Prof. Herbert M. Slauson

The Board of Education Monday evening uuanimously elected Herbert M. Slauson superintendent of the Ann Arbor schools at a salBry oi $2,200 a year. Prof. Slauson has accepted the position. The new superintendent is well known in this city where he has spent several weeks each summer and the election meets the approval of the people. Prof. Slauson was born in Syracuse, N. Y., in 1853, and when a lad of 10 removed with liis parents to Fort Dodge, Iowa, where he attended the public schools and prepared f or college, entering Michigan Univarsity in 1873. He gratuated from the university in 1877, taking a master's degree. Since his graduation he has been continuously employed in school work. He served as superintendent of schools in Houghton, Mich., for six or eight years and six years as superintendent of the Cold water schools, where he made a tiigh reputation. He is now completing his sixth year as superintendent of the schools of Moliue, 111. He has at various times had flattering offers of of superintendencies of other important schools. Prof. Slauson married an Ann Arbor girl in 1877, his bride being Miss Clara ti. Conover who had been teaching for some time in the city schools. her mother, Mrs. Mary Conover lives on S. Pifth ave. He is a brother-in-law of Prof. F. M. Hamilton, for 32 years superintendent of the Bucyrus, Ohio, schools, and at present an alderman of ;he first ward. Prof. Slauson will take charge of the schools at the opening of the school year in September, and it is believed will prove the man the schools of this city want.