Champaign High School - Maroon Yearbook (Champaign, IL)

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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.

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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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FACULTY REEDOM is a heritage that forms the cornerstone of the American way of life. It is a priceless gift from a band of patriots who never Wavered in their search of an ideal. They found it in America. We of the present can accept that her- itage only if we understand and search for it. It becomes an inherited treasure if and when we know how to open the various doors behind which it is hidden. fWithout that knowledge, we are as im- prisoned as if the doors did not exist.j Each member of our faculty stands beside a door, ready to open it for those who desire the freedom which true knowledge brings. We know them as friends-they have proved it times without number. At the door which leads to knowl- edge over the avenue of English may be found Miss Nina Gresham, Miss Amy Beach, Miss Leola Harding. Miss Nelle Zehner, Miss Frances Weed, Miss Vera Kaden and Miss Marion Stuart. 28 EHAFFEE IRST to extend a helping hand to the in- coming student-and the invariable friend to one and all when knotty problems must be untwisted-Miss Eleanor Chaffee wears the undisputed crown of popularity when boys and girls express their innermost hearts. As vice-principal. she fills a difficult role. adjusting the individual class schedules. keeping the records. and serving as the sec- ond in command in maintaining school discipline. But with it all she never fails to counsel wisely and with understanding sympathy. She can never reckon in numbers the loads she has lightened or the inspiration she has so unstintedly given. SEERETARIES ECRETARIES and oflice summons slips are inti- mately connected, and for that reason. both Mr. Dillman and Miss Attebury are rather well known to many senior high students. Blessed with a sense of humor, they blend well with high school life. The Maroon