Le Roy Central School - O At Kan Yearbook (Le Roy, NY)

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Dr. Stanton, H. K. Tennent, clerk: George R. Mc!-Iardy, president: Edward A. Rogerson, president, library board, Charles E. White, Members absent at time of picture: Grover W. Lappg Sidney D. 0'Shea, treasurer, library board. Our Board of Education . . . The guiding force of any American public school is its Board of Education. Servants of the state and directly accountable to the state, the members serve without remuneration, a proud fact of our American system. For here is no easy task in a democracy which entrusts its future to its education of the present. To this board is given the complete and final authority on all matters of the per- sonnel, policies, and philosophy of the school system in the town-a trust given by fellow townsmen in an open election, free from politics. VK-'e in Le Roy are especially fortunate in the servants which have been chosen. Seldom has a more intelligent, sincere, and broad-minded group been found. They are busy men, some of them spending much of their time outside Le Roy, yet many a business trip to Chicago, Boston, Rochester, and points east and west, has been cut short in order that a member of the board would not miss the monthly board meeting. At times the decisions made in these meetings run contrary to student opiniong at times we are jubilant wlith results. Through all, however, whether it be in the installation of lights on a football field, or in the choosing of an academic teacher, never has extravagant progressivism or bigoted conservatism supplanted their aim of educating boys and girls. X'Ve are proud of and grateful for our board. 1 ..,. if

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Superintendent Edward W. Spry In the years since our grandfathers went to school, the definition of a principal has changed from a man with a switch for bad boys to fear to the top execu- tive of a school, whose duty is to see that affairs are f run smoothly, efficiently, and for the good of the students. Mr. Spry, Superintendent of Schools and Principal of the High School, might easily be the man about whom the second deiinition was written, for in Le Roy, the students enjoy a real working democracy, in which everyone may take part. MISS HANSER MISS WOOD The Secretaries Why were you absent yesterday ? courteously asks Miss Hauser, Secretary of Child Accounting. To this query a student may answer verbally or with his written excuse. Miss NV ood, the other worker in the school office, is private secretary to Mr. Spry, and also finds her day well filled. It is the secretaries' duty to help carry out the school's program efiiciently, and because Miss Wood and Miss Hanser are capable our otiice runs smoothly.