Lew Wallace High School - Quill and Blade Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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BOARD OF EDUCATION The Board of Education for our schools is made up of three outstanding citizens who find time in their busy programs to give attention to school problems, advise and support the su¬ perintendent to the end that the educational needs of the children of this great industrial city may be met. The newest member of our board is Dr. James A. Craig, pioneer physician and surgeon, who is the treasurer of the board. Dr. Craig brings to this organization an intelligent understanding of the educational situation, a wealth of experi¬ ence, thorough knowledge of the community and a dynamic personality. Mrs. May A. Patterson, who is serving her second term, is an outstanding civic leader with such widely diversified interests that she touches the community at innumerable points. Mrs. Patterson serves as secretary of the board. Mr. Leslie Combs, the presiding officer, is completing his seventh year of service to the local schools. Mr. Combs is one of the pioneer contractors of the city whose experience has been invaluable to the local school authorities. Mrs. Patterson, Dr. Craig, Mr. Combs

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Those of us who lose locker keys, hats, gy m shoes, and various other para¬ phernalia are apt to think of Mr. Asher as the “Good Samaritan” who keeps our valuables until we call for them, and those of us whose goods and chattels remain lost may think his department incompetent. If we are late, he says we must come to his eighth hour class to contemplate and cogitate the matter of personal responsibility for being on time. The unex¬ cused absentees find themselves urgently invited to the eighth hour period to make up all time lost for insufficient reasons. His job calls for many of these unpleasant contacts and you may be sure he enjoys them even less than we, but he does succeed in selling us the idea that an efficient school operates with a minimum of confusion and the maximum of co-operation from the individual students. The Mr. Asher we come to know is a person of rare understanding, of unfail¬ ing humor in the face of multiple difficulties, and tireless devotion to The Lew Wallace School. Louise Quinn Page thirteen

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ADVISORY COUNCIL The Lew Wallace Advisory Council was or¬ ganized in 1931 to establish a relationship of mutual helpfulness between the community and the school; to promote understanding among the patrons of school problems; and to develop a spirit of cooperation between school and com¬ munity for the benefit of the pupils. The membership consists of one parent from each of the geographical districts in Glen Park, two alumni, three members chosen from the community-at-large and ex-officio membership of the president of the Parent-Teachers Asso¬ ciation, the assistant principal and the principal. Monthly luncheon meetings are held in the school cafeteria, at which time the work of the various school departments is presented by rep¬ resentatives of the departments, matters of community interests are discussed, questions are asked, suggestions are offered and received, and administrators present their problems to the end that the school and the community may be thoroughly integrated. Our advisory council here makes its first ap¬ pearance in the Quill and Blade. Standing: Miss Bowser, D. E. Dawson, J. B. Shaver, W. M. Bar- cus, Mrs. Washburn, H. Moore, and F. Kross. Seated: Mrs. Morrow, Mrs. Draper, Mrs. Goodyear, Mrs. Hansen, Mrs. Sunderman.