Luther L Wright High School - Hematite Yearbook (Ironwood, MI)

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No history of the Ironwood Public Schools, which does not contain the name of Hurlbut Keese, will ever be complete. He has been associated with the schools of the city as truant officer for nine years consecutively, and during that time the attendance has steadily and markedly increased. Mr. Keese has been eminently successful because he is deeply interested in the welfare of every boy and girl in the schools. He believes in education, but what is more important, he believes in boys and girls. His theory is that an education is the birthright of every human being. He also understands that young people, especially boys, do not always see the justice of his view, and while he sympathizes with their point of view, he insists that his own views are more correct and more valuable for future use. So thoroughly does he realize the necessity of an education that he is never averse to doing his utmost to keep every boy and girl in school as long as pos- ible, even though to do so may cause occasional inconvenience to him- self and others. Mr. Keese knows everybody old and young, and from the time school opens in September until it closes again in June there is scarcely a day in which he does not pay a visit to the home of some parent to encourage him or to remind him of the duty or obligation of keeping his children in school. Many a day the familiar figure of this “boy ' of seventy-five may be seen facing a blinding snowstorm in quest of someone who is absent from school without a valid cause, and who otherwise might be mortgaging his future for temporary comfort. Mr. Keese not only helps to keep the boys and girls in school regularly, but he also helps many in a material way, and I think I am betraying no confidence when I say that his charity has helped many a person to stay in school who otherwise would be compelled to quit or to suffer serious hardship in order to remain. It is because of these things that Mr. Keese’s work is valuable and far reaching; and it is because he is helping to shape the future of so many men and women that he is eminently worthy of an important place in the history of the Ironwood schools. 9 J. V. BRENNAN.

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Principals of the High School. Geo. T. Downer, Superintendent of Butte, Montana Public Schools. A. H. Tuttle, Professor of History, University of Ohio. John Buttler, Manager Sterns Lumber Co., Kentucky. F. H. Haller, Supt. Osceola Mine, Houghton, Mich. .1. B. Patrick, Cashier, Oliver Iron Mining Co., Ironwood. J. V. Brennan, Supt. of Ironwood Schools. Boy Chamberlain, Insurance BusinesMinneapolis, Minn. .1. V. Brennan, Supt. of Ironwood Public Schools. John C. Watson, Present Principal of Ironwood High School. 8

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