Hamburg High School - Echoes Yearbook (Hamburg, NY)

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12 THE MONARCH 1928 HENRY STRATEMIER FREDERICK MOFFITT Prvsidcnt of tlic Board ol' Education SvllPCI'lIll.k'l1LlCIlfOl-SCl100lm BOARD OF EDUCATION Standing-wLcft to right: Donald Sharp, Mrs. D. C. Pierce, Superintendent Moflitt, Mrs. Henry Sipprell, H. XV. Fitzgerald. Seated: William Allen, Charles Bradley, joseph Leach.

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THE MONARCH 1928 13 BOARD OF EDUCATIGN The forward step which probably contributed most to the increased efficiency of the Hamburg School System this year was one taken by the Board of Education. The growth of the schools in the past few years has been so rapid that the Board has had difiiculty in fitting its policy to the changing conditions. It held too closely to the old District Trustee System which made every detail of school ad' ministration and discipline a matter to be decided by the Board members. This year the Board resolved to adjust itself to changed conditions. It has acted as a Board of Directors, laying down the general policy of the school. To carry out that policy it employed an able and experienced administrator in Super' intendent Moflitt and gave him the task of evolving an efficient system out of what had been a rather chaotic condition of affairs. Mr. Moffitt in turn delegated to the principals the responsibilities which were rightfully theirs. It has been the duty of each principal to supervise his or her def partment, under the direction of the Superintendent, and to endeavor to bring home to each teacher the fact that her classfroom is only a unit in a greater whole. The Board has adopted and put into effect an advanced salary schedule and a liberal policy of sick benefits for teachers. Several departments have been enlarged and given better equipment. However, the outstanding achievement has been the or' ganization of the school on an eflicient businessflike basis: the placing of responsibilf ity and authority in the hands of executives fitted by training and experience to adf minister the educative process. ff v 'XX .1-X l XMB gl