Longfellow High School - Log Yearbook (Kearney, NE)

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Kearney Citizens Support ana ( ontrol cJ ieir Sc iools The Board of Education in Kearney is made up of six members, two of whom are elected annually. Any citizen in Kearney who has children in school or is a taxpayer may be elected to the board. Board members serve without pay and meet at least once a month to transact all their business in open public meetings. In order to carry on the work of the Board of Education preliminary details are worked out by the following committees: building, insurance, finance, teachers, health, pur- chasing. The Board of Education is like a board of directors for a large corporation. It places upon the superintendent of schools the re- sponsibility for carrying out its policies. These policies are set up after a careful con- sideration of the needs of the Kearney schools as interpreted by the community it- self, by board members, and the teaching staff, working together. The Board of Education sets up a budget each year to govern the expenditures of the school, selects the teaching staff, keeps the buildings in repair, and coordinates the work of the schools with other institutions in the community. Operating a business which cost last year for all purposes $152,815 is the job of the board. Directors Meet — Members of the Board of Education seated around the table are: J. W. McKerney, R. E. Heacock, Dr. C. B. Edwards, Elmer Gillespie. Dr. R. M. Gilmore, board mem- bers: E. L. Randall, attorney; Harry A. Burke, superintendent; and ]. }. Shambaugh, board member. Officers of the board are: Dr. Gilmore, president; Dr. Edwards, vice-president, and Mr. Shambaugh, secretary. 17

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THINGS TO COME — The camera here catches what H. G. Wells has devoted volumes to — perhaps a life ' s preview. New fields to conquer! has been the cry of mankind from time immemorial. And it is the annual cry of each class invading a new atmosphere as the aftermath of promotion. To the bewildered junior high pupil setting first official foot in the higher institution and the graduate emerging from his school days to faca a very realistic world that harbors no fail- ure, considers no alibi, it is the battle-cry in the war for success. To the junior coming from the sophomore metamorphosis, and the student reaching the senior rung of the educational ladder, it is a challenge to do his best, for the targets are not to be hit with a half-hearted aim. But they will be hit; the fields will be conquered! ttitude - citizenship 19