Beloit Memorial High School - Beloiter Yearbook (Beloit, WI)

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rl- 'T VV. J. KEYS, VICE PRESIDENT. H. BAER A. B. COTTON. E. E. BREWER, PRESIDENT. J. W. M,CALL, SECRETARY. A. E. JORDAN Q

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THE BELOIT HIGH SCHOOL. American education, planted in the common school, has its elementary class in the modern high school. Of late the impor- tance of a good high school training is beginning to be realized by the American people as a whole. Not even a country school system is now considered complete without a good accredited high school in it. The object of a high school is virtually a pre- paratory object, and it may be preparatory in a number of ways: Firstly, if the student does not intend to get higher education, he is not, in this advanced age, prepared to decide what his vocation may be until he has had a high school training. Secondly, with a common school education only a man is not prepared suffi- ciently to meet the competition which he needs must come in con- tact with, since the rising generation does not stop with the Hgradesf' Thirdly, the world demands men with well developed minds to do her work. Fourthly, a university training cannot be had without the former preparation offered by the high school. In planning the work of the Beloit High School each of these four ends is kept in view. Since the Beloit High School was founded, in 1881, it has gradually become noted as a high school can. In any line of Work you may find graduates oi the Beloit High School, a-nd it will be well to note that they all have made or are making good names for themselves as a result of their high school training. Her ath- letes have made national records, her musicians have made note- worthy reputations. She has reason to be proud of her alumni, and there is not one member of her alumni who does not honor the Beloit High School. The motto of the Beloit High School is U11l1I1iS9Cl1I1d71S.H Her ambition is to send out men and women who will be able to compete with graduates from any other high school.

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THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. The Board of Education of the city of Beloit, portraits of whose several members appear on the oppositeqpage, is ati present composed entirely of representative business men of the city. Messrs. Baer, McCall and Keys are the presidents of the New York Store Mercantile Company, the McCall Mercantile Company and the Keys Clothing Company, respectively, all being promi- nent business Hrms of Beloit. ' Our police judge, A. B. Cotton, is a civil war veteran and past commander of G. A. R. Post, No. 147, and formerly a prosperous farmer and liveryman ofthe county. He was elected mayor of Beloit in 1899, and filled that office with credit. The president ofthe board, Dr. E. E. Brewer, has practiced his profession successfully in this city for the past fourteen years, and has acquired extensive interests in various county enter- prises. Dr. Brewer and Mr. Jordan taught school in this county for several years and both served as members ofthe county board of examiners. All ofthe members ofthe present board are old settlers except the youngest member, Mr. J ordan, who, however, was born in Mitchell county and is at present a practicing attorney at law in our city. ' , The record of this board is certainly worthy of comment. The etlicient management of the schools during the years 1905-O6 is evidence of their work. In the last year the city has been saved 3270 by the refunding of certain of its school bonds, whereby a reduction of interest on the same from 6 per cent. to 4:34 per cent. was saved. Over 351500 of school bonds have been paid off, thereby reducing the school bond indebted ness to its lowest point in years and placing the city's public schools in the best condition financially in their history. Besides reducing the bonds, several substantial and permanent improvements have been made, and by a timely levy sufficient funds are now in the treasury to completely re-roof the central building and make other improvements now in contemplation. '1