Englewood High School - Purple and White Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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urdiafid Wan an He's a self-trained builder who, largely with his own two hands, built a sizable two-story, brick home. He's the husband of an independent minded woman, a successful principal of an effectively managed Chicago Public Ele- mentary school. He's the father of a boy and a girl in their early teens determined that they should have the best in the way of general upbringing, education, and everything else. Vlfell aware of how rough life can be, he is inclined to over- protect these youngsters from the surging winds of ad- versity. At the same time, he realizes how dangerous over- protection can be as a preparation for the remorseless reali- ties of human existence. This semi-dilemma is a key to his whole character, per- sonality, and general life style. Of course many, if not most of us, are confronted with the same sort of perplexity. This is only too true. But it is especially conspicuous in his Case. Moreover, the same double image, so to speak, both helps and hinders him in giving direction to the department of which he is chairman as well as in all his relations with his students and his faculty colleagues, who collaborate with him in making the departm.ent, which they together serve, so decidedly alert, efficient, and steadily on the march. No doubt virtually all readers who have perused this for the present dedicatory piece of the 1967 Purple and White have made the correct deduction that it is about our Mr. Roberts and our Business Education Department. Wfell, anyway, Mr. Roberts entered the field of educa- tion only after a successful career in the business world. Prior to 1954, when he became a teacher, he had owned and managed profitably a chain of self-service laundrymats. For his Bachelor's degree, received at Morehouse Col- lege in Atlanta, Mr. Roberts majored in Business Admin-is- tration and minored in Education. So, in 1954, when an opportunity to dispose of the laundry business, which he and his wife owned jointly, came knocking at the Roberts' door, his friends urged him to seize the opportunity at once to get out of the laundry field about which he was not particularly enthusiastic in the first place. Noting, more- over, that the teacher shortage, especially in Chicago, was becoming acute and noting further that he seemed to have a natural bent for teaching as in part, he himself indicated he realized back at Morehouse by selecting Education for his minor, they persuaded Mr. Roberts that he forthwith switch to high school teaching as his vocation. After weighing the matter pro and con in discussions with his wife and pondering it carefully on his own, he made a clean cut decision. He decided to take some additional courses in Education. These, together with his Master's degree in Business Administration he took at the University of Chicago, his years of practical ex- perience in the business world coupled with his long cherished natural inclination toward teaching added up to the requisites of a proficient high school instructor in the field of Business Education. Anyway, this soon became his field of operation. For a short while he served as a substitute teacher in Chicago High Schools. Then he took a teacher certifi- cation examination in the Business Field offered by the Chicago Board of Education. He passed it and not long thereafter he attanied the status of a certified teacher. He was then assigned to the Englewood High School. Here he has been a regular member of the faculty for ten years. About half of this decade he has headed the Business Education Department.