Lee High School - Echo Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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wt o 90 A e9 so Miss roin Old Lady ot Godfrey. Although she retired from dctive service in 1932 her interest in public schools is still keen. In her long service of torty-four yectrs, forty ot which was spent dt Godfrey school, she hos seen this dis- trict grow from d smdll insignificant suburbcin greg to cr well organized community. Agnes Noel is the G d

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Roy S. Head 1 XXGJ i350 oil Xp 9 The foundation of the American Way of lite is the public school. As long as public education is a privilege to be shared by all no dictator can ever get a foothold in our country. It seems fitting and proper, then, in this time ot strife, that the 1941 Echo do honor to ten of Godfrey-Lee's foremost citizens. Superintendent Roy S1 Head has taught in the Michigan schools tor thirty-six years. Sixteen years of that time he has been the leader oi Godfrey-Lee.

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G Helen Clarke Bess DeVries Rose Everett Bess Francis Mrs. G. Helen Clarke has been teaching twenty years. For seventeen years she has been teaching the first grade at Lee. Miss Bess DeVries came to Lee seventeen years ago and is still with us as teacher of the fifth grade. The author of Monkeydoodle as well as many bits of excellent poetry, she is remembered by all of us for her story telling ability. For thirty-five years Miss Rose Everett has been a teacher in the public schools of Michigan. For the last eighteen she has been the sixth grade teacher at the Godfrey School. For nineteen of the twenty-four years of her teaching career, Mrs. Bess Francis has taught the fourth grade at Godfrey. Mrs. Frieda Gurd has been a teacher for twenty-one years. For eighteen years she has taught the second grade at Lee. Miss Harriet Lowell has taught the third grade in the Godfrey School for nineteen years. However, the compiler of These l Love, has taught young Americans for a total of thirty-five years. Miss Carolyn Slade has taught in the Godfrey-Lee schools nineteen years of the twenty-eight years she has been serving the teaching profession. For the last seventeen years she has been the principal of the Godfrey school. Miss Sadie Vander Veen has served twenty-seven years in the public schools of Michigan, eighteen of those years have been spent teaching the fifth grade at the Godfrey School. The ten teachers honored in this section of the l94l Echo have a com- bined teaching service of two hundred eighty-seven years, an average of almost twenty-nine years each. As long as young democracy has teachers like these America is safe. Frieda Gurd Harriet Lowell Carolyn Slade Sadie Vander Veen