Little Rock Central High School - Pix Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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MRS. ARTHUR E. McLEAN DR. WILLIAM C. COOPER MRS. EDGAR F. DIXON Vice Chairman Chairman Secretary BOARD OF EDUCATION The Little Rock Board of Education is composed of men and women elected by the voters of the city to plan and direct the educational development of all the city's children. Serving without pay, they have, for many years, succeeded in maintaining the highest standard in the instructional staff, in general physical plants, and in an all round program for pupil growth physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually. The rapid growth and the national rating of Little Rock schools are a tribute to the high character and ihe services of the men and women who compose the Board of Education.

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VIRGIL T. BLOSSOM, Superintendent of Schools Born in Missouri, Mr. Blossom received his undergraduate training at Missouri Valley College, Marshall, Missouri, and later received the Master's Degree from the University of Arkansas. In educational work Mr. Blossom has served in official capacities in the public school system at Okmulgee, Oklahoma; and was successively high school principal and superintendent of city schools at Fayetteville, Arkansas, before coming to Little Rock in the spring of 1953. In Little Rock, Mr. Blossom has already identified himself with the most outstanding community interests and is proving a wide-awake progressive administrator of the schools of the city. 12

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JESS W. MATTHEWS, Principal of Little Rock Central High School Seeking always to improve the welfare of his students and the facilities of the high school, Mr. Matthews grows from year to year in the esteem of the citizens of Little Rock and the public school system. He is never too busy to confer with other people no matter who they are, nor what their problem is. His students and members of the faculty always find him most approachable in all matters of any merit. U