Lincoln High School - Links Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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Aaaiztant Xdrinripalu A strong organization is seldom build up through the efforts of one man, but it is success- ful because someone with executive power had the efficient help of capable assistants and was able to work with them in the proper way. A general does not win a battle through his own efforts, praise is due to his faithful aides. In just that way, the principal of a high school cannot build up a successful organization without assistance. The organization of liincoln high would not be complete without both its assistant principals, Miss Olivia M. Pound and Charles Tl. Cluller. Miss Pound has endeared herself to all the girls with whom she has been in contact, Zlllll as she has learned to know a great many in her capacity as adviser, she is held in high regard by the girls of liincoln high school. However, it is not with them alone that Miss Pound finds favor. She has that happy faculty of doing great deal of work at once without. appearing hurried, or too busy to assume a new responsibility. She may bc Y MISS OLIVIA M. POLTND swamped in a multitude of tasks, and yet her thoughtful advice is always to he obtained for the asking. She is willing to consider carefully the student's side of every question. These are the qualities, among others equally likeable, that cause the boys and girls of Lincoln high to introduce Miss Poundw, with pride, to every visitor. I Mr. t'uller has achieved an unusual distinc- tion. llis is the task of disciplining the boys who come to him for correction, and it is but a proof of his kindly personality that Young America, after such correction, does not cherish a grudge against Mr. Fuller, but rather, admires him the more. At only one time during the day does one dread to see Mr. Fuller. Those few unhappy mo- ments begin at 8:26 and extend for a short period thereafter, until one's tardy slip is duly signed. lflven then the fault, dear Brutus, lies in our stars , and not in Mr. tfuller. Mr, t'uller has other duties that do not lie in the realms of disci- pline, however, and these he handles in the same efficient manner that is always characteristic of him. There is an insistent twinkle ot' merriment ever lurking behind Mr. t'uller's bright glasses, that has done much toward making him the well- beloved assistant principal of whom liincoln high school is proud. CHARLES L. CULLER

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flliillarh 01. Iwflrr At the head of the Lincoln sehools, and re- sponsible to the people for the high standard of l eftieieney, is the superintendent, Millard C. lqetler. As M r. Letier was at one time assistant principal of the high school, it is with natural pride that the members of liineoln high sehool, the alumni and the faeulty, watch the progress of the sehool system under its present capable leadership. The position of head exeeutive for the sehools of liineoln, Nebraska, is a most responsible o11e, for llineoln is a eity that eau justly boast of her edueational advantages. A systematie study of fifty sehool systems in eities of over forty thou- sand, and under a hundred thousand, shows that liineoln is far superior to the average. Although llineoln has a population slightly under the aver- age population of the eities eompared, the number of pupils enrolled in the llineoln sehools is approx- imately one and a third times that in the average eity. The enrollment in the high school alone is nearly twiee the enrollment in the average eity of this group. Another interest- ing faet is that more pupils finish the high sehool in liineoln than in any other eity in the group. Then again, the building program for the maintenanee of so extensive a sys- tem is of the greatest eomplexity. A new junior high sehool whieh will be a great 4-redit to Lineoln, and, in fart to a eity many times larger than llineoln, is in pro- eess of eonstruetion. This new junior high sc-liool will relieve the overerowded high sehool of four hundred pupils. VVith all this expansion the need of more room is still aeutely felt. l ine progress is now being made, but a late start has put llin- eoln far behind her needs in housing the sebool population. Une of Mr. Letler's grave eoneerns, therefore, is finding room for the added hosts who pour into liin- eoln eaeh year to take advantage of the superior opportunities for edueation. To earry out plans so far-reaehing and so abreast of the times requires the high- est type of effieieney as an edueator and an exeeutive. Millard t'. Letier, a gradu- ate of the advaneed normal eourse from a Nebraska normal sehool, holds both an A. ll. and an A. M. degree from the University of Nebraska. lle is peeuliarly titted for his position as superintendelmt, as he has taught in village sehools, has served as prineipal and as assistant to the superintendent, and has held a professorship at Peru Normal. Mr. lletler has proved himself eapable of playing the double role of edueator and exec-utive aml of doing so in a masterly manner. flu--

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