Denton High School - Bronco Yearbook (Denton, TX)

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Five Year Program For Denton Public Schools Mr. Chester O. Strickland, superintendent of the Denton Public Schools, has observed the Denton schools carefully during the past year, and in doing so has developed a plan which will include within the next five years the construction of a Junior High School Building, including an auditorium and a gymnasium, a Shop and Homemaking building, a Negro School Building, and the renovation of the Robert E. Lee School Building. In observing matters which would improve our Senior High School, Mr. Strickland has proposed changes that will enlarge the cafeteria, a study hall room, the typing room and the superintendent’s office. He expects to get new and more complete stage equipment, a radio room in the speech room, an art room in the present homemaking room, a press room, and a conference room for student teachers. Repairs on the Band Hall and the Auto-Mechanics Building, enlarging the dressing room at the football stadium, and supplying fire escapes throughout the system are to be done. In the personnel department, adjustments include additional teachers to take care of the expanded program; more male teachers throughout the system; a health nurse; a head of the Girls’ Physical Education Department; and a head of the Homcmaking Department. Over-all adjustments are to be brought about by giving the public more information about the school and making the patrons feel that it is their school and upon them rests a part of the responsibility of making Denton Public Schools the best. The colleges are to be shown that the public schools appreciate their cooperation. And above all the citizens, students, and faculty should be satisfied with nothing but the best, stated Mr. Strickland. Denton is asking for the best there is in education, and it is Mr. Strickland’s opinion that the above mentioned recommendations will go a long way in causing the public to respect the public school and likewise support such a system.

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OUR SUPERINTENDENT To every student in Denton the name of Chester O. Strickland is pleasantly familiar. For only one year he has been superintendent of the Denton Public Schools, but during that short time he has established a record of which any man in such a responsible-position might be proud. Mr. Strickland came to Denton in August, 1946, from Hereford, Texas. In spite of the fact that Mr. Strickland is such a busy person, every student will admit that he conveys the feeling of being a personal friend to each individual. We’re proud of Mr. Strickland, and we’re all with him hand and heart. Mr. Chester O. Strickland OUR PRINCIPAL Prof,” as he is affectionately called by students and faculty alike, has the responsibility of keeping the wheels of the school oiled and in a perfect working condition. In the execution of these tasks he has given us no cause for complaint. Our principal has been steering the course of Denton High School for a number of years and 3s each student leaves its hall, he takes with him, among his many fond memories of high school, an everlasting picture of Prof.” Mr. A. O. Calhoun