Manhattan High School - Blue M Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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PLANNING for the city schools is the Board of Education. Seated: Mrs. Claire Crumbaker, Mr. YVard Wright, and Mr. William Baehr. Standing: Mr. Robert W'allerstedt, Mr. Jule Thompson, Mrs. Arthur Groesbeck, Dr, R. K. Vllallace and Mr. W. C. Robinson. MR. XVILLIAM BAEHR, vice-president, has been on the board seven years, on the library staff at Kansas State, and on the Riley County Unification Committee. MRS. ARTHUR GROESBECK is serving her first year on the Board of Education. She is a volunteer worker at Riley County Hospital and a member of P.E.O. MRS. CLAIRE CRUMBAKER, clerk of the Board of Education, member of Della Kappa Gamma, and sec- retary to the superintendent, has served eleven years. MR. JULE THOMPSON is Controller and Assistant Treasurer of Kansas Farm Life Insurance. He has served one year and has been a PTA president.

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2- OBSERVING MHS buildings are our school administrators Mr. W. C Robinson, Mr. Herbert H. Bishop, Mr. Ralph Rogers, and Mr Ward Wright. , Administrators Determine Policies Serving as principal for twenty of his thirty-two years at Manhattan High, Mr. Herbert H. Bishop has supported progressive changes about our school. With the teaching staff and the number of students more than doubled came an expansion of the curriculum and a new building. In 1962, five years.after the construction of Manhattan High School, a need is felt for an addition. As chairman of the Activities Committee of the Com- mission on Secondary Schools for the North Central Association, Mr. Bishop has spoken in many larger cities during the 1961-1962 year. Mr. XV. C. Robinson, Superintendent of Schools, has advocated many educational and building im- provements in Manhattan schools. Since Mr. Robinson joined the Manhattan school system in 1954, there has been a forty-two percent increase in student population. To comply with this in- crease, he has encouraged a continued expansion program of constructing needed classrooms, seventy-five have been completed since 19555 Similarly, curriculum and staff personnel have been upgraded. Mr. Robinson works to draw people closer to Manhattan schools. Mr. Herbert H. Bishop Mr. W. C. Robinson

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Board Directs Educational System The duties and responsibilities of the Board of Education are many. Its functions are selecting a superintendent of schools, determining long- range policies for schools of the Manhattan' area, and making sure that the transactions are proper- ly executed by the superintendent of schools. The board serves as a judicial and legislative bodyp the superintendent is responsible for administra- tion of education in Manhattan. Careful consideration is allotted to all proced- ures, since it is realized that frequent changes are detrimental to an effective organization. All policies are reviewed annually and modified, as DR. R. K. WALLACE, a physician and radiologist and Secretary-Treasurer of Kan- sas Radiological Society, has served the board one year. MR. WARD WRIGHT is Director of Insurance Serv- ices at Kansas Farm Bureau. Serving as president, this is his seventh year. MR. ROBERT WALLER- STEDT has served for seven years on the Board. He is manager of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. the board considers useful and suitable. Foreseeing the increase of school population, the board discusses construction plans for future schools and makes arrangements for the purchas- ing of land for the building of new schools. The board is able to accurately do this by means of an educational study conducted in 1961 which predicts Manhattan school growth through 1971. The board is composed of Mr. William Baehr, Mrs.. Arthur Groesbeck, Mr. Jule Thompson, Dr. R. K. Wallace, Mr. Robert Wallerstedt, Mr. VV ard Wright, and Mrs. Claire Crumbaker, clerk. POLICIES are settled by Ward Wright, hoard president, and XV. C. Robinson, superintendent.