Lincoln High School - Links Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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lllnmrr Haul Svhvphrrh Homer Paul Shepherd came to Lincoln high school last September from Kansas City, Kansas, Where, at the invitation of the superintendent, M. E. Pearson, Mr. Shepherd had organized the first junior high school, of which he served as principal for five years before coming to Lincoln high. When Mr. Leflcr introduced the new principal, he said that we should find in Mr. Shepherd, among other things, a man who was deeply interested in high school boys and girls, and one who was an exponent of the square deal. In the school year that has intervened between that time and this, Lincoln high has found all this to be true. Mr. Shepherd possesses those qualities and many more, all of which go to make up a versatile principal who has made firm friends among both faculty and students. Lincoln high school is fortunate in having the guidance of a man as cosmopolitan as its present principal. Mr. Shepherd has had wide experi- ence as an administrator in educational fields, from the time of his gradua- tion from Baker University, Kansas, until his arrival in his present posi- tion at Lincoln high school. His experience in administrative education has included principalship and superintendency in several cities, and since he has had the advantage of comparing the systems of these, and retain- ing the best methods of each, Mr. Shepherd is in a position to render the best possible service to Lincoln high school. He has taken advanced study at the University of Chicago and has been a continuous student of educa- tional problems of the day. When Mr. Shepherd addressed the students of Lincoln high for the first time, he laughingly observed that he had been looking things over very carefully here, and that he was aware that he, too, had been very carefully looked over. Lincoln high school now knows the result of its own measurement of Mr. Shepherd and realizes that Mr. Shepherd has also formed an opinion of the high school to which he has come. It is the wish ofthe students that Mr. Shepherd may have found them as loyal and sincere as they have found Mr.'Shepherd. -3--

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flliillarh 01. Iwflrr At the head of the Lincoln sehools, and re- sponsible to the people for the high standard of l eftieieney, is the superintendent, Millard C. lqetler. As M r. Letier was at one time assistant principal of the high school, it is with natural pride that the members of liineoln high sehool, the alumni and the faeulty, watch the progress of the sehool system under its present capable leadership. The position of head exeeutive for the sehools of liineoln, Nebraska, is a most responsible o11e, for llineoln is a eity that eau justly boast of her edueational advantages. A systematie study of fifty sehool systems in eities of over forty thou- sand, and under a hundred thousand, shows that liineoln is far superior to the average. Although llineoln has a population slightly under the aver- age population of the eities eompared, the number of pupils enrolled in the llineoln sehools is approx- imately one and a third times that in the average eity. The enrollment in the high school alone is nearly twiee the enrollment in the average eity of this group. Another interest- ing faet is that more pupils finish the high sehool in liineoln than in any other eity in the group. Then again, the building program for the maintenanee of so extensive a sys- tem is of the greatest eomplexity. A new junior high sehool whieh will be a great 4-redit to Lineoln, and, in fart to a eity many times larger than llineoln, is in pro- eess of eonstruetion. This new junior high sc-liool will relieve the overerowded high sehool of four hundred pupils. VVith all this expansion the need of more room is still aeutely felt. l ine progress is now being made, but a late start has put llin- eoln far behind her needs in housing the sebool population. Une of Mr. Letler's grave eoneerns, therefore, is finding room for the added hosts who pour into liin- eoln eaeh year to take advantage of the superior opportunities for edueation. To earry out plans so far-reaehing and so abreast of the times requires the high- est type of effieieney as an edueator and an exeeutive. Millard t'. Letier, a gradu- ate of the advaneed normal eourse from a Nebraska normal sehool, holds both an A. ll. and an A. M. degree from the University of Nebraska. lle is peeuliarly titted for his position as superintendelmt, as he has taught in village sehools, has served as prineipal and as assistant to the superintendent, and has held a professorship at Peru Normal. Mr. lletler has proved himself eapable of playing the double role of edueator and exec-utive aml of doing so in a masterly manner. flu--