Hutchinson High School - Allagaroo Yearbook (Hutchinson, KS)

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ity Schools For months now, I've lived day and night with the plans for the new high school, laughed Mr. Lowell A. Small, superintendent of Hutchinson's public school system. The plans have also been a main concern of the six-member school board: President Harry Faris, Vice-President Harry Coberly, W. W. Ferguson, James Rexroad, Charles Colladay, and Mrs. J. Richards Hunter. The building costs of Plaza junior High School, opened in 1956, totaled around one million dollars. Plans call for the building to be tripled in size and converted to a high school plant rep- resenting an investment of approximately 53,- 200,000, in 1960. The present high school will become a junior high. Mr. Small has been the top Hutchinson school administrator for eight years, and is a past president of the Kansas State Teachers' Association. He has a Master of Arts degree in administration from Colorado University and holds an honorary degree of Doctor of Literature. A member of the Kappa Delta Phi national honorary fraternity, he holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Kansas Wes- leyan University at Salina, Kansas. His post- graduate work was taken at the Universities of Oregon State and Missouri. Mr. Small likes to spend his spare time at home with his wife and their three sons. Since the Russian Sputnik was launched, the trend in the field of education has been toward an emphasis of accelerated courses, particularly in math and science. There has been a tendency, as a result, to 'Apush ahead the good students, relegating the slower stu- dents to a back-seat. Mr. Small believes a so- lution for this problem in education is to adapt the educational program to each person, considering his personal needs and abilities. There should be a definite challenge to the good students, while no opportunities are denied the less capable individuals. Senior high expansion plans, additions to lVinans and Grandview elementary schools, and a replacement of Central evidence the board's awareness of the increasing school population. The seven-member team formu- lates policies of progress for the city's school system.

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6 4 alcwlenla This A11agaroo of 1959 is dedicated to the students of Hutchinson High School. It is the biography of a high school for the winter of 1958 and the spring of 1959, and you have been a part of that high school. It is written primarily for you and about you. The faults and virtues of you and your c1assmates have combined to form the single human person- a1ity which is the picture others see when they think of Hutchinson High School. This staff is proud to have been a part of the student body of 1959.

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Progress with Directors at Helm CHARLES COLLADAY, elected to the board in 1951, is in his office Monday through Friday. Mr. Colladay is president of the Frank Colladay Hardware Company. HARRY FARIS, president of the Board of Education, has served as a member of the board for ten years. Mr. Faris is a certified public accountant, and the senior partner in the firm of Pierce- Faris and Co. HARRY COBERLY, vice- president of the school board, is president of Coberly Drugs, Inc. He was elected to the board in 1957. JAMES REXROAD, former Reno county probate judge, is a partner in the law firm of Ramsey, Rexroad, and Rob- erts. He has been a member of the school board for three years. MRS. J. RICHARDS HUNTER is a homemaker and former school-teacher. She has served on the Hutchinson Board of Education since 1952. W. W. FERGUSON, elected to the school board in IQ54, is director of the personal prop- erty department of McNagh- ten Investment Company. 9