Lockport Township High School - Lock Yearbook (Lockport, IL)

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CUR SUPERINTENDENT Having been with the Lockport Township High School for twenty-seven years, Superintend- ent james M. Smith has watched the enrollment grow from 229 students in 1925 to 685 in 1952. After making a survey of the enrollments of the grade schools within the township, he recognizes an even greater need for a larger school building. Being vitally concerned with his students, Superintendent Smith has been an intelligent ad- viser and counsellor to them-each year planning courses of study to enable them to have a full life both in high school and in later years. Mr. Smith, who has recently resigned as superintendent in order to make his home in California, has been honored with a sabbatical leave of one year by the Board of Education. 0160 Ad ministrator Recognizes During his long term of service as super- intendent of our school, Mr. Smith has been responsible for many improvements. He was re- sponsible for the organization of the Timer, the Lock, the National Honor Society, the National Athletic Honor Society, and the Athletic Board of Control. In addition to being a past president of the Northeastern Division of the Illinois Education Association and of the WiH County Superintend- ents' and Principals' Association, our administra- tor is a member of the Board of Governors of the Illinois Association for the Crippled, iirst vice- president of the Will County Tuberculosis Associa- tion, and a member of Lewis College Board of Advisers and of the Silver Cross Hospital Board of Trustees. Mr. Smith is included in Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in the Mid- west, and Who's Who in Illinois. Superintendent Smith will be missed greatly, but the james M. Smith Auditorium, the audi- torium in our school of tomorrow which will be dedicated to him, will serve as a constant reminder of the wonderful job he has done in making our high school one of the outstanding schools in the state. 'ftf SUPERINTENDENT JAMES M. SMITH, B.A., M.A.

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THE PEOPLE Although crowded conditions now exist for our students and faculty, such will be eliminated in our school of tomorrow. Twenty-five new classrooms will be added, a new library, faculty rooms, new laboratories, a visual education room, an agricultural department, and administrative rooms. OF TOMORRCW

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Need for New Addition Our superintendent represents us at the cornerstone laying ceremonies of the new Kelvin Grove School of Lockport Illinois The school will accommodate the sixth seventh and eighth grades of the Lockport Central School This is only one of the many grade schools within our township tint have had to expand and their pupils are our future students 'Ox K 5 Superintendent Smith gives dictation to Mrs. Jane E. McClintock, secretary. At the band banquet Mr. Smith con- gratulates the band on its success at Atlantic City. 017.