Amherst Steele High School - Amherstonian Yearbook (Amherst, OH)

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Plant Personnel leading plant personnel is the Board of Diectors, which, by providing adequate upto-date equipment, a well-balanced cvriculum, and capable instruction, keeps tl-: machinery running smoothly. Super- irtending production is lVlr. F. R. Powers, ai exponent of better education for a letter world after the war. Next in direc- lon is the principal, Miss Marion Steele, a Iitalizing influence in the Heducation for victory program. The sense of humor, the good judgment, the fairness, and the efficiency of both Mr. Powers and Miss Steele are an inspiration to teachers and students. Twenty-eight efficiency ex- perts, members of the faculty, are the con- stant overseers of the seven hundred, thirty-five workmen - foremen, skilled workers, and apprentices. Ulflflflli .KIDS--Ii. Iirown, Ii, lnulga-, S. Nluginnis, Y. Bl'lll'l'. 1' NX ll l I lui chu I X lillll N1 I X th nlmlch li lu

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Ffffd R-.APowers, A. B., Oberlin Collegeg Wooster College: A. M., Columbia University University of Southern Californiag Superintendent of Amherst Public Schools. Page Fourteen

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Directors Promote Victor Program 5' -: whiz , .N it The Amherst Public School system has a Board of Education of which it maybe rightly proud. The five men who constitute the board are not only backing the school to the fullest extent, but they are all employed in defense work, too. I ,Fred VV.r Hogrefe, the president of the board, is chief clerk in the production control department of the American 'Radiator Com- pany. Earl Cotton, vice-president, is the manager of the account- ing, department at the Thew Shovel Company. Thomas Bruce is employed as-'a foreman at the Couch-Uthe Company. Edward Menz is the Amherst manager of the Ohio Fuel Gas Company. Ray Jewett serves as manager of the pay roll and cost department atf the U. VS. Automatic Corporation. Mr. Menz' and Mr. Hogrefe work together on the athletic com- mittee offthe boardg Mr. Cotton and Mr. Jewett serve on the finance committee and also on the grievance committee: Mr. 'Bruce and Mr. Hogrefe constitute the purchase committee: Mr. lVlenz and Mr. Bruce, the repair committeeg and Mr. Cotton and Mr. Menz, the teacher committee. Miss Grayce Purcell serves as clerk of the Board of Education. The School Board meets regularly on the fourth Tuesday of every month. ' . Board of Education BR 'CIE FRED H. HOGRIEFIZ IQDXYARD R. MENZ EXRI I' 101 OX IHOV is ll L h LQIEIQSIDIENT R XX 'NI lI'NVE'l'T Pam? Sixfpfn