Central High School - Optimist Yearbook (Crookston, MN)

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Ray A. Flom, senior high school principal. HN .5 in , ggg?.3kgtQtgr: , Leslie J. Knox, junior high principal Farley D. Bright, superintendent of schools. wife. We are the administration, industrious and civic-minded. By working together, we have accomplished the introduction of a practical nurses' training' course through our school, the addition ofa new junior high shop in the Lin- coln building, the modernizing of the chemistry lab, along with other minor improvements. During the summer new fluorescent lights, new mail boxes, a counter, and an electric typewriter were added to the offices. Superintendent Bright is occupied with such duties as the general supervision of the school district's IO4 employees, the business adminis- tration of a S600,000 school budget, and Behind the llesks, the Brains. numerous other responsibilities. Senior high principal, Mr. Flom, is always filling out tardy slips for the late-sleepers and absence slips for the vacationers in between his major duties of supervising teachers and students, checking attendance, and taking care of high school activity funds and major discipline and curricular problems. He also finds time to teach civics. Mr. Knox, junior high principal, has his hands full trying to untangle such problems as unpaid fines, report cards, and attendance. He also teaches seventh grade health and has charge of junior high studies.

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Board of Education looks over plans for a new McKinley School. Standing: Howard Risch, Martin T. Larson, Dr. R. O. Sather, seated: G. E. Kronholm, clerk, Joseph Linster, president, Charles Perry, treasurer. Six gentlemen who are friends of education in Minnesota-this is our Board of Education. All of the public schools in our district are under their jurisdiction. Theirs is a responsible job, for they are the middlemen between the people of Crookston, and its schools. Through their efforts the new Washington School has been completed, a site for the new McKinley School has been purchased, and the insurance program for all of our district's school build- ings has been brought up-to-date. The board is now working on the possibility of an addition to the high school. ln October, G. E, Kronholm replaced lvar Swanson, who moved out of the city. Secretaries Ruth Ann Bergum, Marlene Hinkley, and Verna Torgerson, our trio behind the office desks, always know what's going on. in +- -X, Faucet fiddlersl Mr. Linster, Mr. Perry, and Dr. Sather examine new chem- istry lab equipment. Pausing to answer one of his business calls is Mr. Bright