Champaign High School - Maroon Yearbook (Champaign, IL)

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MELLUN UPERINTENDENT E. H. MELLON is well known throughout the state as an educator and administrator, as well as an out- standing leader in many educational organizations. At home he is regarded as the friend of students and faculty, and the back- bone of the Champaign school system. His extensive training, his great store of experience, a democratic attitude, and charm- ing personality all make for the well rounded, broad minded superintendent that he is. Now, a busier man than ever, he never forgets the primary objective of keeping the school course charted on an even keel toward a happier postwar life with well educated citizens. In school or out, he has amply demonstrated that unusual and rare ability of making all forces realize the value of education.

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AUMINISTRATIUN BOARD OF EDUCATION Bottom row-D. L. Huxtable, president: Miss Carrie Busey, clerk: Mrs. J. E. McGinty: Mrs. Ralph Kel- ley. secretary: Mr. Donald Vance. Back row-Doctor George Hunt: Mr. E. H. Mellon, superintendent: Doctor W. E. Schowengerdt. and Mr. I. P. Turner. The Champaign public school system-oflicially known as district 71-is made up of ten elementary or grade schools, one junior and one senior high school. Founded prior to the Civil War by citizens of East Urbana fthe original name of present day Champaignj the system has grown from a typical one-room pioneer school in a rented building into a physical plant rep- resenting an investment of more than a million dollars. A superintendent, nineteen principals and supervisors, and one hundred and thirty-two teachers are employed to direct the instruc- tional program for 3.200 youngsters. The school system is administered by a Board of Education made up of seven elected offi- cials, each named for a term of three years and each serving without pay. Members during the school year 1944-45 were: president. D. L. Huxtable: secretary. Mrs. Ralph Kelley: members. Doctor W. E. Schowengerdt. Mr. Donald Vance, Doctor George Hunt, Mr. I. P. Turner, and Mrs. J. E. McGinty. Miss Carrie Busey, of the superintendents office, served as the clerk of the board. Regular sessions of the board are held on the first Thursday of each month, with special or called meetings when the demand arises. Although decisions on questions involving school operation are based upon a majority ac- tion of the entire board, responsibilities are shared through appointed committees. Chairmen of these committees named of the current school year were: physical education, Doctor Hunt: buildings and grounds, Doctor Schowengerdtg finance and auditing, Mr. Turner: instruction, Mrs. Kelleyg purchasing, Mr. Vanceg cafeteria, Mrs. McGinty. The Maroon 25

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ALLISUN OPMOST rating for the Champaign senior high school is due, in no small measure, to the efforts and foresight of Principal Carl W. Allison. Upon his shoulders rests the responsibility of weighing the natural tendencies of youth against the instru- ments of education to forge the outlook for the future. Quick to realize the need for special training for war serv- ice, the CHS principal was among the first administrators to adopt new courses in aeronautics and to start revamping the curriculum for more intensive training in mathematics. . Kindly and highly sensitive to the welfare of both students and faculty, he insists that there is no place for the intellectual slacker, and that each must make the best of benefits and privi- leges that are offered.