Grand Blanc High School - Echo Yearbook (Grand Blanc, MI)

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.1 l l During the nineteen years Donald G. Batchelor has taught in the Grand Blanc High School, he has been both teacher and friend to the students coming under his tutelage. As a part of his coaching activities he has instilled high ideals of team play, sportsmanship, and character by Word and deed into the hearts of the budding athletes in the gym and on the playing field: as a part of his classroom instruction he has endeavor ed to develop a feeling of responsibility for one's own behavior and a sense of honor, insisting that these be learned the hard way of experience if the pupil will do it in no other way. Because youth, untrained, helpless and unprepared for life, must be enriched by friendships, molded by learning, held in check by firm counsel, strengthened by activity, and urged onward by an inspired leadership, We dedicate this 1948 issue of The ECHG to Mr. Batchelor who has done all these things for Grand Blanc youth,

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UPPER ROW: Mr.,Lund. Mr. Harris. Mr. Miekka. LOWER ROW: Mr. Myers. Mr. Torrey. BOARD OF EDUCATION W. Kenneth Harris ......,.. .. ............. ....... .,.............. P r esiclent H. Sterling Lund ,......., - ...... - ......O.. ,..., - .Secretary Arthur I. Torrey ,A....., Kenneth M. Myers George Mieklca .-.,-,---TreasuIer The Board of Education Policymakers Are Competent Leaders The glamour oi the iootlights does not belong to these men individually or collectively, but our edu- catianal plant could not be run very successfully without them. Theirs is a tedious job of trying to stretch dollars to cover the rising costs of every- thing. An odd iactor in the problem is the fact that their labors are executed faithfully without remuner- ation and too often without expressed appreciation. 8 N When one drives past the building somewhat late in the evening and sees the office lighted, he has pretty sure evidence that the six men who govern our local destinies are hard at work deciding to buy or not to buy another bus, to give assent or refusal to a plan proposed by students, the faculty or an outside group. As Seniors, our thanks to you for our twelve pleasant and beneficial years of schooling.