Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-11-07 | Page 21 | First Teachers to Get Pensions

FIRST I 1 TO GET PENSIONS i I i Commission Awards Permanent Perma Permanent nent Income to Women Pedagogues Two wo pensions were granted yester yesterday yesterday day by the teachers retirement com commission I mission misson on the th first since the th organization of this body as a result of an enact enactment enactment I ment of the last legislature re and the first for lor that matter in the history of the state The two teachers tea hers who have spent nearly all of their lives in teach teaching teachIng teachIng ing the young of Salt lake are Miss Mss Anna E Buchanan and Miss Mollie Templeton Miss Buchanan was for tor many years I one of the most valued of ot the teachers in the High school She will receive a I pension of o per month for two years year and then it will be increased to I for fol the rest r of her life Miss liss Templeton will receive a monthly pen pension pen pension sion of 2370 2310 for or two too years and it will I then be increased to a month Miss Buchanan has taught school for I more than thirty years ears eighteen of which were spent in the High school I here 1 The rhe pension is based upon her earn earnings earnings ings as the retiring teachers receive an allowance of of their regular earnings Miss Buchanan earned 21 during her life Ufe as a teacher or an average of annually The law specifies that A Jl teacher must pay Into I the fund 1 per cent cont of her earnings dur during durIng during ing the time of ot service which would amount to This will be paid in I two years ears by Muss Miss Buchanan Buch nan by deduct deducting deductIng deducting ing monthly from her pension after which she will receive the full al allowance allowance allowance lowance of per month or annually Miss Templeton had practically the same length of service eighteen years of which were spent In the grade schools of Salt Lake mostly at the Oquirrh during which time she earned One per cent of this goes Into the fund i and will wm be deducted from her allow allowance allowance ance the same as that of at Miss Buchan Buchanan an So for two years Miss Mss Temple Templeton ton will receive 2370 With the deduc deduction deduc deduction I tion of per month and then her i monthly pension will Ill be where it will remain Thirty years Js is specified by law as the time of service s for full retirement pen pensions pension pensions sion of which must be spent in the Salt Lake schools Miss Buchan Buchanan an is now in Los Angeles and Miss Templeton In St Louis both In poor health Telegrams were sent to both that pensions pen lons were granted and both will ba 1 most helpful to the teachers who w o gave so much muc of their life Ufe in edu educating educating cating 11 the young of ot Salt att Lake Both teachers ers were in active service up to the closing of the schools for the sum summer summer summer mer vacation this year These are the first pensions granted under the retirement commission law lawand lawand lawand and show the benefits derived from the organization Most of the teachers of ot the city are In the organization and 1 per cent of their earnings each month go into the general fund for the pensioning pen pensioning of the older teachers who have given the best years ears of their lives In Inthe inthe the class rooms Similar movements have been started in other parts of ot the States There Is now about in the treasury of the commis commission Ion sion to be used only for this purpose