Bellevue High School - Comet Yearbook (Bellevue, OH)

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The Board of Education Guides School Activities The rise of the democratic state and republican government has added increased importance to the purpose and functions of education and public schools. Indeed, the education, literarcy, and enlightenment of the citizenry has been held of supreme importance. To advance these high purposes of citizenship education in Ohio, the State Con- stitution makes the establishment of free public schools mandatory. Under that law the State Board of Education was created as a part of the free public school system and was made the legal activating agent of the State Superintendent of Schools The Bellevue Board ot Education is elected by the voters of the local school district and is responsible to both the local voters and the state Its conduct is strictly governed by the state statutes As an involuntary division of the state the Bellevue Board of Education is charged with the duties of providing and maintaining tree public schools in Bellevue The members of the Board of Education for 19581959 were Dr F D Crosby Mrs Alma Reitz Secretary Mr Harland Erf M A J Kistler M Harold Detlefsen and Mr Richard P Roush Z .1 7

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MR F D SWIGART The Admmustratuon Speaks The responsubuluty for the admunustratuon of the Bellevue Publuc Schools rests upon the Superuntendent of Schools F D Swugart who us the chuet admunustratuve ottucer for the Board ot Educatuon lt us hus responsubuluty to admunustrate the schools consustently wuth the polucues set forth by the Board Buuldung pruncupals meet peruoducally wuth the superuntendent to duscuss problems of a system wude nature and polucues altectung teachers and students They must then put their decusuons unto operatuon During the wunter the superuntendent and school board began prelumunary unvestugatuons unto the constructuon of a new hugh school for Bellevue Buds were submutted to the board and Outcalt Guenther and Assocuates were selected to make a study of the system s need for expansuon 6 . . . ot Education.

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MR JACK HETER MR E S GLASGO The High School Administration The high school administration guides our school and keeps the students on the road toward becoming responsible citizens With the teaching staff it seeks to develop every student according to his ability for personal realization of a good life and for effective employment school and through conferences with teachers and students works at maintaining a first class school Mr .lack Heter assistant principal helps Mr Glasgo with daily problems and is rarely too busy to take an extra assignment or counsel students However the work of these persons could not be accomplished without the help of Mary Lou Sauber Marilyn Mitchell Dawley Brown Jane Chrlstman and Virginia Frankenfield who keep the offices running smoothly 8 Q C . O C Mr. E. S. Glasgo, as principal of our school, supervises the daily activities of the