Lancaster High School - Cayugan Yearbook (Lancaster, NY)

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classes fl. We have reached the beginning of the end, Our journey marked with knowledge and lore Yet we travel to lands of uncertainties, To fulfill our desired ambitions . . .

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mr kling retires Herman William lBilll Kling, principal of Lancaster Central Senior High School, announced his retirement. At a faculty meeting at the school he told those present that he would end his 40 years with the Lancaster School System June 30, 1965, but would not be returning after this June. The Board of Education has given him a year's sabbatical leave of absence in recognition of his services to Lancaster. Upon his retirement, Mr. Kling and his wife plan to travel and see some of the things we've always wanted to see, such as the Rose Bowl game and the Tourna- ment of Roses parade, he remarked. Mr. Kling has been an ardent supporter of athletics, and has coached football, baseball, basketball, and track over the years. Last year the school named its new football stadium in his honor, the Bill Kling Stadium. He received his bachelor of science degree from Syracuse University and later did graduate work at Buffalo State Teachers College. He is a member of Alpha Sigma Phi national social fraternity at Syracuse, and is also a member of Phi Delta Kappa national educational honorary fraternity. Continuing to work with youth, he spent two years as a student instructor at Syra- cuse University, and then went into public school teaching, but dropped it to try his hand at the construction business. But in 1924 he came to Lancaster High School as a science teacher, to stay a couple of years, he said, and never left. He was principal of the junior high school, and when Lancaster became a 6-year junior-senior high school in 1948, he was named principal of grades 7 through 12. This position he retained until the completion of the new high school on Central Avenue, in 1957 when he became senior high school principal. Mr. Kling was instrumental in the development of audio-visual aids' in the school system. Many of the so-called new trends in high school teaching, such as team teaching, homogenous grouping, etc., were introduced and tried under his super- vision. He said that when he came to Lancaster in 1924 there were 17 in the graduating class. The first year he was Jr.-Sr. High principal in 1949 there were 107 graduates. Now, his last year at Lancaster, the class of 1964 will boast of about 285.

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