Miss Ethel Mount, principal at 1st Ward School
for 15 years will move up to the newly created post of Director of Elementary
Education in the Noblesville's school system this fall.
Superintendent Dale V. Swanson yesterday announced Miss Mount's promotion
and said that she will be succeeded at 1st Ward by Robert Morris, currently
principal at Federal Hill School.
Robert B. Ashlock, fifth grade teacher at Conner School, will become principal
at Federal Hill, which will place him in line for the principalship of the
new school to be built there next year.
An office for Miss Mount will be set up in the old gymnasium building on
Conner St. Swanson said that the Levinson Room probably will be remodeled
for that purpose.
The new office was ordered created by the school board at a meeting last
week to coordinate the educational program in the elementary grades and
institute improvements in certain areas of instruction.
Swanson said that the Noblesville educational system is now large enough
to need an elementary director.
"This has been one of my objectives for a long time", he said.
"Many of the better schools employ an elementary supervisor and we
feel we are among the best," he added.
Miss Mount said that while the details of her new position are still being
worked out, she said one of her primary duties will be helping teachers
in the five elementary buildings provide continuity of learning among each
grade.
She also expects to devote attention to beginning teachers and teachers
entering bhe Noblesville system for the first time.
Miss Mount has instructed at all three ward schools during her tenure here.
She attended Valparaiso, Ball State and Indiana University and obtained
both her bachelor and masters degrees in education at Indiana.