Fenger Academy High School - Courier Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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A BIOGRAPHY The picturesque, historical island of Mack- inac, Michigan, was the birthplace of Wil- liam I. Bogan, October 26, 1870. His child- hood was thus spent in scenes of unusual natural beauty, in woods of lofty pines and verdant spruce cmd balsam: on shores that gave wide vistas of the blue and sparkling waters of the straits. His intense love of boats and sailing grew from watching the changing pictures on this great waterway. Often from his office window in recent days he glanced out at a passing boat in the Chi- cago River as a means of satisfying his long- ing for a view of life on the water. His rare imagination displayed so often in his writ- ing, in his speech and in his conversations probably had its source in the effect of his beauty-steeped childhood. Certainly the freedom and ioy of life in the woods and on the lake impelled him in his efforts for wholesome recreation for the children of Chicago. Mr. Bogan's first experience as teacher and subsequently as principal was in the elementary and high schools of northwest- ern Michigan. His first teaching position in Chicago was at the Washington elementary school. Later he became principal there of the day and evening school and his success in this school as a leader in progressive ele- mentary education and in social work at night with groups of foreign bom gained for him a reputation second only to his later renown as principal of the Lane. The Lane was an outgrowth of the old South Division and Hoyne high schools and was opened under Mr. Bogan's principalship in 1908. Under his planning and administration it became the leadirig technical school ofthe country and 'was known throughout the world. It opened with a membership of eighty-one and when Mr. Bogan left it at the invitation of Superintendent McAndrews in 1924 to become assistant-superintendent in charge of high schoolsf the number of stu- dents had reached almostgfive thousand. In 1928 Mr. Bogan was elected to the superin- tendency of the Chicago Public Schools and in 1932 was re-elected to that office. While he was assistant superintendent, he launched the Iunior High Schools, perhaps the most brilliant and successful innovation in the history of the Chicago schools: he was the founder of the community councils in which the high school student- is given actu- al experience in citizenship achievement: he stimulated and encouraged music- in the schools with such success that Hollis Daun of the University of New York, adiudicator in the last high school choral competition, said that under Superintendent Bogan's guid- ance the music of the city schools led that of the country: he said, You are fortunate in having a superintendent who is also a musician : he established experimental schools in elementary education: he planned the Montefiore and Mosley Schools with a differentiated program to meet the individual differences of the truant child: he established a ,health program that should be far-reach- ing in its beneficient results: he is the author of a well-conceived plan for personnel work: he planned and established the three new Iunior Colleges and had a further dream for a large four-year municipal college: he planned the pre-vocational courses for the boy whose needs were not satisfied in the elementary school: he organized classes for apprentices: he formed an advisory citizens council composed of the leading representa- tives of civic organizations, of professions, of social workers, of industrialists, and of educators whose help he inlisted in com- munity problems affecting the schools: he founded the Education Club, made up of ed- ucators from the nearby universities and communities so that there might be an inter- change of ideas with Chicago educators and with teachers in other fields: he planned and realized that great institution, the new Lane. His last official act was most fittingly the de- livery of the graduation address to the Lane class on the evening of Ianuary thirtieth. He went from the school to the hospital. He was a graduate of the University of Chicago: he had completed at Armour Institute the stand- ard technical course in addition to several courses in electricity: he studied for years at the Chicago Conservatory of Music. He was co-author with Threidt and Mead :of Voca- tional Education in Chicago: he was organ- izer and first president of the Vocational Association of the Middle West: President of the National Society for Vocational Educa- tion: President of the Chicago Division of the Illinois State Teacher's Association for two terms: lecturer during summer of 1926 at the State University, Berkeley, California. He was particularly interested in the develop- ment of courses in Character Building and Moral Instruction, believing in preventive measures at the source. He constantly strove to enrich and enlarge educational oppor- tunity for the youth of Chicago. -Mrs. William Ioseph Bogan

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