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1901-12 WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for December 1901WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for December 1901 Volume 01 - Page 200 1901-12-02 The board met pursuant to call of the office of the chairman in the Bank of Whatcom at 4PM present, all the members of the board, Trustees White, Edens and Teck and the Clerk. The only business before the meeting was the consideration of current bills. These bills properly vouchered were ordered certified to the State Auditor that warrants might issue: Voucher No. 110 - favor E.R. Croft $47.27 for cartage done and freight charges paid during the months of October and November, as per attached bills. Maintenance. Voucher No. 111 - favor Munro, Blake and Haskell $25.40 for 3 registers and sundry hardware supplies furnished the school during the months of October and November as per attached bills. Maintenance. Voucher No. 112 - favor Lowman and Hanford Stationery and Printing Co. $60.74 for text books furnished the school as per attached bills of Nov. 7th (2) 2nd, 4th, 16th, 22nd. Maintenance. Voucher No. 113 - favor B.B. Gas Co. $12.95 for Oct. and Nov. gas account and for 3 Welsbach (?). Maintenance. WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for December 1901 Volume 01 - Page 201 1901-12-02 Voucher No. 114 - favor B.B. Iron Works $46.60 for 10 grates, expressage on sauce and sundries. Maintenance. Voucher No. 115 - favor Sunset Tel and Tel Co. $10 for rental of line main 158-1 during months of Nov. and Dec. 1901. Voucher No. 116 - favor Chapman Bros and CO. $44.75 for 10 #3 Soule Desks and Seats and 1 back. Maintenance. Voucher No. 117 - favor Mielon, Bradley Co. $2.24 for sundry supplies for training department, bill Oct 29th. Maintenance. Voucher No. 118 - favor Cunningham, Curtiss and Welch. $8.30: for 6 Davis Phys. Geog. Plus $0.80 expressage. Maintenance. Voucher No. 119 - favor Prang Educational Co. $23.44 for sundry supplies furnished the schools for the drawing department, bill Oct 15th. Maintenance. Voucher No. 120 - favor Milwaukee Dustless Brush Co. $14 for brushes furnished the school as per bill of Nov. 9th 1901. Maintenance. Voucher No. 121 - favor Cassell and Co. $3.80 for 46 Nat. Lib'l pp. and postage. Maintenance. Voucher No. 122 - favor L.H. Darwin $13.95 for expense account as clerk of the Board of Trustees for period end Dec 1st 1901, as per attached vouchers numbered 1 to 8. Maintenance. Voucher No. 123 - favor Dep't of History, University of Pennsylvania $6.20 for books furnished the schools library as per attached bill of Oct. 29th Library. Voucher No. 124 - favor Puget Sound Saw Mill and Shingle Co. $32.45 for lumber furnished the school for certain alterations in the library as per attached bill of Nov. 14th. Library. Voucher No. 125 - favor Morse Hdw. Co. $5.03 for sundry hardware supplies furnished the school as per attached bill of Nov. 27. Library. Voucher No. 126 - favor O.L. Morgan $21.00 for 7 days labor at carpenter work @ $3.00 library. WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for December 1901 Volume 01 - Page 202 1901-12-02 Voucher No. 127 - favor Frederick and Nelson. $12.00 for 15 kindergarten chairs @ $0.80 bill Sept 2nd. Maintenance. Voucher No. 128 - favor John Taylor and Co. $18.47 for 3 sets of apparatus for releasing ivory balls in reaction: 3 Wheaton Bridges: 6 1/2 lbs iron filings, bill Nov 26th. Maintenance. Voucher No. 129 - favor O.P. Brown $50 for legal services, advice and counsel furnished the board of trustees up to this date, especially as relates to the drawing of contracts for the construction of the annex to the present building. Building annes. These vouchers were certified to be paid out of the library fund special. Voucher No. 83 - favor Ferd P. Kaiser $35 for books furnished the school library per bill Sept 13. Vocher No. 84 - favor Alkinson and Mentzer $6.75 for books furnished the school library, as per attached bill of Oct. 10th. Voucher No. 85 - favor A.C. McClurg and Co. $86.78 for books furnished the school library, as per attached bill of Nov. 8th. Voucher No. 86 - favor Maynard Merril and Co. $3.60 for 36 English Classics 12 each of No's 27 39 101. Voucher No. 87 - favor Houghton, Mifflin and Co. $1.56 for 12 Riverside Art series and postage. Voucher No. 88 - favor New York Educational Co. $3 for sub. To "American Education" from Nov. 1899 to Nov 1902. Voucher No. 89 - favor C.W. Bardeen $19.05 for books furnished the schools library, as per attached bill of Nov. 25th. Thereupon the board adjourned until Dec. 11th. Record approved. L.H. Darwin, clerk. L.P. White, chairman. WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for December 1901 Volume 01 - Page 203 1901-12-11 The board met at the school building pursuant to adjournment, all the members being present, also the principal and the clerk. In company with contractor S.E. Booker and Inspection of the annex under construction was made and everything appeared to have been done to the satisfaction of the board. Mr. Booker stated that he hoped to have it completed by Feb 1st, 1902. The matter of constructing a sidewalk within the campus to the Cedar and High street corner was left for future consideration. The question of purchasing opera chairs for the auditorium in the annex building was broached. Principal Mathes announced himself to be in receipt of letters from a number of firms who were desirous of furnishing them. The clerk was instructed to write to several firms mentioned by the principal and ask them to have a representative here with samples on a certain day, at which time the Board would inspect the samples and let the order. Principal Mathes reported to the board that per their adoption of a resolution to heed the faculty's request for a graduate librarian that he had entered into correspondence with Mabel Zoe Wilson of Athens, Ohio and that subject to the boards approval he had engaged her for that position. He further announced that it would be impossible for ther to commence the discharge of her duties prior to Jan. 1st 1902 and he recommended that Mrs. Ada B. Clothier the present librarian be retained as assistant librarian until such a time as Miss Wilson could finish catalogueing the library. The principal explained that Miss Wilson would need all the time intervening between the opening of school in September and Jan. 1 1902 in cataloguing the library. Mrs. Clothier's salary was left at the old figures. This resolution was then passed "Resolved that Mabel Zoe Wilson be employed as Librarian of the school at a salary of $600 per year of twelve months, she to enter upon her work Feb 1st 1902." Trustee Teck offered the following resolution of sympathy for Principal and Mrs Mathes is the loss of Paul, their nineteen months old baby which was unanimously adopted: WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for December 1901 Volume 01 - Page 204 1901-12-11 The members of the Board of Trustees of the state Normal School at Whatcom, Washington, assembled in adjourned regular session, here make simple record of the grief they feel and the profound sympathy and solicitude they hold in measure beyond their power of expression because of the great affliction visited upon Principal and Mrs. Mathes in the pitifully early death of their baby son Paul on the evening of Dec. 7th 1901 at the age of nineteen months. And we aim only to say where as little of comforting words may avail that as we feel ourselves into the sacred chapel of their sorrow our hearts are thrilled and give witness of lasting desire to comfort and to help. Thereupon the board adjourned. Record approved. L.H. Darwin, clerk. L.P. White, chairman. ##