Battle Creek Central High School - Paean Yearbook (Battle Creek, MI)

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BCI-ls - .PAEAN 5 GEORGE D. COOLEY There is one person on the lvaean Board who goes on unostentatiously year by year. Prof- fering invaluable advice for all occasions, he has come to be an important cogin the Paeans suc- cess. We speak of Mr. G. D. Cooley. without whose Cool and calculating influence the efforts of the Board would Le Well nigh useless. I

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., 9 .. BCHS -PAEAN - W. G. COB URN Broad in outlook. and sympathetic in its grasp of the various problems of school life. this personality reveals the keen student of human nature and the cultivated gentleman. So thoroughly is he steeped in educational principles, so interested in the young life around him, and so irresistible is his per- sonal charm that one is quite justihed in the belief that if he chooses to thus realize him- self, he will stand in the first rank of American educationalists. ' f '. 1,-Q , ':2 .-bw-1-+1 I ' ff fv,.'gf'ef ':ff4fm::: .. ' H. R. AThINbON A ship must need a rudder, a motor. a compensating wheel. That is what Principal Atkinson is to the High School. It is due partly, at least, to his thoroughly sympa- thetic understanding of the other person. We all feel he understands our school life and understands us. Accordingly, we regard him as one of ourselves and we take great pride in doing so. If his presence is removed from us and his voice no longer heard, no one will doubt that his personality will continue to reassert itself in the lives of the many who caught something of his fineness as he passed by. 9 'Riff PQ K X' - .kd V A