Joplin High School - Joplimo Yearbook (Joplin, MO)

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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

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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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GLEN R. HEATHER!-IEE PRINCIPAL of JIJPLIN HIGH SEHUUI. Mr. Deatherage, our principal, is a witty and dynamic man. His career as an executive and business man has made him one of the most prominent school executives in this part of the country. An extremely versatile person, his general knowledge, dramatic ability, and forceful personality have impressed and inspired the students and people who know him. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri at Columbia and has done advanced work at Columbia University in New York City, Among the positions he held before coming to Joplin High School were: Principal of Clinton High School, Principal of Carthage High School, Principal of Central High School and Junior College in St, Joseph. and Principal of North Junior High School of Joplin. For several years he was employed by the Allyn-Bacon Book Company. Vv'e are grateful to our principal for the guidance and advice given us. Because he usually succeeds in everything which he undertakes and always lends a surprise touch in the process, he has proved himself an able leader of Joplin High School during the two years in which he has been associated with it.