 1900 – Application for Promotion: Allan writing a short note about recent appointments to the Middle School and the salaries, asking for a salary increase at the high school, due to his appointment as master of IA.
To: Thomas Hector, Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: J.D. Anderson – 2 February 1900 – Application for Promotion: Anderson detailing his qualifications for a promotion/salary increase. Includes information to growth of the school.
To: Thomas Hector, Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: J.D. Anderson – 22 January 1900 – School Attendance: 400 pupils in attendance, dismissed early because so few students.
To: R.B. Finlayson, Esq, From: Mabel Anderson – 26 January 1900 – School Attendance: Bethia Hutcherson, a scullery maid, was unable to go to an appointment at the School Board Offices because she was in classes, her employer asked for accommodations on her behalf.
From: J.D. Anderson – 2 February 1900 – Recreation Facilities: Gymnasium piano had a note wrong and needed to be serviced.
To: Thomas Hector, Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Helen L. Allan – 28 December 1899 – Promotion: New teacher of piano appointed at Kittybrewster School.
To: Thomas Hector, Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Maggie G. Birss – 24 January 1900 – Application: A woman writing for an appointment to the board. Includes her qualifications and past experience, as well as her age and marital status. Note also has a recommendation to her credit from Theo E. Bird.
To: Thomas Hector, Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Jas. E. Barnett – 15 February 1900 – Class sizes: Detailing 36 boys in Standard VI and 61 in Standard V, with a section of 40 boys between IV and V.
To: Thomas Hector, Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Jane Burnett – 13 February 1900 – Transfer Request: Transfer to a new school closer to her new accommodations, she has been teaching lower classes.
To: Thomas Hector, Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Afule (?) M. Brown – 22 January [no year] – Promotion Request: Asking to fill a vacancy due to resignation of another teacher, Miss Wyness (?).
To: Thomas Hector, Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Jas E. Barnett – 25 January 1900 – Student withdrawal and promotions: A number of pupils withdrawing Stand VI after the Labour Examination, a proposal to shuffle around some teachers.
To: Aberdeen School Board, From: J.N. Carmichael – 3 February 1900 – A summary of different schools in Scotland and their woodworking/ironworking classes. Done with the intention of potentially implementing parts into a program in Aberdeen.
To: Thomas Hector, Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: J. (?) Campbell – 2 February 1900 – Details about the gymnasium size and other classroom accommodations (difficult to read.)
To: Thomas Hector, Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Duncan Clarke – 15 February 1900 – On March 7th the Central Evg. School will have met 45 times.
To: Thomas Hector, Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: A. Carmichael – 31 January 1900 – Request for Promotion: A request for promotion to Rosemont School, detailing 25 years of service.
To: Ms(?) Hinlayson(?), From: J.N. Carmichael – no date – List of school books and students who needed them.
To: Thomas Hector, Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: A. Cruickshank – 5 February 1900 – Note about some clay objects exhibited at the school. Discussions of where to go with them.
To: Thomas Hector, Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Evelyn O.(?) Christie – 20 December 1899 – In reply to your letter of the 18th I beg to say in the 1st place, that I wrote to the Department purely through ignorance, and as regards the other statement I never used the words quoted in the copy letter sent to me. What I said in private conversation was “I Had not much faith in Mr. Hector.” I much regret that such a trivial and private remark should have ever been repeated to you.
To: Thomas Hector, Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: ?? (Workshop, Grammar School) – 22 December 1899 – Kindly forward to me 24 additional labels for specimens of woodwork for exhibition purposes. Also let me know at your earliest when the box of exhibits will be dispatched from Aberdeen.
To: ???, From: ??? – 22 October 1899 – [First name illegible] Daniel has a bad throat and cold and will not be able to be at school tomorrow (Mon.) (Engraving at top of stationary says: Balblair, Cults)
To: Thomas Hector, Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Charles Davidson – 12 February 1900 – A teacher saying that he had to take on multiple Classics courses with details of numbers of students; asking for a salary increase due to extra work and unusual class size.
To: Aberdeen School Board, From: Rosa P. Dawson – 30 January 1900 – Application to move into a new position, with details of her experience and work history.
To: Aberdeen School Board, From: Fanny L. Dawson – 17 January 1900 – Application for vacancy at Girls’ High School, detailing experience and certificates held by Fanny L. Dawson.
To: ??, From: G. F. Duthie – 26 December 1899 – A note about Calisthenic wands with ribbons and without ribbons, that were ordered for the school. Possibly for exercise?
To: Aberdeen School Board, From: Charlotte R. Fergusson – 14 December 1899 – “I beg to apply for a transfer from St. Clement St. School, where I have been for a period of four years.”
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Alexander Forbes – 8 February 1900 – School supplies: New brushwork materials, “make a very considerable saving both of time and money by having our colours prepared and kept in bottles to be served to pupils as they need it.”
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Alexander Forbes – 23 January 1900 – “Requision for map of Europe. We have only one presentable map of Europe, and 5 different classes require the use of it. Map building sheets: Scotland, England, and Irland intended for aids in the teaching of the Geography of these countries.”
To: ?? (Probably Thomas Hector), From: George Fruton – 31 January 1900 – Note about a concert and ‘lime-light entertainment’, carried out by the pupils of the school in the gymnasium on Friday 9th. (With a note at the top about how they probably could provide accommodation.)
To: Thomas Hector Esq, From: N. Fyfe – 16 January 1900 – Note about the cookery class only having 9 people signed up, so the additional teacher would not be necessary.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Alexander Forbes – 23 January 1900 – Requisition order for more pencils, incorrectly labelled as 12 dozen when 36 dozen were needed. Classes in danger of running out of pencils.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: N. Fyfe – 3 January 1900 – Advertisement for evening cookery class and where the class would’ve been advertised.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: James Findlay – 4 January 1900 – Letter of recommendation for a teacher “Miss Clark” including information about her experience and character.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: James Findlay – 12 December 1899 – A note about W. H. (Standard II) Exercise Book, which has “bad ruling” that needs to be remedied.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: John Gordon – 4 January 1900 – A note about the confusion on whether a class was part of another class or not. Discusses the attendance of art classes, including some numbers.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: William Gauld – 26 January 1900 – A teacher asking for the promotion of a student from the advanced “Machine Construction Class” to become an assistant teacher, due to the current assistant teacher’s absence from illness. Also asking about a salary increase.
To: H. H(?), From: Thomas Hector – 12 February 1900 – Class sizes: 107 boys in Standard VI and 95 in Standard V at King Street School.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Thomas Hynd – 5 February 1900 – A note about school attendance due to an endemic of whooping cough, with many students out due to the illness.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Thomas Hynd – 5 February 1900 – A note about many teachers out due to illness as well. (Possibly same whooping cough situation as previous note?)
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Thomas Hynd – 27 December 1899 – A note about sales of pupil’s mounting cards being spoiled.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Thomas Hynd – 22 January 1900 – “We have owing to the alterations to furnish a new room and teachers are the better of a supply of maps, on which to fix the work or reference of any lesson. I must to have the Duplicate orders soon.”
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Thomas Hynd – 11 January 1900 – A note about a class getting alterations and the work being done on it making it difficult for the classes to go on.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Thomas Hynd – 11 December 1899 – A list of children refused admission to King Street and a letter explaining reasoning, with notes about students who were, after the fact, admitted to the school.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Thomas Hynd – 11 December 1899 – A request for students to potentially be moved to different schools due to the fact that the school (King Street) is overcrowded.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Thomas Hynd – 27 December 1899 – More about the lack of space for students, with numbers for workbooks and how many teachers were in each room.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: William Hendry(?) – 11 December 1899 – A request for a party for some of the Continuation Classes for the ladies. And another one for the Cookery and Millinery pupils, who could invite a friend each.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: John R. Jack(?) – 1 February 1900 – “The results of the Labour Certificate Examination do not surprise me. The class from which four of the candidates came is not a brilliant one; and none of the five were good pupils. The two boys who failed were the most backward in their class. As to the third failure it was unreasonable to expect any other result as the girl had been in fifth standard work only since August.”
To: R.B. Finlayson/Aberdeen School Board, From: W.L. Morr – 14 February 1900 – “Patrick D. Martin (a pupil of the evening class in Mathematics) has not paid his fee of 5/ (P.D. Martin 16 Prospect Terrace)”
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Alex Moodie – 2 February 1900 – “I have advised Hill J. S. that there will be no meeting of the Evening School here on Monday night [?] the 5th [?] on account of the annual Social Meeting in the Free Church.”
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Alex Moodie – 11 January 1900 – A letter regarding salaries and a decision to have them through a certain bank that is too far away. Moodie makes the argument that many teachers take Saturday classes (Plant Life and Brush Work) that would make it difficult for them to get to the bank in time to get their salaries.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: John McKeuzce – 2 February 1899 – A letter from the Head Teachers saying they do not want uniformity in their text books and want freedom to choose their own. Also, mentions a significant number of transfers from the school to others. (Specific school not mentioned?)
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: J. McGregor (Headmaster) – 15 February 1900 – A letter about how to balance the number of students in a new building for the Old Aberdeen P. School, including a list of “Number of Pupils on the Roll”
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: John McLachlan, Ashley Road Public School – 15 February 1900 – “In explanation of only one class from this school attending manual instruction, I beg to say that at the introduction of the subject the arrangement was so made, and I was in hope that it would continue so, until accommodation, for instruction in the subject had been provided in this school. I am prepared to send for instruction, if desirable, as many, or fewer, classes of 18, as the number of boys in Standards V and VI will permit.”
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: JML, Holburn Street School – 13 February 1900 – “With reference to the information with which you recently supplied me that 27 boys in Standard VI and 58 in Standard V in Holburn St. School are at present receiving Manual Instruction please let me know further if these are all the boys…” “These are all the boys in these Standards.”
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Isabella McPherson – 10 January 1900 – “I beg respectfully to make application for the situation of Infant’s Mistress in the New Westfield School. I have been Infant’s Mistress in Northfield School since Jan. 1894 and should now prefer a similar position in a better.”
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: John McHardy – 31 January 1900 – “Miss Johan Douald has been absent last week and has not yet turned up. She is sick.”
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: J. McGregor – 9 January 1900 – “Miss Bews P. J. is now fit for duty and Miss Simpson’s services will not be required any longer.”
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: E.D. Nishet, Torry Public School – 14 February 1900 – A letter about Class V that had 4 boys in it for Manual Instruction, but the number then dropped to 3, since one boy turned 14 and left school.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: E.D. Nishet, Torry Public School – 14 December 1899 – A letter about how the Torry School manual instruction room is not available and to use the Walker Road Public School room instead. There are thirty-six boys in the class.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Jas. Rose, Causewayend Public School – 14 February 1900 – “The numbers – 56 in Stand. VI and 87 in Stand V – represent all the boys in these standards in this school. All boys in Stand. V and VI in this school receive Manual Instruction (Woodwork.)”
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Jas. Rose, Causewayend Public School – 11 January 1900 – A letter about the issues of habitual overcrowding of the Infant Department.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Margaret Rutherford, High School Aberdeen – 17 January 1900 – A letter of application for a promotion including credentials of “in charge of Class II L.S. and have bene so for the last four years, but my teaching experience dates from 1893. I hold the Acting Teacher’s Certificate as well as the L. L. A Diploma.”
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Jas Rose, Causewayend Public School – 22 December 1899 – “Miss Anderson’s proposal, in which I concur, is to Cyclostyle, from time to time, Cookery notes and recipes, for her various classes in all the schools in which she teaches, and this it seems to me she could not well do unless she had a Cyclostyle in her own charge to use to when she found it convenient.”
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: H. F. Marland Simpson, Aberdeen Grammar School – 29 January 1900 – A letter about science class supplies.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: J. S. Skea, St. Paul Street Public School – 22 January 1900 – A letter about marking double attendance because the attendance in the winter is lower in the evenings because it is dark; lighting in the schools is poor.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: H. F. Marland Simpson, Aberdeen Grammar School – 25 January 1900 – A note about the Town Council making electrotype copies of the school medals.
To: H.F. Morland Simpson/Aberdeen School Board, From: John Shaw – 5 February 1900 – “Douglas Watson, Mod VI, is still at School and has not been absent all this quarter.” – correction of someone saying he left school and was absent.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: P. Smart, Frederick Street Public School – 29 January 1900 – “I beg to become a candidate for the vacant Headmastership in Rosemount Public School. Trusting the Board may see fit to give my candidacy their favourable consideration.”
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: J.S. Skea, St Paul Street Public School – 26 January 1900 – A note about letting go of 4 pupil students and how that might put stress on the classrooms that might need them.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: J.S. Skea, St. Paul Street Public School – 26 January 1900 – A letter about how the new code requires no teacher shall have a class of more than 60 pupils. Wants to request that “Miss Dawson who has been doing temporary work here since the 1st of November should be put on the permanent staff.”
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: H.F. Marland Simpson, Aberdeen Grammar School – 6 February 1900 – Piano lid has been forced off its hinges and the notes are broken and it is in need of tuning.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: H.F. Marland Simpson, Aberdeen Grammar School – 29 January 1900 – A letter about why it would be inconvenient for some students to take an Evening Examination.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Annie E. Smith, Ashley Road Public School – 8 January 1900 – “Will you kindly intimate at the earliest opportunity to the Staffing Committee of Aberdeen School Board the fact that I now beg to resign my position of Infants’ Mistress in Ashley Road Public School. I should very much like, if it is at all possible, to be relieved of my duties at the end of January.”
A syllabus for Kittybrewster Evening School: Demonstration Lessons in Cookery.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: H. F. Marland Simpson – 29 December 1899 – A letter regarding examinations where he is discussing abuses of the examination. (?)
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: J.S. Skea, St. Paul Street Public School – 22 December 1899 – A defence of the Exhibition expenses and class materials.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: J.S. Skea, St. Paul Street Public School – 22 December 1899 – A follow up regarding the exhibition expenses.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: H.F. Marland Simpson, Aberdeen Grammar School – 29 January 1900 – A request for science classroom materials.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: H. F. Marland Simpson, Aberdeen Grammar School – 15 December 1899 – A request for a replacement of a “Laboratory Boy.”
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: P. Smart, Frederick Street Public School – 21 December 1899 – A note about two people (unsure if students or teachers) who are being re-vaccinated.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: J.S. Skea, St. Paul Street Public School – 12 December 1899 – A letter about a complaint regarding a teacher signing a student up for an exam that he should not have(?) and the headmaster asking the Board to help clarify the matter.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: J.S. Skea, ST. Paul Street Public School – 13 December 1899 – Drop in attendance due to storm, playground and streets in bad condition, and “wretched light inside the school.”
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: John Watt, Aberdeen High School – 24 January 1900 – Request for increase of salary.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: R. Watson(?), Broomhill Public School – 14 February 1900 – A note about the amount of boys in Manual Instruction versus Standard V.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: A. L. Wallace, Central Public School – 3 February 1900 – Reasoning for scheduling of exams.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: A. L. Wallace, Central Public School – 13 February 1900 – Reasoning for schedule of examinations.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: A. L. Wallace, Central Public School – 7 February 1900 – “Will you please intimate to the department that Miss Mary S. Smith who holds the A.C.T Certificate (No 5711) is to act as Assistant to the Art Teacher in the P.T. Central classes until the end of the session.”
To: Staffing Committee, School Board Office, From: Mina Walker, Bloomhill School – 17 January 1900 – Looking to fill vacancy in Infant Department. Worked there beforehand.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Wm. Webster, Script Shorthand Institute and Central Typewriting Office – 10 January 1900 – Mistake in a salary for Mr James Urquhart.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: A. L. Wallace, Central Public School – 31 January 1900 – A request for more teachers for pupil teacher classes.
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: Kate Wilson – 17 January 1900 – “I beg to call your attention to a matter which has arisen in connection with my work at Ashley Road School. Your of Mr. J. W. Reid’s children take violin, and Mr. McLachlan tells me I can get nothing for the fourth, as the rule of the school is that the fourth of a family is not charged any fees…”
To: Thomas Hector Esq/Aberdeen School Board, From: R. W. Watson – 12 December 1899 – Teachers not writing their registers cleanly and legibly.
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