Joplin High School - Joplimo Yearbook (Joplin, MO)

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I pf. Seventeen E. A. ELLIUTT SUPERINTENDENT of JUPLIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS MH W7 , W One of the best indications of Mr. Elliott's fitness for public school work is his popularity with the student body. Always a forceful and interesting talker, and one with a keen sense of humor, he is a favorite assembly speaker with high school students. To the school patrons of Joplin he is known and respected as an efficient and progressive educator. Mr. Elliott is a graduate of the University of Kansas from which he holds a Master of Arts degree. He served as a school executive in several Kansas and Missouri cities before coming to Joplin in the fall of 1930 from Nevada, Missouri, where he was superintendent of schools. Since he has been in Joplin, Mr. Elliott has become known as a willing and valuable worker in any worthy civic cause, and is frequently called upon for such service. In spite of a busy program, he Ends time for occasional ish- ing trips or motor outings, and is fond of outdoor activity. Joplin students are proud of the fact that their superinten- dent is the representative of his state in The Forty-eight Club, an organization of school administrators to which is admitted only one member from each state.

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BUARU ul EDUIIATIUN . . . lf we were to interview the members who make up our Board of Educa- tion We should soon come to the conclusion that they are deeply interested in the highest ideals of culture, citizenship, and education. The citizens of Joplin have placed in their hands the responsibilities of planning, as well as carrying out, the program upon which all functions of the Joplin schools are based. The primary function of the Board of Education is legislative and judicial rather than administrative. It holds its chief administrative officer respon- sible for the efficient administration and supervision of the entire school system. Individual members exercise no executive authority except as provided for by specific action of the Board. The Board of Education consists of six members, who hold their office for three years and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. The citizens of Joplin are proud to send their children to the well- equipped and modern public schools. They feel that the education of their children is under the direction of a competent faculty. They are pleased with the manner in which our Board of Education has provided an adequate public school revenue. ln other words, the members of the Board have merited the trust given them by the successful way in which they have achieved and main- tained Joplin's excellent school system. During the supervision of the present administration significant advances have been made in the addition of modern rooms to the various schools. An achievement which may presage future attainments was the inauguration of a junior college division. The successful inculcation of this unit into the Joplin school system is regarded as a distinctly progressive move. In the above picture are members of the Board of Education at a regular meeting, Reading from left to right are Mr. Herbert Wheeler, Member: Mr. Charles Wells, Member: Mr. E. A. Elliott, Superintendent of Schoolsg Mr. S. A, Harris, President of the Board: Mrs. Etta B. Garlock, Secretary: Miss Eern Gray, Clerk: Mr. Cliff K. Titus, Member: Mr. Clifford Casey, Member. S

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H. E. BLAINE DIRECTUR ul SECUNIIARY EDUCATION Mr. Blaine, our kindly, scholarly director of secondary education, has given unstintingly during his many years of service to Joplin High School. His example as an upright and esteemed citizen has been an inspiration to every student UTo strive, to seek, to find. He is a wise philosopher with a glowing smile and a merry twinkle in his eye, The fact that he is intensely interested in the development of high school boys and girls and understands their problems makes him very popular with the high school students. They always consider him as their friend and know that they will receive fair and sympathetic treat- ment in any matter that they bring before him. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Drury College and has done graduate work at the University of Chicago, where he received the Master of Arts degree. As director of Joplin's secondary schools he is widely known and respected, He is devoted to Joplin High School and to the Joplin Junior College, and is always ready to do anything within his power to aid the student bodies of either school to put across some worthwhile project. His long experience in secondary administration and his sincere desire to be of real service make him one of the state's outstanding public school educators. Eighf