Central High School - Booster Yearbook (La Crosse, WI)

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al . .,.. I i Q . -Princzlbal George D. Scott Mr. Scott, with the help of llla Mae Heram, is signing the 270 diplomas of the l95O June class. After attending state graded school and high school at Worthington, Min- nesota, Mr. Scott went to Hamline University. He later attended Columbia Uni- versity, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Wyoming. His teaching experience includes rural school and Marshfield, Wisconsin, High School. In sum- mer, l95O, he worked with the Wisconsin Agriculture Experiment Association. His hobbies are fishing, hunting, and the out-of-doors. Of his three children, Margaret, majoring in social service at Northwestern University, has earned a bachelor's degree. David is majoring in forestry at the University of ldaho, and Mary has begun her training as a nurse at Hamline University. Page 9

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E Q 5 Page 8 it - ti it sv S its Superintendent M. G. Beztlro Mr. Batho is completing his third year as head of the La Crosse city school system, having come here from a similar position at West Bend, Wisconsin. He was born in Maiden Rock, Wisconsin, attended River Falls State Teachers College, and received a bachelor of science degree from the University of Wisconsin in l934. Mr. Batho's ex- perience in Wisconsin and Illinois includes work in rural, grade, junior, and senior high schools. Previous to his six years as superin- tendent ofthe West Bend public schools, he was high school principal there. He also served as supervising principal at Lodi and Cumber- land, Wisconsin. Mr. Batho's daughter, Janice, is attending Washington Junior High School. , I 'e Q 1 ti Yx st 3 Q it it 3

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l95O marked the beginning of a new course at Central, that of vocational agri- culture. Enrollees are boys who have had farm experience and a place where they can carry on their projects. Since the course Covers four years, freshmen come from Longfellow and Washington Junior Highs, while boys from Aquinas and Logan are enrolled with Centralites for the remaining three years. The freshman year, really a foundation course for the following three, includes poultry culling and housing, dairy herd testing, small grains and crop diseases, and woodwork- Two Aquinas and two Central students learn how the Babcock milk tester shows the fat content in milk. gricultmfe Department Harold E. Niles Vocational Agriculture Sponsors Future Farmers of America -- University of Wisconsin B.S.g Juneau County Normal School -- Came from Rosendale, Wis., to organize our new ag department -- Attend- ed a conference for vocational agri- culture instructors at the University of Wisconsin during the summer, l95O. In his year-round job Mr. Niles makes summer visits to the farm boys and helps with 4-H Club work. ing. Sophomores continue the study of dairy herd improvement, feeds and feed- ing, and add to these farm mechanics, swine and sheep and beef management. During the third year subjects offered are dairy cattle management, marketing, cooperatives, farm accounts and records, advanced soils and fertilizers, soil conser- vation, advanced woodworking, and fenc- ing. The senior studies the choice of and the financing of a farm, farm manage- ment, government programs stressing agricultural aids, and the care and use of farm machinery. More advanced students learn how to test soil for acidity and how to follow up the results of the test.