Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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QteetistCfA,, jpUzA,, the staff of the 1939 Blackhawk introduces your guide and invites you to follow him on a year-long tour of the grounds and buildings of that part of Davenport known as the high school area and the athletic field. We have a long way to go so let us begin our travels at once by taking a walk to the administration building where all school business is transacted. Below the picture of the building are the trans- actors, the school board, which consists of Mrs. Elizabeth Griggs, Dr. Edward F. Strohbchn, Mr. John Baumgartner, Mr. W. L. Mason, Superinten- dent Irving H. Schmitt, Mr. Fred Gruenwald, Rev. Louis G. Krebs, Dr. Alfred J. Meyer, and Mr. William M. Brandon. All students of Davenport High School know that the third picture is a snap of the book room in the basement of the administration building. It is presided over by Mr. Walter Seiffert.

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We go to Classes We go to Gym and the Athletic Field We Socialize

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P ieAe ttin(f, Mr. Irvin H. Schmitt, well known to everyone as the city’s superintendent of schools. Work- ing from his office in the Ad- ministration building, he forms the chief link between the schools and the city of sixty-one thousand. The school district has an assessed tax valuation of $55,718,901 in real estate. Owi P'UncU ial, Mr. A. I. Naumann, heads Davenport High School’s faculty of seventy-four teachers and supervises the six and one-half hour school day of the two thousand one hundred boys and girls who come from a district of seventeen and three-quarters square miles. High school prin- cipal for seven years, Mr. Nau- mann works with Superinten- dent Schmitt on Davenport High School’s educational problems. These pen and ink sketches were drawn from recent photo- graphs by the yearbook art staff. Mr. Schmitt has had an ex- ceptionally busy year as the city voted a $1,346,000 bond is- sue for the erection of new schools and repair of old ones. 6