Abilene High School - Orange and Brown Yearbook (Abilene, KS)

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F-16 ., S. R. HELLER W. C. GRIGG C. W. TAYLOR H. W. KEEL L. B. STANTS OLIN STROWIG Board of Education HE MEMBERSHIP of the Board of Education is: C. W. Taylor. presi- dent, S. R. Heller, vice-president, H. W. Keel, W. C. Grigg, L. B. Stants, ' and Clin Strowig. These men have had much to do with the steady, substantial improvement in the Abilene Schools. They are famili.ar with the many problems of business involved in school management: taxation, bonds, insurance, building maintenance, salary schedules, and related problems. Furthermore, they take their work for the schools seriously. These are reasons why Abilene has a low school tax rate. Of the twenty-one second class cities of Kansas of which Abilene is the median city in population fthe ten next larger, the ten next smaller, and Abilene as the middle cityj Abi- lene's 314.00 per 31,000.00 is the lowest, and Galena's 332.00 is the highest. The median is 319.40. Abileneis school tax rate is therefore 34.40 below the median school tax rate of the twenty-one cities, and 31.90 below the next low- est. Abilene's total tax rate is 335.10 per 31,000.00 and the school tax rate is 31400, or between 39 and 40 per cent of the total. The median school tax rate of the twenty-one cities is 45 per cent of the total. If the Abilene schools were using proportionately as much money as the city is, the school tax rate would be 45 per cent of Abilene's total tax rate. It would still be the lowest of any of the twenty-one cities, but would be 315.80 per 31,000.00 instead of 314.oo. This represents 315,000.00 annually. The total bonded debt of the Abilene School district has been reduced from 3117,o0o.oo on June 30, 1925, to 373,500.00 on June 30, 1930. At the same time the educational welfare of the schools has made sub- stantial progress. Five teachers have been added to the staff of the elemen- tary schools, two at McKinley, two at Lincoln, and a kindergarten teacher whose time is divided between the above schools. The efficiency of the Jun- ior and Senior High Schools is well known. Anyone close to the administra- tion of the schools knows that the harmony and interest that prevail in the schools has its beginnings with the Board of Education. The future of the schools is kept constantly in mind. Teachers are re- quired to attend summer school. More than sixty per cent of them attended in 1928. Better preparation is required of new teachers employed. A rec- ord is kept up-to-date of the whereabouts of superior teachers who are avail- able for the Abilene schools. Visual instruction is being developed into a program of importance. Beautifying the school grounds and maintaining an adequate physical plant are given more attention. The Board of Education carries on the general administration but the daily routine work is under the direction of Mr. F. C. Gardner, superintendent of schools. Mrs. Edna Sampson is clerk of the Board of Education.