Beloit High School - Trojan Yearbook (Beloit, KS)

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 BACKGROUNDS The backgrounds we have formed during our years in school are among the most enduring backgrounds we will develop in our lifetimes. Attending Beloit High School has laid a foundation that will ploy an important part in our future lives. This book will try to show the reader the various steps we have taken in building our school backgrounds in the Halls of Troy. 2

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1941

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ROBERT J. FITTELL Mr. Robert J. Fittell is chosen to represent the Beloit City School Board of Education which is one of the principal backgrounds in our school system. Mr. Fittell has faithfully served the school board for iwenty-4hree years of which fifteen of these he has been president. He was employed at the Beloit Mill Company for thirty-nine years and since retiring frcm the mill he has been twice elected as the County Treasurer. His four children, two girls and two boys, are graduates of Beloit High School. Mr. Fittell is an industrious and a very outstanding man in the city of Beloit. He has a pleasing personality and is liked by everyone who knows him. JOHN S. MORRELL Our backgrounds would not be complete this year without our Superintendent, John S. Morrell, who served B. H. S. for twenty-four consecutive years; and is also a graduate of Beloit High School. After graduating he went to the University- of Missouri where he received his Bachelor of Science degree. Later he took post graduate work at the Universities of Chicago and Kansas. He then served as a teacher for four years, and as the principal of B. H. S. for three years before becoming the superintendent. The students and the entire community recognize him as a great leader and educator.