Souvenir Book Providence Teachers´ Bazaar
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Sawin, James M.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Souvenir Book Providence Teachers´ Bazaar: Infantry Hall November 25-26-27-28-29-30, 1901 Youth grown to manhood may not often stop to think how great is the indebtedness to the school teacher, the personal force that gives effect to the operation of our educational system. Reminded of that impressive obligation, the institution of the Providence Teachers´ Retirement Fund opens a way to the men and women of the community to repay it in some measure with material benefits. That the Fund should receive cordial support is, it seems to me, a matter of course. I am glad that the teachers are to have another Bazar for the benefit of the Retirement Fund, not only because the object is a most worthy one which must appeal to every thoughtful citizen, but also because I believe that it is a most successful way of interesting people generally in the teachers and making them realize that teachers are human beings and not machines placed in school buildings. If the people of our City only knew that the teachers of our public schools are a band of men and women giving themselves with never ceasing energy and always fresh ambition to a work which they love, I am sure the Retirement Fund would not be long in amounting to fifty thousand dollars. The Providence Teachers´ Retirement Fund, now in the beginning of its fifth year of actual accumulation, had its origin nearly fourteen years ago. The urgent demand for such cooperation as would secure for instructors in the Providence public schools, when they desired to retire, a larger income than could be secured from the average inadequate salary, led to many of the city teachers gathering together for the discussion, which usually precedes the formation of any society banded for common welfare. In June of 1896 hundreds of city teachers signed a petition asking the school board to frame a bill which should create a fund for retiring teachers. This petition was presented by Governor Elisha Dyer at the last meeting of the school committee for that scholastic year. A sub-committee was appointed, consisting of Governor Elisha Dyer, Gen. Hunter C. White and Mr. Alfred Metcalf, to formulate some scheme for carrying out the desires of the teachers. Data were collected by Governor Dyer from every possible point upon similar acts framed either by foreign countries, by the states or by the teachers themselves. On Labor Day, September 7, the bill was framed, and later, when submitted to the teachers, was endorsed by nearly five hundred. It became a law by act of legislature in May of 1897, and the first voluntary payment of one percent of the monthly salary was made in October, 1897. The law provides that each city teacher joining the association in October of 1897 shall have deducted one percent of his monthly salary until he desires to retire. It is a requirement that all persons admitted to the teaching force after the first assessment was made shall be assessed for the fund. The tax upon no teacher shall be more than twelve dollars per year. The act provides that, in order to be retired on half pay up to the limit of a twelve hundred dollar yearly salary, a retiring teacher, if a woman, shall have taught thirty years; if a man, thirty-five years, and that twenty years of said teaching shall preceding retirement have been in the Providence schools. The fund at present amounts to about thirty thousand dollars, invested by the city treasurer, who is treasurer of the fund, in Providence city bonds. With the interest accruing this year and the payment of one percent from salaries the fund will amount to about thirty-five thousand dollars. In order to pay first retiring annuitants in October, 1902, fifty thousand dollars is required, and the present Bazaar is being held to complete the deficit of fifteen thousand dollars.
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