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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES COLLEGIATE AND VOCATIONAL INSTITUTE SOUVENIR EDITION--MAY 7, 1930 Most Careful Administration . Operation of Schools Requires Organization of Board of Education Helps Efficiency By HARVEY FULLER, BA, Se. (Business Administrator and Secretary Treasurer) profit has long ago been compelled to adopt efficient type of organiza- tion. Through experience the industrial world has accepted certain principals as necessary and certain types of organiza- tion as most desirable, Organization is often defined as "The proper adjustment of the relationships between human be- ings in an effort to accomplish certain ends." Municipal organizations have in many instances followed the lead of in- dustry and have adopted improved operating methods, to gain added efficiency in the administration of the Public's business. The Board of Education, of Oshawa, has adopted, and is adopting methods, to improve the structure of its organi- zation and to systemize its operating methods and increase the efficiency of its executive functioning. The Board of Education is constituted by the election of nine trustees for terms of two years each, five and four being elected on alternate years. One member of the Board is appointed as its repre- sentative by the Separate School Board, the total number on the Board of Edu- cation being ten. The Trustees are elected from the City at large, not by the ward system. The Chairman of the Board is clected by the trustees them selves from: one of their number, Certain rules have been laid down as being necessary to secure efficiency in any organization whether it be municipal or private industry, These may be sum marized briefly as follows: (1) Designing the structure of the or- ganization to suit the particular type of business it is to operate, in this case, Education. To establish certain lines of super- vision for the flow of authority so that each executive and person will know his own function and there will be no overlapping. Fix responsibility which follows from rule (2). (4) Choose' the personnel of the or- ganization on the idea that each person is fitted for the particular work controlled by him, The Board of Education, being a pub- lic organization functions through four main committees of trustees who adminis- tor certain branches of the work of the Board, 'I'he policy of these committees which must be approved by the Board is carried out by an executive in charge of a particular sphere of activity. 'There is no overlapping of executive functions, The names of these committees are Management Committee, Property Com- mittee, Finance Committee and Advisory Vocational Committee, The organization then breaks for exe- cutive operation in to three main divisions as follows: (1) An executive known as the Public School Inspector in charge of all instruction in Public Schools only. (2) An executive known as the Prin- cipal of the Collegiate and Voca- tional Institute in charge of all in- struction in this school. An executive known as the Business Administrator and Sccretary-Treas- urer of the Board of Education in charge of all accounting and pay- rolls purchasing, property, and plant supervision of all caretakers and janitors, financial reports, payments, records, control of all the business activities of the Board of Education, as separated from instructional ac- tivities and all other duties of a Secretary-Treasurer of the Board of Education, Information relating to the activities of this third division of the Board's activi- ties is given in this article, Some idea of the importance of the plant under the charge of the Board of Education may be given when it is stated that the valuation is nearly one and a half million dollars, This is a fair plant and the Maintenance and operating of it requires trained supervision, The Budget of the Board of Educa- tion is prepared under the supervision of the Board in the Board of Education office. It amounts to very nearly 47% of the total City budget. The expendi- tures of the Board come under four main headings : (1) Cost of Instruction; (2) Cost of maintaining plant; (3) Cost of operating plant (4) Cost of debt carrying charges. The cost of operating the whole school system in 1930, is estimated at $289,123.60 hich does not include capital charges, of which figure costs of instruction makes up ,390.00, operating the school | rg organized for service and C. H. R. FULLER Business Administrator, Board of Education plant $40,648.60, maintaining school plant $8710.00 and administration expense $4,- 375.00. The cost of educating a Public, School pupil per annum is about $69.00, while the cost per pupil per annum at the Col- legiate and Vocational [Institute is ap proximately: $150.00, The cost of constructing the Vocational addition to the Collegiate was approxi- mately $262,000,00 of which $5,000.00 was for interest and Carrying charges. The equipment for this school will cost when all Vocational branches are in operation about $60,000.00, The Department of Edu- cation of Ontario will pay 41% of the cost of . construction and approximately 50% of the cost of Equipment. There are 8 public schools in Oshawa, and one Composite Collegiate and Voca tional Institute. There are 135 teachers and 4200 students attend the schools of Oshawa. The information given in this article should indicate to the average citizen of Oshawa, that the Oshawa School systém is an important organization in this City and that it warrants the highest efficiency in its management and operation. DR. F. J. DONOVAN Chairman, M, g tC ittee, Board of Education, which has control of the instructional side of the administration of the city's schools. INDUSTRIAL LINES IS NOW PROVIDED trade; to have something to fall back on, something to keep his mind active and to keep him out of trouble. And having done that when, he is able to go to an employer and say, not that "I am a graduate of the High School, but that I am a Mechanic, Cabinet Maker, or auto- mobile mechanic," his value to the em- ployer is increased just that much. Our Technical School will not meet all the requirements of our youth, nor will it solve all of our economic and social prob- lems. Man does not live by tools alone neither would this community be better off if our Students all had the education of tools alone, but for a very consider- able number the ability to use tools repre- sents the ability to live. A man cannot live fully, freely and happily without work. Whatever fits people for work fits them for life, Technical Education will not take the place of a liberal education but it will provide much that has hereto- fore been provided in what has been lemown as a liberal education so that a large class of the community whose work is mechanical will obtain, in addition to a liberal education, a knowledge of that which will enable those individuals to do better work, Tania CENTRE STREET PUBLIC SCHOOL mn RISE HHI ts 41 NORTH SIMCOE STREET PUBLIC SCHOOL CUT -STONE for Oshawa Collegiate and Vocational Institute Was Supplied by GEO. OAKLEY & SON LIMITED Office: 278 Booth Avenue Marble Mill: 355 Logan Avenue TORONTO ALL PHOTOGRAPHS in this SOUVENIR NUMBER by CAMPBELL'S STUDIO LTD. OSHAWA