Central High School - Optimist Yearbook (Crookston, MN)

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'o Many Children Senior High Principal Ray Flom and Junior High Principal Leslie D. Knox smile over their solved problems. They must have found a place wwf for everyone and everyone in his place. Without these helpful secretaries the school couldn't runl Seated are Mrs. Bernice Haugen and Marlys Steenerson. Standing is Elizabeth Marsh, 4-,,-,,..---E Rub a dub dub, these two men are the hub. Senior high principal, Ray Flom, keeps the wheels turning smoothly. He is always busy supervising teachers, the high school activity fund, and maior discipline problems. With the help ot Mr. Ghles, he straightens out curricular knots. Principal Leslie Knox has his hands full with the iunior high. There are 135 in the seventh grade alone, the largest number in CentraI's history. Among his other duties he flnds time to supervise study halls and teach seventh grade health.

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,- The school board at their habitual taslc, looking over building plans for a growing family. Standing are Dr. R, O. Sather and Charles Perry. Seated: Martin Larson, Howard Risch, G. E. Kronholm, and Joseph Linster. But the six members of the school board knew what to do. During the past three years, with the help ol Mr, Bright, superintendent of schools, they have been working on plans for enlarging the present school systr-in Through their efforts the Washington school and an addition to Eugene Field have been hnishf il This spring the needed addition to Central lim, livin staitvd, and the new IVlcKinlf,-y building will ltf- iftinplfit i'-f l in time lor school next tall Not only flrt tltiinit II 'lt on the board drrterntine the policies Ot thi school system, they also act as mediators between lJUSitT SS and education, They Ha Supt. Farley D. Bright's job runs the gamut from seeing that children learn their A-B-Cs to supervising ci large budget.

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Faculty A dillar, a dollar, a ten o'clock scholar, what makes you come so soon? As you can see by the picture opposite, the Teachers came early and attended a preschool session to get better acquainted with the l955'5o facilities, methods, and materials of instruction at Central. One hundred per cent of Central's faculty belongs to the Crookston Educa- fion Association, an organization of teachers dedicated to the task of increasing the usefulness and importance of the teaching profession in 'his city. Most ol the school's instructors are also members of MEA. and NEA, both ot which study school legislation, seek to improve them- selves in service training, and work for improvement of the lot of teachers. rt' W fi fe pl tr '27 wi RANDALL BARNES Science, Student Coun- cil. LLOYD BELFORD f Social Studies, Diivi-r Training, MRS. LEONARD BERG r English MRS. CHESTER DAHLGREN - Public Health Nurse. ALLEYENE DIRKS r Commercial, ALVIN DROEN Health, Science, Sports FRANCES ENGEBRETSON -f Social Studies, Fnglisli FLORENCE GRANT Health, Physical Edu cation.