Central High School - Booster Yearbook (La Crosse, WI)

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N M QWMMQQS 3 p,g,ff ' s p s A school will sfudy every question fhat afects human welfare, but it will not carry a banner in a crusade for any- thing except freedom of learning. L. D. COFFMAN Q.v 'gJ-Q, Af,,.a91 wkjdjf Page 7

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Faculty

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Page 8 Sufzeainlencfenl M Ballad Marshall G. Batho assumed his duties as superintendent of the La Crosse public schools on July l, l948. Mr. Batho was born in Maiden Rock, Wisconsin, attended River Falls State Teachers College, received a bachelor of science degree from the University of Wis- consin in l934, and has nearly completed work toward his doctorate. The new superintendent's experience in Wisconsin and Illinois in- cludes work in rural, grade, junior, and senior high schools. Previous to his six years as superintendent of the West Bend public schools, he was high school principal there. He also served as supervising principal at Lodi and Cumberland, Wisconsin. Mr. Batho succeeds Dr. R. W. Bardwell, who resigned to become director of vocational education at Madison, Wisconsin. In a message to the student body, Mr. Batho had this to say: That purpose should be substituted for coercion, wherever possible, is one ofthe fundamental tracts of modern education. Purpose gives reality and rneaningfulness to classroom work and is ono of most important incentives for good high school work. Through personal conferences between pupils and teachers, through faculty conferences relative to particular students, and through wide reading and regular classroom work, we are constantly trying to develop within the pupils an insight into how they can use their high school education to advantage.