East High School - Beacon Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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D . . Wcilckuameczfamw To us, the Beacon Staff of 1955, falls the very special honor of dedicating our book to our distinguished and beloved principal, William Ernest Evans, who by reason of chronological age will retire in June after forty-two years of matchless service in two great schools of Knoxville. Along with thousands of others, we deplore his leaving while still at the very pinnacle of his usefulness. Yet we reioice that he can retire with so much youth and vigor 'in mind and body and with a dignity befitting the best of men. Now that he can relax from the heavy responsibilities he has borne so long, we sincerely wish for him the richest rewards of leisure and many more years of health and happiness. ' ' Saud William Ernest Evans was born April 4, 1885 in Ashland, Ohio. The son of a Methodist minister, his youth was punctuated by numerous bishopric orders for his father to move to new pastorates. They lived in Findlay, Basil, Baltimore, Canton, Lorian, and Cleveland - all towns in Ohio. ln 1904 Ernest, as he is called by friends, was graduated from Canton High School, Canton, Ohio, famous as the hometown of former President William McKinley. Four years later he received his A.B. degree from Oberlin College, later to do graduate work at Ohio State, the University of Chicago, and finally at the University of Tennessee, from which he holds an M.S. degree. His profound love for athletics is no doubt partly due to his very active participation in sports throughout his elementary, high school, and college careers, having engaged in swimming, fishing, ice skating, baseball, basketball, track, and football, making the Varsity team in basketball and track in both high school and college. After graduating from Oberlin, he entered immediately upon his career as a teacher, taking his first school position in the Todd Academy for Boys, Woodstock, Illinois, where he taught for five years. ln the meantime, he pursued and married Helen Stewart, an exhilarating personality and as lovely a wife as heart could desire. ln due time to them were born four sons, all men now and holding enviable positions in their respective fields. All four served in the Air Force during the Second World War - Stewart and Richard for 5 1X2 years and Tom and John for 3 1X2 years. The older boys have since returned to the service. Colonel Stewart is now in Japan and Colonel Richard is stationed in Newfoundland, soon to return to Omaha. He led the famous squadron from Tampa to England and made a record flight of 17,000 miles in thirty-five hours, proving to Russia our ability to deliver an atomic or hydrogen bomb anywhere in the world. Tom operates the Safety Parking Lots in Knoxville, and John, an electrical engineer, holds an important position with NBC-TV in Rockefeller Center, New York. In 1913 Mr. Evans ioined the faculty of Knoxville High as a chemistry and algebra teacher. Five years later he became principal, in which capacity he served until KHS gave way to the numerous community high schools in 1951. 4