A B Davis High School - Maroon and White Yearbook (Mount Vernon, NY)

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If'. 6Llf'50lfL For the first time in almost twenty years a Mount Vernon Superintendent of Schools was elected to an olhce in a national education organ- ization, when Mr. Jordan L. Larson was recently chosen second vice-president of the American Association of School Administrators. At a Board of Education meeting, a committee of the Mount Vernon Teachers Association headed by its president, Dr. Alfred M. Franko, honored Mr. Larsonis election. Dr. Franko said, alt is axgreat honor when one remembers that Mount Vernon stands 232nd on the list of cities as to size, yet in almost all we do educationally, we stand at the top of the listfi It was also stated that the uround of applause that greeted Mr. Larson's nomination and his election was the greatest and most prolonged ever known at such a con- ventionf, Surely we are honored to have such an able person as Mr. Larson as the administrative head of our school system. We can feel confident that he will do everything in his power towards the speedy establishment of a new high school for future Mount Vernon families. isa Elwvlea Miss Catharine I. Rhodes, Assistant Super- intendent of Schools, as well as lending an ex- perienced hand to the child guidance clinic, the Curriculum Study Committees and the expanded testing program, served recently on the editing committee of THE EXCHANGE, a release of the Metropolitan School Study Council. More- over, considering one of her most important pieces of work to be that of helping to solve the building problems, she assisted with surveys and plans tor a new high school designed to provide facilities for all the boys and girls of the com- munity. W Even though Miss Rhodes supervised all these activities, she still found time to visit fre- quently all the secondary schools, including our own A. B. Davis, so that she might know at first hand the present school needs. Our thanks to Miss Rhodes for the many grand things she has done for us. 7

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oarv! of glclucafion ROW 1: Miss Catharine Rhodes, Mr. Frank Pnlmison, Mr. Emil Seador, Mr. Roscoe Smyth, Mrs. Elizabeth Weistg BOW 2: Mr. Frederick West, Mr. Anthony Scarpino, Mr. Harold Storms, Mr. Jordan Larson, Mr. Samuel Winokur, Mr. Hugh Kelly, Mr. Alfred Cledhill CMr. Frank Pierce was not present when this picture was taken.J The Big Problem this year for the Board of Education and its president, Mr. Emil F. Seador, was the planning of the new high school on the Wartburg Property. This project seemed to cause much controversy throughout the city, but we greatly appreciate the fact that our Board is doing everything it can to hasten the date of actual construction. We had hoped to be able to report that the city would allow a special spring referendum on the approval of the issuance of bonds for the financing of the project, but as we go to press, the city's alder- men have just voted to postpone all voting until the general election in November. Another duty of the Board of Education was to approve the use of funds for the upkeep 6 of the schools. Davis was not neglected, for back in March we noticed that the halls of Davis were being repaired prior to the painting of the entire school this summer. A great honor came recently to the Board, when Mrs. Carl S. Weist, one of the newer mem- bers, for her excellent work on the Board of Education as well as for her many other im- portant activities in the city, was elected the Outstanding Citizen of Mount Vernon for 1949. When we realize that We have such quali- Hed and representative citizens on our School Board, it is no wonder to us that outstanding accomplishments are made in the educational developments of the Mount Vernon Public Schools.

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LDV. JUOW 1 mr. aguia '6Mr. Davis was the Mount Vernon High School. And the Mount Vernon High School was Mr. Davisf' a former Davis graduate recently wrote. , Mr. A. B. Davis, the first principal of the Mount Vernon High School, was the adminis- trator in 1900 when the high school moved to its own huilding on South Fourth Avenue, and he continued in that position when the school moved to the present huilding. In March, 1933, upon the occasion of Mr. Davis, seventy-fifth hirtiday, the name of the Mount Vernon High School was changed to A. B. Davis High School.