List of Sources for the Berkeley School District

Newspaper Items

Listed by date, grouped by "school year", which usually means July 1 through June 30 (unless we happen to know the actual dates set by the school district) with the following important exceptions: (1) items that pertain to the election of teachers for the next school year will be listed under that school year, even if the date of the item is before the actual start of that school year; (2) items about summer vacation activities will be listed under the school year just ended, even if the date of the item is in the next school year. Order of elements in citations: name of newspaper (from the masthead, not the digital archive), date of publication, page, column, any other information that might be helpful in finding the item on the page, such as titles, headlines, section headings, etc. Most of the items are untitled. Most titles and headlines are not useful for anything other than providing some help in finding the item on the page, and that is why I have relegated them to the end of the citation.

1902–1903 school year

• • Berkeley Daily Gazette, 20 May 1903, pg 1, cols 3-4, under "Board of Education Meets in Regular Session at the Town Hall"
  • Item Number: n92
  • Summary: Article on Board of Education meeting. Includes that an application for a teaching position had been received from "Nellie M. Boston". (I am assuming a typo for Nellie I. Boston, but there was also a teacher in the Berkeley schools named Nellis or Nellie Borton.)
  • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
• • Berkeley Daily Gazette, 3 June 1903, pg 7, cols 2–3, under "School Board Allows Many Bills to Be Paid"
  • Item Number: n488
  • Summary: Ella appears under "Lincoln", as "Ella S. Weymouth" [should be "Ella L."].
  • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
  • Note: This is evidence that Ella was teaching at the Lincoln school in the 1902–1903 school year.

1903–1904 school year

• • Berkeley Daily Gazette, 4 June 1903, pg 6, col 4, under "Board Elects Teachers"
  • Item Number: n489
  • Summary: List of teachers elected for the following year. The article notes that "the terms of the contract by which each teacher is elected leaves them unassigned".
  • Note: Ella L. Weymouth was listed under Lincoln Grammar. This is evidence that Ella was at Lincoln at this time.
  • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
  • Alternate Source: Oakland Enquirer, 3 June 1903, pg 6

1904-1905 school year

• • Berkeley Daily Gazette, 27 May 1904, pg 1, col 4, under "Teachers Selected"
  • Item Number: n661
  • Summary: List of teachers selected by the Board of Eduction for the ensuing year, listed by current school. Ella Weymouth is listed under "Lincoln". Also includes applications.
  • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
• • Oakland Tribune, 16 Jan 1905, pg 8, col 3, under "Schools Crowded"
  • ID: n501
  • Dateline: Berkeley, January 16
  • Summary: Statement by Superintendent Waterman on conditions in the Berkeley schools.
  • Excerpt: two ungraded classes have been organized, one in the Lincoln school building [taught by Ella Weymouth] and the other in the McKinley.
  • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
  • Related Items:
    • • Berkeley Daily Gazette, 14 June 1905, pg 1, col 3, continued on pg 8, col 2, excerpt under "The Work of the Ungraded Classes", from "Robert Greig's Bid Only One Accepted. Waterman's Report", pg 1, cols 2–3, continued on pg 8, cols 2–4
      • ID: n502
      • Summary: Description and purpose of the ungraded classes. "Miss Weymouth" is mentioned as the teacher of the ungraded class at Lincoln school.
      • Source: Newspapers.com clipping of first part and Newspapers.com clipping of second part (subscription not required)

1905–1906 school year

• • Berkeley Daily Gazette, 14 Feb 1906, pg 4, col 3, excerpt under "Blumb Chosen Principal", from "To Readvertise for Plans—Accepts Bid on Piedmont School", pg 1, cols 2–3, continued on pg 4, col 3.
  • Item Number: n497
  • Summary: An excerpt from an article on business conducted in a meeting of the Berkeley School Board. Principal Elmer E. Nichols of the Lincoln school resigned and Joseph L. Blumb was elected to replace him.
  • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)

1906–1907 school year

• • Berkeley Daily Gazette, 9 May 1906, pg 1, col 6, excerpt, under "Teachers' Applications", from article titled "Board of Education Planning to Take Up Proposed Bond Issue", pg 1, cols 5-6, continued on pg 5, cols 4–5
  • Item Number: n496
  • Summary: Excerpt from an article on a regular meeting of the Berkeley School Board. Among the items of busines, teachers' applications were read and placed on file, including one from Rose Ismert.
  • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
• • Berkeley Daily Gazette, 31 May 1906, excerpt beginning on pg 1, col 1, under the heading "All Teachers Re-elected", continued on pg 3, col 3, from an article titled "Building Will Be of Wood" beginning on pg 1, col 1.
  • Item Number: n480
  • Summary: All the grammar school teachers are re-elected for the ensuing year. They are listed by school. Included in the list for Lincoln Grammar School are Jos. L. Blumb, principal, and Ella L. Weymouth.
  • Source: first part of the excerpt, from pg 1, Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required) and continuation of the excerpt, from pg 3, Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
  • Notes: The Lincoln school was at the corner of Alcatraz Avenue and King Street (as given in the Berkeley Gazette, 16 June 1906, pg 1, cols 5–6.
• • Berkeley Daily Gazette, 13 June 1906, pg 8, col 2, excerpt, under "Teachers' Applications Received", from the article titled "Consider the Bond Question", pg 1, col 1, contintued on pg 8, cols 2–4
  • Item Number: n98
  • Summary: Excerpt from an article on a Berkeley School Board meeting. Receipt of applications was routinely reported. Nellie's application was one of seven received.
  • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
  • Full Article: first part, pg 1, Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required), second part, on pg 8, Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
• • Berkeley Daily Gazette, 11 July 1906, pg 5, col 4, under "Assignment of Teachers"
  • Item Number: n481
  • Summary: Assignment of teachers by school ... Lincoln grammar: Joseph L. Blumb, principal; Ella L. Weymouth [and others] .... Neither Rose Ismert of Nellie Boston are on the list.
  • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
• • Berkeley Daily Gazette, 6 Aug 1906, pg 1, col 1, under "Increase of 500 in Schools"
  • Item Number: n484
  • Summary: Schools opened "today" (Aug 6) with an increase of about 500 in the grammar and primary schools.
  • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
• • Berkeley Daily Gazette, 9 Aug 1906, pg 1, col 1, under "Schools Are Over Crowded"
  • Item Number: n483
  • Summary: The board held an informal meeting on Aug 7. To alleviate overcrowding, they decided to add eight new classes, divided into half-day sessions. This would require that they hire eight new teachers, "but the board will find no difficulty in securing these as there are already more than that number of applications for positions filed with the clerk." The new classes would be at the McKinley and Whittier schools.
  • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
• • Berkeley Daily Gazette, 15 Aug 1906, pg 8, col 2, excerpt, under "Teachers Elected", of an article titled "School Contract Awarded", pg 1, col 5, continued on pg 8, col 2
  • Item Number: n99
  • Summary: Article on a a regular meeting of the School Board business on Aug 14. The superintendent reported that he had established fourteen new half-day classes [requiring seven new teachers], six at Whittier and eight at McKinley. In the excerpt from the article, the superintendent informed the Board that it had been necessary to hire six new teachers and submitted a list of teachers that had been hired. Nellie Boston was on the list. The article does not say that these teachers were assigned to the new half-day classes.
  • Note: "The superintendent informed the board that it had been necessary to engage six more teachers, submitting the names of those whom he had employed." But there were seven names on the list reported in the article. In the following paragraph it was reported that Alice Noyes, one of the names on the list, had been assigned to Whittier school to take the place of a teacher who was granted a year's leave of absence. It is a reasonable assumption that the other six on the list had been hired to teach the fourteen newly established half-day classes, with a seventh transferred from another school. But Nellie could have been hired to fill another position in the same way that Noyes was.
  • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
  • Full Article: first part, pg 1, Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required), second part, on pg 8, Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
  • Related Items:
    • • The Bulletin (San Francisco), 15 Aug 1906, pg 1, col 3, under "Japanese Are Kept from Schools"
      • Item Number: n494
      • Summary: A brief article on the Aug 4 Berkeley Board of Education meeting. It reports: "Upon recommendation of Superintendent Waterman the following teachers were appointed" and lists seven, including Nellie Boston.
      • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
• • Berkeley Daily Gazette, 12 Dec 1906, pg 8, col 2, subsection titled "Transfer of Teachers", excerpted from "Teachers Elected by Board", pg 1, col 4, continued to pg 8, col 2
  • Item Number: n482
  • Excerpt: That four classes be established at the Allston way building to relieve the pressure at the Whittier school, and that the following teachers be assigned to these classes: ...Miss Rose Ismert [and two others], transferred from Whittier.
  • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
  • Notes: Evidently, Rose Ismert was hired at some point to teach at the Whittier school. Perhaps she was hired late in the process and her hire did not get reported. The Whittier school is described, in a notice to contractors, as being on the NE corner of Milvia and Virginia streets (as in Berkeley Gazette, 6 June 1906, pg 5 col 7). See also "Whittier School" on pg 83 of S. D. Waterman, History of the Berkeley Schools, Berkeley, 1918; and "Allston Way School" on pg 41 of the History.

1907–1908 school year

• • Berkeley Daily Gazette, 29 May 1907, pg 1, cols 5-6 (and continued in cols 1-3 on pg 6), under "School Board Selects Full List of Teachers for the Coming Year"
  • Item Number: n102
  • Excerpt: The school board selected the teaching list for Berkeley school department last night. ... The complete list follows: Principals. ... Lincoln school—J. L. Blumb [husband of Eva Weymouth] ... Teachers. ... Grammar school— ... [appearing in col 1 of pg 6:] Nellie I. Boston ... Ella L. Weymouth ... Rose Ismert
  • Source: first part, pg 1, Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required), second part, pg 6, Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
  • Note: Unlike in the previous year, the teachers were not listed by their current school assignment. So we can't use this as evidence of where they were teaching at the end of the previous year.
• • Berkeley Daily Gazette, 12 June 1907, pg 2, col 5, under "Teachers Assigned for Year"
  • Item Number: n103
  • Summary: Reports school assignments: Nellie Boston to Longfellow School; Joseph L. Blumb, principal of Lincoln School; Ella L. Weymouth to Lincoln School; Rose Ismert to Washington School
  • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)

1908–1909 school year

• • Berkeley Daily Gazette, 27 May 1908, pg 2, col 3, under "Teachers Appointed by Board"
  • Item Number: n104
  • Summary: Rose S. Ismert to Washington Grammar, Nelle I. Boston to Longfellow Primary. Joseph L. Blumb, principal, to Lincoln Grammar, and Ella L. Weymouth to Lincoln Grammar.
  • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
  • Note: I interpret this as a list of currently employed teachers who will be re-elected for the next year, listed by their current school assignment. I did not find a later article giving school assignments, as seen in earlier years.

1909–1910

• • Berkeley Daily Gazette, 3 June 1909, pg 8, col 4, excerpt of article beginning on pg 1, under banner headline "New School Board Selects Teachers for Department", in cols 6–7, under "Wilford Nichols Named Secretery of Board ...", continued to pg 8, cols 4–5
  • Item Number: n110
  • Summary: Principals and regular teachers re-elected for the 1909-1910 school year: Joseph L. Blumb, Principal of Lincoln school; Rose Ismert, Ella L. Weymouth, and Nellie I. Boston, regular teachers (school not indicated).
  • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)

1910–1911

• • Berkeley Daily Gazette, 25 May 1910, pg 1, cols 5-6, continued to pg 4, cols 2-3
  • Item Number: n111
  • Summary: Principals and teachers re-elected. List includes Joseph L. Blumb, Nellie Boston, Rose Ismert, and Ella Weymouth.
  • Source: first part, pg 1, Newsapers.com, second part, pg 4, Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)

1911–1912

• • Berkeley Daily Gazette, 1 June 1911, pg 1, col 7, under "Appointment of School Teachers Deferred", continued on pg 4, cols 3–4
  • Item Number: n113
  • Summary: Superintendent recommended re-election of principals and teachers, including Joseph L. Blumb, Nelle I. Boston, Ella Weymouth, Rose S. Ismert, and Ada Jordan.
  • Source: first part, pg 1, Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required), second part, pg 4, Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)

1912–1913

• • Berkeley Daily Gazette, 5 June 1912, pg 1, cols 5–6, under "High School Head Resigns", continued on pg 8, col 1
  • Item Number: n114
  • Summary: Re-appointment of principals and re-election of teachers. Joseph L. Blumb, Nelle I. Boston, Ella L. Weymouth, Rose S. Ismert, and Ada G. Jordan
  • Source: first part, pg 1, Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required), second part, pg 8, Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)

1913–1914

• • Oakland Tribune, 4 June 1913, pg 10, cols 1-2
  • Item Number: n115
  • Summary: Re-appointment of principals and re-election of teachers: J. L. Blumb, Ella L. Weymouth, Nellie I. Boston, Rose S. Ismert, and Ada G. Jordan.
  • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
  • Note: Newspapers.com does not have the Berkeley Daily Gazette between 1912 and 1946.

1916–1917

• • Oakland Tribune, 31 May 1916, pg 14, cols 2–3, under "Shave Salaries of Teachers ..."
  • Item Number: n523
  • Summary: Article on Berkeley Board of Education matters. Includes the Superintendent's recommendation for the appointment of teachers for the 1916–1917 school year. Nelle I. Boston, Ella L. Weymouth, Rose Ismert are listed under "Grammar Grades".
  • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
  • Note: Newspapers.com does not have the Berkeley Daily Gazette between 1912 and 1946.

1918–1919 school year

• • Oakland Tribune, 12 Oct 1918, pg 11, col 6, under "Youngsters Win Oratorical Honors"
  • Item Number: n119
  • Summary: Nellie Boston was one of three teachers judging an oratorical contest at Longfellow school.
  • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
• • Oakland Tribune, 17 Nov 1918, pg 47, col 1, under "Praise Given to Teachers in Flu Work"
  • Item Number: n120
  • Summary: They staffed the municipal hospital during the flu epidemic. Names listed include Miss Rose Ismert, Edison; Miss Nelle Boston, Longfellow.
  • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
  • Related Items:
    • • Oakland Tribune, 24 Nov 1918, pg 44, cols 2-3, under "Flu Volunteers Are Given Praise: Berkeley's Devotion Conquers"
      • Item Number: n121
      • Summary: On the list of volunteers at the municipal hospital: Miss Rose Ismert and Miss Nellie Boston, both of 1916 Woolsey street.
      • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
• • Oakland Tribune, 19 Jan 1919, pg 7, cols 1–2 (plus pictures), under "Berkeley Is Caring for 40 Patients"
  • Item Number: n524
  • Summary: Berkeley opened a municipal hospital to care for influenza patients at barracks on the campus of the University. The hospital is operating almost entirely by volunteers. Since schools are closed due to the outbreak, teachers are giving their time to the effort, Nelle Boston and J. L. Blumb among them.
  • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)